• How each Melton Borough Councillor voted on the Core Strategy

  By Yah_Boo_Sucks

  Councillor Simpson you are rude, arrogant and extremely unprofessional, Councillor Cumbers very...

            

   

  By melton_mark at 01:09 on 16/02/12

  

  At Wednesday's Extraordinary Meeting of Melton Borough Council, Councillors voted 16 to 8 in favour of adopting the Core Strategy - including proposals to build a Sustainable Urban Extension (SUE) of around 1,000 new homes and supporting facilities to the North of Melton Mowbray. You can read the full report of the lively meeting here, and listed below are details of how all 28 councillors voted. Each Councillor is listed along with...

• No prosecution despite a breach of election law

  By GeoffWinters

  Melton Councils latest being that there is "No Evidence" makes out that the police and CPS...

            

   

  By Leicester Mercury at 09:30 on 19/09/11

  

  A councillor breached election law by having a "thank you" message published in a parish magazine ahead of polling day. But the Crown Prosecution Service, which made the ruling, say a prosecution would not be in the public interest – provoking protests from opponents. The note from Tory Mark Barnes, who has held Melton Borough Council's Somerby seat for 12 years, was printed in the May edition of the Towards magazine...

• Melton Borough Council's Annual General Meeting

  By melton_mark

  Thanks ogden4melton for an interesting report on last night's Melton Borough Council AGM - would...

            

   

  By ogden4melton at 07:21 on 20/05/11

  

  I attended the Melton Borough Council's Annual General Meeting last night held at Scalford Hall.  When the Melton Mowbray residents went to the poles on the 5th May to cast their vote, I am certain that they had no idea that they were supporting an 'Old Boys Club'.  That is what it looked like when I observed the Tory lead councillors performing their ritual.  They recited stories about each other known only unto them as...

• Sainsbury's or Waitrose superstore for Melton Mowbray?

  By melton_mark

  It looks like Sainsbury's is definitely coming to Melton Mowbray

            

   

  By melton_mark at 13:20 on 20/01/11

  

  The fate of Waitrose and Sainsbury's supermarket plans for Melton Mowbray will finally be decided by Melton Borough Council, at a special meeting on Thursday 27th January. Planning officers have recommended approval for the Sainsbury's application to build a supermarket on the former Melton Borough Council offices site on Nottingham Road. If the application is approved, Sainsbury's expect to create 350 jobs. In turn planning officers...

• Are you planning a street party to celebrate the royal wedding?

  By stiltoncheese

  Or is anyone old enough to have pictures from the street parties of 1981, celebrating Charles and...

            

   

  By Leicslocal at 19:17 on 01/02/11

  

  So far no-one in Leicestershire has applied to hold a street party to mark the royal wedding thisisleicestershire reports. The Government is hoping communities will get into the party spirit to celebrate the nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29. It wants a repeat of the scenes of 1981, when streets were filled with festivities for the marriage of Charles and Diana. But councils said that with four weeks...

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