Village news
ROTARY SANTA FLOAT. The Rotary Santa Float will be in East Leake on Thursday, December 14,starting at Mulberry Way at 6.15pm, then down Woodgate Road and into the Trees Estate, and on Friday 15th starting at Brookfields Way and then into Northfields Way.
GALA CONCERT. A Christmas Gala Concert is taking place at St Mary’s Parish Church in East Leake on Tuesday night next week, December12, at 7.30pm.
The event is being held to support Rainbows Hospice and during the interval refreshments will be served – including wine!
Tickets at £7 available in advance from Pat 07919915802, Carolyn 07748496890 and Claire 0773841428, or on the door. Under 12’s will be free.
SCHOOL DEFIBRILLATOR. After a successful fund raising campaign, East Leake’s Brookside Primary School have been successful in getting the £2,000 for their own defibrillator on their school site.
Mr Gary Kenny, the school headmaster, said they had worked with the charity SADS UK to support their Heartsafe campaign to get defibrillators in as many schools and public places as possible. “We hope the funds raised will cover the purchase of the equipment, training for a number of staff, the accessories required as well as some on-going maintenance costs,” Mr Kenny told the Echo.
Sudden cardiac arrest can affect younger people and children who lead healthy lifestyles and have a good physique. Medical experts believe many children could be saved if a defibrillator is used within minutes of collapse. However, there is currently no national system in place in the UK to ensure defibrillators are on school premises. And currently SADS UK are working to make defibrillators in schools mandatory.
Mr Kenny says their school is a busy place and they now have over 225 children, as well as 30 members of staff and plenty of visitors each day.
“Hopefully we will never be in a situation where our defibrillator needs to be used, but we need to be prepared to safeguard all pupils and staff, as when someone suffers a sudden cardiac arrest minutes and seconds count,” added the headmaster.
There are currently over 270 cardiac arrests in UK schools each year, and only 5% of people survive an arrest if they are not treated with a defibrillator within 10 minutes.
The school kicked off their fund raising with a sponsored “Fun Run” in July earlier this year and have also organised a number of other activities and fund-raising events.
Mr Kenny has given thanks to everyone for their help and support towards the potentially lifesaving equipment.
He says Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) have the capability to restart a heart when a person suffers cardiac arrest, it’s a portable easy to use device that measures the heart rhythm via two sticky pads attached to the chest. The AED tells you what to do and it won’t give a therapeutic shock unless it needs to, and can be used with very little training.
Twelve staff at the school haven been trained to use the defibrillator.
Anne Jolly, Founder of SADS UK, the Ashley Jolly SAD Trust, says they are pleased Brookside Primary School will benefit from having a defibrillator to restart the heart if there is a cardiac arrest on the premises. SADS UK works with schools and highlights the fact that as schools are a major hub in the community they should have defibrillators in place to save lives. Using CPR alone provides a 5% chance of survival but early use of the defibrillator as well increases the chance of survival to over 50%; this is why SADS UK and its members are so passionate about putting this lifesaving equipment in schools’
The SADS UK Big Shock Campaign to legislate to make defibrillators available in all schools and widely in the community has the support of the ambulance services, the charity’s Patron Dr Hilary Jones, Good Morning Britain and Dame Helen Mirren who heads the charity’s defibrillator leaflet.
BELL RINGING. New members will be welcome for the East Leake St Mary’s Handbell ringing band.
No experience needed, nor ability to read musical scores. “Come and give it a try,” is the challenge. Contact is Rosemary Barrow on 1509 856202
PANTO NIGHT. It’s opening night tonight, Wednesday December 6, for this year pantomime staged by the East Leake Amateur Players (ELAPS From this evening until Saturday evening there will be five performances, including a matinee on Saturday afternoon. The evening performances start at 7-30pm and the matinee at 2pm.
The panto, Rapunzel, is a first time production for its author, Annette McQuillan who has been a group member since 2010. She told the Echo it had been a super experience for her and she was excited to see what both the players and the audiences think of it. Panto director is Sonya Oates and there is a cast of 31 taking part, including many youngsters.
Rapunzel is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published as part of Children’s and Household Tales.
Tickets for the five performances went on sale on November 1 and as usual there was a big demand for them. Those for Friday night sold out in two weeks and for the matinee, which traditionally attracts youngsters including members of the village Guides and Brownies, in under three weeks, Tickets for adults are £7 and £4 for concessions.
PUBLIC CONSULTATION. Residents in East Leake, which has its own gravel extraction site, have been reminded that the Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan Issues and Options consultation is now live. The consultation period runs for an 8 week period until the January 14, 2018.
Notts County Council say the Issues and Options consultation is the first, but an important, stage in preparing the new Plan. The document will set out the key issues that are expected to arise over the plan period to 2036 and what reasonable options we think exist to meet them. A series of questions has been included in the consultation document to aid discussion, however we also want to hear about any other issues you may wish to raise regarding future minerals development in Nottinghamshire.
The County are stressing that It is important to note that any comments made on the Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan withdrawn in May 2017 cannot be taken into account as part of the preparation of the new Minerals Local Plan.
The Issues and Options consultation document will not be considering or identifying new quarries. This process will be undertaken at a later stage in the Plan preparation process.
The County Council is encouraging responses to be made via its online consultation system. Details of how to use the online consultation system can be found on our website at Nottinghamshire.gov.uk/ minerals. By using this system it will ensure that all comments are submitted and logged using a safe and secure method. Once the consultation has closed it will then enable the submitted comments to be processed and considered in an efficient manner. Comments submitted via email or letter will still be accepted subject to a name and email or address being provided, as we cannot accept anonymous comments.
Once the consultation event has finished we will consider all of the responses and where appropriate these will be used to inform the development of a draft Minerals Local Plan. Further public consultation will then be undertaken on a draft minerals plan before the final Minerals Local Plan is submitted to the Secretary of State for an Independent Examination. A timetable for the preparation of the Minerals Local Plan can be found on the County Council website.
FRESH PLANS FOR 195 HOMES. Parish councilors at East Leake have expressed their disappointment that a planning application for proposed housing development for 195 dwellings on Lantern Lane has been submitted again with only minimal changes to the original one. And they have strongly objected to it.
The original application, which was rejected by Rushcliffe Borough Council, drew 369 objections. Comment on the resubmission, the parish council said very little had been done to alleviate the concerns that residents expressed.
The parish council held a public meeting to discuss the second application and 42 residents attended and said afterwards said it was clear that there was still overwhelming objection. They particularly pointed out that it should be noted that objections had come from residents across the village and not just those in the immediate vicinity, reflecting the widely held view that the proposed development is inappropriate.
The parish council said it wished to reiterate all the concerns they had expressed previously, pointing out East Leake had around 2700 homes at the start of the Local Plan period in 2013 and since then has already provided sites for well over 800 homes, expanding the village by about a third. They pointed out Rushcliffe’s Core Strategy specified a minimum of 400 new homes for the entire plan period to 2028.
“Such massive over allocation at East Leake distorts the provision of homes across the Borough and thus conflicts with the spatial strategy of the Local Plan. It also departs significantly from the planned phasing of delivery at East Leake.” The parish added that providing a further large number of homes at the far south of the county at East Leake would conflict with the requirement in the Core Strategy for Rushcliffe to provide sites on the urban edge of Nottingham. It would also conflict with emerging Local Plan Part 2 which proposes to allocate no further sites at East Leake.
“Further development in East Leake would fail to meet the economic, social, and environmental criteria for sustainable development set out in the National Planning Policy Framework,“say the parish council, adding the parish was assessed by Rushcliffe as a sustainable location for a minimum of 400 additional houses. “Since then 816 have been approved, but no further infrastructure assessment has been undertaken. It is the Parish Council’s view that East Leake can no longer be considered a sustainable location for development due to lack of school places, Health Centre capacity, sewerage capacity and the limitations of the local road network.
“Housing development is spreading the size of the village so that it is no longer easy to walk from the outskirts to the central village facilities. Developer led housing is providing the wrong mix of housing to support a balanced community. No employment opportunities are being created alongside the housing.” say the parish council.
COMMUNITY CINEMA. Now the clocks have gone back the East Leake St. Mary’s Church Community Cinema is again being held and is due to be shown on the second Saturdays of each month now through to March, the forward dates being December 9, January 13, and March 10, doors open at 6.30pm with refreshments available, and the films start at 7.00pm.
Priest in Church the Rev Tim Parker says on February 10 they will again be holding a Family Special when doors will open at 5.30pm and the PG certificate film starts at 6pm.
Copyright restrictions for free-entry Community Cinemas prevent the listing of the titles other than where the film is being shown, so those interested can see the posters inside church and in the porch for details of this season’s films.
BUSY RUN-UP TO CHRISTMAS. Pupils, staff and parents at East Leake’s Lantern Lane primary school – where Mrs Jane Butler is head teacher to the 400-plus pupils -- are in for a busy run up to Christmas with activities they can participate in.
On Monday, December 11, there is a pantomime trip for three sections of the school while the following morning KS1 will stage their Christmas performance and repeat it on Wednesday afternoon.
A trip to Beaumanor is planned on that day also for F1 while on Thursday December 14 KS1 will give another festive performance. There will be a Christmas party for the Foundation youngsters on December 19 while their will be two performances of the school Christmas Concert in the parish church on the same day, afternoon and evening.
Christmas dinner will be served on Wednesday December 20 and e following day Years 3 and 4 will hold their Christmas party followed the next day—and the final day of term Friday December 22 - by the DARE graduation and the year 5 and 6 party.
The school will re-open after the Christmas break on January 8.
VISIT SANTA. East Leake’s Manor Farm has joined in the festive feeling and youngsters going there are able to visit Santa in his cabin in the run up to Christmas and join in the woodland fun on offer and cook toast on our campfire. Santa is at the Farm on December 9, 10, 16, 17, and 23, between 10am and 4pm.
A new visitor attraction this year is an invite to join Molly the Donkey to hear her Christmas Story, join in the Christmas songs and meet Molly’s friends, Barry and Betty the sheep, Charlie and Mac the Llamas and County the goat.
A Christmas craftroom is also an attraction where it is possible to make something to take home. ST JAMES’ CHURCH There will be a service of Holy Communion on Sunday, December 10, starting at 9.30am. Everyone is welcome to the service.
MEN’S ASSOCIATION There are still some places available for our Christmas meal at Rushcliffe Golf Club on December 19. Threecourse meal for £19.95. If you would like to join us with friends/partners please contact Chas Miller for further details and to boom 01509 844287.
HEARING AID CLINICS The free hearing aid clinics run by Laura Ainsworth from the Ear Foundation continue on the second Tuesday of the month in Normanton Village Hall between 2-3pm. The next clinic will be on Tuesday, December 12. Please note that there will be no clinic in January.
BOAT CLUB CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION On Sunday, December 10, at 4pm St James’ Church will be holding the Village and Boat Club Candlelit Christmas Celebration led by Revd Michael Brock.
Various village organisations take part in the service, and there will be a special item by Normanton on Soar Village Choir.
During the service a presentation will be made to Sue Waterston from Hughendon Lodge; the church’s charity of the year. All are welcome to join us.
CANDLELIT CHRISTMAS CONCERT. The candlelit Christmas concert will be held in St James’ Church on Sataturday, December 16, at 7.30pm. Tickets are £7 from Normanton on Soar shop and Sutton Bonington Post Office. Accompanied school-age children are admitted free of charge.