Cllr Tom Harvey is the opposition leader for the Conservatives on South Lakeland District Council and runs his own business in Milnthorpe. Here he tells of his hopes for 2020.
WORKMAN by name, workman by nature. Drainspotter. Dullest man in Cumbria and now Anorak of the Year 2019. Seven years ago life changed course for Archie Workman, of Penny Bridge, when he became a self-employed ‘lengthsman’– reviving a parish job dating back to Medieval times. Nowadays he is much in demand - a hero of the highways, a darling of the Women’s Institutes and a reluctant media personality pondering taking on an apprentice. ELLIS BUTCHER meets Archie Workman.
COMPLAINTS about ‘drink-fuelled parties’ at a holiday business on the outskirts of Ulverston have drawn fire from neighbours.
GILES Archibald is the leader of South Lakeland District Council. Here, the Liberal Democrat councillor for Kendal Town, sets out his hopes for the district in 2020.
NEARLY a quarter of children in ‘wealthy’ South Lakeland are living in poverty while rough sleeping is also on the rise, a council meeting has heard.
'UNPOPULAR' political decisions will be needed to convert car drivers to cyclists in South Lakeland, a councillor has warned.
A £4.9M modernisation of two civic buildings in Kendal has sailed past planners after fears about a loss of history were scotched.
THIRTY new homes are to be built across open fields at Kendal Parks, starting in the New Year.
A FURNESS village could get planning permission for nearly 50 new houses this week – in the face of continued unease about flooding.
