A popular splashpad will see £60,000 spent on upgrades to make it more ‘attractive and accessible’ for people to use.
Councillors have slammed the government’s plans to change council structures, with one describing it as a “Friday afternoon bodged job”.
Fears have been shared that villages will lose out if all the councils in Cambridgeshire are replaced by one ‘huge’ authority.
People across Cambridgeshire will see their council tax bills increase next month as a new financial year begins.
Councils in Cambridgeshire could have to pay more than £18million to reorganise under a government push for unitary councils.
A developer has been given the green light to build new homes in Manea, despite objections from the parish council.
Over £59million is due to be spent on Cambridgeshire’s roads, pathways, bridges and rights of way this year including nearly £9million in Fenland.
The government has been accused of “moving the deck chairs of local government”, rather than tackling issues such as the “crisis in social care”.
An out-of-date support plan was used for a whole academic year for a boy with “significant educational needs”.
The Chancellor’s announcement of a new Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor has been branded a “rehashing” of old Ox-Cam Arc proposals.
The Mayoral share of the council tax bill in Cambridgeshire will be frozen in the next financial year.
Plans to increase the cost of collecting bulky rubbish items could cause more countryside fly-tipping, councillors have said.
A developer has been given the green light to build 70 affordable homes on the edge of Chatteris after saying there is a “critical and urgent” need.
Two developments that could have seen 37 new homes built in March have been rejected by councillors.
New mobile classrooms are planned to be installed at a primary school as there is not enough money to build a permanent extension.
Over 140 people in Chatteris have called for plans to build 70 new homes on the edge of the town to be blocked, as a decision date is set.
A planning inspector has blocked a house from becoming a home of multiple-occupation because it would “not provide adequate living conditions”.
More than a quarter of 8,800 homes granted planning permission on larger developments across Cambridgeshire this year are in Fenland.
‘Significantly higher’ shortfalls in Fenland District Council’s budget are being forecast in future years.
Delays handing over patients at hospitals took the equivalent of 1,286 ambulances off the road in Cambridgeshire and between April and October.
