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The developer refused 100 homes off Horseheath Road, Linton, has appealed. It says the council lacks a 5-year housing supply; the council now says 7.83 years.
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Melbourn
Melbourn Data Centre Could Heat 2,300 Homes: Vote 29 Sep
Cabinet votes on 29 September to consult on piping waste heat from an 8MW data centre near Flint Cross into Melbourn homes. The costs and the catches.
Events
What's On in South Cambs: Duxford Fireworks, Halloween
Burwash Manor's Apple Day is 10 October, Halloween is a Saturday, and IWM Duxford holds its first fireworks night on 5 November, from £15. Plus markets.
Milton
Milton Park Business Park: Planners Rated the Site Red
The councils' 2026 site check rated the Milton Park business park land red overall: landscape harm they say cannot be mitigated, and 97% Grade 2 farmland.
Cambourne
Cambium Square Cambourne: First Homes Open, 102 Affordable
The first of 256 homes at Cambium Square, Cambourne, are finished. 102 are council rent or shared ownership; four-bed homes for sale start at £559,950.
Waterbeach
Waterbeach Station Use Hits Five-Year High Before Move
Waterbeach recorded 371,828 entries and exits in 2024-25, a five-year high and only 1.5% below its last pre-Covid year, as work starts on its replacement.
Half term
South Cambs October Half Term 2026: 16 Things On
October half term runs 26 to 30 October. Pumpkin fields from £1, a free Halloween trail at Wandlebury, Wimpole's spooky house and a steam day at Denny Abbey.
Christmas
South Cambs Christmas Markets 2026: Dates Confirmed So Far
Bourn's twilight market and Cambourne's fair are on 27 November, with Santa at Cambourne the next day. The council's big market is undated: last year, 7 Dec.
Cambourne
Cambourne Community Shop Opens in £43,095 New Building
The food shop has moved into a new unit behind The Hub, paid for by a £43,095 rural grant. It opens Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10am to 1pm.
House Prices
South Cambs House Prices: £439,573, £11,276 Off the Peak
The district average reached £439,573 in July, up £9,516 in a year but still below last September. Flats are worth less now than in July 2017.
Community
South Cambridgeshire Community Chest Grants: 5 Get £8,300
Waterbeach, Wimpole, Melbourn, Swavesey and Caxton share £8,300 in the latest Community Chest round. The next deadline is the 7th of the month.
Transport
Cambourne to Cambridge Busway Approved: 309 Objected
The minister approved the £192m busway on 8 September, overruling his own inspectors on Coton Orchard's veteran apple trees. 309 of 336 responses objected.
Council
South Cambridgeshire Council Merger Paused, No New Date
Ministers have paused the decision on scrapping South Cambridgeshire District Council. April 2028 is no longer a date, and there is no 2027 election here.
South Cambridgeshire is the ring of villages around Cambridge, and it is the one English district that goes the whole way round the city it surrounds. There is no town in the middle of it. Cambourne, Sawston, Histon and Impington, Great Shelford, Waterbeach, Melbourn, Cottenham, Comberton, Fulbourn, Linton and Gamlingay each look after their own patch, along with the scores of smaller villages between them, and all of them share one district council.
That is what this site is for. A planning decision at Waterbeach or Cambourne, a crime figure for a village that never gets its own headline, a road closure that only matters if you drive that way. We take it from the council’s own registers and papers, write it plainly, and link to the document every time.
Nothing here is guesswork. Every figure links to its source.