Author: HFM News

Plans for a controversial housing development in Market Harborough have been put on hold over concerns about drainage. Councillors were due to consider the proposal for 128 homes at Burnmill Farm, off Kingston Way, last night, but the application was taken off the agenda. Over 110 people had lodged objections, with concerns including potential flooding, […]

Market Harborough’s former Cottage Hospital is to be demolished and a new 70-bedroom care home built it its place. Councillors last night granted planning permission for the multi-million pound redevelopment of the Coventry Road site. The protected World War One Memorial and Portico will be retained where it is though, and incorporated into the new […]

Harborough’s shop bosses met with Leicestershire’s Police and Crime Commissioner today and called for more Policing resources to be dedicated to tackle shoplifting. The meeting with Lord Willy Bach involved member of the Harborough Against Retail Theft (HART) scheme, that sees member shops linked by radio and to the CCTV control room, and able to […]

The finalists for the 2018 Leicestershire and Rutland Rural Achievement Awards have been announced and they include businesses, a charity, and library in the Hfm Region. Fleckney Community Library, VASL’s Community Champions scheme, which supports people who are lonely, Langton Greenhouse and Garden Centre and NFU Mutual in Market Harborough, have all been shortlisted in […]

A man’s been charged with theft after an undercover operation targeting shoplifters in Market Harborough The 31-year-old from the town is accused of stealing a bottle of gin from Sainsbury’s yesterday lunchtime. Officers in plain clothes arrested him in near-by St Mary’s Place just after 1pm. He’ll now appear before Magistrates

Two people were injured after a crash on the B6047 this morning involving two cars and a van. A Citroen, Vauxhall Zafira and a Vauxhall van were involved in collision near to the railway bridge, between the McDonalds roundabout and East Langton, just before 8.30am Police say those taken to hospital had injuries that are […]

Signs have been put up on the A14 bridge at Rothwell, in a bid to stop suicides. Highways England have installed them following mass outcry when so-called ‘notes of hope’ – placed on the railings by a group of friends – were removed, when they were deemed a distraction to drivers. Four official signs have […]

People in Kibworth are being urged to comment on an Action Plan aimed at dealing with pollution problems along of a stretch of the A6. An eight week public consultation has begun, which will include drop-in sessions with Harborough Council officials during October and November. Levels of Nitrogen Dioxide, caused by vehicle fumes, are well […]

Over 30 more parking spaces are planned for the St Luke’s Hospital in Market Harborough. NHS bosses want to create them on a disused area of the Leicester Road site and introduce a one-way system to improve the way vehicles move around it. The widening of some of the roads through it, new street lighting, […]

New shop units could be built on the Welland Business Park in Market Harborough. Owners want to put up a two-storey building fronting Rockingham Road, which would be split into two, and are seeking permission for them to be used by retailers, although not selling food. A planning application has been lodged with Harborough Council.