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Plans have been submitted seeking permission to place a hand car wash and valeting premises on unused land next to a pub in Carlton.
Proposals for the vacant space on Burton Road next to the Inn For A Penny Pub have now been submitted to Gedling Borough Council.
Plans say fixed canopies, an office, staff room, store, waiting area and toilets would be constructed on the site.
People have until March 1 to voice their concerns.
Colwick Theatre Club will be taking to the stage later this month for their latest production Beauty and her Beast
The popular tale has been adapted by club member Neil Beeching, and is a mixture of comedy, songs and audience participation.
The group’s secretary, Meredith Lawrence said “We’ve been rehearsing hard since last November, and are looking forward to entertaining audiences. You might recognise some of the characters in our production – but it’s not Disney!
There will be four performances of Beauty and her Beast at Colwick Community Centre, Vale Road: at 7:30pm on Thursday 21 & Friday 22, and 2:30pm & 7:30pm Saturday 23 February 2019.
Tickets, £5.00 (Adults) and £4.00 (Children, concessions) are available by calling the Ticket Hotline, 0750 729 9526.
New £1.75m equipment is being drafted in to wage war on potholes appearing across Gedling borough.
Nottinghamshire County Council, who are making the investment, say the new equipment will speed up and increase the range of options to repair roads in the area.
The green light was given to bring in the equipment at a meeting of the council’s Communities and Place Committee today (Thursday, February 7).
Via East Midlands manages Nottinghamshire’s highways network on behalf of the county council.
Committee chairman Councillor John Cottee said: “Last winter’s bad weather and the cold spring resulted in a rapid deterioration of many of our roads due to the cold weather and effects of freezing and thawing on road surfaces.
“As a result, we repaired more than 115,000 potholes last year – double the amount compared with the same period the previous year. So, understandably the volume of repairs led to concerns about the future sustainability of this approach. However, potholes are the number one concern for residents and we’ve listened to this.
“Road repairs and resurfacing is one of our top priorities and this £1.75m is a long-term investment to save more money further down the line whilst improving the quality of road repairs, increasing productivity and extending the life expectancy of our roads and is another example of our continuing investment in the network.
“These methods provide us with two new tools in our armory when it comes to tackling potholes in the county, further ensuring that we can make the right repair at the right time.”
The first of the two techniques, this £1.75 million investment will fund is a spray injection chip patching system. This treats surface defects effectively, sealing the target area, filling cracking and removing small potholes whilst smoothing the surface.
Cllr Cottee explained: “This will significantly improve productivity so that our highways teams can cover more than double their daily target repairs. It also allows relatively large areas of carriageway to be treated quickly meaning that teams can also pull in more lower priority repairs in the process and thereby slowing down the rate at which our roads deteriorate and reducing the need for future re-visits to the same locations.”
The spray injection chip patching system also produces a better finish and it reduces the likelihood of road repairs failing prematurely.
The second vehicle will be used in conjunction with existing equipment to allow the council to make patching of larger areas of road, where the road surface has suffered significant deterioration, economically viable and also carry out deeper structural repairs. This will improve the quality of ride for road users as well as the way the road looks.
“The fact that the process is mechanised means the filling material can be transported using hotbox storage and laid in optimum condition and compacted,” said Coun Cottee. “These controlled conditions mean that the serviceable life of repairs can be extended.”
Use of this equipment across Nottinghamshire will be prioritised and depend on factors such as the type of road and nature of the repair needed, with existing methods of repair continuing across the network.
Coun Cottee added: “The vehicles should be out and about on our roads during the coming autumn. And the other advantage is that workers will be freed up to do other essential work on our roads.”
Residents and local businesses say a new CCTV installed to help reduce incidents at a crime hotspot in Arnold is having a positive impact.
Campaigners had been calling on Gedling Borough Council to put improved security measures in place after a series of stabbings and a spate of anti-social behaviour around Smithy Crescent and Front Street in the town.
A rally called ‘Enough is Enough’ was also held by residents to raise awareness about the rise in crime in the area.
Councillors quickly responded by placing CCTV on the footpath linking Front Street with Smithy Crescent back in November last year.
Now residents and businesses are saying the camera is already having a positive impact, with the troubled area beginning to feel a lot safer.
Iris Hallam volunteers at a charity shop on Front Street and was one of the people praising the council’s efforts.
She told Gedling Eye: “I have seen a big decline in trouble in Smithy Crescent since the camera was put in.
“People had been afraid to use the steps and had been avoiding the area by walking into town via Ravenswood Road instead.
“Pensioners often told me that that youngsters would often threaten to kick their walking sticks from under them when they used the steps.
“But I have been speaking to people recently who live in homes close to the area and they all say they are happy with the results since the CCTV was installed.
“People have said they are now using the steps again in Smithy Crescent instead of walking around Ravenswood Road to get into Arnold.
“I’m sure it hasn’t removed all the crime, but generally people around here are happy.”
Iris added: “Thanks should go to Gedling Bourough Council for acting by putting CCTV in place.
The council said they were also pleased with the results since the camera was installed.
Gedling Borough Council leader, Cllr John Clarke told Gedling Eye: “We’re very pleased with the results of the CCTV installation on Smithy Crescent.
“It was done in response to concerns from local residents but was also part of a wider approach by Gedling Borough Council to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour.
“We now have the Police hub at Jubilee House, our wardens have extra powers to reduce anti-social behaviour and we have just announced plans in our budget to increase the wardens on our streets.”
Gedling Borough Council has today announced plans to freeze council tax and also invest in tackling knife crime, anti-social behaviour, fly tipping, dog fouling and street cleanliness across the area.
Leader of the council, Cllr. John Clarke and his Cabinet will recommend the plans – which include the council tax freeze- at a Full Council meeting on March 4.
If the plans are given the go ahead, then a typical household in the borough will continue to pay council tax of £2.42 per week.
The council today also revealed the budget includes plans for investment in frontline services, including the introduction of a new Rapid Response Cleaning Team to further strengthen efforts to deal with litter, dog fouling and fly tipping as well as plans to employ an additional Neighbourhood Warden to help tackle knife crime and anti-social behaviour in the borough.
A £20,000 investment in knife crime prevention work with younger people will also be provided to assist the borough’s local policing team.
A new Empty Homes Officer post will be created to support the work done by the existing officer who, in the last year, has brought over 80 empty properties back into use, reducing the number of ‘eye-sore’ properties in the borough and creating much needed available homes for people to live in.
A new Town Centre and Markets Manager post will be created to help lead and coordinate work on Arnold Market and Carlton Square regeneration and investment projects in the town centres. 50 new bins will also be installed across the borough’s towns and villages to help reduce street littering.
Improvements are also planned at Redhill Leisure Centre with a £70,000 investment in new gym equipment. Free two hour car parking at all council owned car parks will also continue and there will be a substantial car park extension provided at the popular Gedling Country Park.
A £10,000 budget will be set aside to help the council continue to be a plastic clever council. The money will be invested in new public water fountains to go alongside the recently installed ones at Gedling Country Park and Arnot Hill Park.
The 2019/20 budget will contain plans to deliver £2.6m of efficiency savings over the next four years. These savings are expected to come from improved use of digital technology for services, management review and a reduction in corporate costs.
In terms of Government defined ‘spending power’ Gedling Borough Council is now the 2nd worst affected Council in the country. Gedling Borough Council has received a 66% cut in its core funding as a result of cuts from central Government since 2010.
The budget proposals come after the announcement that 91% of the 9,364 Gedling residents who took part in the ‘super council’ survey said they wanted Gedling Borough Council to continue to provide services and did not want it to be abolished.
Cllr John Clarke, Leader of Gedling Borough Council said: “This budget will help residents by freezing the amount of council tax they pay to Gedling Borough Council as well as improving the services that matter most to them.
“This ambitious budget will see investment to reduce crime, anti-social behaviour and dog fouling, bring forward the plans to revitalise our town centres and step up efforts prevent knife crime.
“We are proud to be investing in our borough and freezing council tax despite being the 2nd worst affected council in the country by government cuts.”
He added: “We will continue to serve people, improve lives and make Gedling a great place to live.”
The Gedling Business Partnership will this month play host to an international coach looking to help small businesses in the area manage mental health issues.
Neil Jones will be giving a presentation on Mental Health for Small Businesses at The Gedling Business Partnership meet on February 14 between 07:30 and 09:30 at the Bonington Theatre,
The presentation will be one of many covering the subject of ‘Your Physical and Mental Health’ – which is the theme of this month’s networking event.
Entry to the event is free.
Neil has been coaching people for the last 30 years, lived and worked for many years in Switzerland where his client based included companies like Rothschilds Bank and Autodesk as well as private individuals.
He is now based in the UK, still with an international clientele ranging as far away as Morocco.
He is currently aiding businesses and individuals with mental health issues. He is, in particular supporting Senior Management to avoid the business continuity issues which can arise from mental health problems and helping extend that support to whole businesses.
You can find more details here: http://gedlingbusinesspartnership.org.uk/events/venue/bonington-theatre-24778107/
The organiser of a festival which had to be shut down early after a ‘life-threatening’ crush has been refused a license to run a new festival in Colwick.
Detonate Halloween Festival had to be called off three hours early in 2016 after an “angry and frustrated” crowd surged forward into an overcrowded tent, and caused a “threat to life”.
The pressure caused by the crush caused metal barriers to twist and buckle, and a guide rope to the tent to snap, according to police reports.
Nottinghamshire Police officers said fire exits at some of the tents were blocked, and not in the locations they were meant to be in, while locked gates were in place just feet from the exits.
Senior police officers also said there was ‘flawed decision making’ by organisers in the run up to the crush, and that they could see people caught up were ‘unable to breath’.
The force said the events at the 2016 festival showed he should not be granted a licence to run an Escape to Wonderland festival in Colwick later this year.
But organiser Ian Willis said he should not be judged by the events of one night, after hosting many successful festivals.
He said he had brought in external companies to run aspects of the festival, and that one person could not be responsible for all decisions made.
In a meeting today (Feb 5), Mr Willis was applying for a new licence to run a smaller, one-day event, with capacity for 4,999 people.
However this application was denied by Nottingham City Council, because the authority did not have confidence it would be planned and run safely and in accordance with its rules.
The hearing heard a queue of at least an hour had formed outside one of the tents on the night in 2016.
The tent became very crowded, and people began to spill out of the sides of the tent.
The ‘angry and frustrated’ crowd then surged forward in an attempt to get into the tent, and a decision was made to close the tent, before minutes later the festival was abandoned altogether due to the safety concerns.
Sergeant Richard Shaw, one of the senior police officers on the night of the crush, said to Mr Willis: “What happened that night, it wasn’t because the crowd were bad, or because they sought disorder, it’s because things were put in place which increased the level of disorder, the likes of which I have never seen before in my career.
“There was incompetence and a lack of responsibility from individuals to run that event. Individuals were out of their depth in making decisions.
“Your decision making, and the speed at which you made those decisions was flawed. You fell far below the standard I would expect and would want to see of a person holding that kind of event.”
But Mr Willis said: “This event is a much smaller event. It’s not in the same situations or the same surroundings as the Halloween one, where we know there was a lot of infrastructure problems with that event, and we have learned from that.
“You can make what you will of the police assumption that I’m not fit to do this job, but I have been doing this job for 26 years, and you can only throw one day, one night at me, out of hundreds and hundreds.”
PC Lloyd Major was involved in helping organisers plan the festival before the event.
He said fire exits in the tents were not where they had been planned to be. Some of these had then been partly blocked by shipping cases designed to carry musicians’ equipment.
To help deal with the growing crowds, security barriers had then been placed around the tent. However these had been locked together near fire exits, meaning they could not be easily opened if a quick evacuation was needed.
The PC said: “Do you expect a crowd, which has become intoxicated through alcohol and possibly drugs to then, in the middle of a crisis, begin moving cases and then moving fences that have been locked?
“The emergency exits had been fundamentally moved. They were half way down the tent from where they should have been.”
The police officer went on to say he had been involved in policing several Nottingham Forest vs Derby county matches in his career, but had never had the same fear for life as he had that night.
Police officers will be holding a beat surgery in Colwick next month.
The surgery is being organised by the Carlton Neighbourhood police team and will give people living in the village a chance to voice their concerns to local beat officers.
A number of burglaries and garage break-ins have taken place in the area over the past few weeks.
The surgery is being held on Friday, March 8 between 2-3pm at Colwick Community Centre on Vale Road.
A spokesperson for Nottinghamshire Police said: “This is an excellent opportunity for members of the public to come and express their views and concerns with your local beat team face to face.
Police have launched an investigation after four people were injured following a collision between two cars in Calverton.
The collision happened at around 11.30pm yesterday (February 4) in Gravelley Hollow.
The four people travelling in the vehicles were treated at the Queen’s Medical Centre.
A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said: “The four people travelling in the vehicles were treated at the Queen’s Medical Centre. One of them has suffered a potentially life-altering injury and remains in hospital.
“If anyone saw anything or has dashcam footage and was in the area around the time it happened, please call us on 101 quoting incident 963 of 4 February.”
Drivers are being warned to expect traffic and travel delays due to roadworks across Gedling Borough during the week.
This list contains only the roadworks considered to be most likely to cause delays on key routes as well as those involving road closures and temporary traffic lights. It is not exhaustive and does not feature some minor or emergency repairs that come up after publication. Other roadworks may finish or start before schedule or be cancelled altogether.
All information from Highways England, local authorities and utility companies.
B686 Burton Road
February 8— 12
Delays likely due to traffic control (two-way signals)
Works description: Boundary box Renew 25mm Job in Footway (6mm Bitmac (Tarmac)
B686 Carlton Hill
February 13— 15
Delays likely due to traffic control (Stop/Go boards)
Works description: Short Comm pipe Cut Off 25mm Job in Carriageway (Hot Rolled Asphalt-30/14 )
B684 Woodborough Road,
February 9 — 10 February
Delays likely due to traffic control (multi-way signals)
Works location: Outside 674-678
Works description: Excavate footway to repair damaged duct
Westdale Lane West
February 13
Delays likely due to traffic control (two-way signals)
Works location: o/s 342
Works description: Replace damaged post and bollards (b11)
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