• Hadleigh long stay car parking charges increase – could this harm business?

  By HadleighPpl at 09:27 on 13/01/12

  

  YESTERDAY BABERGH District Council decided to go ahead with a proposal to increase the long stay car parking charges in Hadleigh by 50 pence. This means that drivers parking in Hadleigh's council run car parks for longer than three hours could now have to pay £2.00. The proposed increase in long stay parking charges is one of the ways Babergh District Council hopes to save £1.3 million next year. They will also be...

• Council Tax in Hadleigh could be going up

  By HadleighPpl at 21:58 on 02/01/12

  

  Babergh District Council plan to  increase our council tax by 3.5%. Putting this into perspective this would mean a resident owning a band D property would have to pay £5 extra a year on their property tax bill.

• Parking in Hadleigh, who do you want in charge?

  By Suzanne_Day at 17:49 on 24/10/11

  

  Currently Babergh District Council manage parking in Hadleigh but this could be about to change as Sudbury Town Council have expressed an interest in taking over the role. If successful in taking over the role Sudbury Town Council want to keep the long-stay parking rates as they are - £1.50 per day. Sudbury Town Council have outlined the following plans for parking in Hadleigh: -They want save the money Babergh District...

• People in Hadleigh voting on Babergh/Mid Suffolk merger

  By HadleighPpl at 22:28 on 27/05/11

  

  PEOPLE LIVING in Hadleigh and the rest of the Babergh District have just a fortnight left to vote on the possible merger of Babergh District Council with Mid Suffolk District Council. So far more than 42,000 people from both Babergh and Mid Suffolk have voted in the poll which asks: 'At the moment, Babergh and Mid Suffolk are separate district councils. Should these councils be replaced by one district council?' Everyone registered to...

• Hadleigh-Babergh District Council election results 2011

  By HadleighPpl at 17:08 on 06/05/11

  

  IT HAS just been announced that no political party will have overall control of Babergh District Council. Read on to find who have been elected as councillors for the Hadleigh wards. Hadleigh North Mary Munson held onto the Liberal Democrat seat with 448 votes. Conservative Brian Riley held onto his party's seat with 595 votes. Hadleigh South The Liberal Democrats lost one of their two seats to the Conservatives with Kathryn...

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