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The Great Fen is a habitat restoration project being undertaken on The Fens in the county of Cambridgeshire in England. It is one of the largest restoration projects in the country, and aims to create a 3,700 hectare wetland and aims to connect Woodwalton Fen National Nature Reserve (NNR), Holme Fen NNR and other nature reserves to create a larger site with conservation benefits for wildlife ...
The council run markets in three of the towns (the market in Wisbech is run by Wisbech Town Council) and a number of festivals and other events. [17] A proposal for a new Fenland rail link was agreed in June 2020. [18] Fenland council gave £370,400 to its chief executive Tim Pilsbury when he took early retirement in 2010–11. [19]
This is an example of a fen habitat, which is now rare in Britain, with grassland, scrub, ponds and ditches. The dominant fen species is common reed, which is present in dense stands, together with plants such as purple loosestrife and meadow rue. Herbs include harebell and field scabious. [278] Woodwalton Fen: 208.7 hectares (516 acres) [279 ...
The county council is the upper-tier of local government, below which are five councils with responsibility for local services such as housing, planning applications, licensing, council tax collection and rubbish collection. The districts of Cambridgeshire are: Cambridge City Council; East Cambridgeshire District Council; Fenland District Council
There are twenty-seven LNRs in Cambridgeshire. [4] Four are Sites of Special Scientific Interest , and five are managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire . The largest is Little Paxton Pits at sixty hectares, which is of national importance for wintering wildfowl, [ 5 ] and the smallest is St Denis ...
Cambridge City Council is the local authority for Cambridge, a non-metropolitan district with city status in Cambridgeshire, England. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2014. It meets at Cambridge Guildhall. The council is a member of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.
South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council work together on some projects, such as the Greater Cambridge Local Plan. [3] Since 2017 the district has been a constituent member of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority , led by the directly-elected Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough .
It was designated in 2005 to protect three wetland sites in Cambridgeshire with an area of 619 ha: [2] Chippenham Fen ( 52°17′53″N 0°24′54″E / 52.298°N 0.415°E / 52.298; Wicken Fen ( 52°18′25″N 0°16′41″E / 52.307°N 0.278°E / 52.307;