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A property developer is appealing Harborough District Council’s refusal of planning permission on a large green field site to the north of our area. In 2023, Parker Strategic Land submitted plans for a 70-bed residential care home alongside 230 new houses on land adjacent to Firs Road at Houghton On The Hill. These also included […]
A Market Harborough carpet fitter has just hung up his Stanley Knife for the final time after half a century working for the same family company. Gary Freestone (pictured above, far right, in the past) was employed by H Monk & Sons in the town as a teenager, straight out of school, having been given […]
A drive to ‘enhance’ green spaces across Harborough has been launched by Harborough District Council. Financed from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Council has launched what it calls a ‘proactive’ new initiative to identify public open spaces which could be enhanced for local residents via ‘community masterplans.’ A total of £80,000 of funding has […]
A two-year project that’s seen the installation of hundreds of swift nesting boxes in buildings across Leicestershire has been hailed a huge success. In 2023, Leicestershire County Council was awarded a grant from Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme Scheme to help to boost the numbers of the threatened birds. The Swift Action for Swifts project […]
A farmer from the Harborough District has been ordered to pay more than £5000 in fines for risking the safety of the food chain. 34-year-old James Beesley from Cranoe pleaded guilty at Leicester Crown Court to twenty breaches of cattle identification laws. These included failing to report cattle deaths within seven days and reusing ear […]
Investigations are underway after a bonfire spread out of control in a residential area of Market Harborough over the weekend. Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service was called out to a fire, at Meadow Street in the town, late on Saturday evening (9th August). Four crews – from Billesdon, Kibworth, Wigston and Leicester – found a […]
Summer visitors to Market Harborough town centre are being welcomed by a brand new planter. Funded by Harborough District Council, it was a joint effort between the Rotary Club of Market Harborough and Harborough In Bloom – who assembled it, oiled the wood and planted it up. The new container – which has its own […]
The team responsible for floral displays at over one hundred locations around Market Harborough can now stay safe and be seen whilst carrying out its work. It’s thanks to a gift of new hi-vis vests to dozens of hard working Market Harborough in Bloom volunteers. Last year, their efforts were recognised when the town was […]
The decision about whether to allow the construction of a controversial green energy facility near Great Bowden has been deferred by Leicestershire County Councillors. Yesterday’s meeting of the Council’s Development Control and Regulatory Board considered Great Bowden Green Energy’s application for an anaerobic digestion plant at a former mushroom farm site on Welham Lane which […]
Harborough District Council has marked 90 years of Welland Park in Market Harborough. At a special anniversary event in the park today (Thursday 7th August), chairman Cllr Peter James cut a cake made by The Welland Park Café to mark the occasion. A flowerbed depicting the number 90 and a decorated present made of wood […]
