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BBC News
19-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Councillor for 21-years to become new mayor of Peterborough
A councillor who has represented a ward for 21 years has been appointed as mayor of a Fox, a Peterborough First independent councillor at Peterborough City Council, will be the first female to become mayor of Peterborough since told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "It means a lot to me really because I'm representing the city of which I was born and bred in."She will take over the position from Marco Cereste, a Conservative councillor at the authority, during a meeting on Monday. Fox, who represents Werrington, will become the 138th mayor of Peterborough, and will follow in the footsteps of her husband, John Fox, who served as mayor from Fox said he was "really chuffed" for his said she felt "very honoured" to become the new mayor. "I'm looking forward to it because I'm Peterborian through and through."I feel really excited about the year and I've got a few invites already," she to the Local Democracy Reporting Service she said she was keen to work with all the communities in Peterborough. What does the mayor of Peterborough do? The mayor of Peterborough is a very different role to the mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined mayor of the combined authority, which is currently Paul Bristow, receives a salary and is responsible for areas such as transport, skills, business support and May of each year, a long-serving Peterborough councillor is appointed as the mayor of Peterborough, with their term of office lasting for one role acts as a politically impartial chair of the authority, making sure that proper conduct takes place during full-council are also invited to attend community and fundraising events held for the mayor's charities, which they choose at the start of the civic year. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
12-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Peterborough City Council plans to expand schools to meet demand
Four schools in a city are set to expand to meet rising demand from local families for pupil City Council has agreed to fund the works, with some construction already under four schools are: Stanground Academy, Marshfields School and NeneGate School in the city, and the Duke of Bedford Primary School in Cole, the council's cabinet member for children's services, said the authority based its decision to extend the schools on "current and forecast pupil demand in these areas". 'Work and investment' She said: "The council has a statutory duty to provide a school place for every child living in its area of responsibility who is of school age and whose parents want their child educated in the state sector."We want every Peterborough child to attend a school within the city and these projects demonstrate the hard work and investment the council are making in achieving this aim."Peterborough is one of the fastest-growing cities in the population was 215,700 according to the last census in 2021, a 17.5% increase from 2011 compared with 6.6% for council also said the number of children with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) was continuing to rise, particularly for children with severe learning difficulties and mental health needs. NeneGate School, a specialist school for pupils aged eight to 16, is expected to have a new teaching block with five classrooms by September approved by planners, this will accommodate an extra 40 pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs at the school, phased over two School in Dogsthorpe, which specialises in pupils who have learning difficulties and additional needs, will get two additional classrooms to create 16 places for primary-aged children with severe learning works are expected to start in July and be ready to use from are already under way at Stanground Academy, a secondary school and sixth form, to get additional dining room space that should be finished by Duke of Bedford Primary School in Thorney will have two mobile classroom units with toilets, which will increase its capacity by 15 pupils for each school year, which should be completed by of this project is being funded using contributions from Allison Homes, which has a housing development in the BBC asked the council how much funding it would provide for the expansion, and how much pupil demand was expected to increase by. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
