ISSUE 17 - July 2013
Coalville Community C ommuniity
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Rugby Club gets Full Accreditation Coalville Rugby Club has achieved full club accreditation from the Rugby Football Union for the organisation and running of its facilities and the various sections of its membership. They were recently presented with the award by Leicestershire Rugby Union President Paul Green. “A team of people has worked very hard to ensure that we meet the requirements of the accreditation. We’re a large organisation with over 300 members and ensuring that the club is run progressively takes a huge amount of work. This award is testament to our volunteers’ efforts and allows us to develop our facilities and plan for the future,” commented Coalville RFC President, Tom Siddon. The accreditation means that the club has met criteria including player recruitment, community links and elite player development. As well as the Clubmark award, the club was also presented with a certificate for women and girls’ rugby development. “It’s great to visit a successful Leicestershire club and present this award. Leicestershire Rugby Union is proud of the way its clubs are managed and Coalville is a large and well run club that are a credit to the local community,” added Paul Green.
Council Back Down on Charges In January of this year, North West Leics District Council wrote to over 200 residents across the District informing them that in future they would need a licence to cross over Council land. Charges would be £90 for driving over and £20 for walking over Council land to get to their properties. The Council will now be writing to the vast majority of those affected informing them they can have access to Council land at no charge. Many of these residents had been walking out of their back gardens on to Council land and driving their cars to park on their back gardens for many years with no charges. The letters from North West Leics District Council angered many residents and led to a joint campaign by residents and the Labour opposition on North West Leics District Council against the charges.
Dave De Lacy, Councillor for Ibstock and Heather led the campaign for Labour against the charges. The campaign gained widespread local support and received a lot of publicity - Dave De Lacy and local residents from areas across NWLeics were interviewed on TV and Radio on several occasions. As support grew for the campaign and publicity increased the full Council met on 26th February. Councillor De Lacy proposed at this meeting that the new charges for access be withdrawn and that a fundamental review should take place. At this meeting the Conservative controlled Council agreed to suspend the process and undertake a full review. The review, which involved two meetings of the Council`s Policy Development Group and also local Councillors in all the affected wards culminated at a meeting of
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the Cabinet of North West Leics District on 11th June . It was agreed at this meeting that the vast majority of residents will not now have to pay a licence fee and the Council will write and clarify their right to access Council land at no charge. Charges will still apply, in a very few areas mainly where there were already existing licences but the cost of these licences will remain at the existing rate of £35 for residents and businesses and not the much higher charges that were originally being proposed. Councillor De Lacy said “Labour Councillors did propose in the review that there should be no charges for any residents. That was not accepted by the Conservative majority but these new proposals are a massive improvement on the original position and this decision will be welcomed by residents across North West Leics. I would thank all the residents who took part in the campaign – this was a victory for common sense.”
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