City of Leicester & Leicestershire - The Good and Historical Stuff

[Free Falling Foxes]

Just now, kenny said:

Whetstone Tip will now be free rather than charging for whatever they can. Every cloud.

It's free now for domestic use.

[kenny]

Just now, Free Falling Foxes said:

It's free now for domestic use.

Not for tiny bits of plasterboard or rubble.

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 minute ago, kenny said:

Not for tiny bits of plasterboard or rubble.

Will that continue though? More likely such costs will be rolled-out across the new 'city'.

My prediction is that for the average current county household in the affected area, the negatives will outweigh pluses.

Then there are the consequences of more green spaces being grabbed for city development. 

Unfortunate times.

 

[kenny]

Just now, Free Falling Foxes said:

Will that continue though? More likely such costs will be rolled-out across the new 'city'.

My prediction is that for the average current county household in the affected area, the negatives will outweigh pluses.

Then there are the consequences of more green spaces being grabbed for city development. 

Unfortunate times.

 

I have seen nothing in the plans that actually improve the city except grabbing council tax.

 

Housing is still being pushed into 'the county' as it was so little private investment will go the city centre.

 

Fair play to the city council though. They have left out Glenfield Hospital (costs money) and drawn boundaries around every expensive housing area and business park (gains money) without being tested at all by central government.

[davieG]

[South Shire Fox]

Labour are hated out in the sticks anyway. This and their Farm tax have just taken it to another level 😂

[kenny]

5 minutes ago, davieG said:

 

Slightly different on the BBC. Glenfield Hospital has been included. Willoughby Waterleys and more land around Great Glen grabbed.

 

I wonder what government employee lives just to the east of South Croxton and was due to be moved in Leicester City and now isn't?

 

 

[davieG]

3 minutes ago, kenny said:

 

Slightly different on the BBC. Glenfield Hospital has been included. Willoughby Waterleys and more land around Great Glen grabbed.

 

I wonder what government employee lives just to the east of South Croxton and was due to be moved in Leicester City and now isn't?

 

 

I think mine is the proposal yours is probably the decision.

[Filbert_Ross]

3 hours ago, kenny said:

Not for tiny bits of plasterboard or rubble.

Freemans Common wouldn't let me take a bag of rubble last week & they used to be fine with it. 

[MattFox]

Having Fosse Park and Town under the same council is a good thing and the one positive from this I think

 

Means you shouldn’t see one expanding at the expense of the other any more 

[kenny]

3 minutes ago, MattFox said:

Having Fosse Park and Town under the same council is a good thing and the one positive from this I think

 

Means you shouldn’t see one expanding at the expense of the other any more 

Nice idea except the City council don't know how to make the town centre better. Maybe they could both fail together?

[MattFox]

3 minutes ago, kenny said:

Nice idea except the City council don't know how to make the town centre better. Maybe they could both fail together?

Well yeah If you had sensible leadership it would work

[Stadt]

14 minutes ago, MattFox said:

Well yeah If you had sensible leadership it would work

M&S replaced by the world's biggest indoor bike lane and we'll get a fresh, new and innovative Fosse Park Box Park in 2034

[David Hankey]

Is this Soulsby's swansong/legacy; a land grab?!!

Edited Thursday at 17:06 by David Hankey

[Sampson]

52 minutes ago, kenny said:

Nice idea except the City council don't know how to make the town centre better. Maybe they could both fail together?

Tbf the expanded Fosse Park is genuinely well done. One of the best things that's been done in Leicestershire the past decade.

[davieG]

21 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Tbf the expanded Fosse Park is genuinely well done. One of the best things that's been done in Leicestershire the past decade.

It wouldn’t exist if the city got their way and would certainly be smaller. 

[davieG]

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[kenny]

2 hours ago, Sampson said:

Tbf the expanded Fosse Park is genuinely well done. One of the best things that's been done in Leicestershire the past decade.

I'm probably picky but I'm not a fan. I think for an out of town shopping centre it's poorly laid out and messy. It has too many car parks between the shops and it's unpleasant to walk around.

 

I would have started a rebuilding programme along the lines of the new food court, with walkable mews between shops and all the parking on the outside.

 

Better than the city I suppose.

[davieG]

38 minutes ago, kenny said:

I'm probably picky but I'm not a fan. I think for an out of town shopping centre it's poorly laid out and messy. It has too many car parks between the shops and it's unpleasant to walk around.

 

I would have started a rebuilding programme along the lines of the new food court, with walkable mews between shops and all the parking on the outside.

 

Better than the city I suppose.

That's because the City put barriers in the way at every stage of development. It was originally going to be massive and called Centre 2000 but the City Council objected due to it's impact on the City Centre shops , probably proved true until the internet finished the job and it was massively reduced. The reason for it being piece meal is also why the road layout is also messy.

 

Somewhat ironic that it ends up part of the City.

[MattFox]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

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I mean it’s not but the government’s unspoken intention was to expand the urban councils tax bases by incorporating more middle class suburbs 

 

Non of the county or district councils proposals matched this aim leaving the cities boundaries “as is” hence we end up with Soulsbys wet dream option

[Mike the Metal Ed]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

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Interesting choice of colours there. 

Also why number vs number, what does that even mean? Are they all going to have a huge football match? 

 

You can't even read the names of the parishes because it's just been shoved through an LLM image generator, so there's not even a 100% guarantee it's accurate.

Edited Thursday at 22:18 by Mike the Metal Ed

[davieG]

Amanda Hack MP ·

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The new councils announced today will make it easier for local people to hold decision-makers to account, while creating streamlined structures that support faster, more efficient decisions on infrastructure and public services. Together, this will deliver better outcomes, better value for taxpayers and pave the way for a devolution deal that can unlock Leicestershire’s full potential.

My priority throughout this process has been to secure the best outcome for North West Leicestershire. Bringing services such as planning, bin collections, highway maintenance and care together from ten different local authorities under two new councils will make navigating what is currently a complex system much easier for local people.

These changes will help create a more balanced approach to growth by enabling the city to meet more of its own housing and employment needs within an expanded boundary. This will help ease additional development pressures on areas such as North West Leicestershire, supporting more sustainable growth and better planning for communities across the county.

They will also better reflect the way many people already live their daily lives. Many residents living on the city boundary already rely on the city for services such as healthcare and leisure facilities. By bringing these communities into the city, they will have a stronger voice in shaping the services they use, ensuring local representation better matches the communities those services serve.

[davieG]

[Trav Le Bleu]

21 hours ago, Sampson said:

It essentially doubles the city's population overnightvand makes Leicester supposedly bigger than Sheffield or Bristol(?) Is there a date on it yet. Bbc article talks about new Council elections in March 2027 due to tye changes but doesn't say when the city officially changes its borders.

BBC saying 623,000 population.

 

Which would make us the 4th biggest city in UK, bigger than Manchester, Bristol and Liverpool.

 

I can see the case for annexing areas with no obvious countryside between the city and them, eg Oadby, Wigston, Glenfield, Birstall and a few others, but some are a bit weird.

 

People need to realise it will happen eventuall. Braunstone, Aylestone and Knighton are all within the current city boundaries and were once their own villages.

 

I could fully foresee Nottingham, Derby and Leicester merging into one megacity in the distant future.

[Stadt]

The County Council loses a huge proportion of its tax base and still has a vast amount of land, buildings, highways to administer. Likely has a much higher average age now so the social care bill will be crippling.

 

A Labour national government giving a Labour (for now) ran City some of the most productive non-London/SE LAs in England is just pork barrel crap.

 

The city council already passed their housing allocations on, people in suburbs like Anstey are already fed up with overdevelopment.