* From Alicia Kearns MP, Peter Bedford MP, and Neil O'Brien MP *

Leicester Mayor Peter Soulsby wants to bring surrounding areas under the control of Leicester City Council. Areas would transfer from neighbouring councils and come under the City Council instead.

This would mean higher council tax for people transferred into the City, and would likely also mean more development - one of the main reasons the city wants to expand is to put more development in the surrounding areas, not the City centre.

Peter Soulsby has put forward this proposal, but other local councils are going along with it and have put a submission into government proposing this - without consulting a single local person.

Sign the petition to make our local councillors listen and say NO to the City taking over surrounding areas.