This is a stroke of luck if you’re about to repaint part of your home.
Tins of paint are being given away free of charge from Calverton Recycling Centre as part of the Community RePaint scheme.
Those working on the scheme collect reusable, leftover paint and re-distribute it to individuals, families, communities and charities in need, to help improve the wellbeing of people and the appearance of places across the UK.
Tins of paint suitable for reuse are labelled, displayed in the Community RePaint Nottinghamshire container ready to collect.
PICTURED: The council’s recycling facility in Calverton
Residents across Gedling borough can make an appointment to visit the recycing centre on Hollinwood Lane and then take the donated paint away free of charge.
A spokesman for the Community RePaint scheme said: “We are not be able to guarantee the colours and types we have in the onsite containers as the paint has come from public donations, but we can offer a range of emulsion, eggshell, gloss, masonry and fence paint to choose from.”
Organisers ask that if you are unable to attend your appointment then you let them know asap by emailing: nottsenquiries@veolia.co.uk
Those attending the sessions are asked to bring a protective sheet or box for your vehicle to carry the paint home in.
Covered flat shoes must be worn on all Nottinghamshire Recycling Centres and children need to stay in the vehicle.
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Home owners across Gedling borough will now be able to extend their properties without the need for a full planning application under rules which have now been made permanent.
Under the rules, property owners can now put a single-storey rear extension on their property of up to six metres for terraced or semi-detached homes – or eight metres for detached homes.
The rules will now make it easier for some people to improve their existing home rather than move.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government also revealed restrictive planning rules have also been axed, to help business owners react more quickly to changing trends on the high street.
Shops will now be able to change to office space without the need for a full planning application.
Changes also allow the temporary change of use from high street uses such shops, offices and betting shops to certain community uses such as a library or public hall.
Housing Minister Kit Malthouse said: “These measures will help families extend their properties without battling through time-consuming red tape.
“By making this permitted development right permanent, it will mean families can grow without being forced to move.”
High Streets Minister Jake Berry MP said: This fantastic news joins our £675 million Future High Streets Fund and our High Streets Task Force in ensuring our country’s high streets are fit to thrive not just now, but in the years to come.
“Giving greater certainty to property owners and the wider industry, it will also help businesses adjust to the changing needs of the consumer.
Colwick-based haulage company, Fusion Supply Chain Solutions, has unveiled ambitious plans to expand its operations, despite Brexit uncertainty.
Originally set up by the The Wilkins Group, a leading Colwick-based manufacturer of packaging, to increase the efficiency of its distribution network, Fusion has grown enormously since its foundation in 2011.
Having become a UK linchpin in the Palletways freight network, it currently employs 42 people at its 78,000 square foot plant in Colwick, generating an annual turnover of £1.25 million a year.
But with 22 years of experience in military logistics for the RAF and more than eight years at companies like Dunlop Aircraft Tyres, Fusion’s Commercial Logistics Manager, Craig Cox, is not a man to become complacent.
On the contrary, despite the uncertainty arising from the UK’s BREXIT negotiations, he is planning big things for the next two years: “Around 95% of our business is carried out within the UK and, while a no-deal BREXIT might bring extra costs or time delays to our Continental operations, our plans for the future won’t change.”
When pushed on the specifics of those plans, Craig is only too happy to explain: “We have 15 trucks on our licence but we’ll be looking to add another five this year. We’ll also be expanding the scope of our haulage work, with the intention of doubling our turnover within the next two years.
“And in addition to expanding our operations with the opening of a second premises in the Coalville area of Leicestershire, we’re also looking at setting up a driving agency – partly as a feeder for own company, but also to enable local companies to take advantage of the expertise we’ve built up over the last eight years.”
For more information about Fusion Supply Chain Solutions, visit www.fusion-scs.co.uk.
Police are appealing for information after burglars targeted the homes of two pensioners in Gedling and Carlton on the same day.
Thieves got away with items from an address in Gedling, but were disturbed and fled the property in Carlton before they could steal anything.
In the first incident, two white men knocked on the front door of an 88-year-old woman’s home, off Burton Road, Gedling, between 6pm and 7pm on Wednesday, May 22.
The men asked her a couple of questions before leaving. They then returned and entered the property through the back door, while the woman was inside, before stealing items from within.
Between the same times as stated two men tried to enter through the front door of an 80-year-old woman’s home in South View Road, Carlton.
PICTURED: South View Road in Carlton
The pensioner then saw the two men in her back garden who ran towards her car port before leaving her property.
A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said: “We’re currently treating both incidents as linked and officers are working hard to trace the suspects.
“One of the men is about 5ft 10ins tall, of medium build and aged in his mid 20s. He had a scruffy appearance and was wearing a black jumper and black bottoms, a baseball cap which was pulled down over his face. He spoke with a local accent.
“The other man is about 5ft 11ins tall, of medium build and aged in his mid 20s. He had a scruffy appearance and was wearing a black hooded top, dark bottoms and a dark baseball cap.
They added: “We’re urging any witnesses or anyone who has any information about these incidents or the men involved to get in contact with us as soon as possible.”
People who have information can call 101 and quoting incident number 781 of 22 May 2019. Alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Nottinghamshire Police are also reminding residents to be on their guard if someone they’re not expecting knocks on their door and to make sure their doors and windows are kept locked at all times.
“Don’t open your door unless you know who it is – use a door spy hole or door chain,” said the spokesman.
“Our advice is always to report any suspicious activity to police immediately on 101 or, in an emergency, call 999.”
Watchdog inspectors have said Nottinghamshire Healthcare, the borough’s mental health, disability and community health service provider is offering services that ‘require improvement’.
The Trust did but retained good ratings for effectiveness and the caring attitude of its staff, in a report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
This announcement comes following an intensive five day inspection of the Trust’s services earlier this year when inspectors from the CQC came to the Trust’s sites in and around Nottinghamshire to check whether the Trust provided services that were caring, responsive, safe, effective and well led.
Dr John Brewin, chief executive of Nottinghamshire Healthcare, said he was ‘disappointed’ by the report’s findings.
He said: “The CQC report has been published today and I am disappointed, but not surprised that the Trust has been rated as Requires Improvement.
“We accept the overall verdict of the inspection team; that we need to improve in every domain. The only domains where we have maintained our Good rating is in caring and effectiveness, which is reassuring but we all need to do more. This is never a great position to be in but I think we need to learn from this feedback and focus our attention on where we can add most value and not only improve patient care but also the employment experience of our staff.
“We say we want Nottinghamshire Healthcare to be a great place to work, but that is not the experience of many of our staff and we need to change that.
He added: “We will learn from the recommendations made by the CQC and value the focus they have given to some areas of outstanding good practice in our services. I am convinced that we should be confident about the future.
“There are great staff and services in the Trust – we need to work to harness that passion and commitment to make sure that we turn things around for the sake of our patients, service users and carers.”
Dog owners in Gedling borough could be putting themselves at risk of serious hand injuries by controlling their pets incorrectly on walks, surgeons are warning.
The BSSH today said fractures, dislocations, lacerations and friction burns are among the injuries seen by doctors treating unfortunate dog owners.
As well as being painful and traumatic, some injuries can be seriously debilitating and take up to a year to properly recover from, surgeons say.
The BSSH has issued advice on how to hold leads and collars in a way that minimises the risk of injury.
They recommend that dog owners should not wrap the lead around their wrists, hands or fingers, or hook their fingers under the dog’s collar.
The surgeons also advise keeping larger dogs on short leads to prevent them building up speed.
Consultant surgeon Rebecca Dunlop, from Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, told the Daily Mail: “Dogs have a wide range of health benefits for their owners, including reducing stress and helping people stay active.
“But having seen many serious injuries caused by dog leads and collars, I want dog lovers to be aware of the simple steps they can take to avoid severe damage to their hand.
“We want to ensure that dog owners are able to carry on enjoying time with their dogs without risking damage to their hand and time in hospital.”
Ms Dunlop said a particularly common injury caused by dog collars and leads is “spiral fractures” of the finger bones, which often need an operation to fix.
Long-term hand damage can be caused when people dislocate their fingers by hooking them under their dog’s collar before the dog lurches or makes a sudden movement.
The borough will still be short of secondary school places in 2023, says local parent Ben Hemstock…
A quick introduction from myself first of all, my name is Ben Hemstock. I’m married, 30 years of age and most importantly for this article, a parent of 2 girls. My youngest daughter is 4 ½ and my eldest is coming up to 7.
You may have heard me talking on BBC Radio Nottingham recently about a public meeting my wife and I organised about the lack of secondary school places in the Gedling area. This piece will not be a short one so I hope you’re sitting comfortably.
The debate on the evening was passionate and productive, although this was no thanks to Nottinghamshire County Council as they refused to attend. Personally, I think the Councillors and Officers responsible for the situation were aware of the verbal kicking they were likely to take and didn’t want to face us in person. I did however receive a very curt letter informing me that my view about the lack of school places was “Simply Wrong”. So, my question to them is…Am I wrong or are your figures wrong? Because it’s quite simply impossible to be both!
Since then another statement this week has been released by Gedling Councillor Chris Barnfather, leader of the Conservatives in Gedling.
His statement talks about the fact that the 300 places at Carlton Academy should now “dispel the myth about the lack of School places in Gedling”. Well Councillor, speaking directly to you, I would invite you to view the response to my freedom of information request to NCC and then tell us that the issue is still “a myth”!
No doubt many reading this will already be aware of the issue. For those of you not aware of the problem, allow me to explain. Back in April I received a response to a freedom of information request about the predicted number of available secondary school places required vs the number of school places that would be available over the next 10 years. The data very clearly states that by 2023 we will be 662 secondary places short.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m well aware that we have an extra 300 places being created at Carlton Academy but even with my terrible brain for maths, I know that being minus 662 places and adding 300 does not equals 0!
Oh, and by the way the figures state that by 2027/28 we’ll be minus 743!
PICTURED: Carlton Academy
Let’s look at the Carlton Academy development: the County Council have pledged almost £3m to develop the site and add places for 300 pupils. I’m not sure what sort of buildings are planned and I’m no expert but I can’t imagine they’ll get much for £3m these days.
Right now, the school is a relatively small school which allows the teachers to actually get to know the kids, have decent size classes and restrict how much disruption is caused to local residents before and after School. I’m hearing time and time again from parents of kids already there that they chose it because of its size as it gives a more personal feel unlike some of the larger schools in the area which have over 1000 pupils. So, adding 300 is clearly going to do something to that. Not to mention the extra traffic and the resulting extra air pollution when we’re trying to get kids to walk to school.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m well aware that we have an extra 300 places being created at Carlton Academy but even with my terrible brain for maths, I know that being minus 662 places and adding 300 does not equals 0!
Some of the developments the extra secondary school places are designed to cater for are not exactly local. There have been stories coming out of kids in Gedling offered places in Bramcote. How is this reducing pollution or making it less daunting for a 11-year-old to get to a new school?
In the case of going to Bramcote, how many of those children’s friends will actually be joining them? None I imagine. So not only will they be going to a new school the other side of the city centre and beyond but they also will have no friends to go with on the journey of an hour or more to get back and forth
One other huge issue that came from this discussion is that currently, as you read this, there is a team of demolition workers knocking down the old Gedling School site on Wollaton Avenue in Gedling.
The closure of this site meant a loss of 900 places. The building themselves have been left to become almost derelict but had they been maintained instead of being left for so long, it’s possible they could have been used for educational purposes once again. NCC has completely ruled out using the site for educational use.
PICTURED: Vernon Coaker addresses parents concerned about the lack of secondary school places in the borough (PICTURE: Gedling Eye)
Now consider the location of the new Chase Farm Development in relation to the site. In a straight line it’s about half a mile if not less. Chase Farm and also the Willow farm areas are seeing significant housing developments. The Willow Farm area, parents will no doubt be expecting their children to go to Carlton Le Willows. The same can be said for the Teal Close development which will be around 850 new homes.
Gedling Borough Council have been set a target by Central Government of 7,250 new homes in the Borough by 2028. Of which we will see close to 2000 in the Gedling/Netherfield/Carlton area. Surely with this in mind it makes sense to rebuild on the site and create a new secondary school or at least work with existing schools to create another site ran by them.
The former Gedling School site on Wollaton Avenue site is currently owned by Nottinghamshire County Council. Our fear is that the site will be sold for maximum profit and is further developed for housing which then makes the school places issue even worse. This cannot be allowed to happen and as a local resident I am demanding that the council have a full public consultation to decide the future use of that piece of land.
In the process of putting the campaign together, more than one County Councillor has accused the Gedling Labour Council and also Vernon Coaker MP of using this as a political football and scaremongering for political gain around the time of local elections. The fact of the matter is, I put this FOI request in off my own back without prompting from anyone else. I have no affiliation to any political party and in all honesty, I don’t give a monkeys’ who is in charge as long as it’s being ran correctly and is not screwing people over.
With that in mind I would like to dispel any question of using this for political point scoring because it is not what this is about. It is an issue of much more importance than partisan politics. It’s about the Education of our kids and the future of our area and looking at the bigger picture, the future of our Country.
What could be more important than that?
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A warning is being issued to those of working age in Gedling borough about a new Universal Credit scam leaving people out of pocket.
The scam hitting the area sees residents being contacted by scammers who then claim to be able to offer them low-cost government loans.
Fraudsters are then using the victims personal details to apply for Universal Credit and then request a substantial payment — taking a cut for themselves.
The victim’s current benefits are then stopped as a result and replaced by Universal Credit.
They are then forced to pay back the phoney loan using future Universal Credit payments. The scammers then have access to their benefit and banking accounts.
Police have now issued a warning about the scam, which they say is prevalent in the north west, urging people not to give out their personal or financial information to anyone they don’t know.
A recent post shared by police on Twitter says: “Trading Standards have been made aware of a scam being operated across the UK.
It adds: “The scam is targeted at anyone of working age. Never give personal or financial information to anyone you do not know.”
If you are targeted by this scam then you are urged to report it to Action Fraud at www.actionfraud.police.uk or call 03001232040.
What is Universal Credit?
Universal credit is a new benefit for working-age people which replaces six benefits and merging them into one payment:
income support
income-based jobseeker’s allowance
income-related employment and support allowance
housing benefit
child tax credit
working tax credit
The Universal Credit system was designed to make claiming benefits simpler.
A single universal credit payment is paid directly into the claimants’ bank account to cover all of the benefits for which they are eligible.
Claimants then have to pay all of their costs such as rent out of the universal credit payment (though there is a provision for people who are in rent arrears or have difficulty managing their money to have their rent paid directly to their landlord).
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With close co-ordination with Nottinghamshire Police, the workers will aim to use intelligence to target young people they believe may be at risk of becoming involved in knife crime.
There will be four full-time youth workers working across Nottinghamshire, including Gedling.
31 three-hour staffed sessions at youth centres throughout the county.
The project is being run by Nottinghamshire County Council and aims to expand on the services already run by its youth service and youth clubs.
A report on the issue of knife crime said the workers will “target the most vulnerable and challenging young people with focused youth work programmes, which concentrate on their interests, which may include sports, music, and creative arts, taking them into a different environment and providing a bespoke learning experience”.
The leader of the council, Conservative councillor Kay Cutts, who represents Radcliffe-on-Trent, said the council had taken a “holistic look at knife crime, which I think all of us are appalled by almost every day of the week when something dreadful happens somewhere in the country”.
PICTURED: County Hall
The leader of the Ashfield Independents, Councillor Jason Zadrozny, added: “Obviously I welcome this. Knife crime is an abhorrent plague.
“I do think this is a bit of a sticking plaster. Over the last five or six years the council has taken an axe to youth services, and youth clubs are few and far between.
“So while I do welcome this, I think we need to think about what we can do to bolster the full youth service to see if we can engage more young people in a constructive way.”
Councillor John Peck, who represents Sherwood Forest for Labour, said: “It’s going to have to be much more long term that this. These things take a long time to filter through. It’s not something you can do for a couple of months and forget about, it has to keep going.”
Chris Barnfather, who represents Newstead for the Conservatives, said: “It’s important we do our utmost to maintain (current) youth services, and it’s important that we encourage to make more funding available in order to not only support the current provision, but also to try to increase that.”
Gedling Borough Council are reminding people across the borough are being reminded that garden waste bins will soon only be collected if displaying a pink sticker.
The stickers have been issued by the council and inform waste collection teams that the household has paid for their garden waste to be removed.
If the sticker is not displayed then the bin will not be emptied.
The popular garden waste service is run by Gedling Borough
Council and costs £36 per year (April 1 – March 31). Any additional buin wanted
is £18 per annum.
For this fee the council will collect your hedge trimmings, leaves, grass cuttings, plants and weeds
from your doorstep every two weeks.
