We are very fortunate to be next door to a beautiful nature reserve. If it hasn’t been apparent before, am sure it has been during the lock down period. Let us all enjoy and take care of it. Photo by a local resident – Marian Gavrilă
Good news – we can re-start the volunteer work parties! The first will be on Wednesday 28th April, with subsequent sessions following every 2 weeks. We will be working in Badgers Wood, to the south of the reserve. With fewer staff and volunteer hours last year we weren’t able to cut the rides (the grass…
The Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC) team is opening a conversation with the city’s residents about what it can do to benefit the wider community as it plans to expand further in size. It is launching what it calls a “new vision” for the campus – and it is requesting help from residents to get directly…
One of the topics in the Trumpington Meadows Community Annual General Meeting 2021 is the proposed East West railway that is to be constructed between Oxford and Cambridge. The public consultation period is currently open so please do share your views. Consultation closes on 9 June 2021 https://eastwestrail.co.uk/consultation Related article from the Cambridge Independent
The county council website has a section on rights of way showing folks where they might go for various walks which are not well known. With the glorious weather we have been having the past few days, why not avoid the usual tracks and try a new path. https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/libraries-leisure-culture/arts-green-spaces-activities/rights-of-way Public Footpath sign in Granchester. Photo…
Cambridgeshire County Council is publishing this proposal on 31st March 2021. For further details please visit our permanent traffic regulation orders page and select PR0703. If you wish to make any comments they should be submitted in writing, as explained in the public notice, to be received no later than 30th April 2021. Please note that these proposals cover…
The Trumpington Meadows Community Annual General Meeting for 2021 is to be held on virtually on Wednesday 31 March 2021 at 7:30pm. People already on the TMC mailing list will be sent the link for the virtual meeting. If you are not on the mailing list and wish to attend the meeting, kindly send the…
Tim Watkins of the Greater Cambridge Partnership attended a Trumpington Meadows Community meeting in Nov 2017 to explain the 2 options for increased parking at the Park and Ride. For those of you resident in the development at the time, you may remember a public consultation was done and two options were presented: (1) have…
The parking zone notices have been in place for some time in Trumpington Meadows. Since March 2020, there has been a 12 month pause in the roll out of approved parking schemes in Cambridge, which includes the scheme for Trumpington Meadows. Today 09 March 2021, Cambridgeshire County Council Highways and Transport are meeting to decide…
Looking through the Trumpington Meadows Facebook page, one can see more than a few budding photographers posting some beautiful and outstanding photos in and around the development and the wildlife reserve. With permission, some of these photos have been added to the TMC website gallery. Many thanks to the local resident photographers who have given…
Over 500 sites in Cambridge and South Cambs have been submitted for possible housing development in the next 20 year plan. Two of these are close to Trumpington Meadows. The Grosvenor proposal for Trumpington South No 042, which was presented to the Trumpington Meadows Community in November, proposes up to 750+ dwellings between Trumpington Meadows…
