The County Council Economy and Environment Committee today gave final approval for the Harston pedestrian/cycle scheme. Funding has already been secured from the Department for Transport. Actual work will start next year – details to come.

The latest Camcycle newsletter has a good write up of other schemes that were approved in Cambridge that will be relevant to people who travel to Cambridge.

The City Deal Board today was asked to consider part funding the Melbourn-Royston scheme. The reply was that funding bids for the overall scheme are already in the pipeline, but that the City Deal is fully supportive of the overall Cambridge-Royston scheme. I’ve requested a meeting with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership regarding funding for the Melbourn-Royston scheme and this will take place next month.

Questions about the missing milestone on the Shepreth-Foxton path: the milestone is being refurbished and will return.

Questions about brambles, junctions and other matters have been referred directly to officers, to whom thanks for their quick responses.