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Market Harborough is the town this district is named after, with the “Market” dropped. It is the largest place in it by some distance, and the council works from there. Lutterworth is the second town, over towards the M1, and then it is villages: Broughton Astley, Kibworth, Fleckney, Great Glen, Great and Little Bowden, Husbands Bosworth, Billesdon and Medbourne among them.
Harborough News reports what the public record shows across that ground. In a district this rural most of the significant news arrives as a planning application, a licensing notice or a line in a committee paper, and those are published where hardly anyone reads them. We read them and write down what they say, linking to the document each time.
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- Planning and the Local Plan: the district’s new plan allocates 13,182 homes to 2041, and inspectors open hearings on 12 August on whether that is enough.
- House prices: £309,000 is the typical sale in the town, and the smallest villages are the dearest places in the district.
- Trains to London: 57 minutes direct to St Pancras, with fares and season ticket costs.
- Roadworks and travel: Rockingham Road is being rebuilt to March 2027 and Clarence Street is one-way on trial.
- Things to do: nine days out, six of them free, every price checked against the venue.
Every figure carries a link to the document behind it.