Residents living in the new neighbourhoods can apply for a nearby allotment. Find out more about allotments.

Your housebuilder is responsible for ensuring bins are provided for your property before you move in. If there are any special arrangements for putting out your bins (for example, on streets still under construction), your housebuilder or landlord should let you know.

Each house is provided with three wheelie bins (blue for recyclables, green for garden & food waste and black for other household waste). Apartment blocks have shared refuse bins for general waste and recyclable waste.

• Bins, recycling and rubbish
• Bin collection calendar

Moving to a new home can be an exciting time, but it can also be difficult if you’ve moved away from a strong network of family and friends. Here are a few ideas to help:

• chat to your neighbours and organise an afternoon tea, coffee morning or street party to get to know each other. When everyone is new, we all need to make connections. If you need help with this, contact your community development officer at neighbourhoodcommunitydevelopment@cambridge.gov.uk
• social media: most areas have a resident led Facebook and Twitter presence to help neighbour-to-neighbour exchange. If you can’t find any, it may be a good idea to start one
• stay active or start a new hobby: check out the classes and groups on offer at your local community centre
• funding has been provided to help neighbours, groups of residents and community organisations kick-start new activities. If you want to start a book-club, sports collective, set up a community swap-shop, host a street party or similar - contact your community development officer, about what support is available, at neighbourhoodcommunitydevelopment@cambridge.gov.uk

• If you have bought a home, contact your house-builder’s customer care team. If they cannot resolve your issues, get in touch with the National House Building Council (NHBC)
• If you are a tenant in affordable housing, contact your registered provider’s housing manager
• If you are a private tenant, contact your managing agent or the property owner.

On Cambridge’s Southern Fringe, in addition to the existing Fawcett Primary School, there are two new primary schools (Trumpington Meadows and Trumpington Park Primary School) and a secondary school, Trumpington Community College.

In Cambridge’s North West quadrant, there will be two more primary schools and another secondary school. This includes the University of Cambridge Primary School.

To register your child for a school space, contact the school admissions service at Cambridgeshire County Council.

Electoral wards in Cambridge have three city councillors and a county councillor.

Use the search facilities to contact your Cambridge City Councillors and your County Councillor.

To find your MP, use the MP finder.