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GLENFIELD’S NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS

THE INSPECTOR has now approved our plan subject to some alterations but without the need for a public hearing.

She has discounted the objections to it and agreed with us that we have done all that is necessary and that we need not act on possible housing demands which we fear may be in the next Blaby Local Plan. We prepared our plan based on the requirement today not what Blaby hope to agree in the future. That is a plan long overdue which is not expected for at least another year and we are not in the business of considering maybes.

Most of the alterations she requires are in the wording, making things more clear to people with no knowledge of some of the terms we referred to and these we accept and will have altered

The big disappointment is that she would not support us designating that part of the golf course within Glenfield as a special ‘green space’. We knew that such a designation was aimed at smaller plots but felt it was worth a try.

She thought it was adequately protected as green wedge, which it is at the moment but we know that as and when a local plan for the district is agreed the plan was to remove that protection. We must therefore object to that plan when the matter comes up and we may have to prepare an update to our neighbourhood plan but at least we should have something on the table shortly.

It still looks likely that Blaby will have to build houses to cover the shortfall to target in the City and they may come back at us for the 300 plus they were talking about previously in which case we may be faced with deciding which is the least bad site for them.

Personally, my big fear is that without a local plan for the district, all developers could get a green light on appeal. That would mean as many as a thousand new homes in the village with another thousand just over the border. When you consider that Glenfield, as it is, has under five thousand houses you can imagine what pressure facilities would come under.

Once Blaby have made the amendments to our Neighbourhood Plan which the inspector required, Blaby have to hold a referendum to get it adopted.

Cllr Roy Denney

Blaby is fourth best place to live in the country, say residents

BLABY DISTRICT has been declared the fourth best place to live in the UK – by our own residents!

The Office for National Statistics released data on how people rate where they live in terms of personal wellbeing with the results recently being discussed in Parliament.

People were asked to rate (out of 10) anxiety levels, happiness, life satisfaction and the feeling that the things you are doing in life are worthwhile.

Blaby District residents responded with an average of 2.9 for anxiety, 8 for happiness, 8.1 for life satisfaction and 8.3 for a feeling that things done are worthwhile.

This meant our District was not only the top place to live in Leicestershire but fourth overall for the whole of the country. Go Blaby!