An application that was received by Gedling Borough Council for 12 new apartments (instead of 9) at 146 Breck Hill Road, Mapperley, Nottingham, NG3 5JP has been withdrawn according to the Gedling Borough Council planning department. No further details have been published by Gedling Borough Council planners.
The property which had already been built referred to the internal layout of the structure only.
A Design And Access statement provided in support of the application confirmed that the application site had the benefit of an existing planning consent for 9 Studios and 2 nos 2+1 Bedroom flats at No. 146, granted under planning application reference 2021/1420.
IMAGE: Proposed site plan at 146 Breck Hill (Courtesy of Gedling Borough Council planning)
Echinus Design Studio Ltd, London who were acting as agents on behalf of AG Development and Real Estate Ltd., 151 Breck Hill Road, Nottingham, NG3 5JP wished the apartment block to contain 12 apartments including bin and cycle storage.
The withdrawn planning application stated that the applicant wished to ‘Revise existing approved planning application to increase the number of flats’.
IMAGE: Site location at 146 Breck Hill (Courtesy of Gedling
The Design and Access statement further stated that no alteration of the existing layout that was granted (application 2021/1420) was proposed and acknowledged that the character and appearance of the development was a key consideration at the time of the original planning application.
Pictured: Actual elevation (PHOTO: Gedling Eye)Pictured: Actual elevation (PHOTO: Gedling Eye)Pictured: Actual elevation (PHOTO: Gedling Eye)
Within the withdrawn application, there was no change with existing approval in terms of layout and the proposed changes will just increase the number of units.
Further details regarding Planning Application 2023/0672 can be accessed HERE.
These are the latest applications to have been submitted to and validated byGedling Borough Council this week.
The round-up of the latest plans that the council’s planning officers validated during a quiet week at the planners (w/e 26/1/24) include a number of extensions, tree works and newbuilds.
External wall insulation with a render finish to the front & rear elevations.
62 Bourne Street Netherfield Nottinghamshire NG4 2FH. Ref. No: 2024/0020
Single storey side extension Loft Conversion (Dormer to rear of roof)
49 Sandfield Road Arnold Nottinghamshire NG5 6QA. Ref. No: 2024/0016
sub-division of dwelling to create new self-contained flat
2 Deabill Street Netherfield Nottinghamshire NG4 2HW. Ref. No: 2024/0017
Approval of details reserved by condition 2 (materials) of planning permission 2023/0267
19 Church Street Lambley Nottinghamshire NG4 4QB. Ref. No: 2024/0015
Single-storey side/rear extension and conversion of existing cellar into habitable space (amendment to permission 2023/0738 to add window to ground floor rear extension).
14 Norman Road Carlton Nottinghamshire NG3 6LN. Ref. No: 2024/0013
Rail customers are being warned of travel disruption due to planned industrial action by the ASLEF union between Monday, January 29, and Tuesday, February 6.
The strike action by ASLEF will affect different train companies on different dates.
All East Midlands Railway (EMR) services will be impacted on Saturday, February 3.
The strike action is part of a programme of industrial action affecting 18 train companies between Monday, January 29 and Tuesday, February 6.
The train firm said the staggered approach by the union is designed to create wide-ranging disruption and cancellations across the network.
Will Rogers, managing director of East Midlands Railway, said: “This approach from the ASLEF union means different parts of the network and different train operating companies are affected at different times. Unfortunately, this will mean customers could be impacted by a complicated period of possible delays and disruption.
“We cannot run any services on Saturday, February 3 – while our services will also be busy on either side of this day.
“Customers are advised to check our website to understand how their whole journey is affected before setting off and can expect possible disruption or late notice cancellations.”
How will EMR’s services be impacted by strike action?
Saturday, January 29 to Friday, February 2: An overtime ban will be in place between There will be possible short-notice cancellations and service alterations. EMR advise passengers to check their website for updates.
Saturday, February 3: No EMR services will run.
Sunday, 4 February: There will be several changes to EMR’s planned timetable across their Regional and Intercity routes due to engineering works, resulting in extended journey times and busy services. They ask you to check your full journey before travelling.
Monday, February 5 to Tuesday, February 6: An overtime ban will be in place between There will be possible short-notice cancellations and service alterations. We advise you to check the website for updates.
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Give pensioners compulsory driving test
As a pensioner, I am aware I am probably shooting myself in the foot when I raise the issue of recent road accidents involving elderly drivers and suggest that at 70 years of age drivers should be obliged to retake a test.
Since originally passing their test, traffic on our roads and speeds have massively increased and our roads are far more dangerous than they used to be and demand the utmost concentration.
I think the renewal system is flawed allowing drivers to simply self-certificate to the DVLA if they meet the medical criteria despite at times being advised not to do so.
I also firmly believe that if a GP or optician informs a patient to stop driving they should be obligated to inform the DVLA of their decision.
Even better – a further test every three years for pensioners.
As our population increases we need procedures in place to ensure all road users are kept safe.
Beverley Adams Ravenshead
It’s people, not Popeyes who will be responsible for litter
I find it ludicrous that people are claiming that the new Popeyes planned for Teal Park will be responsible for an influx of litter in the Netherfield area.
Alas, the fault is plainly that of borough residents; we seem content to live with rubbish up to our knees.
I find it a little hard to imagine that the local Costa tasks their staff every morning with spreading the store detritus around the local area, just as I cannot accept that the McDonald’s manager requires their staff to do a similar daily job.
So I find it an unjust accusation to even imply that the new Popeyes drive-in will be responsible for any rubbish up and down Colwick Loop Road.
Just take a ride to any of our local beauty spots, of which we are more than blessed, and people will find them all piled high with rubbish.
Barry Robinson, Colwick
Should we just grin and bear it if can’t get NHS dentist?
With access to an NHS dentist now nearly impossible – it’s like looking for hens’ teeth – I suppose we’ll just have to grin and bear it through clenched gums.
But seriously, perhaps there should be a middle ground between NHS and private dental treatment.
The middle ground should consist of part treatment paid by the NHS and the difference made up by patients.
That would leave the less fortunate in the lower band and slightly better off being partly funded, with Rolls Royce treatment for the people more able to pay.
Ann Green, Arnold
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Gedling Borough Council’s cabinet has been asked to consider introducing a weekend burial service at its cemeteries for the first time.
Currently, ashes can be interred in Gedling Borough Council cemeteries between Monday and Friday at a fee of £221.
But councillors say that there is a demand for this service at weekends, including from working families and those who have family members not local to the borough.
During Wednesday’s Gedling Borough Council meeting, Cllrs Sam Smith and Mike Adams who represent Trent Valley Ward, tabled a motion calling on the council to amend when ashes can be interred in Gedling Borough Council cemeteries and enable them to be done on two Saturdays per month as well as in the week.
When tabling the motion, Cllr Sam Smith said: “We all get elected to serve our local communities and improve the local services our residents rely on.
“After taking a call from a concerned resident who had sadly faced a family bereavement, they were finding it difficult to book in for the interment of ashes into one of our cemeteries. They had family out of the Borough and they could only come together at weekends. During that difficult period, this Council couldn’t book that in for them sadly.
“I thought that is one of the local services we can improve so I move the motion which, subject to a business case, is calling for a review of the cemetery operating hours so that interment of ashes can be done at weekends.
“This can be done in many ways, some of those options could include rejigging the rota so if cemetery staff work a weekend they have days off in the week or training up other Council staff who can observe the interment service.”
While speaking in the debate, Cllr Mike Adams said: “It is so important that we get the business case done and do it right and that we also ensure all parts of that process are taken into account, including colleagues that work in this service are consulted on it and have an opportunity to put their views forward.
Adding to the debate, Cllr Boyd Elliott of the Calverton Ward said: “The most important people are the bereaved families. This motion sends out a huge message to all residents that we do care and we understand how busy people are these days.”
A business case reviewing the operating hours of the ashes interment service will be carried out and presented to the Council’s Cabinet for consideration. Gedling Borough’s Conservative Councillors hope this will result in families being able to inter ashes on two Saturdays per month as well as during the week.
Deputy council leader Cllr Michael Payne wanted to highlight the efforts of the team who carry out burials in the borough.
He said: “i just want to say a huge thank you for the small group of staff who actually do this job. It’s a physicaly demanding job in often difficult weather conditions. It’s one of the most difficult jobs you could have within a council and a lot of stress is put on them.
“I’d just like to put on the record a massive thanks from the entire council to our cemeteries and burial service team.”
An environmentalist from Carlton will join a demo in Nottingham City Centre tomorrow (27) highlighting the devastating impacts of air pollution
Members of Extinction Rebellion will gather to protest at Nottingham Railway Station, before walking up to Market Square accompanied by drummers and carrying placards, flags and banners.
The group say they want to give local people a positive message that another future is possible.
XR Nottingham’s website says there will be a ‘display of gravestones to symbolise deaths from air pollution with names and the cause of death – the names are not real but the causes of death are.’
The protest group claim that over 600 people across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire die early every year due to air pollution.
The impacts of airpollution include lung cancer, asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), diabetes, heart attack and stroke.
The protestors say that air pollution which is mostly created from the burning of fossil fuels not only causes these premature deaths but is also the main driver of the climate crisis. Young children in particular are badly affected, 1 in 11 children already suffer from asthma and millions of children are exposed to dangerous levels of outdoor pollution at school.
Carlton resident Jon Simons from Carlton who is attending the protest said: “Another future really is possible – cheaper green public transport, improved cycling lanes and footpaths would make a big difference. As would investing in more renewable energy to replace dirty fossil fuels”.
XR Nottingham posted on social media “It is now 11 years since the tragic death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debra in London and in 2021 her inquest listed air pollution as a cause of death.
“We owe it to her and all our children to act now.”
Many readers will recall the now demolished ‘Grey Goose’ pub at 73 Arnold Lane where the Gedling Village Care Home now sits so it is poignant that a new pre-school stay and play initiative by the care home has been named “Goosey Ganders”
The residential and dementia care home have started free pre school play and stay sessions at the Care Home every two weeks on a Tuesday morning from 10am till 11.30am which have been a major success with both young and not so young.
Gedling Eye caught up with Michelle Garland, the Registered Manager of Gedling Village Care Home who said “These sessions have been really good and very rewarding for both the children and our residents and we have had some really good feedback.
“We as a Care Home take immense pride in what we do and thrive on how to keep our dementia patients stimulated. Our dementia patients take a lot from these sessions and seeing the smiles on their faces makes it all worth it.
IMAGES: Courtesy of Gedling Village Care Home
“Not only does this stimulate and light up the faces of our residents it is also enjoyed by both the children and parents.”
The free fortnightly sessions also provide the children with drinks and healthy snacks and parents or childminders can avail of tea with biscuits.
Michelle added: “We have a variety of children’s toys for the children to engage in and stimulate their minds. We also have a sing song with everyone towards the end of the session.
Gedling Village Care Home is located at 73 Arnold Lane, Gedling, Nottingham, NG4 4HA and sessions can be booked by calling the home on 0115 9877330 or by email on gedlingvillage@pearlcare.co.uk.
Further information can be accessed on the care home’s social channel HERE.
A councillor has called for a heavily used car park in Colwick to be resurfaced before the summer when dust causes havoc for residents.
Colwick Councillor Russell Whiting last night raised the issue with Gedling Borough Council at a full council meeting and said there is a need for the car park at Rectory Road Recreation Ground to be resurfaced urgently.
Mr Whiting told councillors that the car park, which is heavily used by park-goers, Park Run participants, dog walkers and footballers at weekends, has not been properly resurfaced for many years. The current gravel surface is topped up periodically.
He said: “Local residents have been complaining about the state of the car park for years, but no action has been taken.
In the dry weather the car park becomes a dust bowl and blows onto nearby streets and gardens, contributing to poor air quality. In wet weather the surface runs into nearby drains.
After hearing Mr Whiting; ‘s comments, Portfolio Holder Cllr Viv McCrossen confirmed that over the past three years, more than £1,000 had been spent topping up the surface of the car park.
Cllr Whiting invited Cllr McCrossen to visit the car park and see its condition for herself.
Speaking after the meeting Cllr Whiting said: “We have been talking about this car park for too long. The time for action has now arrived.
“Residents have put up with the dust for too long and every weekend I get calls from members of the public who use the car park to complain about the appalling state it’s in.
“As councillors we talk a lot about potholes, but this is one of the few surfaces for which Gedling Borough Council is responsible for. I will continue to fight for residents and others who use the car park until it is adequately resurfaced”
EVENT CINEMA: National Theatre Live: Dear England (15) – Bonington Cinema
Thu 25 Jan – Sat 3 Feb, Various Times £12.50pp
Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game?
With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Rupert Goold (Judy) directs this spectacular new play.
Dear England a new play James Graham Directed by Rupert Goold
*Additional screenings may be added at a later date
Fri 26 – Wed 31 Jan, Various Times £6.80pp £5pp on Tuesday
It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi. Meanwhile, his drivers’ passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.
“Adam Driver’s racing drama is an electrifying ride” Telegraph ★★★★
Directed by Michael Mann With Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz 2hrs 10 mins // US 2023
Fri 26 Jan – Mon 12 Feb, Various Times £6.80pp £5pp on Tuesday
One Lifetells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker played by Johnny Flynn, who, along with Trevor Chadwick (played by Alex Sharp) and Doreen Warinner (played by Romola Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II,. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time.
How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed? Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky (played by Anthony Hopkins) lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life!’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.
“Anthony Hopkins is stirring as the ‘British Schindler’ who saved 600 Jewish children” Telegraph ★★★★
Directed by James Hawes With Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn 1hr 50 mins // UK 2023
FREE entry – Design 3 will be performing a huge range of popular hits from the likes of Madness, The Beatles, Bowie, Frankie Valli, Ed Sheeran, Take That and Bob Marley to name just a few.
EVENT CINEMA: Kinky Boots: The Musical (12A) – Bonington Cinema, Arnold
Thu 1 – Sun 4 Feb, Various Times £12.50pp
Kinky Boots The Musical, filmed live at the Adelphi Theatre in the heart of London’s West End, is strutting back onto the big screen!
With songs from Grammy and Tony award winning pop icon Cindy Lauper, book by legendary Broadway playwright Harvey Fierstein (La Cage Aux Folles), and direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray), the musical is based on the film written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth.
Inspired by true events, this huge-hearted hit tells the story of two people with nothing in common – or so they think. Charlie (Killian Donnelly) is a factory owner struggling to save his family business, and Lola (Matt Henry) is a fabulous entertainer with a wildly exciting idea. With a little compassion and a lot of understanding, this unexpected pair learn to embrace their differences and create a line of sturdy stilettos unlike any the world has ever seen! But in the end, their most sensational achievement is their friendship.
This unmissable musical theatre event celebrates a joyous story of British grit transforming into a high-heeled hit as it takes you from the factory floor of Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan!
Please contact venue to confirm availability and details
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Plans have been submitted to increase the occupancy of a Netherfield HMO.
An application has been received by Gedling Borough Council for ‘Change of use of six bedroom property (C4 use) into a seven-bedroom, seven person HMO (Sui Generis use).’
The application was submitted by Mr. Eamonn Chapman of Wilson Architects, Lincoln who is acting as agents on behalf of Mr. Andrew Grey of Altitude Investments Ltd., Jessops Lane, Gedling.
The property at 48 Bourne Street is currently Class C4 (houses in multiple occupation), a class relating to small shared houses occupied by between three and six unrelated individuals, as their only or main residence, who share basic amenities such as a kitchen or bathroom.
A Planning, Design and Access (PDA) statement has now been provided by Wilson Architects in support of the application states that the site has recently been fully refurbished to a high standard and is now occupied and used as a six-bedroom HMO and that there are no external alterations proposed within this application.
PICTURED: Second floor existing (Courtesy of Gedling Borough Council planning)PICTURED: Second floor proposed (Courtesy of Gedling Borough Council planning)
The change of use being applied for (Sui Generis) is required when the number of occupants totals seven or more unrelated individuals, as their only or main residence, who share basic amenities such as a kitchen or bathroom.
The PDA further states that the change of use relates to an existing room on the 2nd floor which is currently underused.
Further details regarding Planning Application 2023/0925 can be accessed HERE.
