The leader of Leicestershire County Council says he has quit the East Midlands Freeport board over his objections to a huge planned logistics site in the countryside within his ward.
Coun Nick Rushton is a long-time backer of the low tax inland freeport plans, which he previously said would “power up the region's economy, create much-needed jobs and put the East Midlands firmly on the map”.
However he said he could not agree with a planned 250 acre warehousing development on the other side of the A453 south of East Midlands Airport – close to the village of Diseworth – which he said was only recently added to the masterplan.
