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It is mainly used for cargo and industrial purposes, with the southern part of the port housing a number of berths for yachts. Fenland District Council is the harbour authority for most of the River Nene; as well as operating the port and harbour, it provides a Port Health service to commercial ships, leisure craft and fishing vessels. [1]
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]
Elections were held for all the wards of the Town Council on 4 May 2023, the same day as elections to Fenland District Council. The Local Government Boundary Commission proposed new wards. [20] A number of former councillors have later become parliamentary candidates and MPs. Malcolm Moss's political career started as a Wisbech Town councillor ...
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
The town council is based at March Town Hall in the Market Place. A town mayor is elected by councillors at the annual meeting in May each year. The town council administers allotments, sponsors band concerts and owns the March Museum. [7] Fenland District Council is also based in the town, at Fenland Hall on County Road. [8]
Elm is a village and civil parish in the Fenland District of Cambridgeshire, England.In Domesday, it is called Helle. [1]The village is about 1 1 ⁄ 2 miles or 2 1 ⁄ 2 km south of the market town of Wisbech, immediately to the south of the Wisbech by-pass.
The 2019 Fenland District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 for all 39 seats of the Fenland District Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections . In these elections, twelve councillors were returned unopposed, with Fenland District Council topping the Electoral Reform Society 's list of ' rotten boroughs '.
The last official duty of the council was to confer the freedom of the borough on D Company, 6 Royal Anglian Regiment. [5] In 1974 the borough was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972. It merged with other local councils to become part of the Fenland district on 1 April 1974. Its successor in the town was Wisbech Town Council.