Residents of Broughton Road and Melland Place will be interested to know that the series of potholes that are forming along Broughton Road have recently been reported by the Focus team in the Leicester South constituency.
Residents living in close proximity to the junction at The Fairway, Brookfield Rise and Stanton Row will recently have noticed work carried out by Leicester City Council to repair the carriageway that had been plagued by a series of potholes at various intervals.
.... but this is what you got ! In the Borough Council elections last year, a key plank of the Labour Party's manifesto was that they would reduce car parking charges. They claimed that trade was down in the town because of high parking charges. Well - surprise, surprise !! - This year they have:
A Hertfordshire rail bottleneck is now well on the way to being removed, thanks to the Coalition Governments infrastructure investment programme. Currently trains for Cambridge and Ely have to cross the East Coast Main Line on the same level just after Hitchin station. This blocks both fast tracks temporarily every time a train turns off to Cambridge, with speed restrictions over the crossing and obvious timetabling problems.
Wiltshire could have a new lake following the decision of West Wiltshire planning committee to approve an application by the owners of Grange Farm at Dunge to erect four workshops and build a fishing lake. Bratton Parish Council didn't object to the scheme, but West Ashton PC were unhappy about what they saw as the lack of detail in the application.
An application from The Steiner School of Frome has been approved by West Wiltshire's planning committee. Steiner intend to use the old primary school in Corsley, which closed in 2007, as a temporary premises until their own new school is completed. Since its closure Corsley School has been used as a conference centre.