The Environment Agency has launched new a Flood Warning Service that they say will help warn hundreds of home owners of the risk of flooding in Daybrook and Woodthorpe.
The Agency’s Flood Warnings inform the public about an imminent risk of flooding to their home or business and help people make informed decisions about how to respond.
There are three types of message – Flood Alert, Flood Warning and Severe Flood Warning. Each type can be triggered by particular weather or river conditions which cause flooding.
New flood warnings are being introduced at Upper Day Brook at Daybrook and Woodthorpe covering hundreds of properties.
The Environment Agency say: “Residents are encouraged to prepare if they receive a Flood Alert which could mean packing a bag that includes medicines, insurance documents and anything else they wouldn’t want to lose if flooding were to take place.
“A Flood Warning calls on people to act now which means turning off gas, water and electricity and moving family and pets to safety. A Severe Flood Warning means you are in immediate danger and to follow advice from emergency services.”
Paul Lockhart, Flood and Coastal Risk Manager for the East Midlands said: “We want to ensure that everyone has as much time as possible to prepare for flooding which is why we’re pleased that there are more communities across the East Midlands which will now be able to receive our free flood warning service.”
Additional funding from the Government has enabled the Environment Agency to invest in the latest technology and infrastructure needed to provide a flood warning service in more than 200 communities across England. In total, an additional 62,000 properties at risk of flooding will receive Flood Warnings between now and the end of 2023. The Environment Agency will be holding drop-ins events, to allow residents to discuss flood risk, sign up for flood warnings and increase their resilience to flooding.
A Community drop in will take place at St Paul’s Church, Daybrook, NG5 6BH, on 20 March 2023, from 15:30-18:00.
The deputy leader of Gedling Borough Council has called on the Government for “fairer funding” after a pay rise for frontline staff was granted following a strike threat.
GMB union members at the Labour-run council announced an agreement had been made for a “significant pay boost” for some staff.
Staff across Environmental Services, including HGV waste drivers, tree surgeons, street cleaning teams and grave diggers will now receive a pay boost after a campaign pushed workers up council pay scales.
GMB says it comes on top of agreements made in 2022 to scrap “poverty pay bands”, which include the pay scales at the bottom end of the council’s payment structures.
A local one-off cost of living payment for all contracted staff has also been delivered.
Before the agreement was reached the council’s lowest pay band had a salary of £18,333. The new rates have not yet been made public following the agreement.
Paul Genders, GMB representative at Gedling Borough Council, said: “It was a disgrace that council workers were struggling to keep their heads above water and pay the bills; I’m really pleased our campaign and strike ballot has been able to deliver this win for them.
“Our members do essential work in the borough, keeping communities safe and clean for local people. Luckily, we’ve been able to avoid strike action this time as it would no doubt have led to significant disruption across our area.”
Gedling Borough Council is the fifth-worst nationally in terms of core spending power, having seen an eight per cent cut since 2015/16, falling from £12.7m to £11.6m this year.
The figures were published with the 2023/24 Local Government Settlement in December last year.
The settlement amount determines how much money councils have available to pay for key services like housing, waste collection and park maintenance.
Deputy Leader of Gedling Borough Council, Councillor Michael Payne, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “Our staff worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic and are continuing to work hard to support families struggling during this cost of living crisis.
“The cost of living crisis is hitting our staff too and it’s right we do everything we can to support them financially in these tough times.
“We’re proud to have worked with our colleagues in the trade unions to boost pay for our lowest paid frontline staff.
“Our frontline staff have also taken on more responsibilities and have adapted how they work as we deal with cut upon cut in our funding from central government.
“This review also brings their pay in line with neighbouring councils which will also help us retain our excellent staff.
“We will always support our hard working staff to ensure they are paid fairly but there is no escaping the fact we are the fifth-worst affected council in the country in terms of cuts to our funding by central government.
“This cannot continue and we are demanding a fairer funding model that allows us to provide quality frontline services for our residents and pay our staff a fair wage for the valuable work they do.”
Arnold could be getting a new bistro if transformation plans for a former cafe are approved by Gedling Borough Council.
Plans have been submitted by Basar Suleyman to create a new cafe and bar in the town by converting an existing two-storey cafe at 84 Front Street into a bar and bistro.
Sully’s Bistro could occupy premises previously used by Revival Coffee Co, which formally closed its doors back in November 2022.
The newly-submitted plans include seating for 39 customers on the ground floor with access to the first floor at the back of the ground floor. The ground floor will accommodate a bar with further seating alongside the bar counter.
Pictured: Location of new bistro, highlighted in red (Courtesy of Gedling Borough Council Planning)
Proposals for the first floor indicate housing of the men’s and women’s WCs as well as seating for a further 26 customers.
Kate and Team Revival at Revival Coffee Co. announced on Facebook back in November that they were closing due to ‘rising costs’.
At the time they posted: ” We’ve tried really hard to fight the rising costs, bills and cost of living crisis but as a small independent we have no choice but to close our doors.”
Pictured: The former coffee shop – Revival Coffee Co (Photo courtesy of Facebook)
Details of planning application 2023/0147 can be accessed here
These are the roadworks and closures you need to know about…
Chestnut Grove, Burton Joyce
06 March – 08 March
Road closure for large scale bespoke c/w patching repairs at junction area with Church Road to out side the Nelson pub.
Responsibility for works: Nottinghamshire County Council
Mansfield Road, Redhill
06 March – 31 March
Roadworks at A60 Mansfield Road from Junction of Burnstump Hill to Leapool Island
Responsibility for works: Nottinghamshire County Council
Mansfield Road, Papplewick
06 March – 31 March
Roadworks
Responsibility for works: Nottinghamshire County Council
Trent Valley Road
06 March – 10 March
Road closure to install new Box Junction and refresh road markings with closure area at A612/A6211 Junction, Trent Valley Road/Colwick Loop Road, Netherfield.
Responsibility for works: Nottinghamshire County Council
Wensley Road, Woodthorpe
28 February – 09 March
Road closure for large scale bespoke c/w patching repairs – (Preventative Maintenance)
Responsibility for works: Nottinghamshire County Council
Works Installation of New Access for New School Entrance for Carlton Le Willows School including Zebra Crossing, Associated Lining/Signing/Street Lighting Works and High Friction Surfacing in advance of the Zebra Crossing
Responsibility for works: Nottinghamshire County Council
Petrol prices remain high across the country, as households across Gedling borough continue to be squeezed by the cost of living crisis.
Gedling Eye has compiled a list of the cheapest petrol pumps in Gedling borough. The data is sourced from PetrolPrices.com, which covers major service stations including brands like BP, Shell, and Texaco as well as supermarkets, smaller chains and independent stations.
The website combines price data from Catalist with its own crowdsource data, which comes from website users and forecourt owners. The site says it hopes to have “the most up to date and reliable price data across the industry”.
Here are the latest prices from across the borough…
One in seven people now depend on their local Post Office branch for cash and banking services as per a YouGov survey conducted in 2021 on behalf of Post Office.
In fact, nearly three in 10 small and medium businesses use a Post Office once a week to deposit cash and use mail services.
Gedling Eye caught up with Ketan Barchha, Postmaster of Netherfield Post Office to talk about the survey’s findings.
He said “I’ve been in Netherfield over 11 years and have seen our local banks disappear.
“We are delighted to be able to help so many people, especially the vulnerable members of our communities and we have great customers who come from not just from the Netherfield area but from Carlton, Gedling, Burton Joyce and even further afield”
In a Post Office statement, Nick Read, CEO of Post Office said: “Simply put, post offices, and the dedicated Postmasters and Postmistresses who run them, keep people connected. Connected to the financial system and their cash, to their friends and loved ones, to their customers at home or overseas, and connected to one another in what may, for some, be the only human contact in the day. It is very telling that half of customers believe Post Office fosters a sense of belonging in the community. Post Offices should not be overlooked nor taken for granted.”
The Post Office’s extensive reach means it helps support 4,028 FTE jobs in the East Midlands and sustains nearly 50,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs throughout the United Kingdom.
With high street banks closing daily, post offices are providing vital services to our communities. This includes providing services to those earning less than £20,000 (23%) and those individuals aged 55 and above (20%), where access to cash is more important to these groups.
But it’s not only the important services that our Post Offices provide ,the Post Office also generates an economic impact of £122million, the equivalent of £46 per person across the Midlands.
Post Offices create an additional £223million in local spending in nearby shops and businesses across the East Midlands, and an additional £3.1bn across the UK keeping many high street businesses afloat.
We love the big screen and with big blockbuster film releases, original plots, and new and familiar characters, there has never been a better time to get lost in a great story on the silver screen.
The Bonington in Arnold has some great films lined up over March for those planning a cinema trip.
Based on the best-selling book and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Women Talking is the powerful story of the women of an isolated religious community and their attempt to reconcile a brutal reality with their faith.
Stay and fight, or leave. They will not do nothing.
The film is available to watch from Tue 28 February – Thu 9 March
Event Cinema : Brian & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolia (U)
Brian Eno and Roger Eno have been recording together since 1983. This unique musical event not only sees the two brothers performing live together for the first time but it’s one of the very rare occasions that Brian Eno has ever performed live in front of an audience.
In front of a sell-out crowd and against a backdrop of spectacular images being projected onto the stones of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus amphitheatre, Brian and Roger perform atmospheric musical landscapes from legendary productions that include ambient records, television soundtracks and film scores.
The film is available to watch from Thu 2 March at 7.30pm
Oscar Catch-up Screenings: All Quiet on the Western Front (15)
All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best International Feature
The film is screening Fri 3 & Tue 7 March
Event Cinema: Extra Screening: National Theatre Live- The Crucible (12A)
Credit: Johan Persson
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma).
Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial.
Lyndsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin (The Lehman Trilogy). Captured live from the Olivier stage at the National Theatre.
The Crucible by Arthur Miler, directed by Lyndsey Turner
The film is screening Sat 4 March at 1.30pm
Oscar Catch-up Screenings: Avatar- The Way of Water (12A)
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive and the tragedies they endure.
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture
Screening on Sat 4 March at 6pm
Event Cinema: Exhibition on Screen: Mary Cassatt- Painting the Modern Woman (12A)
Exhibition on Screen, the award-winning pioneer bringing art films to cinemas around the world for over a decade, is proud to announce the release of Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman in cinemas nationwide on International Women’s Day, Wednesday 8th March 2023.
Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, curious and engaging. This was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.
Directed by Ali Ray (Frida Kahlo) and featuring the world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars (all women), this new feature film Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman reveals how this classically trained American artist came to join a group of Parisian radicals – the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the history of art.
The film is screening Wed 8 March at 7.30pm & Sun 12 March at 4.30pm
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (18)
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
Nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Documentary
The film is available to watch on Fri 10 March at 1.30pm & Tue 14 March at 4.30pm
Blue Jean (15)
In Thatcher’s Britain, Jean, a PE Teacher, is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job and her integrity.
This screening is available to watch Fri 10 – Thu 16 March
Free Screening: We R Here present Love?
As part of the celebration of International Women’s Day Love? shows us a glimpse into the world of survivors of this hidden form of abuse by using the voices of many millions of women to portray the voice of “Woman”. The film articulates the silent voices of Domestic Abuse, describing not just the dark world they inhabit, but the shafts of light that bring a sense of hope.
A powerful film like no other, this WILL save lives.
Produced, written and starring Samantha Beckinsale, directed by Jason Figgis of Figgis West Productions, and co – produced with October Eleven Pictures and Simon W. Golding.
The film is available to watch Fri 10 March from 7pm
Event Cinema: Encore Screening: National Theatre Live- Othello (12)
An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist) and Paul Hilton (The Inheritance).
She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. He’s refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds love across racial lines has a cost.
Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide.
Othello is filmed live on the Lyttleton stage of the National Theatre.
Othello by William Shakespeare directed by Clint Dyer
The film is available to watch Sun 12 March at 7pm
Catch-up Screenings: A Man Called Otto (15)
Otto (Tom Hanks) is a grumpy isolated widower with staunch principles, strict routines and a short fuse, who gives everyone in his neighbourhood a hard time as he watches over it like a hawk. Just as it seems like he’s finally given up on life, an unlikely and reluctant friendship develops with his new neighbours. Little by little, Otto undergoes a subtle transformation…but is he really capable of change?
The film is available to watch Mon 13 – Thu 16 March
Event Cinema: Anything Goes – The Musical (PG)
Don’t miss Anything Goes, ‘the show of the year’ (★★★★★ The Telegraph) and a ‘fizzing tonic for our times’ (★★★★★ The Guardian) when it sails back into cinemas.
Filmed live during its sold-out 2021 run at the Barbican in London, this major 5-star production of the classic musical comedy features an all-star cast led by renowned Broadway royalty Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney, alongside Robert Lindsay (My Family), Felicity Kendal (The Good Life) and Gary Wilmot (Chicago).
A heart-warming romance with spectacular dance routines and some of theatre’s most memorable songs, Anything Goes is ‘a joyously shipshape revival’ (★★★★★ The Observer).
The film is available to watch Wed 15 March at 7pm
The Whale (15)
From acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky comes The Whale, the story of a reclusive English teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Actor (Fraser)
The film is available to watch Mon 20 – Thu 23 March
Event Cinema: The Royal Opera House Live- Turandot(12A)
In the court of Princess Turandot, suitors who fail to solve her riddles are brutally killed. But when a mysterious Prince answers one correctly, suddenly he holds all the power –and a glorious secret. When life hangs in the balance, can love conquer all? Puccini’s score is rich in musical marvels (featuring the famous aria ‘Nessun dorma’), while Andrei Serban’s production draws on Chinese theatrical traditions to evoke a colourful fantasy tableau of ancient Peking. Antonio Pappano conducts Anna Pirozzi in the title role and Yonghoon Lee as Calaf.
OPERA Company – The Royal Opera Music – Giacomo Puccini
The film is available to watch Wed 22 March at 7.15pm
Cinema prices at The Bonington are very competitive, with tickets at £6.50, and concessions at £5.50. Concessions are open to those Under 18, Students with valid student ID, and over 60s. Tickets for 16-25 Year Old’s are £4 via a free membership here- Young Person’s Membership – The Bonington (boningtontheatre.co.uk)
This Sunday (26) sees an amazing fundraising event taking place at Ramsdale Golf Centre in Calverton
Club members, staff, and members of the public will be taking on the challenge of a Firewalk (walking over hot stones) to raise money for Maggie’s Cancer Care Charity – the club’s chosen charity.
A great amount of money has been raised so far, and the club are hoping to surpass the £2,000 mark in this latest charitable endeavour.
Pictured: Ramsdale Golf Club (Courtesy of Ramsdale Golf Club)
Ramsdale Golf Club raised almost £20,000 in total for local charities in 2022.
Carlton Hill welcomed a new pie shop in style today (25) as it opened its doors for the first time.
Around 20 people were waiting outside eagerly awaiting the chance to sample the large selection of pies on offer at Project Pies.
The store has been opened by Danny Lione, and there’s definitely something for everyone. We recommend trying the katsu curry scotch egg, bought on our first visit.
The queue outside Project Pies this morning on Carlton Hill (PHOTO: Gedling Eye)
Project Pies have specials every month and the first month’s specials are Goose Fair Pie, Cheeseburger Pie and Chicken & Stuffing Pie.
The store replaced the well-loved Big Mike’s Fat Kitchen Cheesecake Shop that closed at the end of December, however, the two business owners are not strangers by any means.
Mike Jones, the previous store’s owner revealed on his Facebook page that he couldn’t be happier that his friend is taking over the premises.
He posted: “We want to wish Dan all the luck in the world! It is very hard for small businesses at the moment so please give Dan all your support as you did us.”
Project Pie owner Danny, who used to work as a butcher, first set up the business during lockdown in 2020.
He said: “During the lockdown, I decided to put all my skills into producing proper high-quality comfort food during the pandemic. Utilising only locally butchered and free-range meat I started creating pork pies and scotch eggs and sold around the NG4 area and quickly found I couldn’t make enough!”
Pictured: The XL Sausage Roll Box (Courtesy of Facebook)
Danny prides himself on innovation and providing a wide range of pies, from traditional steak pies to his latest creation – the cheeseburger pie!
Danny’s pies generally come in two sizes – smaller individual pies and larger family size pies that can feed 3/4 people.
Full details can be found on Project Pie’s facebook page HERE
135 new homes could be built on land in Linby, Nottinghamshire following a planning application or detail having been submitted to Gedling Borough Council that are receiving consideration.
A planning statement document prepared by Fisher German on behalf of Barwood Homes indicates that the 135 dwellings are proposed to be built on land off Hayden lane with vehicular and pedestrian access to the new homes taken from Dorothy Avenue and Delia Avenue which join Hayden Lane.
Pictured: Proposed development site off Hayden Lane (Courtesy of Google)
To inform the local community about the new development proposals, consultation leaflets and freepost return forms were distributed on 30th December 2021 by the developers wherein residents were asked to submit their feedback via an enclosed freepost form or a given email address by 17th January 2022.
The 135 dwellings will consist of a mixture of dwelling types and sizes including up to 30% affordable housing on site (40 units in total). The affordable housing units are distributed evenly throughout the site, as well as being visually indistinguishable from the equivalent open market dwellings. The remaining 95 units comprise a mix of 2-storey family housing and smaller starter homes and has been informed by the market and local needs.
Pictured: Proposed site Plan (Courtesy of Barwood Homes)
