Rutland County Council is having to close a number of buildings and services in response to new COVID-19 restrictions that will come into force from Thursday 5 November.

The UK government announced plans for a second national lockdown across England on Saturday 31 October. The four-week lockdown is due to end on 2 December, during which time people must observe the following restrictions:

·         People must stay at home except for education, work (if they cannot work from home), exercise, medical reasons, shopping for essentials, or to care for others

·         All pubs and restaurants must close (takeaways and deliveries can continue)

·         All non-essential shops must also close

·         Households will not be allowed to mix with others indoors, or in private gardens

·         You can meet one person from outside your household in an outside public space

·         Support bubbles for people who live alone and households made up of single parents and children can continue

·         Schools, colleges and universities will remain open

·         Outdoor exercise and recreation will be allowed, but gyms will have to close

·         People who are clinically vulnerable will be advised not to go to work if they are unable to work from home

Further guidance and a full list of national restrictions can be found online at: www.gov.uk/guidance/new-national-restrictions-from-5-november.

In order to comply with this guidance, the following Rutland County Council buildings and services will close from Thursday 5 November until after the lockdown ends:

• Active Rutland Hub
• Brightways Community Support Service
• Oakham Castle
• Rutland County Museum

Library buildings in Oakham, Uppingham, Ketton and Ryhall will close. However, the Council will continue to provide a home delivery services for registered library users, as well as a wide range of online library services. Further details can be found online at: www.rutland.gov.uk/libraries.

Jules House and Visions Children’s Centre in Oakham remain closed, while continuing to offer online support for service users. The Council’s main office building and customer service desk also remain closed.

Parks and children’s playground areas are permitted to remain open throughout the lockdown. All sports and leisure centres, including Catmose Sports Centre in Oakham, are required to close.

North Luffenham Household Waste and Recycling Centre will continue to operate six days a week (closing only on Mondays). Bulky waste collections will also continue, with bookings available five days a week. Cottesmore Household Waste and Recycling Centre remains closed until further notice.

Further information at www.rutland.gov.uk.

Dear Neighbour

We hope you and your loved ones remain safe and well as the pandemic continues.  You may remember, in line with national and Rutland wide directives, we stood down our support in August.  We also offered reassurance to you that we would remain ready to resume our support should restrictions be re-introduced: be assured we are here to support and help wherever it is required.

 The lockdown rules differ from last time.  We are advised by Rutland County Council that the centrally coordinated Community Medicine Collection Scheme will not be re-introduced.  However, please know that if you are in particular need for your prescriptions, we will be happy to help.

Some good news is that we anticipate the Post Office will still operate out of the Village Hall during the lockdown period every Tuesday, 2-4pm, and that the North Luffenham tip will continue to operate Tuesday to Sunday.

Many of us have adapted to these strange times, but know that may not be the case for some of our community and so please don’t hesitate to contact us.

If you need help – please phone 01572 373922

• Changed your contact details or new to Wing chose Option 1
• Help with prescriptions choose option 2 to contact coordinator David Clark
• Help with shopping, posting mail, or deliveries choose option 3 to contact coordinator David Wood
• Help with pet care choose option 4 to contact coordinator Jane Alexander-Orr

If you just want a chat, help, or advice these people are your point of contact depending on which street you live.  They are just a phone call away.  Please pick up the phone and they will help.

Street you live on	Name of volunteer	Phone number
Reeves Lane, Westhorpe Close and 12 & 14 Top Street	Linda and David Clark Paul Comben	07718381345 01572 737373
Top Street	Susannah Fish Chrissie Roberts	07908815112 07970900029
The Jetty and Middle Street	Jane Alexander-Orr Alice Hill	01572 737368 01572 737516
Church Street and Bottom Street	Joanne Beaver Kevin Osborne	01572 737286 07557453806
Morcott Road, Glaston Road and Mill Close	Helen Bateman Helen Eldridge Angela Harding	01572 737499 07851922391 01572 737784
Station Road, Wing Hollow and Preston Road	Jeffy Wood	01572 737465

If you would like to help or have any questions, please contact us on 01572373922 and choose option 5.  Do join the WING VILLAGE COMMUNITY PAGE on Facebook, and look out for news alerts, and also on Wing Parish Council official website:www.wingrutland-pc.gov.uk or our community website www.wingrutland.uk Rutland County Council’s website www.rutland.gov.uk also has helpful information and links to national guidance.

Stay safe and well.

Yours sincerely

Wing COVID19 Coordinating Group

The Remembrance Service should have been held this Sunday. However, because of lockdown, we are unable to hold the Service inside the Church.

Instead, we will be holding a short commemoration in the Churchyard, including the Act of Remembrance, the Last Post, two minute silence and the Act of Commitment as we lay the wreath on the war grave.

The Service will be at 9.30am and will last about 15 minutes.

If you would like to attend, please enter the Churchyard by Village hall entrance respecting social distancing and keeping to your “household bubble.”

The Church will be open for private individual prayer on this Sunday and every Wednesday and Sunday.

Wing Parish Council’s response to the Regulation 19 Consultation on the Local Plan was approved at an Extraordinary meeting on 2nd November (minutes available via the calendar of council meetings).

Wing residents are invited to be co-signatories and endorse the response. Please email the Parish Clerk wingclerk@gmail.com by Wednesday 4th November to be included.

The response can be viewed here:

• Response to Regulation 19 consultation Local Plan Nov 2020 (PDF, 752 Kb)
• Regulation 19 consultation Local Plan Appendix 1 (PDF, 3.7 Mb)

Wing Winter Warmer event, originally scheduled for Nov 5th, will now be rescheduled for after the current lockdown period has lifted. Details will follow as soon as plans can be made.