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East Cambridgeshire residents are likely to face steep Council Tax rises and their beautiful rural district become a building site, if the district council is absorbed into a new Greater Cambridge unitary authority, according to its leader.

A project designed to help village halls in East Cambridgeshire achieve carbon net zero emissions has been hailed as a spectacular success.

Work is to start on East Cambridgeshire’s first state of the art bereavement centre.

Councillors have unanimously agreed plans to create a new Local Plan for East Cambridgeshire should be put on hold.

A recommendation to start work on a new Local Plan is to go before district councillors next week.

Following the announcement by Secretary of State Ed Miliband to grant permission for the Sunnica solar farm, East Cambridgeshire District Council has taken independent legal advice to understand the chances of success of a Judicial Review of the decision-making process.

The Leader of East Cambridgeshire District Council has expressed her extreme disappointment following today’s news the Sunnica solar farm has received approval from the Secretary of State.

A full business plan to build a state-of-the-art ecological bereavement centre alongside a beautiful lakeside setting at Mepal is to go before East Cambridgeshire District Councillors.

Impending changes to the way the planning system operates should support a right first-time approach according to Cllr Bill Hunt, chair of East Cambridgeshire District Council’s planning committee.

Biodiversity should increase with each new development that takes place in East Cambridgeshire, after councillors agreed a new working document to help double land for nature.