Category: The Langtons

This site has been created to inform residents in the Gartree Division of the Leicestershire County Council about County Council matters that affect this beautiful area of High Leicestershire, which straddles the Roman Gartree Road, and consists of the Harborough District Council wards of Glen and Kibworth plus parts of the Billesdon and Tilton wards.…

Great Glen have recently reviewed their original Neighbourhood Plan, which went to referendum in 2017. The review process has been completed and the updated version was supported again at referendum in January 2020. The Kibworths Neighbourhood Plan was made in January 2018 but did not help mould more housing developments on Warwick Road (110 houses)…

Update – May 2019 Councillor Phil King, who took charge of Harborough District Council in early May, says other options need to be properly looked at before settling on a plan that involves ‘carpeting over hundreds of acres of green land’. The proposed A46 Expressway would broadly run in a loop from the Hobby Horse Roundabout near…

The New Gartree Division boundaries New Leicestershire County Council Divisions approved – November 2016 The Leicestershire (Electoral Changes) Order 2016 has been accepted by Parliament, and so the new electoral arrangements will come into force at the next scheduled elections for Leicestershire County Council in May 2017. The changes for the Gartree Division are as…

Consultation on proposed change to Leicestershire Welfare Provision (LWP) from April 2015. Government funding for direct support to vulnerable people in crisis may be withdrawn in March 2015. If the funding is withdrawn, we will not be able to provide support in the same way we have done up until now, and therefore, the council…

I attended a members’ briefing at County Hall on Wednesday 5th December 2012 to find out the latest news about the Broadband Leicestershire project.  Leicestershire has been confirmed as the lead authority for the contract negotiation work for the county, city and on behalf of the districts. Timescales are likely to be: Conclusion of the…