Author: HFM News
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The building of five new homes on a former airfield at the edge of Lubenham will now be going ahead – after a Government Planning Inspector stepped in to uphold an appeal by developers. Last year Harborough District Council rejected a proposal for the new houses at Chapel Farm on Foxton Road in Lubenham, on […]
Despite Harborough District Councillors voting on Monday (3rd March 2025) to put their long awaited Local Plan out to public consultation, Harborough’s MP says it still needs more work… Neil O’Brien is calling for the plan to do more to reduce the flooding impact of new developments, saying some of its current wording is contradictory. […]
Northamptonshire Police are appealing for the public’s help to trace two distinctive horse-drawn carts stolen in a burglary at East Farndon. At around 8pm on Friday the 28th of February, three men entered a yard off Clipston Road and removed the two carts. The suspects are described as male, all wearing puffer jackets, jogging bottoms […]
Two butchers from the Harborough District are hoping to be voted a cut above the rest! Joseph Morris Butchers in South Kilworth and Bridge 67 Butchers in Kibworth Beauchamp are among rural businesses in the Midlands shortlisted for this year’s Countryside Alliance Awards. It’s after thousands of nominations were pared down to just twenty. Their […]
Holiday homes could be built on part of a golf club in the Harborough District if new plans are approved by the Council next month. An application has been submitted to build 21 one and two bedroom chalets at Kilworth Springs Golf Club – together with associated parking, a new access road and external landscaping. […]
Visitors to a popular Market Harborough park now have a new recreational facility to use – thanks to Harborough Welland u3a and funding from the District Council. Brand new Petanque pitches have been built near the café in Welland Park – which anyone can use, free of charge. Around a dozen u3a Petanque players attended […]
Harborough District Council has announced it will now put its long awaited Local Plan out to public consultation. It sets out the authority’s vision, objectives, spatial strategy and planning policies for the period up to 2031. The decision to proceed was made at a meeting of Councillors last night – who decided it would be […]
Northamptonshire Police have launched an appeal for witnesses following the attempted burglary last month at a Desborough supermarket. The incident at the Co-Op Central, in Gladstone Street Desborough, happened on Saturday 22nd February between 10.40pm and 10.50pm. A group of men used tools to force open the doors at the front of the building and […]
TODAY is ‘National School Place Offer Day’ – when students across the HFM area discover which secondary school they’ve been allocated. It’s the first year in which Leicestershire has offered parents up to five preferences – with the County Council revealing 98.31% of youngsters secured one of these, while 90.96% got their first choice secondary school. […]
Detectives are appealing for witnesses to come forward after this morning’s fatal road traffic collision in Market Harborough. Leicestershire Police were called to the B6047 Harborough Road just before 1.30am today following a report a black Seat Leon had left the carriageway and overturned. Officers attended, and a woman in her twenties was pronounced dead […]
