For those of you missing the local information and characters of Rutland Radio after it was absorbed into Greatest Hits Radio, you may not be aware that Rob Persani and the team started an Internet Radio station – Rutland and Stamford Sound.
This is available over the Internet, via their web site, a mobile phone app, and via Alexa and other smart speakers.
You can find more information at their web site : https://www.rutlandandstamfordsound.co.uk/
Just a reminder that the final display and opportunity to ask questions around the Draft Neighbourhood Plan for North Luffenham will take place tomorrow, Wednesday from 14:30 to 16:30 at the Community Centre
Hi – Phone services have returned in North Luffenham, is anyone still having issues?
We have some information provided by a Barrowden resident with an update directly from the OpenReach engineers working on the phone lines:
“I’ve been to see the Openreach engineers working at the end of Morcott Road this morning and thought I would share with you what they told me by way of an update.
There is positive news in that they are starting to make connections but it’s a long and painstaking process. They can’t tell which phone numbers are in various core cables but are working through making them all live, consequently phone numbers will start to come on stream from now but completion of the work will take a number of days.
Although they couldn’t give me an end date for the work, they did confirm the job is still considered urgent and they will continue to work on it over the weekend.
It feels as if we are making progress.”
You may already have noticed but posting to let people know that the landlines are down in the village again…
As you will be aware the North Luffenham Neighbourhood Plan Working Group of the Parish Council have been developing the Neighbourhood Plan document, Planning Policies and background evidence for the North Luffenham Neighbourhood Plan.
The Plan and Policies are now at the point where the residents of the Parish have the opportunity to review and comment on the draft (the official status is “Pre Submission”) plan.
You should have received details about the plan, and the consultation, via a leaflet drop.
The consultation period starts Tuesday 23rd August, and you can find the details of the consultation period, a downloadable copy of the draft plan, along with supporting documents on the Neighbourhood Plan page on the web site.
There is also a link to the online form for you to enter your views
https://northluffenham.com/nlpc/neighbourhood-plan/
This is your chance to provide feedback, and influence the plan. Once this consultation period completes, Rutland County Council will run a wider review, however this will be mainly around the legalities and background evidence for the plan – they will not comment on the actual planning policies in the plan, unless there are errors or unenforceable statements included in the text.
Please take this opportunity to provide your input. The Plan will be part of the decision making process for all planning applications submitted in North Luffenham Parish until 2036, and so it is very important that it accurately reflects the overall views of the residents.
The current outage of the telephone system in North Luffenham has been confirmed to be caused by theft of the copper cables from the Telephone Exchange on Ketton Road to the villages.
Internet services are not affected as they are carried by fibre optic cable from the Exchange to the villages, and only use copper cable from the green cabinets on the streets.
Various estimates from BT have been reported to reinstate the telephone services, but the last time this happened it took approximately 10 days to repair the cable.
Thanks everyone for the information on the phone line outage.
It looks like all villages served by the North Luffenham exchange- North Luffenham, South Luffenham, Edith Weston and potentially Barrowden – are affected
BT are aware and working on it
The earliest estimate from BT / Openreach to resolve the problem is tomorrow evening
The phone lines are down on Lyndon Road. Is this the same anywhere else in North Luffenham?
There will be an evening of Jazz and Soul at Barrowden Church on Friday 3rd June at 7.30pm – See poster for details
Please note that the airfield is out of bounds tonight from 21:00 to 06:00 due to protection dog training
A report has been received from a resident of Kings Road that someone entered his property through closed gates whilst he was out, and deposited an old mattress into a skip in his garden.
It has been a rather strange two years, with restrictions on a lot of our usual activities and many people have missed the social interactions that are usually part of their everyday life. North Luffenham is a lovely village, with a lot of history and having village events & clubs enables us to develop a sense of community and friendship.
Please come along to our village ‘get together’ and make new friends, meet old friends, all while enjoying delicious homemade cakes & biscuits! There will also be coffee, tea and a variety of fruit & herbal teas available. The room is well ventilated and sanitiser will be available.
There is no entry charge for this event but cash donations will be given to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Appeal.
For anyone needing assistance, help is available to get to the community centre.
Contact Liz Ritchie on 01780 720210 or at liz.ritchie23@me.com
As you may have seen around the village, the Men & Women in Sheds Team have been busy making bespoke garden furniture to order. Over the coming month we have some slots available should you want anything wooden built to your own design (or one inspired by us).
Our prices are very reasonable and are based on cost of the wood plus a donation to AgeUK to enable us to run the Shed.
Examples of our handiwork are picnic tables, garden benches, potting tables, bug boxes, mud kitchens & planters.
For further information and inspiration visit our website:-
https://rutshed.wixsite.com/home
Alternatively, contact Brian Lee on 01572 720319 or via email Brian.Lee@ageukleics.org.uk
The Full Fibre Internet connection for the Community Centre and the School has been funded by RCC to encourage the further roll out of of fibre optic cabling in the village.
The installation by OpenReach has placed a limited number of properties within the connecting distance for a Full Fibre Internet upgrade. An upgrade would enable speeds of up to 1Gb/sec (Gigabit Internet)
The purple dots on the map below show which lucky residents now have availability for a full fibre connection.
You would need to contact your Internet provider for details on how to upgrade and costs.
The installation of Full Fibre broadband in the Community Centre has now been completed. The Wi-Fi is now powered by a fibre optic cable providing capacity for up to 1 Gigabit. Currently it is enabled for a stable 100Mb/Sec connection.
The Community Centre is available for any organisation or person to book, and so if you would like to take advantage of this new facility (maybe for an important Zoom meeting whilst the kids are playing games via your home Internet? ) please contact Charles Cade on 01780 720467
We will continue to collect for Ukraine on Saturday 12th March 2-4pm due to great demand and donating in the previous week. Many have said they still have things to contribute. Please look especially for old rucksacks, water bottles, sleeping bags, hiking clothes and boots for men, women and children and medical supplies especially. Can parents please share to community boards locally , thank you everyone. The container will be in the car park of St Mary & St John CEVA Primary School, North Luffenham, Rutland school 2 til 4pm on Saturday. Every donation will help 
The funeral of well known and respected North Luffenham resident, Gerry Wells, will be held at Peterborough Crematorium tomorrow, at 1:30 and afterwards at The Fox for villagers who would like to pay their respects.
Gerry Wells 1926 – 2022
With further exciting news on benches in North Luffenham (we know how to attract people to the web site…) a new bench was installed on the Oval today.
This was purchased by the Parish Council from the Men and Women in Sheds project in Oakham, and has a special space left free for pushchairs or wheelchair users.
Thanks to Ash Bates for the installation of the benches on the Circular Walk and all the people who donated money for the purchase
