Wisbech Town Council

UK local authority for the town of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England

Wisbech Town Council

Type
Type|

Town Council

History
Founded| 1974; 50 years ago (1974)
Preceded by| Borough of Wisbech.
Leadership

Mayor

Peter Human

Town Clerk

Terry Jordan

Structure
Seats| 18

Conservatives

14 / 18

Independents

4 / 18

Elections

Last election

| 4 May 2023

Next election

| 7 May 2027
Website
www.wisbechtowncouncil.gov.uk//

Wisbech Town Council is a parish council covering the town of Wisbech in England. It is the successor to the Wisbech Municipal Borough. The Council is based at 1 North Brink, Wisbech where its committee meetings and full council meetings are usually held.

From May 2023 the town's eighteen councillors are elected in ten wards (with numbers of councillors in each): Claremont (1), Clarence (1), Clarkson (2), Medworth (2), North (2), Octavia Hill (4), Peckover East (1), Peckover West (1), Staithe and Kirkgate (3) and Waterlees (1). Each year they meet to elect a Town Mayor and deputy mayor. Four staff administer and organise the council's activities.

## Activities[edit]

### Allotments[edit]

A number of sites around the town are available for rent.

### Christmas lighting[edit]

The council organises the erection of Christmas trees and lighting along the River Nene and around the town. The lights are usually switched on in late November. The council obtained a controversial[clarification needed] Christmas tree from Peterborough; this was erected at the opposite end of the Market Place from the traditional Christmas tree, and attracted media coverage on TV news.[1]

### Grants[edit]

The council makes grants available to charities and voluntary groups.

### Incinerator[edit]

The council formed a working party and set aside £35,000 to oppose the proposed "mega-incinerator" to be constructed in the town.[2]

### Markets[edit]

The Town Council operates a market on the Market Place seven days a week. Well-established and locally well-known stalls offer local produce, others a range of goods. There are a variety of stalls, some trading during the week, others on a regular basis on a set day. Speciality stalls provide goods and services.[3] In 2022 the Market Place was relandscaped: the existing surface was removed and a new surface laid down, at the centre of which was a representation of the town's coat of arms.[4]

### Rock concert[edit]

The annual Wisbech Rock Concert organised by the council is held in Wisbech Park each summer.[5]

### Mart Fair[edit]

This annual two-week fair, held in March, still occupies the Market Place and attracts large crowds, although there are no longer the menageries of animals and theatrical performances seen in the 18th and 19th centuries.[6]

### Social media[edit]

Both the Mayor[7] and the council[8] use social media to promote the town and council.

### Statute Fair[edit]

This annual one-week fair held in September occupies the Chapel Road car park and attracts large numbers of visitors to the town.

### Wis-beach Day[edit]

Once a year Wisbech reverts to being a seaside town. The Market Place was covered in sand. Donkey rides, Punch and Judy shows and other entertainments occupy the town centre. This event has now moved to Wisbech Park and has become part of the music festival.[9]

## Buildings[edit]

### Castle[edit]

The Castle, a regency villa built by Joseph Medworth, is leased from Cambridgeshire County Council and run as a community resource. A business plan was drawn up and presented by Cllr Hoy.[10] It hosts educational events, community activities and private functions.[11]

### Council Chamber[edit]

The council chamber is in a listed building and contains historic items connected with the town's civic heritage. An online guide to the chamber has been created.[12][13] The chamber contains a number of portraits and other paintings. One is that of the Rev Abraham Jobson DD painted in 1824 by Jacob George Strutt.[14] In March 2021 it was alleged that the chamber was being used as the location for a police surveillance camera, this was refuted by the clerk.[15]

## Coat of Arms[edit]

Granted 1929. Officially described as:

* Arms: Azure representation of St Peter and St Paul or standing within a double canopy or (Arms of the Borough of Wisbech).[16]
* Crest: On a wreath of the colours, A 16th Century ship with three masts Or on each mast a square sail Azure the centre one charged with two keys in saltire wards upwards and the other two charged with a castle Or (Crest of the Borough of Wisbech).

These were transferred from the Borough of Wisbech to the Town Council.[17]

## Councillors[edit]

The council is composed of a diverse membership. The minimum age to be a councillor was lowered from 21 to 18 by the Electoral Administration Act 2006. The Wisbech Standard reported that twenty-two year old Samantha Hoy was the youngest ever member when she was co-opted onto the council in 2009.[18] This was incorrect as Cllr Bennett had won an election to the council 30 years earlier in 1979 as a twenty-one year old.[19] Cllr W Retchless was also elected as a twenty-one year old in 1987.[20]

Elections were held for all the wards of the Town Council on 4 May 2023, the same day as elections to Fenland District Council. The Local Government Boundary Commission proposed new wards.[21]

A number of former councillors have later become parliamentary candidates and MPs. Malcolm Moss's political career started as a Wisbech Town councillor in 1979.

Key

* former mayor
f: Also FDC councillor
c: Also CCC councillor
Current Councillors (2021)[22]
(This appears to need updating.)  Name  | Ward  | Party

|
|

David Sagoo (2023-)  | Octavia Hill  |  | Conservative
Jamie Edwards (2023-)  | Medworth  |  | Conservative
Shahid Rafique (2023-)  | Walsoken  |  | Conservative
David Patrick (2011-2015,2019-) (f)[23] |  | Independent
Steve Tierney (2011-)*(fc)[24] | Medworth[25] |  | Conservative
Dal Roy (2023-)  | Clarence  |  | Independent
Samantha Hoy (2009-)*(fc)  | Octavia Hill[26] |  | Conservative
Peter Human (2015-)*  | Octavia Hill  |  | Conservative
Susan Wallwork (2019-)*[27](f)  | Octavia Hill  |  | Conservative
Sydney Imafidon (2021–)[28] | Walsoken  |  | Conservative
Nick Meekins (2011-2015,2019-)*(f)  | Peckover East[29] |  | Conservative.[30]
David Oliver (2003-)*[31] | Clarkson  |  | Conservative
Boryana Pehlivanova (2019–)  | Clarkson[32] |  | Conservative
Janet Tanfield (2023-)  | Peckover West  |  | Conservative
Garry Monger (1979-1983, 2023-)  | Waterlees  |  | Independent
Tom Read (2023-)  | Claremont  |  | Independent
Lucie Foice-Beard (2023-)  | North  |  | Conservative
Trevor Ketteringham (2019-)[33] |  | Conservative

## Freedom of the Town[edit]

The council may confer the freedom of the town on individuals or organisations, including the following:

* 1996 No.1 Company, Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force.
* 2001 James Gee Pascoe Crowden, LL, KStJ, JP
* 2010 Jody Alan Cundy CBE
* 2013 Richard Symond Gyles Barnwell, DL
* 2015 Malcolm Douglas Moss[34]
* 2015 Royal British Legion riders involved in the Cambs876 Remembered project[35]
* 2017 Gerald Fleming[36]
* 2017 John McIntosh[37]
* 2017 Ronald Sanderson[38]
* 2019 Wisbech In Bloom[39]
* 2019 The Vivien Fire Engine Trust[40]

## Publications[edit]

* Wisbech Annual Guide and Map (produced and distributed to local households each year).[41]
* Wisbech Town Council Civic Handbook (2011)[42]
* Code of Conduct (2012)[43]
* Standing Orders (2019)[44]
* A brief guide to Wisbech Town Council's Council Chamber[45]

## Mayor[edit]

At its inception the newly formed Town Council resolved that the Chairman be styled Town Mayor. Mayor's role is largely ambassadorial, attending community events, opening shops and businesses and acting as a representative of the town in neighbouring areas. The Mayor also hosts a number of fundraising events throughout the year raising money for chosen charities.

'It is custom and practice on this Council for the Mayor to be selected on seniority and long service, whilst being mindful to select, where possible, a member who has not served as Mayor before. It is also custom and practice for this Town Council to select a Mayor Elect prior to the Annual Meeting who will then go forward to be considered by Full Council at the Annual Meeting. At the same time as a Mayor Elect, it is also custom and practice to select a Deputy Mayor Elect, who will then also be considered and elected by Full Council at the Annual Council Meeting.'[46]

## Mayor making[edit]

Each year the councillors at the Annual Council Meeting in May elect members to be the town mayor and deputy mayor. The fur trimmed robes used for mayor-making were created for local shipping magnate Richard Young five years consecutively Mayor of the Borough of Wisbech. It is now unusual to be mayor in consecutive years. The event usually takes place in the council chamber, exceptionally in 2020 this took place online.[47] In May 2021 Wisbech Castle hosted the Mayor-making for the first time.[48]

Year | Mayor[49] | Deputy Mayor | Town Clerk

|
|
|

2023  |  | Peter Human  |  | Sidney Imafidon  | Terry Jordan
2022  |  | Susan Wallwork[50] |  | Peter Human[51] | Terry Jordan
2021  |  | Andrew Lynn[52] |  | Susan Wallwork[53] | Terry Jordan
2020  |  | Aigars Balsevics[54][55][56] |  | Andrew Lynn[57] | Terry Jordan
2019  |  | Michael Hill[58] |  | Aigars Balsevics[59] | Terry Jordan
2018  |  | Peter Human[60] |  | Michael Hill  | Terry Jordan
2017  |  | Steve Tierney[61] |  | Peter Human[62] | ?
2016  |  | Garry Tibbs[63] |  | Steve Tierney[64] | ?
2015  |  | David Hodgson[65] |  | Garry Tibbs  | ?
2014  |  | Michael Hill  |  | D Hodgson  | ?
2013  |  | Samantha Hoy[66] |  | Michael Hill[67] | ?
2012  |  | Vivian MacRae[68] |  | Samantha Hoy  | ?
2011  |  | Jonathan R Farmer[69] |  | Vivien MacRae  | ?
2010  |  | Nicholas Meekins[70] |  | Jonathan R Farmer[71] | ?
2009  |  | Yvonne Lawrence[72] |  | L Sims (died 2010)  | ?
2008  |  | Jonathan Rodney Farmer[73] |  | Y P Lawrence  | ?
2007  |  | David Oliver[74] |  | J R Farmer  | ?
2006  |  | David Oliver  |  | E A Carlisle (did not stand for re-election).  | ?
2005  |  | Carol Cox[75] |  | D Oliver  | ?
2004  |  | Henry Bruce Wegg[76] |  | C R Cox  | ?
2003  |  | Leslie Sims  |  | H B Webb  | ?
2002  |  | Patrick O'Dell[77] |  | L Sims  | ?
2001  |  | Roger Green[78] |  | P O'Dell  | ?
2000  |  | Richard Barnwell DL[79] |  | R Green  | ?
1999  |  | Avis Gilliatt[80] |  | R Barnwell  | ?
1998  |  | Roger Symonds  |  | A Gilliatt  | ?
1997  |  | Ann Purt[81] |  | R Symonds  | ?
1996  |  | Joan Diggle[82] |  | A Purt  | ?
1995  |  | Margaret Cave[83] |  | J Diggle  | ?
1994  |  | Barry Diggle[84] |  | Simon King[85] (Not re-elected)  | ?
1993  |  | Leslie Sims[86] |  | B Diggle  | ?
1992  |  | Thelma Jenkins[87] |  | L Sims  | ?
1991  |  | Gerald Salter[88] |  | T D M Jenkins  | ?
1990  |  | Doreen L Dickerson  |  | Gerald Salter  | ?
1989  |  | Edwin C Mortimer  |  | D L Dickerson  | ?
1988  |  | Michael Osborn[89] |  | Edwin C Mortimer  | ?
1987  |  | John L Barker  |  | M H Osborn  | ?
1986  |  | Kathleen Brennan[90] |  | John L Barker  | ?
1985  |  | H R Dickerson (1983-)[91] |  | Kathleen Brennan  | ?
1984  |  | Leslie Sims  |  | H R Dickerson  | ?
1983  |  | Beryl Petts  |  | Leslie Sims  | ?
1982  |  | Malcolm Moss |  | Beryl Petts[92] | ?
1981  |  | Elizabeth Ann Carlisle[93] |  | Malcolm Moss  | ?
1980  |  | Bernard Martin[94] |  | Elizabeth Ann Carlisle  | ?
1979  |  | Robert C Lake[95] |  | Bernard Martin (1976-1983)  | ?
1978  |  | Charles R Bowden (1973-1979)[96] |  | Feodor P Rikovski (1975-1979)[97](not re-elected)[98] | ?
1977  |  | Alfred Harold[99] |  | Charles Bowden  | RE Dixon
1976  |  | Edward Boyd-Tuck[100] |  | Alfred Harrold  | RE Dixon
1975  |  | Beryl F Petts  |  | Edward Boyd-Tuck  | RE Dixon
1974  |  | Robert C Lake  |  | Beryl F Petts[101] | RE Dixon
1973  |  | June Bond[102] |  |  |

## Election results[edit]

### May 2023[edit]

### May 2021[edit]

Octavia Hill By-Election May 2021  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Sidney Imafidon  | 570  | 50.3  |
| Independent | Peter Freeman  | 458  | 40.4  |
| Independent | Yvonne Howard  | 106  | 9.3  |
Majority  | 1,134  |  |
Turnout |  |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |

### May 2019[edit]

Clarkson (2 seats) Election May 2019  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Andrew Lynn  | unopposed  |  |
| Conservative | Ben William Prest  | unopposed  |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
Kirkgate Election (2 seats) May 2019  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Independent | David Roy Patrick  | 242  | 41.8  |
| Conservative | Garry Paul Tibbs  | 201  | 34.7  |
| Conservative | Cameron Fraser  | 136  | 23.5  |
Majority  | 106  | 23.5  |
Turnout | 579  | 22.5  |
| Independent hold | Swing |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
Medworth Election (2 seats) May 2019  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Michael Hill  | unopposed  |  |
| Conservative | Steve Tierney  | unopposed  |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
Peckover Election (2 seats) May 2019  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Independent | Nick Meekins  | 306  |  |
| Conservative | David Oliver  | 255  |  |
| Conservative | Jessica Ann Oliver  | 214  |  |
Majority  | 92  |  |
Turnout |  | 28.41  |
| Independent gain from Conservative | Swing |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
Octavia Hill (4 seats) Election May 2019  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Samantha Hoy  | 646  |  |
| Conservative | Sue Wallwork  | 542  |  |
| Conservative | Peter Human  | 493  |  |
| Conservative | Philip Wing  | 473  |  |
| Independent | Peter Freeman  | 458  |  |
| Labour | Clayton Payne  | 184  |  |
Majority  | 188  |  |
Turnout |  | 24.68  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
Staithe Election (2 seats) May 2019  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Boryana Pehlivanova  | unopposed  |  |
| Conservative | David Douglas Topgood  | unopposed  |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
Waterlees Village (4 seats) Election May 2019  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Billy Rackley  | 467  |  |
| Independent | Andy Maul  | 439  |  |
| Conservative | Aigars Balsevics  | 395  |  |
| Conservative | Trevor Ketteringham  | 359  |  |
| Conservative | Jamie Edwards  | 351  |  |
| Independent | Ray Pearson  | 258  |  |
| Labour | Amy Dodd-Broad  | 182  |  |
Majority  | 188  |  |
Turnout |  | 22.62  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
| Independent hold | Swing |  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
| Conservative gain from Independent | Swing |  |

### June 2018[edit]

Kirkgate By-Election June 2018  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Ben William Prest  | 266  | 52.5  |
| Independent | David Roy Patrick  | 204  | 38.7  |
| Labour | David William Silver  | 57  | 11.2  |
Majority  | 209  |  |
Turnout | 527  | 28.94  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
Octavia Hill By-Election May 2017  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Philip David Wing  | 644  | 64.1  |
| Labour | Susan Yvonne Marshall  | 192  | 19.1  |
| Independent | Myles Keith Salamon  | 168  | 16.7  |
Majority  | 452  |  |
Turnout | 1,004  | 25.5  |
| Conservative hold | Swing |  |
Waterlees Village (3 seats) By-election August 2017  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | Laura Kathleen Cobb  | 425  |  |
| Conservative | Andrew Lynn  | 394  |  |
| Conservative | Andrew Stuart Maul  | 381  |  |
| Labour | Amy Victoria Broad  | 255  |  |
| Labour | Kathleen Dougall  | 252  |  |
| Labour | Dean Lyndon Reeves  | 226  |  |
Majority  |  |  |
Turnout |  | 17.24  |
| Conservative gain from Independent | Swing |  |
| Conservative gain from Independent | Swing |  |
| Conservative gain from Independent | Swing |  |
Waterlees Village By-Election December 2016  Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

|
|
|
|

| Conservative | William Eric Rackley  | 416  | 63.8  |
| UKIP | Paul Clapp  | 236  | 36.2  |
Majority  | 180  | 27.6  |
Turnout | 652  | 16.74  |
| Conservative gain from UKIP | Swing |  |

Previous election 2015.

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