Wisbech Lynn Rd. May 2017 the new Cambridgeshire and Peterborough combined authority announces new investment into the area. In 2016 the Wisbech High Street project was awarded a £1.9M grant to bring back into use empty properties on the High Street. The Heritage Lottery Fund grant will run until 2021. April 2018 plans for £8M redevelopment of the hospital are announced. Plans for an additional 1,500 homes were announced in the press in May 2018. It was announced by local M.P. Steve Barclay that Fenland schools would receive £250,000 towards recruiting more teachers. The Anglican Parish Church of St Peter and
Wisbech East railway station March to Magdalen Road via Wisbech following in September 1968. The section east of Wisbech was subsequently dismantled, but the rest of the route remained open for freight traffic (from Whitemoor Junction) to Wisbech in order to serve the nearby Spillers (later Nestle Purina) pet food factory, Metal Box products and a coal depot. The line was singled in 1972 with the lifting of the down line. Nothing remains of Wisbech East, the station site having been entirely redeveloped and replaced by the Octavia Hill Centre for the handicapped. The Centre was itself subsequently demolished and replaced by housing. The