Please see the attached flyer setting out details of the events taking place at the Fox Country Dining Pub over VE Day weekend.
The first Anglian Water Music Festival taking place on the 13th and 14th June.
The festival is specifically aimed at families – with lots of activities around the theme of “Getting Active” – including water sports, climbing wall and nature reserve walks. We are very keen that it will be a celebration to showcase all that Rutland has to offer.
Headline acts are Scouting for Girls and The Hoosiers, but most of the supporting acts are made up of individuals and groups from across Rutland and Leicestershire. The majority of the food and drink stands will be local businesses too.
The festival will be held at Sykes Lane, so well away from the nature reserve.
Parking will be included in the ticket prices, and everything we’re doing is to try and minimise queues and disruption for the local community – people will be able to drive straight on site without having to wait at barriers to keep traffic flowing.
Our aim is to make the festival as plastic free as possible in line with our plastic pledge as a business and the way our water parks are run all year round.
North Luffenham Parish Council has received complaints that on two occasions bird scarers have been used in Ancaster Way apparently to scare away the starlings in the laurel bushes.
It is considered a criminal offence to set off fireworks in the street or other public places without permission.
Bird scarers are very loud as their purpose is to scare away birds from farm crops and in an urban setting are a nuisance and in particular cause upset to the elderly.
The Parish Council is working with Rutland County Council to try and alleviate the problem that the starlings are causing.
Please find attached a flyer for the above village event
Please find attached the minutes of the above meetings
An uplifting concert this coming Sunday 15 March. Tickets are available on the door
A full boot load of rubbish was collected around the village today by a large group of volunteers from the village.
A large proportion of the rubbish collected was found along Edith Weston Road and Station Road, so the luminous tabards came in very handy to keep everyone safe along the road side.
It took 10 volunteers about 2 hours to scour the village and surrounding roads to complete an entire sweep of the area.
In the future it would be greatly appreciated by all in the village, if every now and again when walking around the village you could remember to take an empty bag with you and be on the look out for litter, it really doesn’t take much effort to keep the village looking clean and tidy.
Also some less than pleasant items were collected 💩 and again, for those of you who have the appropriate bags and are used to picking this up after your own dogs and disposing of it in the red bins around the oval, it would be especially appreciated of you could be on the look out for this as well. Some of you have been already, which is commendable, but we need more of this to help eradicate the dog fouling problem completely!
Thanks again everyone! ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Parish Council has been asked to organise a litter pick and this has been arranged for Saturday March 7th. (Hopefully we won’t have a fourth weekend storm in a row) . If you would like to take part than please come to the car park of The Fox 10.30 – 11 am.
The Parish Council has some litter pickers, high viz tabards and bin bags but if you have these items please bring them along. Make sure you are dressed for whatever the weather is forecast to be and wear protective gloves.
Children under 16 must be accompanied and supervised by a responsible adult. Good safety advice can be found on the following sites: https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/get-involved/support-our-campaigns/great-british-spring-clean/clean-preparation-and-safety-advice, https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/pick-litter
For those of you who were not able to attend the recent meeting held by Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) in Oakham, they have posted the related video on YouTube. The video includes information on the St Georges Barracks plan, interviews with local people and excerpts from RCC’s meetings on the new Local Plan, which is intended to enable the development.
The Parish Council has been asked to organise a litter pick and this has been arranged for Saturday March 7th. (Hopefully we won’t have a fourth weekend storm in a row) . If you would like to take part than please come to the car park of The Fox 10.30 – 11 am.
The Parish Council has some litter pickers, high viz tabards and bin bags but if you have these items please bring them along. Make sure you are dressed for whatever the weather is forecast to be and wear protective gloves.
Children under 16 must be accompanied and supervised by a responsible adult. Good safety advice can be found on the following sites: https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/get-involved/support-our-campaigns/great-british-spring-clean/clean-preparation-and-safety-advice, https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/pick-litter
Please find attached the agendas and supporting papers for the forthcoming meetings as above
I have received a request from the owner of the field below the primary school that walkers stay on the designated footpath that goes from the stone style in the Church graveyard to the metal bridge crossing at the bottom of the field. Could residents please not enter the field by the gate or fence at the corner of Glebe Road. Thank you
With winds of 45 mph and rain forecast for this Saturday the litter pick has been cancelled for reasons of safety. Hopefully, in the absence of recurrent storms, it will be rearranged for the near future.
A Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group has been formed and is meeting every two weeks and aims to produce a Neighbourhood Plan in a years time. The Plan is essentially a planning document for the whole parish and if adopted will have legal status. This could be important for the village in helping us to influence the development of St. George’s Barracks if the proposal goes ahead as planned.
Residents will be informed via the website and newsletters as to progress and there will also be open meetings with the aim of consulting on the structure and content of the plan.
Members of the Steering Group are listed below and can be contacted by email for more information and would welcome at any stage comments, suggestions, ideas and any offers of help.
Tim Smith timsmith@northluffenham.org.uk
Charles Cade charles.cade51@gmail.com
Alan Arnott allan.arnott@btinternet.com
Malcolm Forbes panda@roughtor.net
Penny Forbes panda@roughtor.net
Tracey Barsby tmbarsby@aol.com
Pete Burrows peteburrows@northluffenham.org.uk
Tim Collins tim.collins.nlv@btinternet.com
John Willoughby clerk@northluffenham.org.uk
Our next meeting is this Thursday 13th February at 7.30pm in the Community Centre, when we welcome back speaker Mike Davey on ‘Vegetables and Allotments’.
At meetings we have a guest speaker, refreshments and a raffle, and sometimes plants for sale. Annual membership is £15 per person, payable at the meeting or £3 per guest. Everyone is most welcome to come along to any meeting – feel free to attend just one that is of particular interest (though hopefully you’ll want to attend more!).
Please see the attached NHS public information sheet with regard to Coronavirus
A lively council meeting was held on the 27th January at R.C.C. to approve the pre submission of the Local Plan. There were interesting amendments to the proposal that the Local Plan be adopted and as a result the meeting has had to be reconvened for Monday 10th February 7.00 pm at R.C.C..
It is an important meeting as, if adopted it has profound implications for the county and, in particular North Luffenham and Edith Weston. As it is a reconvened meeting no deputations or questions are allowed but it does help if members of the public attend as it demonstrates concern about the implications of the Local Plan.
Please attend if you are able.
The Parish Council has been asked to organise a litter pick and this has been arranged for Saturday March 7th. (Hopefully we won’t have a fourth weekend storm in a row) . If you would like to take part than please come to the car park of The Fox 10.30 – 11 am.
The Parish Council has some litter pickers, high viz tabards and bin bags but if you have these items please bring them along. Make sure you are dressed for whatever the weather is forecast to be and wear protective gloves.
Children under 16 must be accompanied and supervised by a responsible adult. Good safety advice can be found on the following sites: https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/get-involved/support-our-campaigns/great-british-spring-clean/clean-preparation-and-safety-advice, https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/pick-litter
PROPOSAL: To erect a pent roof concrete garage on a concrete base on the drive
parallel with the front of the house.
29 Ancaster Way North Luffenham Rutland LE15 8LH
An application for the above proposal has been received by the Local Planning Authority and
you are invited to submit your comments by 20 February 2020. The details of the application
are available to view on our website 2020/0097/FUL.
