“Empingham Garden Club – next meeting is on Monday 28th February at the Cricket Club, when guest Geoff Hodge will give a talk on ‘Propagation’.  Geoff is a well-known  garden writer, regularly appearing in various national gardening magazines.
Talk starts at 7.30pm – refreshments and raffle.  All welcome – £2 for non-members. 

We currently have a vacancy for one Councillor on the Parish Council. We have now been given permission to co-opt without an election.

If you are interested in being co-opted on to the Parish Council and meet the following criteria then please contact the Parish Clerk for more information

Criteria:

You must either be on the 2021 Register of Electors for North Luffenham and/or during the previous 12 months prior to appointment by co-option, either have occupied as owner or tenant any land or premises in the parish or had their principal or only place of work in the parish, or have resided either in the parish or within 3 miles of the parish boundary.

Applications are required by 31^st March 2022

John Willoughby

Parish Clerk

Email: clerk@northluffenham.org.uk

Telephone: 01780 408288

PROPOSAL: Single storey side garden room extension and erection of a greenhouse.

12 Glebe Road, North Luffenham

An application for the above proposal has been received by the Local Planning Authority and you are invited to submit your comments by 9 March 2022.

If anyone has found a single VW key fob in the village please could they hand it into the Community Centre or leave a message on the clerks telephone (01780 408288) as one has been lost by a resident

Rutland County Council has issued a ‘Call for Sites’ as one of the very first steps in the process to develop a new Local Plan.

Local Plans are important documents that help to determine the outcome of planning applications and other planning decisions. Every Planning Authority (including Rutland County Council) must have a Local Plan that states what can be built and where building should take place over a period of at least 15 years. By setting the pattern for future development in a particular area, Local Plans also help to decide where investment is needed for infrastructure like roads, schools and health services.

A ‘Call for Sites’ is one of the very first stages of developing a new Local Plan. During the Call for Sites, individuals, landowners and developers are asked to suggest areas of land which they think may be suitable for future development like new housing or space for businesses, depending on the county’s needs. Submitting land as part of the Call for Sites only places that land in front of Rutland County Council for consideration, ahead of formal public consultation. Submitting land for inclusion in the Call for Sites does not mean it will automatically become part of the Local Plan or receive planning permission.

Rutland’s Call for Sites was issued on Friday 4 February and notification has been sent to all those on the Council’s Local Plan mailing list. This will be followed by the ‘Issues and Options’ stage of Local Plan-making, which is due to take place in spring 2022. This is critical to the development of the Local Plan and will outline the long-term strategic planning issues facing Rutland, such as housing, employment, services and facilities, climate change and carbon reduction, and impact on infrastructure. An Issues and Options consultation will ask residents, businesses and other stakeholders whether they agree with the issues that have been identified and, importantly, which options provide the best solutions to those issues.

The process to develop a new Local Plan for Rutland that will cover the period up to 2041 is expected to take around four years. If you have any questions about the Call for Sites or would like any further information about the Local Plan process at this early stage, please visit: www.rutland.gov.uk/localplan or email: localplan@rutland.gov.uk.

PROPOSAL: Change of use of agricultural land to proposed expansion car park.
Luffenham Heath Golf Club Stamford Road South Luffenham Rutland PE9 3UU

An application for the above proposal has been received by the Local Planning Authority and you are invited to submit your comments by 25 February 2022. The details of the application are available to view on our website https://publicaccess.rutland.gov.uk/online-applications/ by entering the reference number above.
Please email any comments you wish to make to planning@rutland.gov.uk.

Please click below to view the minutes.

Please download the following re road closure

1^st  – Lyndon nature reserve – 16.20 –  unknown person/s have smashed the rear window and stolen items listed. (Perpetrators may have been watching items being placed into boot area)

3^rd – Tinwell  – Burglary – whilst owner on holiday someone has gained entry gained via smashing side door window. Nothing stolen

3^rd – Caldecott – Theft attempt to gain entry to an empty church donation box.

3rd  – Ridlington  – theft of tools  – suspect to be interviewed .

5^th –  Lyndon – 14.20  Rutland water vehicle parked up has window smashed and items stolen. (Please remove items prior to arriving as perpetrator may be watching you).

7^th – Bisbrooke – theft of items from driveway. (If you leave it on show it will go)

10^th – Ketton – 23:02  – Owner wakes up after hearing her car windows being smashed and car driving off.

14^th – Stoke Dry – person dealt with for possession of cannabis.

15^th Empingham – assault

22^nd – Banking protocol on elderly victim after receiving a phone call – (attempt)

26^th  – Ketton  – Theft of land rover defender from driveway

26^th – Ridlington – Overnight – Theft of Landrover defender doors that was parked at rear of property. 

As part of our ongoing drive to reduce demand did you know that you can report a “NONE EMERGENCY” crime and find lots of useful information on our new improved web site. www.leics.police.uk

Barry Read, the new parish clerk, will be available in the Community Centre on Tuesdays and Fridays between 11am and 1pm for residents to discuss issues that they may have related to the parish. He may also be contacted by email: clerk@northluffenham.org.uk

Please find attached the agenda for the above meeting.

Please note that this is a closed meeting, and therefore the public are not able to attend.

Please see the attached notice below