A ‘village pump’ for Tollerton

This article in the Guardian newspaper details a scientific study which has found 42 PFAS compounds in the umbilical cords of newborns. We know the southern end of Tollerton Airfield was a regular location for fire training. We also know the fire fighting chemicals were loaded with PFAS contaminants. The water run-off from the airfield…

It seems the representative for the parish of Tollerton at Rushcliffe Borough Council (councillor Debbie Mason) has gone missing. We (the residents of Tollerton she is supposed to represent) have heard nothing from her on either of the two proposed housing developments. The people who live in Gamston get a nice shiny newsletter which, if…

Rushcliffe Borough Council councillor Jonathan Wheeler (Con) has emailed a Rushcliffe resident to say the supplementary planning document (SPD) – which he and other councillors has called ‘a masterplan’ “… does not have to include highways”. Well that’s not a plan (let alone a masterplan), is it? It’s as much of a masterplan as an…

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…