Cambs & Peterborough Mayoral Housing and Infrastructure Community Assembly

📅 Wednesday 23 April, 6:30 PM📍 Wesley Methodist Church & Online

For On-line tickets visit: https://bit.ly/3RyEsup

Join us for a unique opportunity to choose questions tabled to candidates standing for Metro Mayor on how they would use their powers and budget to improve the availability, affordability, accessibility, and sustainability of housing and infrastructure in our region. This is your chance to ensure the candidates understand and act on the priorities of your community. Don’t miss it!

All mayoral candidates for Metro Mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority have been invited. Confirmed attendees so far include candidates from the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green parties, awaiting Reform Party candidate whose campaign contact email address has recently changed.

Ticketing

• In-person tickets, 250 venue permitting
• Online attendance tickets, with logistics supported by expert hosts
• Online donations to fund venue, insurance etc costs

Event Programme:

6:30 pm for 7:00 pm, Recepion - regional organisations tackling housing and infrastructure challenges will showcase their work. Attendees and candidates are invited to engage with their solutions and ideas. In-person and on-line.

7:00pm - 8:30pm, Tabled questions to candidates - the most voted for questions from the regional organisations' question list. These cover key issues our community organisations face tackling housing and infrastructure challenges. Attendees and candidates are invited to engage with their ideas and proposed solutions. In-person and on-line.

Themes:

• 🏠 Energy efficiency of homes
• 🏗 Quality of new housing
• 🏘 Access to housing
• 🌿 Infrastructure (nature and water)
• 🚉 Infrastructure (food and sustainable transport)

What powers does our regional mayor have?:

Our combined authority, regional, mayor is granted powers and responsibilities from the central government, as outlined in central government's devolution deal for our region: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-devolution-deal.

Which includes (May 2017 - )

• powers over transport, planning, skills
• £600 million investment fund over 30 years to grow the local economy
• £170 million to deliver new homes

Our elected mayor will lead the Cambridgesire & Peterborough combined authority, making decisions on how to use these devolved powers, and ensuring that the needs of our districts and their priorities are addressed.

Our districts, which the metro mayor will chair in the combined authority are:

• Peterborough Unitary Authority (includes 26 parish councils, no town councils; Peterborough City Council has 22 district council wards),
• Fenland District (includes town councils of Chatteris, March, Whittlesey, Wisbech and 12 parish councils),
• East Cambs District (includes 12 parish councils and 2 town councils, Soham and Littleport, and Ely city council which has 4 wards),
• Cambridge City District (includes 14 district council wards, there are no parish councils),
• South Cambs District (includes 105 parish councils/ some are parish meetings and town councils of Cambourne and Northstowe),
• Huntingdonshire (includes 5 town councils for Huntingdon, Godmanchester, Ramsey, St Ives and St Neots, 75 parish councils)

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