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• New Lord Mayor takes on historic role

  16 May 2025

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER’S new Lord Mayor has been handed the chains of office at a ceremony in the city’s Town Hall.

• People in Leicester asked to consider being foster carers

  15 May 2025

  3 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council is encouraging people in Leicester to consider becoming foster carers this Foster Care Fortnight.

• Businesses urged to prepare for single-use vapes ban

  13 May 2025

  2 minute read

  BUSINESSES in Leicester are being reminded that a ban on the sale of single-use vapes comes into force next month.

• Council proposes new policy on SEND school transport

  2 May 2025

  2 minute read

  FOLLOWING extensive consultation, Leicester City Council has revised its proposals to end post-16 school transport funding for young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND).

• Lord Mayor’s charity walk takes sporting theme

  30 April 2025

  1 minute read

  A CHARITY walk with a sporting theme is taking place in Leicester later this week – and it’s open to everyone.

• Honoured Citizen Award for the Friends of Welford Road Cemetery

  10 April 2025

  2 minute read

  A GROUP of volunteers which has been helping to look after Welford Road Cemetery for more than 25 years has received an Honoured Citizen award from the Lord Mayor of Leicester.

• Views sought on proposals to reshape libraries and community services

  2 April 2025

  4 minute read

  THE city council is asking for views on proposals to ensure libraries and community centres remain accessible to everyone in Leicester – in spite of the worst budget situation the council has ever seen.

• Council to review historic conservation area

  1 April 2025

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE can give their views on how the special character of one of Leicester’s 25 designated conservation areas should be preserved or enhanced.

• New guidance sets out rules to follow for scaffolding and skips

  26 March 2025

  2 minute read

  NEW guidance has been issued by the city council to make it clear what is expected of people who want to put up scaffolding in Leicester.

• City Mayor proposes boundary expansion amid council reorganisation plans

  19 March 2025

  3 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council will this Friday (21 Mar) submit its interim proposal for the reshaping of local councils across the city, Leicestershire and Rutland.

• Council to buy former student flats to help meet temporary housing need

  21 February 2025

  1 minute read

  THE city council is to buy a block of former student flats to provide much-needed temporary accommodation for single people and couples who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

• Council grants to city’s adventure playgrounds to be extended

  18 February 2025

  2 minute read

  NINE adventure playgrounds in Leicester are to receive another year’s funding, as the council extends its grant arrangements to give them even more time to become self-sustaining.