Following complaints from local residents about congestion outside the Co-operative Stores on Rothley Road Mountsorrel, representatives from Leicestershire County Council, Arriva Midlands, Leicestershire Constabulary and Mountsorrel Parish Council attended a bus stop site meeting to look at the position of the existing bus stop outside the Co-operative Stores. Following the meeting, it was agreed to leave the bus stop in its current position but to implement the following actions to improve the current situation: More »

Local residents from Mountsorrel and Syston have taken part in two Ward Walks with representatives from the County Council, the Borough Council, the Parish Council and the Police and other local organisations.
The Ward Walks allow local residents to discuss their ideas and concerns for the area with senior representatives from various agencies, who follow up on the issues identified.
Cllr Richard Shepherd, Leader of Charnwood Borough Council, said: "We are very keen to involve local communities and listen to their needs.
By listening to people's needs and, where possible, acting upon them, we can really make a difference.
We are planning a regular pattern of ward walks in neighbourhoods across the Borough. The ones held in Mountsorrel and Syston were extremely successful and all the partners are currently working together to address the issues raised.
Inspector Cathy Yallop, Commander of Charnwood local policing unit said: "Ward Walks are a really useful way of finding out what issues are affecting communities and being able to immediately identify the correct agency to tackle those issues whether they are related to crime, litter, graffiti, vandalism, abandoned cars, nuisance neighbours or anything else that affects the quality of people's lives.
By working with other agencies, and looking at the issues together, we can ensure action is taken to try and find a solution".
The next Ward Walks will take place on the 24 November in the Warwick Way area of Loughborough.
Source Borough of Charnwood - Neighbourhod matters.

Plans for Mountsorrel's new Memorial Hall have been approved by Charnwood Borough Council.

After taking advice from Charnwood's Planning Department the original plans have been amended: the hall will now be a single building and has been moved slightly to the north within the site.

The original plans were for two separate buildings, a youth centre and the Memorial Rooms. The new building will offer the same facilities within a single structure. The building has been moved north by a few metres as planners felt the original plans were too close to the apartments in the south eastern corner of the site. More »

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 »

Preliminary drawings for a new Memorial Hall and Young People's Centre were on display in Mountsorrel library in December.
The old Memorial Hall, next to the Soar Valley Leisure Centre, was built in the 1960's and is in a poor state of repair.
The owners, the Mountsorrel War Memorials Trust Ltd, want to demolish it and replace it with two buildings: a new village hall and a centre for young people. The Trust, a charitable company, also owns the Leisure Centre and the car parking areas. The Leisure Centre is leased to Charnwood Borough Council.
Mountsorrel Parish Council is working with the War Memorials Trust to prepare plans for the replacement facility. The next steps will involve:
1. exhibition, consultation and survey to assess the level of support for the submission of a planning application to Charnwood Borough Council to establish that the project can be implemented.
2. detailed costing discussions on funding alternatives, the preparation of a business plan and management solutions to bring it about.