Elm Parish Council

Elm is one of the largest parishes in Fenland District, covering 6,000 hectares of rich agricultural land.

The parish is made up of the villages of Elm and Fridaybridge and the smaller settlements of Coldham and Rings End, which together with a number of scattered and isolated properties has a total population of around 3,500.

The villages and settlements within the parish have easy access to the Fenland market towns of March to the south and Wisbech to the north. Peterborough and King’s Lynn are both around 30 minutes' travelling time for residents of the parish.

Elm Parish Council meets on a monthly basis; usually on a Tuesday, at 6.30 pm in the Parish Council’s office at Begdale Road, Elm.

Agendas for Parish Council meetings, which include an Open Forum of 15 minutes duration, are published on the Parish Council’s notice boards in each of the villages/settlements: the locations of the notice boards are: the Pocket Park and outside the village store opposite the Cemetery in Elm; adjacent to the Clocktower at Fridaybridge; the “bus shelter” layby at Coldham; the bus shelter on March Road at Rings End.

Agendas and minutes are also published on this website. Next meeting is scheduled for May 22nd.   Agenda  -  Annual Assembly Agenda

In addition to monthly meetings, the Parish Council holds an Annual Assembly, in April each year, to which members of the public are invited to engage with the Parish Council and raise any issues of community concern.

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Superfast Broadband

Superfast Broadband will help existing businesses to grow, bring innovative, new companies to the area and create new jobs. It will transform the way residents can access the services they need without having to travel far, helping to improve lives and saving time and money.

Increasing broadband coverage in rural areas will encourage local enterprise, give more people the flexibility to work from home, save transport costs and reduce congestion.

Wider access to broadband will also bring opportunities to provide our health, education and public services in more accessible and efficient ways – such as supporting elderly and vulnerable people so that they can live independently and access telehealth options.

Cambridgeshire ACRE is now calling on all its contacts, as leaders in their community, to support the Get Cambridgeshire Connected campaign. This campaign is urging local people and businesses to register their demand for Superfast Broadband on the Connecting Cambridgeshire website, www.connectingcambridgeshire.co.uk.

Being able to prove the potential demand for Superfast Broadband is key to bringing the service to the County.