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• Leicester’s bus shelters to go green as part of new partnership

  28 October 2020

  3 minute read

  LEICESTER’S bus shelters are set for a major eco-friendly revamp as part of the city’s ambitious plans to be carbon neutral by 2030.

• Plans drawn up for Market Place scheme

  27 October 2020

  2 minute read

  AN ATTRACTIVE new route for pedestrians could soon be linking Leicester’s historic Town Hall Square with the shops, bars and cafés in St Martin’s Square.

• Designs revealed for Leicester’s new carbon neutral bus station

  27 October 2020

  3 minute read

  STRIKING designs for Leicester’s new St Margaret’s Bus Station – and ambitious plans to make the building carbon neutral – have been revealed by the city council.

• New raised walkway will connect canal and cycle route

  26 October 2020

  5 minute read

  A NEW pedestrian and cycle route linking part of the Great Central Way and the Grand Union Canal is due to be built.

• Views sought on the future of Leicester’s Haymarket Theatre

  22 October 2020

  1 minute read

  PEOPLE are being asked to help shape the future of Leicester’s iconic Haymarket Theatre.

• Post a Poppy for this Remembrance Day

  20 October 2020

  2 minute read

  A CAMPAIGN is underway to encourage people in Leicester to commemorate Remembrance Day by creating poppy-themed artwork, cakes or other artefacts.

• Programme of preservation work to be carried out on Magazine Gateway

  20 October 2020

  2 minute read

  WORK is due to begin on the restoration and repair of one of Leicester’s oldest medieval buildings.

• Memorial stone commemorates Far East prisoners of war

  20 October 2020

  3 minute read

  A NEW memorial stone commemorating those who were taken prisoner in the Far East during the Second World War has been installed in the city.

• Be part of Leicester’s virtual Diwali celebrations!

  19 October 2020

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE in Leicester are being invited to be part of the city’s first virtual Diwali Day celebration.

• New link road to open in Leicester on Sunday (18th)

  16 October 2020

  2 minute read

  A NEW road that will improve bus journey times out of Leicester city centre will open for the first time on Sunday (18 October).

• Council contacts businesses to ensure they are covid-safe

  16 October 2020

  2 minute read

  PUBLIC safety officers from Leicester City Council are working with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to contact businesses in Leicester and make sure they are covid-secure.

• Work begins on £10m highways scheme for new housing at Ashton Green

  16 October 2020

  1 minute read

  WORK has started on a major £10million highway infrastructure scheme designed to unlock further development land at Leicester City Council’s Ashton Green housing site.