Core Strategy Alternative Options Paper is being taken out for public consultation by Harborough District Council between Monday 8th June and Monday 20th July 2009. Please see below for further details

Cranoe Village Meeting have announced the date for the Gourmet Dinner Evening, as Friday 1st May 2009, in Glooston.

Chef Ton Van Der Meen will be creating the menu. Tickets are priced at £19.50.

Please call Ian McCann on 01858 540084, for details and to make a booking.

Cranoe Village Meeting resolved on the 2nd December 2008, to adopt the Model Publication Scheme, in respect of the Freedom of Information Act.

To disseminate information, a guide is being produced, which will describe who we are, what we do, what our procedures are, etc. This guide will be made available shortly on the new Cranoe Parish web site.

Ian McCann 01858 540084

Cranoe will soon be entering the 21st Century! As a conduit for Village Meeting items and general village news, I am developing our web site, which is based on the Leics. Parish Council web site framework.

Please contact me if you have any issues with the principle of a web site, or moreso, any items/news you want up-loading.

Development of the site may not be at great speed, but at least a start has been made.

Ian McCann - 540084

More and more people are making use of their Community Forum to try and improve local services and raise issues of local concern.
- Residents in Birstall were unhappy that the swimming pool in Longslade Community College was no longer going to be open to the public outside school hours. Discussion at the local Area Forum meeting resulted in the College working directly with local users to find ways the pool can remain open.
- Following the Government’s shortlisting of ‘Pennbury’ as a potential Eco-town, the ‘Have your Say’ meetings in Kibworth and Tugby were the first opportunity for residents in the surrounding area to find out how the District and County Council were planning to respond to this challenge.
- At the Blaby South Community Forum residents and Parish Councillors from Sapcote, Sharnford, Stoney Stanton and surrounding villages expressed their concerns about the volume and speed of Heavy Goods Vehicles travelling through their villages. In response officers promised to look into a range of measures to reduce the impact of traffic and improve road safety in the short term, while explaining how they were looking to provide longer-term solutions. More »