Planning Meeting To Be Re-Run After Technical Fault

A Harborough Council planning meeting is to be re-run after a technical fault prevented the public and press from watching it.

It means decisions taken on Tuesday evening, including the go-ahead for 33 new homes on the Bowden Fencing site in Great Bowden, have been voided and will have to be reconsidered.

The ‘virtual’ meeting was held on-line and the Council says it did not satisfy regulations because it was not available for the public view.

The meeting, which also gave the go-ahead for a new all-weather sports pitch at Robert Smyth Academy in Market Harborough, will take place again on June 16^th, with additional measures put in place to support the live webcast.

The Council says it sincerely apologises to all affected.