Wisbech Town Council

Wisbech Town Council
Type
Type	Town Council
History
Founded	1974;51 years ago (1974)
Preceded by	Borough of Wisbech.
Leadership
Mayor	Sidney Imafidon
Town Clerk	Terry Jordan
Structure
Seats	18
Conservatives	15 / 18
Independents	3 / 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

Allotments

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

Christmas lighting

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

The council makes grants available to charities and voluntary groups.

Incinerator

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

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

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

Mart Fair

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

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

Statute Fair

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

Buildings

Castle

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. ^[9] It hosts educational events, community activities and private functions. ^[10]

Council Chamber

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. ^{[11] [12]} 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. ^[13] 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. ^[14]

Coat of Arms

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). ^[15]
• 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. ^[16]

Councillors

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. ^[17] This was incorrect as Cllr Bennett had won an election to the council 30 years earlier in 1979 as a twenty-one year old. ^[18] Cllr W Retchless was also elected as a twenty-one year old in 1987. ^[19]

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. ^[20]

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) ^[21]
(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) [22]			Independent
Steve Tierney (2011-)*(fc) [23]	Medworth [24]		Conservative
Dal Roy (2023-)	Clarence		Independent
Samantha Hoy (2009-)*(fc)	Octavia Hill [25]		Conservative
Peter Human (2015-)*	Octavia Hill		Conservative
Susan Wallwork (2019-)* [26] (f)	Octavia Hill		Conservative
Sydney Imafidon (2021–) [27]	Walsoken		Conservative
Nick Meekins (2011-2015,2019-)*(f)	Peckover East [28]		Conservative. [29]
David Oliver (2003-)* [30]	Clarkson		Conservative
Boryana Pehlivanova (2019–)	Clarkson [31]		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-) [32]			Conservative

Freedom of the Town

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 ^[33]
• 2015 Royal British Legion riders involved in the Cambs876 Remembered project ^[34]
• 2017 Gerald Fleming ^[35]
• 2017 John McIntosh ^[36]
• 2017 Ronald Sanderson ^[37]
• 2019 Wisbech In Bloom ^[38]
• 2019 The Vivien Fire Engine Trust ^[39]

Publications

• Wisbech Annual Guide and Map (produced and distributed to local households each year). ^[40]
• Wisbech Town Council Civic Handbook (2011) ^[41]
• Code of Conduct (2012) ^[42]
• Standing Orders (2019) ^[43]
• A brief guide to Wisbech Town Council's Council Chamber ^[44]

Mayor

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.' ^[45]

Mayor making

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. ^[46] In May 2021 Wisbech Castle hosted the Mayor-making for the first time. ^[47]

Year	Mayor [48]		Deputy Mayor		Town Clerk
2024		Sidney Imafidon		Janet Tansfield	Terry Jordan
2023		Peter Human		Sidney Imafidon	Terry Jordan
2022		Susan Wallwork [49]		Peter Human [50]	Terry Jordan
2021		Andrew Lynn [51]		Susan Wallwork [52]	Terry Jordan
2020		Aigars Balsevics [53] [54] [55]		Andrew Lynn [56]	Terry Jordan
2019		Michael Hill [57]		Aigars Balsevics [58]	Terry Jordan
2018		Peter Human [59]		Michael Hill	Terry Jordan
2017		Steve Tierney [60]		Peter Human [61]	?
2016		Garry Tibbs [62]		Steve Tierney [63]	?
2015		David Hodgson [64]		Garry Tibbs	?
2014		Michael Hill		D Hodgson	?
2013		Samantha Hoy [65]		Michael Hill [66]	?
2012		Vivian MacRae [67]		Samantha Hoy	?
2011		Jonathan R Farmer [68]		Vivien MacRae	?
2010		Nicholas Meekins [69]		Jonathan R Farmer [70]	?
2009		Yvonne Lawrence [71]		L Sims (died 2010)	?
2008		Jonathan Rodney Farmer [72]		Y P Lawrence	?
2007		David Oliver [73]		J R Farmer	?
2006		David Oliver		E A Carlisle (did not stand for re-election).	?
2005		Carol Cox [74]		D Oliver	?
2004		Henry Bruce Wegg [75]		C R Cox	?
2003		Leslie Sims		H B Webb	?
2002		Patrick O'Dell [76]		L Sims	?
2001		Roger Green [77]		P O'Dell	?
2000		Richard Barnwell DL [78]		R Green	?
1999		Avis Gilliatt [79]		R Barnwell	?
1998		Roger Symonds		A Gilliatt	?
1997		Ann Purt [80]		R Symonds	?
1996		Joan Diggle [81]		A Purt	?
1995		Margaret Cave [82]		J Diggle	?
1994		Barry Diggle [83]		Simon King [84] (Not re-elected)	?
1993		Leslie Sims [85]		B Diggle	?
1992		Thelma Jenkins [86]		L Sims	?
1991		Gerald Salter [87]		T D M Jenkins	?
1990		Doreen L Dickerson		Gerald Salter	?
1989		Edwin C Mortimer		D L Dickerson	?
1988		Michael Osborn [88]		Edwin C Mortimer	?
1987		John L Barker		M H Osborn	?
1986		Kathleen Brennan [89]		John L Barker	?
1985		H R Dickerson (1983-) [90]		Kathleen Brennan	?
1984		Leslie Sims		H R Dickerson	?
1983		Beryl Petts		Leslie Sims	?
1982		Malcolm Moss		Beryl Petts [91]	?
1981		Elizabeth Ann Carlisle [92]		Malcolm Moss	?
1980		Bernard Martin [93]		Elizabeth Ann Carlisle	?
1979		Robert C Lake [94]		Bernard Martin (1976-1983)	?
1978		Charles R Bowden (1973-1979) [95]		Feodor P Rikovski (1975-1979) [96] (not re-elected) [97]	?
1977		Alfred Harold [98]		Charles Bowden	RE Dixon
1976		Edward Boyd-Tuck [99]		Alfred Harrold	RE Dixon
1975		Beryl F Petts		Edward Boyd-Tuck	RE Dixon
1974		Robert C Lake		Beryl F Petts [100]	RE Dixon
1973		June Bond [101]

Election results

May 2023

This election was contested with new boundaries. Councillors Hill, J Oliver and Rackley lost their seats and the Conservatives with 14 seats, lost one seat overall to Independents (4).

Claremont (1 seat) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Tom Read	40
	Conservative	Andre Caplinskij	12
Majority			28
Turnout				16.94
	Independent win (new seat)

Clarence (1 seat) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Dal Roy	41
	Conservative	Jess Oliver	39
Majority
Turnout				25.72
	Independent win (new seat)

Clarkson (2 seats) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Oliver	179
	Conservative	Boryana Pehlivanova	151
	Independent	Anthony Clee	102
	Independent	Peter Richardson	89
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Medworth (2 seats) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Steve Tierney	326
	Conservative	Jamie Edwards	248
	Independent	Michael Hill	178
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

North (2 seats) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lucie Foyce-Beard	195
	Conservative	Trevor Ketteringham	180
	Independent	Alan Wheeldon	121
	Independent	Martin Scott	105
Turnout				17.01
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Octavia Hill (4 seats) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samantha Hoy	590
	Conservative	Sue Wallwork	553
	Conservative	Peter Human	517
	Conservative	David Sagoo	457
	Independent	Peter Freeman	371
	Independent	Ruth Freeman	362
Majority
Turnout				24.23
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Peckover East (1 seats) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nick Meekins	182
	Independent	Stuart Burton	94
	Conservative win (new seat)

Peckover West (1 seat) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Janet Tanfield	150
	Independent	Stephanie Carney	83
	Conservative win (new seat)

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Waterlees (1 seat) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Gary Monger	213
	Conservative	Billy Rackley	209
Majority
Turnout				22.39
	Independent win (new seat)

Walsoken (3 seats) Election May 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sidney Imafidon	424
	Independent	David Patrick	398
	Conservative	Fafique Shahid	387
	Conservative	Sylvia Salvidge	370
	Independent	Virginia Bucknor	346
	Independent	Michael Bucknor	328
Majority
Turnout				26.83
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Independent win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

May 2021

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

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

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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