A ‘village pump’ for Tollerton

The thing about Rushcliffe Borough Council’s whiplash-like about turn on the SPD is, I’m sure, unrelated to the public revelation the developers were going to openly pay the council a smidge under £29,000 just for approving the SPD. I’m certain it’s unrelated to that information coming to light. But the real thing is it’s only…

I know one of my fellow contributors has already mentioned the proposal to build homes on Russell Farm – and to have the exit/entry to this potential housing estate running directly off/on to Burnside Grove – but the deadline is getting close. Please get your thoughts on this proposal over to Rushcliffe Borough Council. They…

Well, the release of a formal planning application for an estate of 200 new houses at Russell Farm has landed. And the only thing I can say about the application is someone, somewhere seems to be bonkers. The application states the estate will include affordable housing (whose definition of what is affordable?), sustainable drainage, a…

Because of, frankly, her shockingly poor performance as a representative of the people of Tollerton (let’s face it, to be an effective representative of the people you have to answer the emails which folk who live in the village have sent you), a number of residents have complained about her performance (and lack of email…

I don’t usually write here but I feel this is worth mentioning. When a planning authority (Rushcliffe Borough Council) says that people who are campaigning against a development “don’t understand the planning process”, well, that’s one thing because maybe that’s true? But when the county council echoes the concerns of the people campaigning against the…

Today I learned that our local pet shop – Tollerton Pets/Village Pets – will be closing down at the end of this month (November 2025). For the last five years we’ve been using Tollerton Pets for everything for our cat, our aged Labrador and my daughter’s 2 cats when they came to stay. We believe…

My boyfriend and I, rather than taking our usual Sunday morning walk along the remains of the Grantham Canal, walked up the hill and turned right opposite Tollerton Park. We walked down the track and through the fields and saw several of those pipeline markers. When we got home I googled the details and learned…

It’s nice to see the small hut that’s been erected at the west end of the southern Right of Way just outside the airfield. It will be a convenient place to store the flood notices/flood signs, road closed signs and the flood bollards. But wouldn’t it be better if someone in power just sorted out…

There’s an interesting conversation being relayed around the parish. A certain RBC councillor (I’ll spare his blushes by not naming him) said he didn’t believe anything was buried at the former RAF Tollerton because they didn’t have Caterpillars didn’t exist then. When we all stopped laughing at this incredible viewpoint, one of the residents of…

Is it corruption when the consultation document for a significant planning development for 4,400 dwellings was written by a bunch of consultants for the proposed developer? Well, we said, a couple of weeks ago, that the SPD was of such poor quality we couldn’t believe a professional planning officer wrote such an egregious mess. It…