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Dr Kevin FELTHAM CC |
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Dr Kevin FELTHAM CC |
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Published on the Internet by Dr Kevin Feltham, Carlton House, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. LE8 0PE (updated October, 2012)
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County Councillor since June 2001 (election results for 2001, 2005 & 2009)
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Personal
Kevin runs his own part-time healthcare computing consultancy business, which gives him the flexibility to fully carry out his duties as a County Councillor. Part of this work involves information support for Northampton General Hospital. He has lived in or around the Gartree area all of his life (except when away at university in Surrey!) and is from a farming family with a strong rural background. He firmly believes in rural communities maintaining their own independence but supports any improvements for deep rural transport arrangements - better public transport, better highways, better access to facilities - improvements in all areas of education and better access to information. He campaigned hard to successfully obtain rural broadband throughout Leicestershire, and supports the initiative against substance misuse in the community. He campaigns for various traffic safety schemes throughout the area in close collaboration with parish councils, including the Kibworths, the Langtons, Billesdon and Newton Harcourt, and is a member of the DEMAND campaign chaired by Steve Charlish (District Councillor for the Billesdon Ward) to limit the night noise from aircraft flying into and out of East Midlands Airport via south east Leicestershire.
Kevin is a dedicated Councillor and has a proven track record. He has worked with Edward Garnier QC MP to successfully lobby East Midlands Ambulance Service to improve response times in rural south-east Leicestershire. He opposed the housing development in Kibworth for many years until the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2005 supported an appeal by the developers and released the land, known as KB/1, for building in excess of 600 dwellings (see also Kibworth page). He continues to campaign to ensure the local Primary Care Trust provides dentists who treat NHS patients in the Kibworths and provide a modern Community Hospital in Market Harborough. Since December 2007 he led the CASCET campaign against the Co-op's proposed 15,000 home eco-town on their Stoughton Estate. This led on 16th July 2009 to the proposed eco-town location, known as Pennbury by the promoters (the Co-operative Group), not being selected as a pioneer eco-town location - now, with Edward Garnier, he has been demanding that the Co-op withdraw their formal eco-town bid. The outcome of the campaign was a major victory by this dedicated team - CASCET.
From July 2009, Michael Wood with his Maya Vision International film company, filmed in and around the ancient parish of Kibworth - Kibworth Harcourt, Kibworth Beauchamp and Smeeton Westerby - for a major BBC TV 6 part series Story of England which was broadcast on BBC4 and BBC2 in the autumn of 2010. Following on from the interest raised by the TV series (and accompanying book), the Kibworth Improvement Team (KiT) was formed. KiT were awarded an 18 month Heritage Lottery Fund Grant of £48,200 in May 2011 to continue evolving the heritage legacy for Kibworth. KiT were a Diamond Jubilee Lord Lieutenant's Award winner in July 2012.
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