Mayor Palmer campaigning across Cambridgeshire for a second term as Mayor.
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The incumbent and Conservative candidate to be Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s mayor will not be releasing an official manifesto, but says he has a clear vision for a second term.
The mayoral election on May 6 will decide the next leader of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, which has significant powers and funding for transport, housing and to support the economy and adult education.
James Palmer told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that if re-elected his ambition is that homes available for purchase for £100,000 are to make up 10 per cent of all new developments in the county.
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Trowse Swing Bridge.
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Better train links between Norwich and Cambridge, including half-hourly services and opening new railway stations, are crucial to stop rural and coastal communities being left behind, MPs have said.
Fifteen Norfolk and Suffolk Conservative MPs have written to transport secretary Grant Shapps urging him to prioritise East Anglian links to and from Cambridge as part of the government s levelling up agenda.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps.
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In the letter, MPs bemoan the appalling links between Norwich, Ipswich and Cambridge, which they said stopped East Anglia fulfilling its economic potential - and left rural and coastal communities behind.
Mayorâs âbreakthroughâ Network Rail partnership speeds Wisbech-Cambridge rail service further down the track
| Updated: 11:23, 04 March 2021
A new âbreakthroughâ partnership between Cambridgeshire Mayor James Palmer and Network Rail could help speed up the reopening of the Wisbech rail link.
Mayor Palmer, has secured the powerful partnership with Network Rail which can push Wisbech rail plans forward in tandem with work to free up the Ely rail bottleneck.
Wednesday s (10) transport and infrastructure committee of the Combined Authority will hear how Mayor Palmerâs meetings with the rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris have paid off with the minister undertaking to consider funding the Combined Authorityâs plans to restore Wisbech Rail as soon as work currently in hand to improve train services through Ely has been completed.