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, the visionary palaeoanthropologist who changed the way we understand our origins, honoured with a Blue Plaque.
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.…
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…
we need your help to save the Leper Chapel and ensure Cambridge's oldest building is preserved as an iconic heritage asset.
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…
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…
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…
Wandlebury Country Park is Celebrating 70 years On 26 April 1954 our charity announced that it was buying the Wandlebury Estate to make it a public open space. It became Cambridge’s first Country Park and has provided generations of people…
Since our founding, in 1928, we have sought to protect the green landscape around Cambridge.
