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 crossing. In June 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies published a report indicating that the reopening of the line to Wisbech and construction of a new station could be viable, in that the ratio of business, economic and social benefits to costs would be just over 1. It was the Eastern Counties Railway which first reached Wisbech from the south in May 1847 with the opening of a line from St Ives via March; a temporary wooden station named "Wisbeach" was built on the site of the future Wisbech goods yard (at grid reference TF458093). The East Anglian Railways