A ‘village pump’ for Tollerton

We have removed the post about water analysis at Bassingfield until those findings are made public.

Like a lot of Tollerton residents, this morning I received an email from Rushcliffe Borough Council about the proposed development of 200 new homes off Burnside Avenue. This was possibly the most ridiculous proposal RBC has ever received and, rightly, they rejected the planning application. But the grounds for refusal are interesting. Amongst the reasons…

Since I moved to Newark, my main sources of Tollerton news are the village magazine (which my daughter posts up to me), and my half-dozen Tollerton Ladies Circle friends who still live in the village and ring me up for a chat now and then. I miss them, I miss the Wednesday afternoon drop-in, cup-of-tea…

This article in the Guardian newspaper details a scientific study which has found 42 PFAS compounds in the umbilical cords of newborns. We know the southern end of Tollerton Airfield was a regular location for fire training. We also know the fire fighting chemicals were loaded with PFAS contaminants. The water run-off from the airfield…

It seems the representative for the parish of Tollerton at Rushcliffe Borough Council (councillor Debbie Mason) has gone missing. We (the residents of Tollerton she is supposed to represent) have heard nothing from her on either of the two proposed housing developments. The people who live in Gamston get a nice shiny newsletter which, if…

Rushcliffe Borough Council councillor Jonathan Wheeler (Con) has emailed a Rushcliffe resident to say the supplementary planning document (SPD) – which he and other councillors has called ‘a masterplan’ “… does not have to include highways”. Well that’s not a plan (let alone a masterplan), is it? It’s as much of a masterplan as an…

The thing about Rushcliffe Borough Council’s whiplash-like about turn on the SPD is, I’m sure, unrelated to the public revelation the developers were going to openly pay the council a smidge under £29,000 just for approving the SPD. I’m certain it’s unrelated to that information coming to light. But the real thing is it’s only…

I know one of my fellow contributors has already mentioned the proposal to build homes on Russell Farm – and to have the exit/entry to this potential housing estate running directly off/on to Burnside Grove – but the deadline is getting close. Please get your thoughts on this proposal over to Rushcliffe Borough Council. They…

Well, the release of a formal planning application for an estate of 200 new houses at Russell Farm has landed. And the only thing I can say about the application is someone, somewhere seems to be bonkers. The application states the estate will include affordable housing (whose definition of what is affordable?), sustainable drainage, a…

Because of, frankly, her shockingly poor performance as a representative of the people of Tollerton (let’s face it, to be an effective representative of the people you have to answer the emails which folk who live in the village have sent you), a number of residents have complained about her performance (and lack of email…