Tag: Larkfleet Homes

Careless Whisper

07:40 and 08:20 Monday 25th February 2013
Bigger Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[P]AUL STAINTON: We’ve also been talking about housing this morning as well, and asking whether the housing boom is back on, at least a little mini resurgence. That’s after estate agents said that sales were up massively. Mark’s called in. Morning Mark.
MARK: Morning Paul. You alright?
PAUL STAINTON: I’m alright. We’re asking this morning is it easier to buy a house now? What’s your experience? Continue reading “Careless Whisper”

Eye Village Under Attack Yet Again

07:19 Thursday 8th December 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: We brought you the news last year that Eye was one of the places earmarked for major development. The City Council recommended 85 more homes to be built there. But now an independent report has said that Eye could do with not 85 but 160 new homes. The news has been met with criticism from some residents. Dale McKean is one of those residents. Morning Dale.
DALE MCKEAN: Good morning Paul.
PAUL STAINTON: What are you so worried about? You’ve got all that land around Eye. We could put plenty of homes around there. It would be lovely. Continue reading “Eye Village Under Attack Yet Again”

Local Authority Mortgage Scheme: Who Takes the Risk?

Members of Peterborough City Council’s cabinet agreed yesterday to take part in the pilot Local Authority Mortgage Scheme, which will see the authority pay a contribution towards the deposits of first-time buyers.”
Source: Peterborough Evening Telegraph 14th June 2011

On Tuesday 14th June at 08:10 on the BBC Peterborough Breakfast Show Council Leader Marco Cereste made the following statement:
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Marco Cereste and the Takeover of Peterborough

This website started out in January 2010 with the intention of looking at how the BBC covered issues in Peterborough and the surrounding areas.

It quickly became caught up in the furore surrounding Peterborough City Council’s spending on consultants, an issue which has dragged on ever since, and is still dragging on, due to the resistance encountered on the part of Council to disclose the full facts. Continue reading “Marco Cereste and the Takeover of Peterborough”

The Battle of Eye

08:10 Monday 29th November 2010
Peterborough Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

Following a consultation with Eye locals, in which the villagers agreed to 40 new houses, Peterborough City Council have set out to build 685. Resistance is mounting to what residents see as rapacious development, and Dale McKean reports back from the latest public meeting. In related news: Larkpoint and Larkfleet Homes are developers working in Eye. The Leader of Peterborough City Council has now been appointed Chairman of Larkpoint.
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Jumbo Housing Developments No Longer Welcome

Conservative MP Stewart Jackson points out that small sustainable housing builds are the Coalition Government’s new policy, and the giant greenfield sprawls favoured by Peterborough City Council do not fit with current political thinking.
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Peterborough News 29th November 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Monday 29th November 2010.

Topics:
Local MP Stewart Jackson has lent his weight to the Eye villagers’ campaign to prevent further low-cost housebuilding in the village. Council wanted another 300 units to add to the 380 already built. Locals say schools, roads and the GP surgery are all full, and that other villages would benefit more from extra houses to help them become sustainable.
Building work has started a week early on the refurbishment of Ormiston Bushfield School.
Local travel has been disrupted by snow, but the Federation of Small Business urges workers to struggle in at all costs.
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Peterborough News 26th November 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Friday 26th November 2010.

Topics:
A conflict of interest row is brewing after it was announced that Marco Cereste Leader of Peterborough City Council has taken up the Chairmanship of Larkpoint, which is involved in construction in the city. A question has also been raised over Mr Cereste’s level of commitment to his Council role, given the number of outside interests he pursues.
Osborne, who are engaged in the refurbishment of Cathedral Square and a year behind schedule, have responded to claims that some of their work is also unsatisfactory.
Guild House in Oundle Road, a 50,000 sq ft. building with a glass facade on a four acre site, is in the process of being refurbished and renovated, and will provide a training centre for 500 Anglia Ruskin student nurses when it opens in March.
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