Sutton Bonington Mike Elliott 0115 937 6506 elliottnews@btconnect.com

WHIST. Seven tricks separated the winners at Monday night’s Whist Drive, held on October 16, eighteen players taking part.

Whist winners were; David Gee 171, Freda Blyth 170, Alan Richardson 166, Joan Ball 166, Dorothy Winfield 165 and Brenda Stainsby 164. Karen Trout claimed the Consolation prize which was a packet of Crunchie chocolate bars. Raffle prizes were won by Bill Kyle, Alan Richardson and Doreen Wright.

Our next Whist Drive will be held on Monday, October 30, starting at 7.30pm as usual.

SCHOOL CAPACITY AND NEW HOUSING. The Local Education Authority has identified that, based on existing information, Sutton Bonington Primary School currently has no capacity or potential for expansion in order to accommodate housing growth in the village. And their stance indicates there will be no large scale housing taking places in the future, certainly not at the current time.

They have told the borough council that as it stands the authority is not therefore at present able to recommend any proposed housing allocations at Sutton Bonington. It is proposed that this situation is kept under review and should primary school capacity for new pupils be subsequently identified it may then be appropriate for land to be allocated for housing development. There are currently two housing site options for the village.

It was not originally expected that the Borough Local Plan Part 2 would need to allocate any sites for new housing at smaller ‘other villages’ because requirements would be met elsewhere – at the main urban area of Nottingham and at the ‘key settlements’ of Bingham, Cotgrave, East Leake, Keyworth, Radcliffe on Trent and Ruddington. However, it is now concluded that a number of other villages will need to accommodate some level of new housing on greenfield sites in order to help resolve the current housing shortfall. This is because it is not possible to allocate enough suitable land at the main Nottingham urban area (within Rushcliffe) and at the key settlements alone, which is fully capable of delivering a sufficient number of new homes quickly enough to completely meet the shortfall. There instead needs to be a wider range of settlements and sites all delivering new housing development at the same time.

The Local Education Authority has identified that, based on existing information, Sutton Bonington Primary School currently has no capacity or potential for expansion in order to accommodate housing growth.

VILLAGE HALL FUNDRAISER. A fundraising dance was held at Sutton Bonington village hall on October 14th when the £10 tickets which included a delicious buffet.

Visitors were invited to take their own drinks for the dance which lasted about three hours in all. There was a live band playing music right across the decades up to the present day. There were also raffle prizes to be won

The money raised will be used in the next stage of refurbishment of the Village Hall which will be the store rooms.

ARTS GROUP MEETINGS. The successful Sutton Bonington Art Group that meets in the village hall has begun a new series of meetings, on Wednesday evenings. The sessions start at 7.30pm.

If anyone wishes to have more information on the group they should contact Maureen Johnson on 01509 672012 or 674576 or they will be welcomed to just turn up on a session night if they wish.

Get out your paints and paper to resurrect forgotten skills in the company of others still trying, is the message from the group.

CHRISTIAN AID WEEK TOTAL. Once again the success of the annual Sutton Bonington and Normanton Christian Aid Week has been underlined with the confirmation of the final figure raised for the 2017 effort was a wonderful £5651. Of the final audited figure, a total of £2103.80

-- in the region of almost forty per cent – was income collected from door-to-door collections.

The organisers have given a huge thank you to all who helped and contributed in any way to raise this total. “It’s a truly admirable amount from a relatively small community. Thank You!” is their message.

The annual Christian Aid Week activities in Sutton Bonington are usually very well supported and include a good variety of events, at the three churches. The Methodists staged a coffee, cake and plants morning while the Baptist Church staged a ‘Bite back at Hunger’ breakfast café at and made it possible for visitors to start their day with freshly brewed coffee, croissants and bacon rolls! There was a United Churches service at the Methodist Church and a novel Dog Aid event was held, with a fun invite for all dogs in the village to take their owners on a sponsored walk. The much enjoyed Galloping Gourmet evening was as usual a major success when three delicious courses of food will be served at three different homes in the village. The annual Pub Quiz was held at the Kings Head,

SPPEDING PROBLEM FIGURES. Parts of Sutton Bonington has a speed problem – and the parish council has its own speed recording figures to prove it.

Members were told that the latest figures obtained from their Community Road Safety Scheme/Speed Trolley showed that the speed survey results carried out between 5th – 14th June earlier this year had 85 percentile figure as 32mph in the advisory 20mph zone near the village school, this showed that 85.3% of motorists were speeding.

The council have sent the figures to Nottinghamshire County Council Chief Executive and also to the Chief Constable, informing them that there is a speed issue in the village and that the parish council request that action be taken.

The letter has also been sent to their local Notts County Council member, Coun. Andy Brown.

REMEMBRANCE SERVICE. A United Service of Remembrance for Sutton Bonington with a parade by the Uniformed Organisations, will be held at 10.45am on Sunday November 12 at St Michael’s Church. The service will include wreath laying and the two minutes silence at 11am. Poppies will be scattered from the tower at the end of the service. Children of all ages are most welcome.

Next year Remembrance Day on November 11 will be exactly 100 years to the day since the ending of World War 1 and nationwide special commemorations will be taking place to mark that fact.

PARK LANE COMMENT. Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue serviced are satisfied that the property at 14 Park Lane in Sutton Bonington, where planning permission has been given for it to be used for Multi-Occupation purposes, confirms to their requirements.

There had been some comments made locally about the new use for the property but the parish council have been told that the Fire Brigade, who have visited the site, and are happy that the property conforms to their requirements. All electrical items have been checked and a certificate submitted to Rushcliffe Borough Council.

NO CONSULTATION IN VILLAGE. Sutton Bonington residents have the opportunity to talk to Rushcliffe Borough Council about its Local Plan Part 2 proposals –but not in their own village.

The Borough are organising a number of information and consultation events around the Borough, with the nearest to Sutton Bonington being at Gotham tomorrow, October 26 at the village memorial hall from 4pm to 8pm.

There will be a similar session at Cotgrave at the Welfare Social Club on Woodview on Thursday November 9 and one at Keyworth village hall on November 14, again at the same time.