Friday Bridge

9°COvercast

• Today: 12° / 7° · 23% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:01Sunset 16:24

9h 23m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

40US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

• 7.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

17 reported · August 2026▲ 13% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences9
• Anti-social behaviour3
• Criminal damage & arson2
• Other theft2

Neighbourhood team: Wisbech · Cambridgeshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

129 reported road collisions (2025)

41 killed or seriously injured · 185 casualties · 12.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

15 food businesses within 2 miles

• 12 rated 4–5 ★ (11 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£224,770 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Fenland · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£842 average monthly rent▲ 3.7% YoY

• 1 bed £627
• 2 bed £807
• 3 bed £979

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

7.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.4 times median annual pay (7.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,413 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

7 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons (3.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches3
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

102,459 residents in Fenland · 188/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,353
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,468
• Net moves+885

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 42 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

9% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,538 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (36% of 48,110)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

47 schools · 13,993 pupils

31 primary · 4 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 23 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

38 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Fenland

595 CQC-registered services

• Care homes139
• GP practices108
• Dentists128
• Homecare agencies139
• Hospitals & hospices20

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cambridgeshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 7 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

158 applications decided

87.3% granted · 138 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Steve Barclay

Conservative

North East Cambridgeshire

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Con 35
• LD 2
• Oth 6

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools4
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,295 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£688 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,333 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,212 certificates

10.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

65% low-carbon electricity

Wind 36% · Gas 34% · Nuclear 15% · Solar 9%

142 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Cambridgeshire): 61.5 women · 62.3 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

2 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in PE14

• Upwell Health Centre
• St John'S Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North East Cambridgeshire:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases337 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth215 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK159 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND158 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills147 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Friday Bridge, Cambridgeshire · 0.2 km

  Friday Bridge is a village in the civil parish of Elm, in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is 3 miles south of the town of Wisbech. In 2021 it had a population of 1412.

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  Wisbech and March line · 1.3 km

  The Wisbech and March line is a disused railway line between March and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England. A number of proposals are currently being investigated relating to the possible restoration of passenger servi…

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  Elm, Cambridgeshire · 1.4 km

  Elm is a village and civil parish in the Fenland District of Cambridgeshire, England. In Domesday, it is called Helle.

• Begdale · 2.0 km

  Begdale is a hamlet between Wisbech, Elm and Friday Bridge in Cambridgeshire, England.

• Collett's Bridge · 2.3 km

  Collett's Bridge is a hamlet within the civil parish of Elm, in the Isle of Ely, in the Fenland district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is situated on the eastern boundary of the district 1.5 miles east…

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  Wisbech and Upwell Tramway · 2.9 km

  The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway was a rural standard gauge tramway in East Anglia. It was built by the Great Eastern Railway between Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, and Upwell, now in Norfolk, to carry agricultur…

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