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Peterborough City Council
Logo
Type
Type
Leadership
Marco Cereste,
Conservative
since 20 May 2024[1]
Dennis Jones,
Labour
since 20 May 2024[1]
Matthew Gladstone
since January 2022[2]
Structure
Seats60 councillors[3]
Political groups
  Labour (19)
  Peterborough First (14)
  Conservative (11)
  Liberal Democrats (8)
  Greens (4)
  Independent (4)
Elections
First past the post (elected in thirds)
Last election
3 May 2024
Next election
7 May 2026
Meeting place
Town Hall, Bridge Street, Peterborough, PE1 1HF
Website
www.peterborough.gov.uk

Peterborough City Council is the local authority for Peterborough, a local government district with city status in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Peterborough has had a council since 1874, which has been reformed several times. Since 1998 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. Since 2017 the council has been a member of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.

The council has been under no overall control since 2019. Following the 2024 election a minority Labour administration formed to run the council. The council meets at Peterborough Town Hall and has its main offices at Sand Martin House on Bittern Way.

History[edit]

Although long-established as a settlement, Peterborough was not an ancient borough. It was made a city in 1541 following the elevation of the former St Peter's Abbey to become Peterborough Cathedral. In the same year it also became a parliamentary borough (constituency), but it had no borough corporation to administer the city itself. As originally constituted, both the city and the constituency covered the township of Peterborough and the extra-parochial area of the Minster Precincts around the cathedral, but did not include the hamlets of Dogsthorpe, Eastfield, Longthorpe, and Newark which made up the rest of the wider ancient parish of Peterborough.[4][5]

In 1790 a body of improvement commissioners was established to provide public services in the city.[6]

The constituency was enlarged in 1832 to include the whole parish of Peterborough.[7] It was extended again in 1868 to include the more built-up parts of the parishes of Fletton and Woodston which lay on the south side of the River Nene in Huntingdonshire, unlike the rest of the constituency north of the river, which at that time was part of Northamptonshire.[8]

Incorporation[edit]

A public enquiry was held in 1873 into whether Peterborough should be formally incorporated to become a municipal borough, with a council to take over the functions of the commissioners. Supporters of incorporation argued that the whole constituency should be incorporated, but it was held that outlying parts of the parish of Peterborough remained too rural for including in a municipal borough. On 17 March 1874 a charter of incorporation was issued, incorporating as a borough the central part of the parish of Peterborough, the Minster Precincts, and the parts of Fletton and Woodston that lay within the constituency. The borough was then administered by a body formally called the "mayor, aldermen, citizens, and burgesses of the city and borough of Peterborough", generally known as the corporation. It initially comprised a mayor, six aldermen and 18 councillors.[9][10]

Watch committee[edit]

The new corporation was required to appoint a Watch Committee and a police force under the provisions of the County and Borough Police Act 1856. In 1947, the City of Peterborough Constabulary amalgamated with the Liberty of Peterborough Constabulary, which had shared its chief constable with Northamptonshire until 1931 and Peterborough thereafter, to form the Peterborough Combined Police force. This, in turn, merged into Mid-Anglia Constabulary in 1965 and was renamed Cambridgeshire Constabulary in 1974.[11] The Fire Brigades Act 1938 made it a requirement for the corporation to maintain a fire brigade; under the Fire Services Act 1947 this function passed to the councils of counties.

Sunken relief by sculptor Arthur Ayres for Mitchell Engineering Limited at Bridge House, later in use by the city council.[12]

Expansion[edit]

In 1929 the borough boundaries were enlarged to include Gunthorpe, Longthorpe, Paston, Walton, Werrington and the area north-east of Fengate (the latter area and Longthorpe having been the parts of the old parish of Peterborough excluded from the borough on its creation in 1874).[13] As part of the 1929 reforms the council's formal name was changed to the "mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city of Peterborough" and the corporation thereafter generally became known as the city council.[14][15]

Until this point the council were using the Guildhall and a large number of subsidiary offices, but the need to widen Narrow Bridge Street and the need for a new Town Hall came together in a combined scheme, resulting in the building of the present Town Hall. It was opened in 1933 and accommodated both Peterborough city council and the former Soke of Peterborough county council.[16][17]

Relationship to county councils[edit]

Elected county councils were created in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, taking over administrative functions previously exercised by magistrates at the quarter sessions. The Soke of Peterborough had long held its quarter sessions separately from the rest of Northamptonshire, and so it was made an administrative county with its own county council, whilst remaining part of the geographical county of Northamptonshire for judicial and lieutenancy purposes. The 1888 Act also said that boroughs could no longer straddle county boundaries, and so the parts of the borough south of the River Nene were transferred from Huntingdonshire to the Soke of Peterborough and Northamptonshire. The Soke of Peterborough was unusually small for an administrative county, and the borough of Peterborough contained the majority of its population; in 1911 the borough had over 75% of the population of the administrative county.[18]

In 1965 the Soke of Peterborough was merged with Huntingdonshire to form the new county of Huntingdon and Peterborough.[19] The municipal borough covered the urban area only; under the Local Government Act 1972, Huntingdon and Peterborough was abolished and the current district created, including the outlying rural areas.[20] However, as a result of intervening development and a new town project, this has a much larger population than the Soke had.[21] Having petitioned for borough status under Section 245 of the Act, letters patent were granted continuing the style of the city over the wider area, which became part of the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire.[22]

Unitary authority[edit]

In 1998, the city gained autonomy from county council control as a unitary authority area, but it continues to form part of Cambridgeshire for ceremonial purposes.[23] Policing in the city remains the responsibility of Cambridgeshire Constabulary. The police authority comprises 17 members, including nine councillors, of which seven are nominated by Cambridgeshire county council and two are nominated by Peterborough city council.[24] Firefighting remains the responsibility of Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service. The joint fire authority comprises 17 elected councillors, 13 from Cambridgeshire county council and four from Peterborough city council.[25] Nowadays the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, one of few of its kind, effectively functions as a retained fire station, responding to calls as directed by Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service.[26]

Sand Martin House, Bittern Way, Peterborough, PE2 8TY: Council's main offices

In 2018 the council moved most of its staff from Peterborough Town Hall to modern facilities at Sand Martin House, a refurbished and extended Victorian railway building at Fletton Quays on the south side of the River Nene.[27] Both Sand Martin House and the Town Hall are used for council meetings.[28]

Governance[edit]

Executive model[edit]

The leader and cabinet model of decision-making, adopted by the city council under the Local Government Act 2000, is similar to national government. The council appoints the Leader (usually a member of the group with the political majority) and the leader appoints up to nine other councillors to serve on the cabinet. The cabinet members, one of whom is appointed Deputy Leader, assume responsibility for different key areas of local governance.[29] The full council meets around ten times a year. There are decisions that only full council can make, these include setting budgets and spending programmes, setting council tax levels and approving major policies and priorities. In addition to the Leader of the Council, the council also appoints the Mayor of Peterborough, the Deputy Mayor, committee chairmen and the chief executive. The cabinet and committees report to, and are accountable to, council.

Budget[edit]

The council's budget for the financial year 2018/19 is £418.7m[30] (down from £432.6m in 2017/18[31]). The main source of non-school funding is the formula grant, which is paid by government to local authorities based on the services they provide. The remainder, to which the police and fire authorities (and parish council where this exists) set a precept, is raised from council tax and business rates. Following the 2010 Spending Review, the council announced that 11.1% could be cut from departmental budgets to save £65m over a five-year period and up to 181 posts could be lost.[32]

Mayoralty[edit]

The city council elects a Mayor to serve for a term of one year. The role is now largely ceremonial, with political leadership provided instead by the Leader of the Council. Former leaders are listed with the historic election results. The Mayor has social and legal precedence in all places within the city unless HM the King or his personal representative, a close member of the Royal Family or the Lord Lieutenant is present. The Mayor also has a key democratic role to play, acting as a politically impartial chairman of the council and making sure that proper conduct takes place in the chamber during its meetings. The Mayor does not take part in debate or vote, except to break ties.[33] Mayoralty of the unitary authority has been held by the following councillors:

Arms of the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Peterborough, used from 1874 to 1960.
Tenure Incumbent
1998–1999 Mary Beatrice Rainey
1999–2000 John Ernest Graham Bartlett
2000–2002 Raymond Arthur Pobgee
2002–2003 Clifford Stanley Horace Sneesby
2003–2004 David Raines
2004–2005 Raja Akhtar
2005 died John Ray Horrell
2006 David Thorpe
2006–2007 Michael Burton
2007–2008 Marion Yvonne Todd
2008–2009 Patricia Nash
2009–2010 Irene Walsh
2010–2011 Keith Sharp
2011–2012 Paula Thacker
2012–2013 George Simons
2013–2014 June Stokes
2014–2015 David Over
2015–2016 John Peach[34]
2016–2017 David Sanders
2017–2018 John Fox
2018–2019 Chris Ash
2019–2021 Gul Nawaz[35]
2021-2022 Stephen Lane[36]
2022-2023 Alan Dowson
2023-2024 Nick Sandford
2024-2025 Marco Cereste[1]

Joint committees[edit]

The East of England Regional Assembly was based at Flempton, near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. The assembly was created as a voluntary regional chamber by the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 and the first meeting was held in March 1999. Following criticism of the regional assemblies, it was proposed in 2007 that they would be axed, losing their role by 2010.[37] It was replaced by the East of England Local Government Association who established a Regional Strategy Board to act as Local Authority Leaders' Board under the provisions of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. This role ended in 2010, with the abolition of statutory regional planning in England.

GO East, the Government Office for the East of England, co-ordinated the functions of national government in the region until 2011. The abolition of the Government Office network was announced in the 2010 Spending Review.

A combined authority for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough was established in 2017, with the first mayoral elections taking place on 4 May.

Political control[edit]

The council has been under no overall control since 2019. Following the 2024 election, Labour were the largest party and subsequently formed a minority administration.[38][39]

Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms took effect has been as follows:[40]

Lower tier non-metropolitan district

Party in control Years
Labour 1974–1976
Conservative 1976–1978
No overall control 1978–1980
Labour 1980–1982
No overall control 1982–1996
Labour 1996–1997
No overall control 1997–1998

Unitary authority

Party in control Years
No overall control 1998–2002
Conservative 2002–2014
No overall control 2014–2016
Conservative 2016–2017
No overall control 2017–2018
Conservative 2018–2018
No overall control 2018–2018
Conservative 2018–2019
No overall control 2019–present

Leadership[edit]

The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Peterborough. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council. The leaders since 2003 have been:[41]

Councillor Party From To
Ben Franklin Conservative 25 Jun 2003 4 Apr 2006
John Peach Conservative 12 Apr 2006 18 May 2009
Marco Cereste Conservative 18 May 2009 10 May 2015
John Holdich Conservative 15 May 2015 9 May 2021
Wayne Fitzgerald Conservative 26 May 2021 1 Nov 2023
Mohammed Farooq Peterborough First 1 Nov 2023 20 May 2024
Dennis Jones Labour 20 May 2024

Elections[edit]

In 2016, every councillor was up for re-election following changes made by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.[42] Following a vote of no confidence backed by all opposition parties in November 2023, the Conservative group leader and his team were ousted. The council is now run by Independents, a group of 11 known as Peterborough First.

Wards and councillors[edit]

The council comprises 60 councillors who represent the city and surrounding villages. Each councillor typically serves for a four-year term, representing an electoral ward. Wards are divided so that each councillor serves an average of around 2,000 electors.[43]

These are (in alphabetical order): Barnack, Bretton, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye, Thorney & Newborough, Fletton & Stanground, Fletton & Woodston, Glinton and Castor, Gunthorpe, Hampton Vale, Hargate and Hempsted, North, Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville, Park, Paston & Walton, Ravensthorpe, Stanground South, Werrington, West, Wittering. Twelve wards comprise the Peterborough constituency for elections to the House of Commons, while the remaining 10 fall within the North West Cambridgeshire constituency.[44]

Independent and Werrington First councillors sit as an Independent group known as "Peterborough First" on the council.[45]

* Julie Stevenson (Orton Waterville) resigned from the Green Party to sit as an Independent in June 2022.[46]

** Councillors Bisby, Hiller and Rush defected from the Conservatives to Peterborough First just two weeks after the Local Election in May 2023.[47] Councillor Elsey defected the following day.[48]

*** Councillor Mohammed Farooq was suspended by the Conservative Party in May 2023.[49] Despite being re-admitted in June, Cllr (M) Farooq quit the party due to a "bullying, toxic culture[50] - followed by his son, Cllr Saqib Farooq[51] and ward-colleague Cllr John Howard.[52]

Parliamentary constituency Ward Councillor Party Term of office
Peterborough
constituency
Bretton Chaz Fenner Conservative 2021–24
Scott Warren Conservative 2022–26
Richard Strangward Labour 2023–27
Central Amjad Iqbal Labour 2021–24
Alison Jones Labour 2022–26
Mohammed Jamil Labour 2023–27
Dogsthorpe Ishfaq Hussain Conservative 2021–24
Dennis Jones Labour 2022–26
Katy Cole Labour 2023–27
East Jackie Allen Conservative 2021–24
Sam Hemraj Labour 2022–26
Shabina Qayyum Labour 2023–27
Eye, Thorney & Newborough Nigel Simons Conservative 2021–24
Rylan Ray Conservative 2022–26
Steve Allen Conservative 2023–27
Gunthorpe Bryan Tyler Conservative 2021–24
Andrew Bond Liberal Democrats 2022–26
Sandra Bond Liberal Democrats 2023–27
North Mohammed Haseeb Labour 2021–24
Noreen Bi Labour 2022–26
Asim Mahmood Labour 2023–27
Park Muhammad Asif Conservative 2023–24
Mohammed Sabir Labour 2022–26
Arfan Khan Conservative 2023–27
Paston and Walton Nick Sandford Liberal Democrats 2021–24
Asif Shaheed Liberal Democrats 2022–26
Simon Barkham Liberal Democrats 2023–27
Ravensthorpe Gul Nawaz Conservative 2021–24
Mohammed Rangzeb Conservative 2022–26
Sabeel Ahmed Conservative 2023–27
Werrington John Fox Werrington First 2021–24
Steve Lane Werrington First 2022–26
Judy Fox Werrington First 2023–27
West Lynne Ayres Conservative 2021–24
Wayne Fitzgerald Conservative 2023–27
North West Cambridgeshire
constituency
Barnack David Over Conservative 2021-24
Fletton and Stanground Oliver Sainsbury Conservative 2021–24
Christian Hogg Liberal Democrats 2022–26
Jade Seager Liberal Democrats 2023–27
Fletton and Woodston Andy Coles Conservative 2021–24
Alan Dowson Labour 2022–26
Nick Thulbourn Labour 2023–27
Glinton and Castor Saqib M Farooq*** Independent 2021–24
Peter Hiller** Independent 2023–27
Hampton Vale Lindsay Sharp Conservative 2021–24
Marco Cereste Conservative 2022–26
Chris Wiggin Liberal Democrats 2023–27
Hargate and Hempsted Nicolle Moyo Conservative 2021–24
Mohammed Farooq*** Independent 2022–26
John Howard*** Independent 2023–27
Orton Longueville Graham Casey Conservative 2021–24
Michael Perkins Conservative 2022–26
Heather Skibsted Green 2023–27
Orton Waterville Kirsty Knight Green 2021–24
Julie Stevenson* Independent 2022–26
Nicola Day Green 2023–27
Stanground South Chris Harper Independent 2021–24
Ray Bisby** Independent 2022–26
Brian Rush** Independent 2023–27
Wittering Gavin Elsey** Independent 2021–24

Composition[edit]

Each ward elects up to three councillors by the first past the post system of election. Barnack and Wittering each elect one councillor, Glinton & Castor and West each elect two. All other wards elect three councillors. The current composition of the city council, following the 2023 elections, inclusive of defections and deaths, is:[53]

Party Seats
Labour 19
Peterborough First 14
Conservative 11
Liberal Democrat 9
Green Party 4
Independent 3

District elections[edit]

Turnout[edit]

One third of the council is elected each year, followed by one year without elections. At the 2019 election, for example, there were 97 candidates from 9 parties contesting 20 seats and turnout at the polling stations ranged from 24% in Stanground South to 46% in Park ward.[54]

Electoral fraud[edit]

In April 2008 a former Mayor, Mohammed Choudhary, was convicted for making a false instrument, namely a poll card, in connection with vote-rigging allegations during the 2004 election.[55][56] In May 2008 chief executive, Gillian Beasley, said "People can have confidence in this result because measures that have been put in place have ensured that the vote was carried out within the law." Beasley also revealed the city council was to write a report on tackling election fraud, after the Electoral Commission said it could be adopted as best practice. As part of the drive to reduce election fraud, the council sent out blank registration forms, resulting in more than 8,000 people falling off the electoral roll.[57]

Civil parishes[edit]

Civil parishes do not cover the whole of England and mostly exist in rural areas. They are usually administered by parish councils which have various local responsibilities. Parish councillors, like city councillors, are elected to represent the views of local people. Ailsworth, Bainton, Barnack, Borough Fen, Bretton, Castor, Deeping Gate, Etton, Eye, Glinton, Helpston, Marholm, Maxey, Newborough & Borough Fen, Northborough, Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville, Peakirk, Southorpe, Sutton, Thorney, Thornhaugh, Ufford, Wansford, Wittering, and Wothorpe & St Martin's Without each have a parish council. Wothorpe and St Martin's Without merged on 4 March 2020. The city council also works closely with Werrington neighbourhood association which operates on a similar basis to a parish council.[58] Parish elections are held every four years on the ordinary day of election of councillors for the unitary authority. The central part of the Peterborough urban area is an unparished area.

2016 EU Referendum[edit]

On Thursday 23 June 2016 Peterborough voted in the 2016 EU Referendum under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 where voters were asked to decide on the question "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?" by voting for either "Remain a member of the European Union" or "Leave the European Union". The result produced a large "Leave" majority by 61% of voters on a turnout of 72% across the city[59] with only the wards of Peterborough Central, Barnack and late postal votes in the city council area returning "Remain" votes and all other wards returning "Leave" majority votes.[citation needed] The then local MP Stewart Jackson backed "Leave", whereas local MP Shailesh Vara campaigned for a "Remain" vote.

Result[edit]

United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016
Peterborough
Choice Votes %
Leave the European Union 53,216 60.89%
Remain a member of the European Union 34,176 39.11%
Valid votes 87,392 99.91%
Invalid or blank votes 77 0.09%
Total votes 87,469 100.00%
Registered voters and turnout 120,892 72.35%
Peterborough referendum result (without spoiled ballots):
Leave:
53,216 (60.9%)
Remain:
34,176 (39.1%)

Results by Council Wards[edit]

Council Wards Votes
Remain Leave
Barnack 1,010 955
Bretton 1,387 2,798
Central 1,728 1,617
Dogsthorpe 1,273 2,622
East 1,384 2,186
Eye, Thorney & Newborough 1,846 3,568
Fletton & Stanground 1,612 2,949
Fletton & Woodston 2,170 2,669
Glinton & Castor 1,774 2,275
Gunthorpe 1,438 2,670
Hampton Vale 1,262 1,400
Hargate & Hempsted 1,320 1,439
North 1,178 2,127
Orton Longueville 1,555 3,124
Orton Waterville 2,144 3,129
Park 1,770 1,975
Paston & Walton 1,442 3,226
Ravensthorpe 1,686 2,746
Stanground South 1,430 2,762
Werrington 2,173 3,647
West 1,482 1,904
Wittering 649 1,094
Late Postal 422 344

Arms[edit]

Coat of arms of Peterborough City Council
Notes
Granted 6 September 1960
Coronet
A mural crown of six towers Gold.
Escutcheon
Azure two keys in saltire Or enfiled by a mural crown Argent.
Supporters
On either side a lion Ermine winged Argent charged on the wing with three estoiles Sable the interior paw resting on a tree trunk fesswise Proper.
Motto
Upon this rock[60]

See also[edit]

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