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1 week ago | 
cambridge-news.co.uk | Joe Griffin |Freddie Lynne
Plans have been submitted to Peterborough City Council for the construction of 14 new flats and a convenience store in Hampton Water. The proposed development on land off Aqua Drive would be a mixed-use building, with the shop on the ground floor and 14 two-bedroom flats above. Located opposite the St John Henry Newman Catholic Primary School, the site would fill what is currently a vacant piece of formerly agricultural land.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Joe Griffin |Ashlea Hickin
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2 weeks ago | 
cambridge-news.co.uk | Ashlea Hickin |Joe Griffin
The full list of candidates for the upcoming Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) mayoral election has been confirmed. Five candidates will stand on May 1 to become the next mayor of the county and gain powers devolved from central government that are held over areas such as transport, skills and planning. A combined authority mayor makes important decisions for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and can provide a single, clear point of accountability.
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3 weeks ago | 
cambridge-news.co.uk | Cait Findlay |Joe Griffin
Ukrainians living in Peterborough are now able to sign up for a scheme which allows them to remain in the city for a further 18 months. The Ukraine Permission Extension scheme (UPE) is available to those who have already been granted permission to stay in the UK under other schemes, including Homes for Ukraine, the Ukraine Family Scheme or Ukraine Extension Scheme. Applications can only be made by those whose current permission has 28 days or less remaining until it expires.
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3 weeks ago | 
cambridge-news.co.uk | Cait Findlay |Joe Griffin
Nigel Farage has slammed the Home Office for its use of a three-star Peterborough hotel as asylum seeker accommodation. The Reform UK leader was in Peterborough on Tuesday, April 1, to launch the campaign of Reform's Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral candidate Ryan Coogan. Speaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service during his visit, Mr Farage slammed the housing of asylum seekers at the Dragonfly Hotel in Thorpe Meadows as 'outrageous'.
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3 weeks ago | 
cambridge-news.co.uk | Cait Findlay |Joe Griffin
Residents of a Cambridgeshire neighbourhood have signed an open letter asking the local school to accept a compromise on playing fields and put an end to a five-year-long saga. Peterborough city councillors recently agreed to lease a section of Werrington Fields to the Ken Stimpson Academy. The section that councillors agreed to lease was smaller than the academy trust said it would accept. This has left the authority open to a possible legal challenge from the trust.
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3 weeks ago | 
cambridge-news.co.uk | Cait Findlay |Joe Griffin
Several major planning applications and decisions were published by Peterborough City Council in March. Separate applications were submitted for two new care homes in the city around Stanground and Thorpe Wood. Plans were approved for a 17-bedroom annexe at a Premier Inn hotel in order to meet "considerable demand". Meanwhile, controversial plans were resubmitted for a 24-home development in Glinton after initial refusal.
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3 weeks ago | 
cambridge-news.co.uk | Cait Findlay |Joe Griffin
Plans have been approved by Peterborough City Council for the construction of three new industrial warehouses at a business park in Hampton. Applicant Beeson Wright Ltd has made arrangements with three companies to occupy the warehouses located off Club Way, Cygnet Park. Two of the units will be a mixed use of workshop and warehouses with associated office space, while the third will be occupied as a builders' merchants, including external storage of goods for sale.
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3 weeks ago | 
cambridge-news.co.uk | Cait Findlay |Joe Griffin
A campaigner says that proposals for how Peterborough will grow over the next 20 years will drive "damaging urban sprawl" into the countryside. Martin Chillcott, who set up the Protect Rural Peterborough campaign group in 2016 to save open countryside from overdevelopment, has urged the city council to reconsider its Local Plan. Peterborough City Council's Draft Local Plan has been approved for public consultation, to take place between April 11 and May 29.
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3 weeks ago | 
cambridge-news.co.uk | Cait Findlay |Joe Griffin
A former reptile pet shop could be transformed into a pizza takeaway. Plans have been submitted to Peterborough City Council to change the use of the building. A reptile retailer named Reptili opened on Scalford Drive in Peterborough in May 2022, but closed down in December 2023. It sold a range of animals from snakes to bearded dragons. The now empty unit could be replaced by a pizza takeaway after a planning application was submitted.
