Politics

A developer has been told it can build 39 new homes on the edge of March - despite neighbours and councillors sharing flooding concerns.

A developer has been told it cannot build 352 new homes on the edge of Wisbech after councillors said the plans were “disastrous and incomplete”.

Council leaders have announced they have identified three preferred options for creating new unitary councils.

Cambridgeshire County Council failed to follow proper processes when handling contracts worth millions of pounds.

A police inspector has said issuing parking tickets all day every day is “not an efficient use of police time”.

A cluster of villages has been revealed as the East of England’s waste crime hotspot in a new study.

Weeks of entertainment can be enjoyed by everyone as bands will be playing in a park over the summer.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) mayor Paul Bristow will have an annual salary of £93,000.

A county councillor labelled some children in care as “evil” during a committee meeting.

Cambridgeshire County Council has reaffirmed its “commitment to children in care” after a councillor described some of them as “evil”.

The county’s new mayor chaired his first Combined Authority Board, where his nominations for deputy mayor and committee chairs were approved.

A council leader has warned “drastic action” is needed to save Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s popular Tiger bus pass scheme.

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority will step in to save a vital bus service from being withdrawn – but others are still at risk.

Almost 100 people went along to learn more about a large solar farm which is planned for this area.

A bridge is going to be closed later this week for vital repairs.

Work is now under way on the construction of new public toilets, marking another step in the town centre regeneration.

“We shouldn’t have to be scared of going out,” were the words of a Whittlesey resident who has been left in the dark about streetlights.

A newly politically unaligned councillor feels that members will no longer have their say under plans to cut the size of committees.

A developer has been told it can build new “executive” homes, despite some raising “overdevelopment” concerns.

A pub is set to be converted into flats, despite concerns that one of the new homes would offer a “substandard level of accommodation”.