Chris Harper

North West Leicestershire District Council will replace its bags-and-boxes recycling system with new bins, rolling out the changes in phases of roughly 12,500 households from November. Residents will receive separate orange-lidded bins for mixed recyclables, blue-lidded bins for paper and cardboard, and food-waste caddies alongside existing general and garden waste bins. The council will stop collecting textiles because much of the material is too poor quality for reuse and is being incinerated. Unbranded containers and adaptable vehicle markings are planned ahead of local government reorganisation.

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council planners deferred a decision on a proposed 95,000-square-foot warehouse and office development beside Hammonds Way and Nutts Lane in Hinckley. Councillors asked developer Hinckley Investment LLP to reconsider the design, citing the proposed 16.5-metre height, its proximity to homes, and the likely effects of round-the-clock lorry movements, noise and light pollution. The developer argues that the scheme would make productive use of a vacant, run-down site, but councillors said the building should be lowered, relocated or otherwise redesigned to reduce its impact on residents and traffic on the nearby A5.