Tesco’s are planning to open a new Express store at 98-102 Kingsley Park Terrace (between Shelley & Moore St.). They have submitted a series of planning applications, including for a new shop sign (N/2009/0559), new shop front (N/2009/0560), service yard canopy, chiller unit and refrigeration units (N/2009/0558) and a cash machine (N/2009/0557). These planning applications can […]

Richard Church attended a meeting of Kingsthorpe Hollow Residents Association on Thursday evening. Residents were particularly concerned that a number of new tenants in the flats were causing a nuisance, particularly where there were elderly neighbours in sheltered accomodation. Richard is also taking up a request from residents of Monarch Rd for the cul-de-sac sign to be […]

Sadly, it looks as if last year’s Balloon Festival may have been the last. It has been a popular event for nearly 20 years, but since the sponsorship for shaped balloons ended a few years ago it has been more and more difficult to make the festival pay for itself. Even with the charge, to […]

Tree planting throughout Kingsley has started. New trees have been planted in Kingsley Rd, The Drive, The Vale, Milton St. North, Kenmuir Avenue and Kenmuir Crescent. The trres have funded by Richard Church’s County Council budget for Kingsley. Trees have been selected based on the mature size appropriate to each site, and are well protected against […]

The County Council have said that parking restrictions on the Kettering Rd parking bays, by the Racecourse, will be implemented by the end of February. The plans are intended to stop car dealers taking up the spaces with cars for sale. There will be a 3 hour waiting limit on weekdays only from 8am-8pm. The […]

Despite overwhelming opposition from pupils, parents, teachers; governors and the local community at Unity College, the County Council are going ahead with the next stage of fast tracking Unity to become an academy. Richard Church attended the meeting, together with parents, pupils and teachers, where the Council’s cabinet member for schools, Conservative Councillor Joan Kirkbride […]

The Council have declared Barrack Rd and the Park Avenue North/Kettering Rd roundabout as designated air quality management areas. Some other busy junctions, such as the Cock Hotel, have already been AQMA’s for a while. Both of these areas have been tested over recent months for Nitrogen Dioxide, one of the main pollutants from traffic, […]

Andrew Simpson and Richard Church attended a meeting for parents and residents about plans to turn Unity College into an academy. This means the school would close as a Church of England Secondary School funded through the County Council and re-open as a Church of England Academy. There was strong opposition to the plan from […]

Plans for some low play mounds for young children, to be placed near the playground at the Barrack Rd end of the Racecourse will be on display at the Friends of the Racecourse/ Healthy Living Hub open meeting on Tuesday 3 February at 7.30pm at the Best Western Lime Trees Hotel, 8 Langham Place, Barrack […]

Council owned homes in Kingsley are to be a part of the £3 million pound plan to improve the standard of housing. 450 homes in Kingsley and Kingsthorpe will be brought up to the decent homes standard during 2009/10.. The Kingsley housing estate was built in the 1920’s and 1930’s with some improvements in the […]