Environment

All five mayoral candidates have signed up to the Sustainable Travel Alliance’s manifesto for life-changing transport.

A dog breeding business based at a village home is allowed to stay permanently – despite objections.

Plans to construct a 1.36 hectare Battery Energy Storage System on an active solar farm have been lauded as a way to ‘develop something that works’.

A new community gym and eco hub building have opened in Wisbech thanks to funding from Cambridgeshire County Council.

Councillors have agreed to revoke two air quality management areas in Wisbech, but have insisted the impact of the new incinerator will be monitored.

Fenland District Council has agreed to spend at least £1,061,991 on implementing a new weekly food waste collection.

Councillors are looking to safeguard the long-term future of a town recreation ground to prevent it from being sold-off for housing.

An investigation has been launched after a trailer of corrugated asbestos sheeting and other items were illegally dumped on a village road.

A fly-tipping hot spot has been cleared of the equivalent of around one-and-a-half bin lorries full of dumped waste including furniture.

A convicted waste offender has been ordered to pay nearly £300,000 on top of his fine after the Environment Agency found he had undeclared assets.

Experts are waiting to see if the collision of two tankers in the North Sea will affect an internationally important wetland.

A town park is set for a major facelift and people can have their say on what facilities they would like added.

Exciting changes to the Little Acre Pocket Park were unveiled at Chatteris Town Council on Tuesday night.

MP Steve Barclay has raised fears an Environmental Permit applied for by the Port of Wisbech could be used to feed waste to the town’s incinerator.

The following planning applications have been submitted to Fenland District, West Norfolk, and South Holland District Councils.

Building of an incinerator in Fenland is underway with the German-based company behind the burner announcing a Swiss firm as the main contractor.

Construction has officially begun on the new Green Skills Academy at the College of West Anglia’s (CWA) Wisbech campus.

A retired teacher has been doing his bit for the environment and road safety collecting discarded nitrous oxide canisters littering our verges.

A Cambridgeshire farming leader said the family farm tax poses a major threat to national food security and the rural economy.

Cambridgeshire County Council has hit back at claims by MP Steve Barclay that cash given by the Wisbech incinerator developer will not go locally.