County Council urged to save money by dropping doomed Unitary plan
Plans for a single Council for Leicestershire have been slammed at a meeting of Leicestershire County Council.
Plans for a single Council for Leicestershire have been slammed at a meeting of Leicestershire County Council.
Tory County Council bosses have been condemned after they voted to reduce the number of Full County Council meetings from six a year to just five.
Residents in Hinckley are being encouraged to participate in an appeal on proposals to build 60 houses on a Hinckley nature feature. Orbit Housing wish to build 60 houses on the site of the Big Pit water feature behind Ashby Road in Hinckley.
Controversial plans to have one Unitary authority for the whole of Leicestershire and to abolish the existing seven Leicestershire Boroughs and Districts will be debated at this Wednesday's Leicestershire County Council meeting. This is despite the County Council's Conservative leadership not wanting the issue debated until the December Full Council meeting.
Speaking at the Annual Lib Dem conference Hinckley County Councillor Michael Mullaney called on the Tory led Leicestershire County Council to drop plans to scrap Hinckley and Bosworth and the other Boroughs in Leciestershire.
The Liberal Democrats have published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system, cutting taxes for businesses by 40% in Hinckley and Bosworth