Council

Council leader Mohammed Farooq

Peterborough council tax set to rise by £79 for Band D properties

Peterborough City Council is to tighten ins rules on HMOs. Photo: Adobe.

Council to crackdown on HMOs

Peterborough City Councillor John Howard has taken charge of the assets review

Council's new leaders 'slowing down' community buildings review

Peterborough City Council

Progress at council 'slower than anyone would have wanted'

Councillor Andy Coles, Shadow cabinet member for Finance and Corporate Resources

Opinion: Where now for the council’s finances?

Cllr Glynis Campbell Sinclair was spotted cleaning her windows while on camera during a meeting of Highland Council's Inverness Area Committee Picture: Highland Council / SWNS

Councillor cleans her home's windows during live-streamed meeting

David Griffin-Stephens (Widow Twankey) with Amanda Humphries (company manager) and Cllr John Howard in the auditorium at the Key

Peterborough's Key Theatre ready for Panto following RAAC discovery

The pool was shown to be filled with rubble earlier this year

Cost for destruction of Peterborough Hydrotherapy Pool revealed

Property A before

Fenland District Council working to bring empty homes back into residential use

councillor Steve Allen

Opinion: We will ensure our voices are heard

Mayor of Peterborough Cllr Nick Sandford

Opinion: Proud of our democracy in action

Peterborough City Council

Council’s budget gap now expected to hit nearly £14m

Peterborough MP Paul Bristow at the Chauncer Road underpass under the A47

Call for solution to flooded underpass under A47 in Peterborough

The toilets will be based in the Peterborough Cathedral precincts

Changing Places toilets to help disabled residents coming to Cathedral

The Bondholder Dinner

Opinion: We're delivering on our pledges

Families will receive the vouchers this weekend

Families to receive supermarket vouchers in October half-term holiday
In total 19,489 vouchers will be issued, totalling over £194,890.

The order has been introduced after complaints about anti-social driving.

Council introduces powers to stop noisy revving engines and loud music from cars

MP for Peterborough Paul Bristow

Peterborough MP calls for help to to revamp religious building in city

The 11 dogs campaigners believe the council had euthanised (Lost Souls/Facebook)

Council seizes 82 dogs from sanctuary, sparking controversy as 11 put down

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Tributes paid to former councillor

Ballot box.

Have your say on where you cast your vote

Rough sleeper on a bench in a park.

Improving access to mental health services for rough sleepers in Fenland

Peterborough Museum

Opinion: It's not a time for divide and rule

The pool has now been filled with rubble

Pictured: Inside the abandoned former hydrotherapy pool now filled with rubble

Peterborough Civic Society is urging Peterborough City Council to improve funding for arts, culture and heritage amid concerns about the future of Peterborough Museum, top, and its library services, below left. It says the disappearance of the Peterborough Heritage Festival, picture shows scene from 2017's event, is evidence of fall in spending on culture.

Civic Society fears closure of museum and libraries in battle for art funding

Peterborough Regional Pool

Peterborough Regional Pool to shut due to RAAC

Peterborough City Council

Council spends £40m on agency staff in five years
New proposals include broadening the number of companies the council can use to hire temporary workers

March's Coronation Fountain is being moved from between two lanes of traffic on Broad Street to the pavement to make way for a new roundabout

Council rules out changing planned location for March fountain

Ellis Anthony Gibbs dropping litter out of his car window in a car park in Hull. The teenager was fined £250.

Teenager fined £250 after throwing McDonald’s bag out of car window

272 Wisbech Squadron Air Training Corp cadets are presented with new litter pickers.

Cadets from the Air Training Corp are better equipped to litter pick

The teams for the annual charity cricket match.

Annual charity cricket match raises over £1000

The former site of the Hydrotherapy Pool

Opinion: A worrying pattern of plans not turning out as first announced by our C...

Mayor of Peterborough Nick Sandford (right) with former England fast bowler Andy Caddick.

Opinion: 'Peterborough is strong sporting city at so many different levels'

Cllr Chris Harper

Opinion: Putting people before politics

March Market Place property being bought back into use

One of March's oldest buildings set to be condemned gets facelift by mum and son

”This is simply a non-story and a waste of council time debating a subject that no one is advocating ”
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Opinion: There is no plan to introduce a congestion charge in the city

The path has been closed due to issues with paving slabs. Photo: Toby Wood

Barclays Bank closes city centre's Guildhall Walk for safety reasons

Peterborough Crematorium

Opinion: We've made huge progress but many challenges remain

Peterborough City Council passed a motion supporting bus franchising

Council supports bus franchising but refuses to rule out congestion charging

Young mum, 22 horrified as Norwich council flat floods with ‘thick brown’ human waste

Mum horrified as council flat floods with ‘thick brown’ human waste

Peterborough City Council

Council will use AI to create 'personalised' online experiences

A group of Ukrainian refugees meeting at the Almoners House in Peterborough Cathedral

Over £1m funding to help refugee resettlement in Peterborough set for approval

The order will tackle the issues in car parks

Council introduce order to stop drivers racing or revving their engines

The fountain was due to be moved in front of HR Mallett on Broad Street

Council agrees to re-consider plans to move fountain

Hannah Ingram-Moore and her late father Captain Tom Moore (Photo: Getty Images)

Daughter of Sir Captain Tom Moore ordered to tear down home spa

Ukrainians with a large flag in the town hall during a vigil one year on from the start of Russia's invasion.

Council to buy 25 homes for refugees

Peterborough City Council is working on a new Local Plan

Where should new developments be built in Peterborough?

Jeremy Clarkson has won his battle with West Oxfordshire District council as permission to provide more parking at his Diddly Squat farm has been granted.

Jeremy Clarkson given green light for changes at Diddly Squat farm

Peterborough City Council has been working on drawing up its new values since October

Transparency, integrity and respect among new council values

How the Station Quarter could be developed

Opinion: A determination to deliver for the people of Peterborough

Paul O’Grady: Comedian given freedom of the borough in posthumous honour from Wirral Council

Paul O’Grady given ‘highest honour’ in tribute after his death

All boat operations suspended from Bournemouth Pier

Dog walkers could be fined for having their dogs off the lead in areas it's not permitted in Fenland

Should dog walkers be fined for failing to pick up after their pets?

Fountains on at Cathedral Square last summer.

Opinion: Give us your views on city centre fountains

Peterborough people are being asked by the city council if they want the local authority to keep funding repairs to the city centre’s fountains.

Poll asks should Peterborough taxpayers spend £35,000 to repair fountains?