Why Cambridge’s Green Spaces Matter
People who spend just two hours a week in nature report significantly better health and wellbeing than those who don’t.
Help Hinxton Watermill
The watermill is in urgent need of repairs, please support our current appeal to raise £20,000 and help us keep the mill running and open to visitors.
Archaeological Excavation at Wandlebury 2025
April/May 2025 Students and staff from the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Archaeological Unit are currently onsite at Wandlebury. Visitors to the country park will be able to see the dig in action and speak to…
Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey, the visionary palaeoanthropologist who changed the way we understand our origins, honoured with a Blue Plaque.
When it comes to water, our leaders have chosen the economy over the environment
Cambridge has a finite supply of water, which comes from aquifers in its chalk geology. For the past 30 years, national and local government and its agencies have allowed Cambridge to grow rapidly without investing in new sources of water.…
Are you Voting for Growth, Growth or more Growth?
Last year national government began to intervene in planning the future of Cambridge, which is normally the responsibility of local government. There was no political mandate for this intervention which proposed to double the size of Cambridge in 30 years…
Save the Leper Chapel
we need your help to save the Leper Chapel and ensure Cambridge's oldest building is preserved as an iconic heritage asset.
Government levels down its ambition for planning reform
At last, the grown-ups are back in charge of the Government’s planning policy – well almost. Having promised ‘a whole new planning system for England’ and ‘no more fiddling around the edges’ in the 2020 Planning White Paper, Boris Johnson’s…
150,000 new houses for Cambridge! What is Michael Gove talking about?
It is rarely good news when the government makes an announcement just before holidays and when everyone’s attention is elsewhere. This was the case, just before Christmas, when the Secretary of State for Housing, Michael Gove MP announced significant changes…
Black Mulberry for Wandlebury’s 70th Anniversary
At the end of July we had a very special visitor who planted a tree to mark the occasion of the Wandlebury Country Park 70th birthday. Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire Julie Spence paid Wandlebury a visit and planted a Black…