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- Keep warm this winter
- Childrens vehicle-naming competition
- Council Tax changes could reduce empty homes
- Garden waste season ended
- Let's Get Moving marketing grant
- Nominate your local heroes
- Food hygiene ratings
⛄ Keep warm this winter
As the nights get colder and the days shorter, we need to make sure we stay safe and warm this winter. This can mean getting the flu jab, preparing your car for winter and ensuring you are warm enough at home.
A new Warm Homes leaflet features guidance on how to combat the big chill and keep you and your family comfortable and healthy.
You can call the Warm Homes service on 0116 305 2524 or click on the 'Make a referral' button at the top of the First Contact Plus website.
See the link below to see the 'Keep warm and well this winter' guide:
🔌 Naming our new e-vehicles
School-aged children have until Friday 6 December at 4.30pm to suggest names for our new electric vehicles.
A new street sweeper and converted bin lorry will have their new names on show as they make their way around the District leaving zero emissions.
The lucky winners will receive their own Lego replica vehicle and be part of Blaby District Council's drive to improve air quality.
Enter via email to environmental.services@blaby.gov.uk.
Read more and see full terms and conditions on the news post below:
🏠 Council Tax changes could reduce empty homes
A consultation has launched on proposed changes to Council Tax charges for empty homes in Blaby District.
Following changes in the law, we are proposing to charge:
- A 100% Council Tax premium on properties that have been empty, unoccupied and substantially unfurnished for at least one year
- A 200% Council Tax Premium for properties empty more than five years
- A 300% Council Tax Premium for properties empty for more than 10 years
- A 100% Council Tax premium for second homes
We want your views before they are reviewed by Councillors in the new year. If proposals are agreed, they would come into effect in April 2026
The consultation is open until Monday 6 January 2025.
🍂 Garden waste season ended
Garden waste collections have now finished for 2024 as we enter the winter period, and the remaining few collections of this billing year will take place in the Spring.
In the new year we will publish updates on subscriptions and renewals for the 2025 season, which begins in April.
💷 Let's Get Moving marketing grant
New funding is available to support organisations with their marketing.
Active Together is offering grants of up to £500 to organisations that support people to improve their health and wellbeing..
Visit the Active Together webpage to find out more:
👏 Nominate your local heroes
If you haven't done so already, don't forget to vote for your Community Group of the Year 2024! Choose one of eight groups nominated by the public:
• Braunstone Heritage Archive Group
• Commbus Project
• Enderby Lawn Tennis Club
• Littlethorpe Community Association
• Lubbesthorpe Alive
• The Next Chapter Rescue and Rehoming Centre
• Thistly Meadow Primary School PTA
• Wombles in Litter Education (WILE)
Voting closes on Friday 13 December. To read more about each group and to cast your vote, use the link below:
🥗 Food hygiene ratings
As we approach the festive season, many of us will be arranging meals with friends and family. We encourage you to look before you book, and ensure you know which businesses in the district are doing the best job of keeping on top of hygiene standards.
Here are the latest food hygiene ratings in the district:
Rated 5 - Hygiene standards are very good
- Countesthorpe Bowling Club
- Green Acres Childcare, Aston Flamville
- NHS Stewart House, Narborough
- Promise Childcare, Leicester Forest East
- Golden Orient, Glenfield
- Spice 45, Narborough
We complete many food inspections every year and the frequency of our visits depends on the potential risk to public health.
The time between inspections can be as short as six months for the highest risk businesses, to two years for lower risk businesses.
If you have concerns about any business that prepares or sells food you can report this on the Food Standards Authority website using the link below:
🗳️ By-election: Blaby Parish Council South Ward
Residents in part of Blaby took to the polls on 28 November to fill two Parish Council vacancies in the Blaby South ward.
The by-election results:
J Bloxham (Reform) – 243
S Coe (Independent) - 75
P Hartshorn (Liberal Democrat) - 418 Elected
D Jeeves (Independent Reform) - 54
A Savage (Liberal Democrat ) - 354 Elected
Turnout 16.59%
📸 Help us mark 50 years of Blaby District Council.
Send in your photos of the District since 1974. Email: public.relations@blaby.gov.uk 📸
Posted: Fri, 29 Nov 2024