planning
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 […]
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 […]
Holiday homes could be built on part of a golf club in the Harborough District if new plans are approved by the Council next month. An application has been submitted to build 21 one and two bedroom chalets at Kilworth Springs Golf Club – together with associated parking, a new access road and external landscaping. […]
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 […]
New shops could be built in part of the Commons Car Park in Market Harborough. The area has been identified for a mixed use retail development of at least one thousand square metres in Harborough District Council’s draft Local Plan – which maps out new home and business sites over the next 16 years. It […]
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. […]
Plans to build two new ‘drive thrus’ on the outskirts of Market Harborough are being recommended for the go-ahead this week. If approved, Costa Coffee will open in one of the units, while a search continues to find an occupier for the other. The development is part of a proposed 16-million pound extension to Airfield […]
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