Category: Councils

Since April, all our meetings are virtual using Zoom, and joining details for members of the public are always shown on the agendas published on our website.

I attended the very successful Warwick Park activities for most of the day on Sunday 6 September.

Both Kibworth parish councils, along with others across the Harborough District, were given a grant by the District Council to celebrate VE Day this year in May. 

This is unusual, to get a joint report from both Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt Parish Councils in one article!

I am pleased to present my County Councillor for Gartree - July 2020 report, and as ever, my email address is included below should you have any questions, or feedback on what you have read.

It seems very odd to say that I’m much busier now than before the lockdown, but it’s very definitely the case.

Districts across the country, like HDC, have been given funding to help businesses open on 15 June. Changes are being made in Market Harborough, Lutterworth, Kibworth Beauchamp and Fleckney. Here in Kibworth Beauchamp, temporary changes are being implemented from Monday 15 June. On High Street, the parking bay will be used to ensure 2m social distancing from other shoppers when walking along between Smeeton Road and the disabled space, which will remain.

A quorate council of 4 parish councillors last met in person, with social distancing, in late March, just as lockdown commenced, in order to delegate full authority to the clerk while the council was unable to meet in person, as advised by the National Association of Local Councils.

The parish council has held virtual Zoom meetings at 7pm on the first Thursdays in April, May and June. All were quorate despite members having to use the new technology. The agendas were published online and in the parish notice boards, together with details of how the public could participate.

The two parish councils are reviewing the Kibworths’ Neighbourhood Plan, which was formally adopted on 25 January 2018. This review follows the adoption of the new Harborough Local Plan in April 2019, and relevant updates to national planning policy, which have given more weight to Neighbourhood Plans.