Milton Road Campaign

Project Update from GCP/City Deal officers following extensive workshops and detailed design meetings with residents and other stakeholders.

The officers' presentation is HERE.   Video of the meeting with Q&A session can be viewed HERE.

Presentation given at the Local Liaison Forum on 13th June 2017 can be found HERE.

Following initial public consultation on the Milton Road project, City Deal set up a Local Liaison Forum (LLF) to enable local people and interest groups to give input on more detailed aspects of their 'Do-Something' design.
A series of six workshops took place last autumn, and feedback from these led to a collaboration between HPERA, MRRA and CamCycle that has resulted in an alternative design for Milton Road.
The Milton Road Alliance team published this as the 'Do-Optimum' Alternative which was subsequently adopted formally by the LLF as a resolution to be presented to the City Deal Executive Board in March 2017 - subsequently postponed to June 2017.

The team has also published a more wide-ranging paper asking the question

WILL MILTON ROAD SET THE STANDARD?

This sets the scene for the Assembly Meeting on 7th June and the Executive Board Meeting on 15th June.

Thurs 8th Dec 2016 at Shire Hall, 6.30pm

The CCD Joint Assembly is meeting on the 2nd June at Cambourne.

Agenda and Report for discussion at Joint Assembly Meeting

Interesting reading in the Interim Options Report (see pages 48-53 for detailed diagrams in the proposed ‘Do Something’ plan).

The consultation period for the Western Orbital Plans ends on 21st March 2016. 

Details of the plans and a list of times for drop-in meetings with the planners can be found here.

The Milton Road 'Save the Trees' petition is well under way.

The Cambridge News ran an article about the petition - you can read about it here.

The link to sign and support the petition is here.

The HPERA committee has collected thoughts and opinions from many people in the estate, and has produced its own document, which can be found here:

which has been submitted to the Cambridge City Deal. This document is quite long (43 pages), and so we've produced an executive summary here which might be easier to digest:

The Cambridge Cycling Campaign has a lot of information about the design of bike lanes - in particular this article might be interesting reading.

The full proposal can be found on the Cambridge city deal website.

We recommend that you attend one of the Consultation Sessions before filling in the Questionnaire, which can be found on-line.

As well as the plans for Milton Road, there are similar plans for Histon Road, and the Cross City Cycle Routes, for this area which could include the closure of Mansel Way.  The consultation period for all these proposals end on 15 February 2016.  Click here for information about these.   

An Alternative Ideas Meeting was held on 21st Jan, organised by Milton Road Residents’ Association.
Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. If you missed the meeting, you can still watch the presentations below, filmed by Antony Carpen.

Smarter Cambridge Transport Presentation to MRRA 21-01-16  -  this is a PDF document by Smarter Cambridge Transport, detailing their ideas for Milton Road. 

Further links:

•  Milton Road consultation drawings (pdf, 14MB) for more details. 
•  Milton Road tree survey (pdf, 3.4MB). 
•  Milton Road modelling summary note. 
•  Milton Road parking survey report.
• Milton Road Primary School Journey Survey (pages 1-8)

• Cambridge News: Milton Road trees can be saved, say designers - but space for cyclists or buses would be scrapped
• Cambridge News: Cambridge residents revolt over Milton Road City Deal plans to be aired at public meeting
• Cambridge News: City Deal plans for Histon Road and Milton Road branded ‘a waste of money’ as residents' fury mounts

 January 2016

• Youtube 5 Video Playlist (Antony Carpen): MRRA meeting- Cllr Lewis Herbert, Cambridge Cycling Campaign, Smarter Transport, Cambridge Network and MRRA - 21 January 2016  
• Youtube Full Video (Richard Taylor): MRRA meeting - 21 January 2016  
• Youtube: Greater Cambridge City Deal Board 15 Jan 2016 - Public Questions  
• Youtube: Milton Road Residents Association - Inagural Meeting 
• Youtube: Greater Cambridge City Deal Assembly - 17 December 2015 
• Youtube: Greater Cambridge City Deal Board 15 Jan 2016 - Public Questions 
• BBC iPlayer: Sunday Politics East (discussion of Cambridge City Deal ~50 mins in) 
• Youtube: Greater Cambridge City Deal - evidence session 1 - Traffic signals upgrade 

December 2015

• Youtube: Greater Cambridge City Deal Assembly - 17 December 2015  

General 2016

• BBC iPlayer: Sunday Politics East (discussion of Cambridge City Deal ~50 mins in)  
• Youtube: Greater Cambridge City Deal - evidence session 1 - Traffic signals upgrade  

• The Greater Cambridge City Deal
• Smarter Cambridge Transport (formerly the Better City Deal)
• Milton Road Residents Association
• Cambridge Cycling Campaign 

 Documents:

• The agenda for this meeting can be found here. Most of the meeting was dedicated to discussing the Milton Road proposal.
• The minutes of the meeting can be found here.

• We posted a news item about this meeting, which we will submit to Cambridge Evening News.
• The slide-deck presented by Michael Page and John Beasley is available here, while the slides presented by Ed Leigh can be found here.

 Video:

Here is the video of that meeting, filmed by Richard Taylor: