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.
Bourn Windmill is a fascinating classroom topic, and also a great place to visit with your class.
Two years ago, Savills produced a report highlighting that there was almost no available commercial laboratory space in Cambridge. Their report generated something akin to a goldrush and developers have been falling over themselves to build lab space because they…
We all know about the effect that climate change is having on the environment and wildlife. Nature is in crisis and it requires bold action. As more of us have become aware of our responsibility to the planet, the rally…
