Issue - meetings

To set fees and charges for port operations at both Port Sutton Bridge and Wisbech Port for financial year 2025/26.

Appendices 2 and 3 to this report comprises exempt information - to exclude the public (including the press) from a meeting of a committee it is necessary for the following proposition to be moved and adopted: “that the public be excluded from the meeting for Items which would involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraphs 3 and 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as

AGREED that the fees and charges for the Port of Wisbech be increased by 10% and for the Port of Sutton Bridge they remain the same.

Members considered the fees and charges for port operations at Port Sutton Bridge and Wisbech Port for the financial year 2025/26 presented by Councillor Boden.

Councillor Boden referred to the options available to members in the report, one of which suggests that there should be no increase at all and another suggesting that there be a 10% increase but he is recommending that neither of those two options are supported. He recommended that, given that there is a significantly extra higher overall costs for the Wisbech Port and in an attempt to recover the costs, the increases for Wisbech Port be set at 10% but the increases at the Port of Sutton Bridge should be set at 0%.

Proposed by Councillor Boden, seconded by Councillor Mrs French and AGREED that the fees and charges for the Wisbech Port be increased by 10% and for the Port of Sutton Bridge they remain the same.

(Appendices 2 and 3 to the report involved the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 3 and 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended))