Winners  

1st     No 2     John Dejardin          

2nd   No 20   Paul Brewer               

3rd    No 67   Richard Reeve   

“Very many thanks to everybody who contributed  to Foodbank in the Church porch around the time of the Harvest Service. You have all been very generous indeed and I have had a full car load to deliver to Foodbank this week.

It is much needed and I am sure much appreciated.

Thank you very much

David Wood  and Alice Hill”

Press Release: 7th October 2020

£450 million for our Hospitals. Have your say

Public to be consulted on multi-million pound hospital proposals

Rutland’s population is changing. There are more people, and they are living longer. Which means that the acute hospital and maternity services designed for Rutland in earlier times also need to change to make modern treatments, imaging, and medical technologies available. University Hospitals Leicester (UHL) is therefore proposing a £450 million development called Building Better Hospitals for the Future which is designed to improve patient care, achieve better patient outcomes, and get staff working in the best place to make this happen.

As part of the project, UHL is running a public consultation exercise until 21st December 2020 so that the people of Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland can say what they think about what is being planned. Not just the lobby groups, doctors, councillors and officials. UHL wants to hear from members of the general public, they are after all the ones for whom the new services are intended.

To make sure this happens, UHL is contacting Rutland’s sports clubs, music groups, churches, social clubs, neighbourhood groups and pubs – everywhere and anywhere local people can be found – to tell them about the consultation, and help and encourage them to get involved by going to the Better Hospitals website, watching the videos, reading the information and filling in the survey form.

A video about what is being planned and why is here: Introduction to Better Hospitals or with subtitles here: Introduction to Better Hospitals (sub titles).To read about the consultation in more detail, download all the documents and background information, and complete the survey, look here: https://www.bettercareleicester.nhs.uk/

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Notes to editors.

1. 1  The digital press office is here: https://www.betterhospitalsleicester.nhs.uk/news-and- media-centre/press-office/ and Press releases are here: https://www.betterhospitalsleicester.nhs.uk/news-and-media-centre/news/
2. 2  For general media enquiries about the Building Better Hospitals consultation or if you require any of the asset in different formats or resolutions, please contact Melanie Shilton (details below).
3. 3  The following videos are available to promote the consultation:
   • Launch video: https://youtu.be/MN5B7zMwVR4
   • Launch video (with subtitles): https://youtu.be/MN5B7zMwVR4
   • Promotional advert: https://youtu.be/jd9AMkh0zJ4
   • Promotional advert (with subtitles): https://youtu.be/S9ZJVgf73sY
   • Leicester Glenfield Hospital fly-through video: https://youtu.be/K4Fehf8E-Ug
   • Leicester Royal Infirmary fly-through video: https://youtu.be/sRDXRZL-VY4
4. 4  Further information on the public consultation is available on the website: https://www.bettercareleicester.nhs.uk/
5. 5  If you require further information or to arrange media interviews, please contact:
   • Melanie Shilton, Head of Communications for the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland CCGs on 07717 865616 or email PressofficeLLRCCGs@leicestershire.nhs.uk
   • Emma Casteleijn, Deputy Director of Communications and Engagement for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on 07507 783217 or email communications@uhl-tr.nhs.uk

info@rutlandcommunityventures.uk http://www.rutlandcommmunityventures.uk

Dear Friends
You will doubtless be aware of the ongoing consultation on the Draft Local Plan for Rutland, if only from receipt of a postcard from RCC. The consultation is a statutory exercise (‘Regulation 19’) which, although nominally open to public participation, is in fact highly technical in terms of the representations that are formally permissible. We are drafting a response that will be considered and (we hope) formally adopted by Wing Parish Council at the end of this month (the recently extended deadline for all responses is 6 November). Our representations will take account of information provided by specialist consultants (commissioned by the Fight 4 Rutland campaign, and paid for in part by Wing Parish Council) who have examined the Local Plan for potential weaknesses. The representations will focus especially on the implications of the Local Plan for future housing growth and traffic flow in and around Wing, arising from the Council’s proposals to build a new town of 2300 houses on the St George’s Barracks site between Edith Weston and North Luffenham. We are not wholly against some development of the SGB site, but that development must be appropriate in nature and scale to the rural location, and sympathetic to the effects on the county as a whole.

We have two requests to put to you:
First, might you be willing personally to endorse and add weight to the representations which we hope will be adopted by the Parish Council? You can either take these on trust by immediate reply to kennethsiddle@gmail.com, or have sight of them once approved by the Council (in which case please let us know how to communicate urgently with you in the first few days of November). You are of course free to make your own representations directly should you wish to do so.
Second, will you consider making a donation to the Fight 4 Rutland campaign? The campaign is already incurring very considerable costs in engaging consultants, and these will escalate further if as seems likely the matter goes to judicial review.

You will find more information on the F4R website here

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Or you can donate directly to
Account name: Fight 4 Rutland Ltd; Sort Code: 01-06-34; Account number: 50649914

You might also be interested to look at material that has been circulated in Edith Weston and North Luffenham, the two villages most closely affected by the proposed development of the St George’s Barracks site.
https://www.edithweston.com/news.html

(follow link to download representations-guide-edith-weston)

“Houses to be built on The Oval”

(follow link to download Reg-19-leaflet-v2)
We hope we can count on your support in fighting for what is best for Wing and for Rutland.

Best wishes
Ken Siddle, John DeJardin and David Seviour

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