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Breckland Council is planning to sell Barnham Broom Golf and Country Club at a multi-million-pound loss to taxpayers.

Fears of housing developments springing up in a “wild west” fashion across Breckland has helped prompt its council cabinet to reconsider its local plan.

Published: 5:08 PM June 3, 2021    The plan to introduce a digital assistant to help manage residents queries was raised at a meeting of Breckland District Councils Overview and Scrutiny Commission. - Credit: Noah Vickers A Norfolk council has outlined plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help with queries, prompting some concerns around the security of people’s data.  At a Thursday meeting of Breckland District Council’s scrutiny committee, the council’s customer experience ...

Barnham Broom. Photo: Bill Smith - Credit: Archant © 2013 A council has again refused to say what it is doing with a country club it spent £9m on because it says it is in the public interest to keep it confidential.  At a Breckland Council meeting on Thursday a discussion about what the council has decided to do with Barnham Broom Golf and Country Club was held behind closed doors, despite calls from opposition councillors for it to be in the open. Breckland’s Conservative-run cabinet mad...