Decision time for Magna Park extension

Magna Park 2 extension

To be considered at an open Meeting of  Harborough District Council – Full Council

At 6.30pm Monday 11th December 2017 Hangar 42 Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground and Aerodrome 
Bath Lane Bruntingthorpe LE17 5QS



The Magna Park is Big Enough campaign said it “is delighted that the planning application is being heard again, nullifying approval by the Planning Committee November 23rd” “It’s the wrong scheme in the wrong place”.

Harborough District Council has further information on their website. Search for 11th December. 


This is an open meeting – anybody from the Public is welcome.  Speeches from the floor will be made. Please note, however, this is a meeting of the full council, not a planning meeting. The rules are different. 


For further information please contact David Fish secretary davidfishcf@msn.com or 07779784786

And now - back in Lutterworth

Have you not voted Labour yet? These people have, and look how happy they are! In Lutterworth and villages, vote for DAVID GAIR, in Broughton and villages, vote for SANDRA PARKINSON, and in Bruntingthorpe (that's all the other villages including Fleckney) you need to be voting for LIZ MARSH.

Support your local Labour candidates on Thursday

“I am delighted to support these three excellent candidates and urge local residents to vote for them on Thursday May 4.”

 

WILLY BACH, who is your Leicestershire Police & Crime Commissioner and a local resident.

DAVID GAIR - LUTTERWORTH DIVISION

SANDRA PARKINSON - BROUGHTON DIVISION

LIZ MARSH - BRUNTINGTHOPE DIVISION

Your Labour candidate for Bruntingthorpe Division

Bruntingthorpe Division

Arnesby, Catthorpe, Cotesbach, Fleckney, Gilmorton, Husbands Bosworth, Kimcote & Walton, Knaptoft, Misterton with Walcote, Mowsley, North Kilworth, Peatling Magna, Peatling Parva, Shawell, Shearsby, South Kilworth, Swinford, Westrill & Starmore, Willoughby Waterleys

LIZ MARSH

I am proud to have been selected as your Labour candidate for the Bruntingthorpe Division. For 35 years I have watched the area develop and change, having lived in Fleckney between 1982 and 1985 and Walcote since 2004. Some changes have been positive. Others have left me disheartened and dismayed.


Public Transport
The County Council has not protected our buses. Too many villagers are left isolated. Gilmorton residents cannot get to work by bus and no one, even in a village the size of Fleckney, has an an evening or a Sunday service. How can this be right?

Housing Growth

Our villages are bigger, but where are the facilities to support this growth? Post offices, shops, pubs and schools are the lifeblood of our village communities but without the support of our County Council most are more likely to close than expand. And how many villages can offer the homes needed for young people or elderly residents?


Roads
Congestion, speeding, potholes... it began as a joke but, really, it is true. The only time our roads get any attention is in election year. Residents complain about traffic pollution. They campaign for safe crossings and other traffic calming measures. And the County Council does what it always does. Nothing.

If I am elected, I will make sure the rural voice is heard in County Hall. How can you be satisfied with the current service? There is no service! 

The Results are in...

The results are in for yesterday's Leicestershire County Council election.  We did OK, but the plaudits have to go to the six Labour gains in the north of the county: Thurmaston, Loughborough South, Whitwick, Coalville, Ibstock and Measham.  Lots of people thought we could win a one or two of these, but nobody dreamt we could win all six.

In the Harborough part of South Leicestershire, otherwise known as us, the results were as follows:

Lutterworth
David Gair (L)      758
Rosita Page (C)   1525
Martin Sears (I)     518
    Spoilt ballots       11

Broughton
Bill Liquorish (C)          1544
Antony Moseley (LD)     183
Sandra Parkinson (L)      521
     SP                                12

Bruntingthorpe
Elaine Carter (L)             572
Graham Hart (C)           1555
Tim Johnson (UKIP)       723
Kevin Loydall (LD)        229
     SP                                  7

Jo Fox her seat in Braunstone, which is great, but you have to feel for Amanda Hack who missed out on a stellar win in Enderby Meridian by 39 votes.  Having been Pete Knight's agent in 1989 when we failed to take Lutterworth by 6 miserable votes, I have particular empathy.  The good news, Amanda, is that we took Lutterworth for Pete by several hundred four years later.

Back in '94, though, there were issues to be fought.  The County Council did things and spent money.  This year, the scandalously low turnout - for us, 31.7%, 26.5% and 32% respectively - says it all.  What is there to fight about with a council that does nothing, plans to do less, and spends very little except on itself?  Surely the turnout of 22% in a battleground seat like Enderby Meridian makes the argument for unitary councils?

Congratulations to the winners, well done to every single candidate.  Certainly in Lutterworth, Broughton and Bruntingthorpe it wasn't for want of effort.  The Lutterworth4Labour team worked as hard as ever.

The full gory details can be found on the County website.

Good luck tomorrow!

DAVID GAIR

 Standing in LUTTERWORTH DIVISION

to press for a proper bypass to the east of the town.

 

SANDRA PARKINSON

Standing in BROUGHTON DIVISION

to make your roads safer

ELAINE CARTER

Standing in BRUNTINGTHORPE DIVISION

to win funding for rural communities

 

 

All your LABOUR CANDIDATES are campaigning to save your libraries, services to schools, and grants to essential voluntary and community organisations from FURTHER TORY CUTS.

 

Good luck to all in tomorrow's County Council elections.  Voting takes place from 7am to 10pm, so they must be expecting crowds.

 

If you want to know what these elections mean nationally, there's a fascinating article here.