Core Strategy Alternative Options Paper is being taken out for public consultation by Harborough District Council between Monday 8th June and Monday 20th July 2009. Please see below for further details

More and more people are making use of their Community Forum to try and improve local services and raise issues of local concern.
- Residents in Birstall were unhappy that the swimming pool in Longslade Community College was no longer going to be open to the public outside school hours. Discussion at the local Area Forum meeting resulted in the College working directly with local users to find ways the pool can remain open.
- Following the Government’s shortlisting of ‘Pennbury’ as a potential Eco-town, the ‘Have your Say’ meetings in Kibworth and Tugby were the first opportunity for residents in the surrounding area to find out how the District and County Council were planning to respond to this challenge.
- At the Blaby South Community Forum residents and Parish Councillors from Sapcote, Sharnford, Stoney Stanton and surrounding villages expressed their concerns about the volume and speed of Heavy Goods Vehicles travelling through their villages. In response officers promised to look into a range of measures to reduce the impact of traffic and improve road safety in the short term, while explaining how they were looking to provide longer-term solutions. More »

This is to make residents aware that a group of villagers are carring out a speeding survey over the next four weeks.This is a voluntary scheme organised by Mike Watson from the Road Safety Unit from County Hall,and has the full approval of the Leicestershire Police.The volunteers will only be recording,where applicable,the excess speed,make and registration of the vehicle. This information is then passed on to Mike Watson at County Hall.

The latest police speed survey in Stoughton recorded motorists ignoring our 20mph speed limit. Over three days on Gaulby Lane the police monitored 5,728 vehicles. 96.4% were over the limit .. travelling on average at 27.4 mph. BUT 7% were over 35 mph and one lunatic was clocked at 50mph.

The Parish Council will discuss these findings and consider the need for further traffic calming.