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NEW store: Plans have been submitted to the city council to build Carlisle’s second Lidl store Picture: Lidl PROPOSALS to build a second Lidl store in Carlisle have taken a step forward - despite continued flooding fears. A reserved matters application for the site on Warwick Road, has detailed the “layout, scale, appearance, access and landscaping” after the outline application (19/0840) was approved by the city council’s Development Control Committee in January. Co...

Kingston residents could soon see brand new offices and homes in the town centre. The council has approved plans for the so-called ‘Eden Campus’ at last week’s Development Control Committee (March 31), which lasted nearly four hours. The development would see consumer giant Unilever move offices across London and Surrey into a new headquarters in the borough. There was some debate over the height of the buildings and their impact on heritage assets in the borough. Councillor Reb...

Terry Haslam- Jones passed away suddenly on Thursday aged 76. Elected for Rossendale Councils Stacksteads Ward in 2019, he sat on its Development Control Committee, Bacup Community Partnership and Audit and Accounts Committee. Cllr Haslam-Jones leaves a wife Pamela, three children - Timothy, Joanne and Peter - and three grandchildren. Cllr Alyson Barnes, leader of Rossendale Council said: “This has come as a great shock. Terry was a well liked and respected local councillor and was a...

A developer with the vision to take on the challenge of transforming Brimscombe Port in to a new waterside community is now being sought by Stroud District Council. The Council has approved the procurement of a development partner to redevelop the industrial site in Brimscombe, creating opportunities for employment and business, commercial activity, retail, community and leisure uses, public space, and the reinstatement of the canal basin which would include more than 150 new homes. Strat...

Plans for a waterside community with 150 homes at Brimscombe Port are progressing. Stroud District Council has worked with partners to develop a vision to breathe new life in to a former industrial site that will see the creation of a vibrant new community with more than 150 homes and bring a historic canal basin back to its former glory. Brimscombe Port in the heart of the Golden Valley was once a bustling inland port which could cater for 100 vessels – but since the 1950s the canal and ...

AN UNAUTHORISED advertising board in Worting will be removed after councillors unanimously voted to take “direct action” against the company…

A LEADING developer has expressed its disappointment after its much-needed plans for Tadley were refused by the borough council on an issue surrounding affordable housing. McCarthy Stone submitted plans in October 2018 that would see the Reading Warehouses building and 48 New Road, Tadley, redeveloped with 42 one- and two-bedroom retirement living apartments for private sale, together with landscaped gardens and on-site car parking. The plans also included a new retail space, with five af...

Published: 6:00 PM January 14, 2021    A Burgh Castle farm and fishery is bidding to join the Wigwam Holidays franchise which operates glamping pods like these at some 80 countryside locations across the UK Picture: Wigwam Holidays www.wigwamholidays,com - Credit: Archant A bid for 12 lakeside cabins between two Norfolk parishes has been approved by councillors, despite villagers feeling "overloaded and overpowered" by the tourist industry. An application to build 11 standard entry wigwams an...

Council gives go-ahead for eight controversial new Burnham-On-Sea homes Controversial plans for eight new homes in Burnham-On-Sea were given the final go-ahead by district councillors on Tuesday (January 12th). 88 people signed a petition objecting against the plans amid concern about a likely rise in noise, increased traffic, the height of the properties compared to surrounding homes, a greater risk of flooding, and a loss of visual amenity. The planning application is for a new development of...

Beattie Statue Receives Planning Permission Wednesday, 8th Jan 2020 21:06 The statue of Blues legend Kevin Beattie was approved by Ipswich Borough Council’s Planning and Development Control Committee earlier today. The committee voted in favour of the siting of the statue of Beattie, who died in September 2018 aged 64, on the corner of Portman Road and the entrance to the car park, diagonally opposite Planet Blue. In granting permission, the committee said in conclusion: “The proposal is ...