Meet the Green Party's election candidate for North East Cambridgeshire

A General Election will be held on July 4, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday.

To launch the Cambs Times/Wisbech Standard's General Election coverage, we'll be speaking to candidates about their priorities for Fenland and North East Cambridgeshire.

Standing for the Green Party is Andrew Crawford, who has been living or working in Fenland for the past 30 years.

If elected, he said his local priorities would be to stop the Wisbech Incinerator from going ahead and to re-open the Bramley Railway Line between March and Wisbech.

He added that "the March Town 'transformation' would also have a very serious re-think in order for it to provide what local people want.

"If there is to be any hope of reducing the through traffic, it needs to be directed out of town rather than directly through it.

"In Whittlesey we, are concerned about the size and scale of industrial development and in
Chatteris the loss of Wenny Meadow for yet more housing estates."

He added that another aim would be for all Fenland towns "to be safe for cycling, walking and be served by a regular, reliable, and affordable public transport system".