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The Good News thread, local jobs, economy etc

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A parcel firm has been granted planning permission to build a £100 million distribution hub employing 1,000 people.

DPD was given the go-ahead for a 1,540sq ft depot on a 33-acre site at Hinckley Commercial Park by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council.

 
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    coming soon: An artist's impression of parcel firm BDP's £100 million distribution hub, expected to create about 1,000 jobs

The site – the largest of its kind in Europe and capable of handling 70,000 parcels an hour – should be fully operational by 2015.

DPD chief executive Dwain McDonald said: "I'm delighted by this news. This is another important step forward for the company and also for the region and our customers.

"The hub will look stunning. It will give us a state-of-the-art facility as well as the capacity we need to carry on providing a truly world-class service.

"We are a company that is growing fast and investing the proceeds in our infrastructure to keep on improving.

 

"I'm very proud of the fact we have been able to create so many jobs within our sector in the past few years and the building project itself will also create jobs directly on the site and in the supply chain.

The distribution hub is part of a £175 million investment announced by DPD in November.

It won £70 million of new business from online retailers last year, partly down to a service offering a one-hour delivery window.

The company has three other hubs, all in the West Midlands, and 40 depots around the country.

Borough council leader Councillor Stuart Bray said: "We have been working closely with the development partners to help them to secure the appropriate infrastructure and design of the scheme.

"This will secure more than 1,000 jobs for the area and provide opportunities for apprenticeships.

"We look forward to working with the management of the company to maximise the benefits arising."

The company employs 6,700 people in the UK and delivers 1.6 million parcels a week.

 

 

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davieG

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Good news is not as thought provoking as bad news in the general media so I can't see it being different on here. There was mention that I only posted bad news but we get what we deserve.

 

It's like the footy there's many more ways to say how crap things are than how good they are.

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And to believe this is a good thing do is wrong?

Hitler built ramps to get disabled people onto trains to take them to Belsen.

Was he right?

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Plans to create a major office district near Leicester railway station could be back on track after regeneration bosses secured a multi-million-pound cash boost.

The agency charged with growing the city and county's economy, Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP), has revealed it has received £108 million from the EU's European Regional Development Fund to spend on business and employment growth.

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Plans to create a major office district near Leicester railway station could be back on track

The funding might be used to relocate the Royal Mail sorting depot, in Campbell Street, freeing up space for the development.

The plans were shelved after £9.2 million of public money earmarked to move the sorting office to a new home in the city fell victim to spending cuts.

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Andy Rose, LLEP economic growth and investment manager, said the office district was among a number of potential development sites in the city and county which could benefit from the cash.

"That could be what some of the money is used for," he said. "But we have got other sites in the city and county that could be developed as well. It's funding to kick-start development."

Mr Rose said other projects which could benefit included the redevelopment of the city council's New Walk Centre headquarters and a proposed office site on the corner of Granby Street and Dover Street.

Planned developments in the county which could get cash injections included the Lubbesthorpe housing and business development near Braunstone Town.

Speaking about the possibility of using the cash to kick-start the office district plan, city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said: "I think that's a high priority, but it's not the only priority. I think two other attractive areas for development are the New Walk Centre site and the riverside area from West Bridge to Woodgate."

The LLEP is also set to be allocated up to £50 million each year from 2015 from the Government to support businesses, transport and housing projects.

Sir Peter said he would like to see more funding for development made available by the Government.

"Although it's a large sum, there are a lot of schemes we want to do," he said.

Andrew Bacon, LLEP chairman, said: "This funding is very welcome news for our area.

"We will try to ensure that every public pound that we invest levers in nine pounds of private investment."

The idea of creating an office district adjacent to the railway station has been talked about for more than a decade.

It is hoped the project, which would be led by a private sector developer, would attract hundreds of jobs to the city. However, the presence of the Royal Mail sorting office has been a major stumbling block.

A previous attempt to move it to Charter Street, off Belgrave Gate, was scuppered after public funding was withdrawn.

A Royal Mail spokesman said it was unable to comment on the plans.

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How do you know he was homeless? Did he have a big sign around his neck or did he look like Ian Beale?

That's a good point. You can never tell when you see these fvckers lying around on the street asking people to hand them their money. Half of them have probably got houses anyway, they just find taking money from people who have earned it easier than earning money for themselves.

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http://www.express.co.uk/news/property/411196/House-prices-soar-above-their-2007-peak

Id class this as good news, not just as a homeowner but someone who's in the building trade.

If the construction industry gets on the up again it's amazing how quickly the rest of the economy will follow.

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Seems about right for such a high position, infact I thought it might be a little higher.

When you're on a wage like that it's not really in your interest to see an end to homelessness or play down it's seriousness, quite the reverse.

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When you're on a wage like that it's not really in your interest to see an end to homelessness or play down it's seriousness, quite the reverse.

I doubt he'll purposely do a bad job because he's afraid he'll be out of a job..  You'll not end homelessness, if he improves things he's more likely to be secure in his job.

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I doubt he'll purposely do a bad job because he's afraid he'll be out of a job..  You'll not end homelessness, if he improves things he's more likely to be secure in his job.

No he won't do a bad job, they'll just come up with a new definition of homelessness, like children having to share a bedroom, to create new swathes of victims to justify his wages.

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