A ‘village pump’ for Tollerton

I’m new to this so excuse any mistakes I make. It’s ten to 6 on Saturday morning and I’ve been sitting outside with my first cup of tea of the day; watching a pair of hares boxing, watching a small family of deer grazing their way across the field, listening to the birds morning chorus…

In the area to visit friends and I see the notice by the side of the junction of Tollerton Lane and Cotgrave Lane. Tollerton Lane will be closed (between that junction and Medina Drive) for 2 months. Buckle up folks who use Tollerton Lane as a cut through, you’re in for a lot of queues!

I just want to state a few facts. These are incontrovertible and unarguable facts. Anyone who argues against these things is a dangerous, deluded person who is in desperate need of education. PFAS were extensively used on the southern end of the former RAF Tollerton. They were an ingredient in fire-retardant foams on a portion…

We see the floods of rainwater wash off the southern end of the airfield into the gutters, the drains, the brooks and, in turn, into the River Trent. We know that PFAS can’t be filtered out of the water supply by the treatment works. We know that PFAS don’t go away; they don’t break down,…

We have removed the post about water analysis at Bassingfield until those findings are made public.

Like a lot of Tollerton residents, this morning I received an email from Rushcliffe Borough Council about the proposed development of 200 new homes off Burnside Avenue. This was possibly the most ridiculous proposal RBC has ever received and, rightly, they rejected the planning application. But the grounds for refusal are interesting. Amongst the reasons…

Since I moved to Newark, my main sources of Tollerton news are the village magazine (which my daughter posts up to me), and my half-dozen Tollerton Ladies Circle friends who still live in the village and ring me up for a chat now and then. I miss them, I miss the Wednesday afternoon drop-in, cup-of-tea…

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…