Local Plan
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. […]
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 […]
Harborough District Council (HDC) is defending its work on Harborough’s new Local Plan after MP Neil O’Brien called the public consultation a “sham”. Mr O’Brien cites figures “quietly released by the council” showing that only 101 members of the public responded to the consultation – equating to just 0.1 per cent of the district’s population. […]
A public meeting’s being held tonight to discuss controversial plans which could see new homes earmarked for Leicester City being built across the Harborough District instead. MP Neil O’ Brien has helped to organise the meeting – and is encouraging anyone who’s concerned to gather in the Methodist Church Hall on Northampton Road at 6.30pm […]
An application’s been made to construct up to 230 new homes as part of a major, greenfield development in the north of the Harborough District. Parker Strategic Land Ltd has lodged outline plans to build on fields to the north and south of the A47 Uppingham Road at Houghton on the Hill. The site currently […]
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