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Cambridgeshire: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Cambridgeshire County Council: County (upper tier), England, East of England; part of the CPCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a county council. ONS code E10000003.

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Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Cambridgeshire for 2026–27: £1,785.42. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 2 opened (2 new provision), 1 closed (1 closure)

Cambridge International School — closed; reason recorded: closure, 3 July 2026
In Toto Ed Cambridge — open; reason recorded: new provision, 11 March 2026
The Sage School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 20 May 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Cambridgeshire reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Cambridgeshire: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£495.9 million
Highways and transport services	£29.0 million
Children's social care	£121.9 million
Adult social care	£301.7 million
Public health	£36.6 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£12.1 million
Cultural and related services	£5.9 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£59.3 million
Planning and development services	£243,000
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£6.2 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£1,068.7 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Cambridgeshire in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 710,317 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 40 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £27,778 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £706 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 18.5% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 2.3% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £339,095 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 8.4 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 61.5 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 62.3 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 9.1 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 89.3% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 182.0 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 29,005 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

61 seats in 2026. Run by: Liberal Democrats, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Liberal Democrats 32, Conservative and Unionist 10, Reform UK 8, Labour Party 5, Green Party (E&W) 3, Independent / Other 2, Vacant 1.

Next scheduled council election: 3 May 2029.

All 61 councillors, by ward

Elliot Tong (Green Party (E&W)) — Abbey
Ian Gardener (Conservative and Unionist) — Alconbury & Kimbolton
Mike Black (Labour Party) — Arbury
Edna Murphy (Liberal Democrats) — Bar Hill
Liam Dewey-Beckett (Liberal Democrats) — Brampton & Buckden
Yannifer Malinowski (Liberal Democrats) — Burwell
Lucy Nethsingha (Liberal Democrats) — Cambourne
Rory Clark (Liberal Democrats) — Castle
Daniel Divine (Reform UK) — Chatteris
Bryony Goodliffe (Labour Party) — Cherry Hinton
Ian Manning (Liberal Democrats) — Chesterton
Yasmin Deter (Liberal Democrats) — Cottenham & Willingham
Peter McDonald (Liberal Democrats) — Duxford
Alison Whelan (Liberal Democrats) — Ely North
Christine Whelan (Liberal Democrats) — Ely South
Matthew Morgan (Liberal Democrats) — Fulbourn
James Stuart (Liberal Democrats) — Gamlingay
Graham Wilson (Liberal Democrats) — Godmanchester & Huntingdon South
Christopher Morris (Liberal Democrats) — Hardwick
Ros Hathorn (Liberal Democrats) — Histon & Impington
Leedo George (Conservative and Unionist) — Huntingdon North & Hartford
Tom Sanderson (Liberal Democrats) — Huntingdon West
Elisa Meschini (Labour Party) — King's Hedges
Henry Batchelor (Liberal Democrats) — Linton
John Wells (Reform UK) — Littleport
Luis Navarro (Liberal Democrats) — Longstanton, Northstowe & Over
Colin Galbraith (Reform UK) — March North & Waldersey
Stefan Fisher (Reform UK) — March North & Waldersey
Christopher Thornhill (Reform UK) — March South & Rural
Alex Beckett (Liberal Democrats) — Market
Adam Bostanci (Liberal Democrats) — Melbourn & Bassingbourn
Peter Rees (Green Party (E&W)) — Newnham
Chris Poulton (Liberal Democrats) — Papworth & Swavesey
Richard Howitt (Labour Party) — Petersfield
Karen Young (Liberal Democrats) — Queen Edith's
James Sidlow (Reform UK) — Ramsey & Bury
Vacant (Vacant) — Roman Bank & Peckover
Darren Green (Green Party (E&W)) — Romsey
Laurence Damary-Homan (Liberal Democrats) — Sawston & Shelford
Peter Fane (Liberal Democrats) — Sawston & Shelford
Simon Bywater (Conservative and Unionist) — Sawtry & Stilton
Mark Goldsack (Conservative and Unionist) — Soham North & Isleham
Tom Hawker-Dawson (Liberal Democrats) — Soham South & Haddenham
Charlotte Lowe (Conservative and Unionist) — Somersham & Earith
Julie Kerr (Independent / Other) — St. Ives North & Wyton
Alex Bulat (Labour Party) — St. Ives South & Needingworth
Sarah Caine (Liberal Democrats) — St. Neots East & Gransden
Ricky Ioannides (Reform UK) — St. Neots Eynesbury
Robin Wyatt (Liberal Democrats) — St. Neots Priory Park & Little Paxton
Geoffrey Seeff (Liberal Democrats) — St. Neots The Eatons
Lorna Dupre (Liberal Democrats) — Sutton
David Keane (Conservative and Unionist) — The Hemingfords & Fenstanton
David Levien (Liberal Democrats) — Trumpington
Ross Martin (Conservative and Unionist) — Warboys & The Stukeleys
Anna Bradnam (Liberal Democrats) — Waterbeach
Chris Boden (Conservative and Unionist) — Whittlesey North
Michael Fisher (Reform UK) — Whittlesey South
Samantha Hoy (Conservative and Unionist) — Wisbech East
Steve Tierney (Conservative and Unionist) — Wisbech West
Jonny Edge (Liberal Democrats) — Woodditton
Des Watt (Independent / Other) — Yaxley & Farcet

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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