The funeral will take place at St John the Baptist, North Luffenham on Monday 6th September at 11.30am.

Remininsences on John’s life will no doubt continue in The Fox following the service.

At a special meeting of Rutland County Council on the 1st September the decision was taken to withdraw the submitted Local Plan (LP) and the making of a new Local Plan.

The main strategic aim of the LP was to build a town bigger than Uppingham on the St. George’s Barracks (SGB) site.

Over the past four years North Luffenham Parish Council (NLPC) along with the help of local residents, local communities and our county councillors have attended many meetings, given deputations and asked questions as there were serious concerns about the deliverability and viability of the submitted LP. Not least were the concerns of the effects that such a large scale development would have on local parishes.

There will be development at SGB and NLPC, in early 2020, initiated a Neighbourhood Plan (NP-plan for our parish) in order to have a significant influence on any development. This now becomes more important for any development proposals that are submitted for SGB as it will take a new LP some 3-4 years to develop.

At the meeting on the 1st, NLPC made the point that one of the reasons that the submitted LP caused so much controversy was the lack of meaningful consultation with the most affected communities. Going forward it is to be hoped that from the beginning the necessary involvement will now take place.

There will be a meeting of the Indoor Bowls Club on Monday 6th September at 7.00pm in the Community Centre.

You may have noticed an outbreak of roadworks recently and Rutland County Council Highways Department has informed us of yet more in September.

Please find attached Notices and accompanying plans in respect of the Temporary Road Closures in the above areas in Rutland which will come into effect between 06/09/2021  to 27/09/2021

Plans of the proposed closures and their associated diversion routes are included in the attached documents.

Rutland County Council will hold a Special Full Council meeting next week on Wednesday 1st September at 7.00pm to determine if Rutland’s Draft Local Plan should be withdrawn from examination.

The meeting will be held at the Rutland Showground but because of restrictions members of the public who wish to attend will be limited to 60 people.

It makes a difference if County Coucillors are aware that a large number of the public are listening into the deabte and there will be a live audiostream: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85261800870

The report to the council can be downloaded:

The stretch of road running adjacent to the Golf Course will be Out Of Bounds to all between the stated dates.

Under no circumstances are personnel to encroach into this area.

(Apologies for the late posting of this notice from the M.o.D St. George’s Barracks but it wasn’t received until yesterday)

North Luffenham Knit and Natter would like to thank all who attended the Breast Cancer Now event. £483.60 was raised for the charity.

There were some unclaimed raffle prizes and please contact Liliane Coogan on 01780 721047 if these were one of yours.

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Please note that as from this week, the foodbank collection will return to the church now that it is  open daily. 

 No box will be left in the telephone box. Two boxes are located in the church porch and will be  available to fill 9am-5pm every day.  

 The foodbank team will collect the boxes fortnightly and return empty boxes in their place. Please do continue to support the local charity. 

Many thanks on behalf of Rutland Foodbank