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Future plans for a long-standing derelict site in Desborough labelled ‘a jungle’ have been considered behind closed doors. North Northamptonshire Council’s Executive discussed the former Lawrence’s shoe factory site a meeting this morning, but the public and press were barred from proceedings due to the ‘commercially sensitive’ nature of the report. The authority, who own […]
Harborough Big Green Week is to celebrate everything sustainable happening in and around the town. It will launch at Saturday’s Market Harborough Carnival and a host of events will follow before a ‘Big Green Picnic’ in Welland Park concludes the week on Sunday June 18th. There will be a ‘Green Street’ at the carnival showground […]
Leicestershire’s Rural Policing Team is on track to recover stolen property totalling £1m in less than a year. Farm equipment and plant machinery, including items taken from Weston by Welland, Smeeton Westerby and Glooston, have been among the haul found by officers and returned to owners. A significant number of arrests have also been made. […]
Harborough Innovation Centre (HIC), opened in 2011, is a vibrant, eco-friendly hub providing flexible office space, drop-in workspaces, and conference facilities, with bespoke business support for new and thriving small, to medium enterprises. Situated in Market Harborough; a beautiful town in rural England, south Leicestershire, the HIC enjoys close proximity to the town centre boasting […]
A charity is launching a new project to help female survivors of childhood sexual abuse in and around Market Harborough. Leicestershire-based Quetzal has secured NHS funding to deliver free counselling and other support to women who need it. By offering a safe space, counselling services, empowerment workshops, and ongoing support networks, the charity aims to […]
A new C0-Op store is set to be built in Great Glen after planning permission was granted to redevelop an area in the centre of the village into new homes. The scheme will see the current shop demolished along with derelict buildings on the adjacent former Thorpes Joinery factory site, off Church Road. Eight houses […]
The go-ahead has been given for a long-standing derelict site in Market Harborough to be transformed into flats. Planning permission has been granted for three apartment blocks, of four and five storeys, to be built at the corner of St Mary’s Road and Kettering Road, adjacent to the River Welland. The blocks will house 79 […]
The go-ahead has been given for a medical aesthetics and beauty clinic to open in the former Catholic Club in Market Harborough. Planning permission has been granted for the change of use of the building on Coventry Road, which has stood empty since the social club closed in 2020. The club was open for over […]
The go-ahead been given for 35 new homes to be built on the site of a former shoe factory in Desborough town centre. The development on the former Dunkelman and Son site in Gold Street will see buildings demolished to make-way for two, three and four-bedroomed houses. The area has stood vacant since the company […]
The contents of a distillery in Market Harborough which closed with the loss of over 50 jobs is to be sold at auction. Administrators have ordered the sale of machinery and other assets following the collapse of Union Distillers, which was based on Welland Business Park. The business, which produced spirits under the ‘two birds’ […]
