SLDC has confirmed that councillor Jonathan Brook is the new leader of the council. Councillor Brook was appointed at the Annual Council Meeting, on May 19, and takes over as Leader from Councillor Giles Archibald, who has served as Leader since 2016. Councillor Brook represents the Kendal South and Natland ward and has served as an SLDC councillor since 2006, latterly as Deputy Leader and Housing and Innovation portfolio holder. As well as the role of Leader Councillor Brook will also take on the portfolio duties for Innovation and Promoting South Lakeland. Councillor Brook said: “I am hugely grateful and honoured to have the opportunity to represent the council in the role of Leader. I look forward to working with you all, as we seek to build a sustainable and inclusive future for our residents and communities across our large, varied and wonderful district.”
INVESTIGATIONS are ‘ongoing’ into the cause of a fire which caused ‘significant damage’ to a historic deer shelter on Monday. Fire crews from Kendal and Milnthorpe were called to the blaze at the Buck House deer shelter on the Dallam Tower Estate in Milnthorpe at around 6:30am on April 26. According to a Cumbria County Council spokesman the fire was ‘well alight on arrival’ and was extinguished by 9am, with crews remaining on scene to damp down and make the area safe. “Fire investigations are ongoing in conjunction with police,” said the spokesman. “The 300-year-old structure suffered significant damage but was not completely destroyed.”
Kendal s former courthouse Kendal s former courthouse will be demolished and replaced with 64 retirement flats. The chairman of South Lakeland District Council s planning committee used the casting vote to break the deadlock over the future of the building and approve its demolition. Councillors had been split evenly with six votes for and six votes against plans to clear the Burneside Road site and build new accommodation. Simon Kater, the agent for applicant Churchill Retirement Living, told the committee that a lot of time and effort has been put in to make this scheme financially possible . “Although no affordable housing contribution could be secured, this position hasn’t been reached lightly, he said.
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A SCHOOL’S fight for the speed limit on a nearby road to be slashed from 50mph to 30mph due to safety concerns has been taken to local councillors. Beetham C of E Primary School, on Stanley Street in Beetham, has raised fears that a serious accident could happen if action is not taken on speeding and hundreds of people signed a petition from the school. The issue was raised at a meeting of Cumbria County Council’s local committee for South Lakeland by headteacher Wendy Nicolas. She said: “We are right by the A6 near Milnthorpe. “We have applied to reduce the 50mph limit down to 30mph permanently.