Keeping Our Village Safe
In an emergency please telephone 999. If you are deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or have a speech impairment, a text phone is available on 18000. You should use these numbers if: A crime is happening right now. Someone is in immediate danger, or there is a risk of serious damage to property. A suspect […]
For all other calls to the police in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland please telephone 101 . Calls cost 15p from mobiles and landlines, regardless of duration. They are free of charge from payphones. If you are deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or have a speech impairment, a text phone is available on 18001 […]
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is advising anyone who has a peanut allergy to avoid eating any foods that contain, or may contain, mustard, mustard seeds, mustard powder or mustard flour because of potential contamination with peanuts. These products are sold under several different brand names at several different retail stores. The mustard ingredients can […]
During July 2024 the Team have undertaken 2 Speedwatch sessions, 1 on Sutton Lane, 1 on Mattersey Road. We recorded 34 vehicles speeding at 35 mph or more and noted one such driver at 60 mph on Sutton Lane. All speeding vehicles were reported to the Police who are empowered to take further action. We […]
Barnaby Homes report that another break in took place on their Sutton Lane Development site. The images that were taken (below) were recorded at 22.20 hrs Monday 8th July. The images are of individual(s) on the site, one appears to be disconnecting, what we take to be the electrical supply to the security system flood […]
During June 2024 the Team have undertaken 4 Speedwatch sessions, 2 on Sutton Lane, 1 on Mattersey Road and 1 on Town Street. We recorded 77 vehicles speeding at 35 mph or more and noted one such driver at 68 mph on Sutton Lane. The latter having entered our zone at 68 mph heading south […]
During the month of May the Speedwatch Team (Speedwatch) have undertaken 5 sessions. Two sessions each on Mattersey Road and Sutton Lane and one on Town Street. Speedwatch registered 85 vehicles driving at speeds in excess of 35 mph and all have been reported to Nottinghamshire Police. The cumulative results from March 2023 are shown […]
The Sutton Speedwatch Team were out on Mattersey Road this morning 11.00 until 12.00. Over the course of the hour we checked 163 vehicles and recorded 25 of those exceeding the speed limit. Whilst the speed limit through Sutton is 30 mph our Speedwatch Team note vehicle details of those travelling in excess of 35 […]
A member reports an incident that raises our concern. Last night at 22.24 a man knocked on the door of the resident who lives at Portland Flats. The man was persistent, knocking three times. He was holding what appeared to be a bag of clothes and carried an ID badge which he showed to the […]
A resident of Sutton has contacted us to report a particular speeding incident that took place along Town Street. The resident reports that she was spooked yesterday afternoon (14th May around 15.00) by a vehicle that accelerated wildly as it passed the vehicle activated speedsign. It seemed that the driver was intent on registering his […]
A member of the Watch reported the following incident: At approx 14-15hrs today 10/5/24, whilst walking along Station Road , heading towards Barnby Moor, at the Barnby Moor end of the road, a motorcyclist on a black Kawasaki bike, in black leathers with green trim, black helmet and black visa pulled up on the road […]
We have received a request from Nottinghamshire Police to make residents aware and ask for CCTV footage if still available of a burglary of plant from the Fenwood Estates Development known as Knights Walk that took place on 6th April 2024. The text below is cut and pasted from the request. Just to make residents […]
Good morning on this sunny bank holiday Monday. Whilst not wishing to dampen things down we are writing to ask that you all keep an eye out for suspicious activity in Sutton and Barnby Moor (yes, we also have a following in Barnby Moor). To put things in context, we are lucky to live in […]
There was a break in to a property on Station Road yesterday. (30th April) The property was vacant between 11.00 until 19.00 hrs and intruders entered some time during that time span. Articles were taken, some believed to be contained in a white plastic bag and damage to the property occurred. Entrance was forced from […]
We are looking to attract new members to the Watch and to encourage members to join us on the Committee. As Committee members you might expect to meet on average once per month. We meet to discuss issues of the day and meetings are an opportunity to share and address the concerns of the community. […]
Sutton Community Speedwatch are now active again on the streets of the village. Speedwatch Teams will be present on Sutton Lane, Town Street, Mattersey Road and Station Road during the coming months. To date the Team have positioned on Town Street and Mattersey Road. The registration numbers of vehicles that are found speeding +35mph are […]
We sent out an alert on Sunday 25th February about an intruder who was disturbed whilst attempting to steal from a property on Sutton Lane. We have since spoken to the resident concerned and offer an update to the situation. The resident heard a noise from a bedroom at the far end of the property […]
Thanks for all your support over the last year. We will be out and about in Sutton again later in the New Year and wish you all the best for 2024. Meanwhile keep safe on the roads over the holidays and beyond…
Having established that one of the most fouled walks in Sutton extends from Mire Lane to the footpath adjacent to the church, the Parish Council have recently placed some warning notices on the lamposts in the immediate vicinity of the walk entrances/exits. The notices remind dog owners of the powers that Bassetlaw District Council have […]
A public meeting has been called to discuss a possible Community Group nomination of the Gate Inn Pub as an Asset of Community Value. Thus securing the future of the village pub as an ongoing public house serving our Community. A flyer is being delivered and is also shown here:
Doorstep sellers can be a nuisance, they can be persuasive and at worst have an ulterior motive. Notts County Council (NCC) have excellent advice on their website as to how you might deal with them. You might also consider putting a notice or sticker on your door/window to discourage uninvited or unexpected callers. We have […]
Well, the threat to Sutton is hopefully less from the changes to lifestyles as currently ascribed to Artificial Intellegence (AI), but of a concern is the one response that it has just shared with us. To the question so posed “What is the average weight of a single piece of dog poop” came the response: […]
I regret that I have no internet facilities, so I am getting the following information sent round through the good offices of a friend. May I first introduce myself- my name is Monica Hockenhull and a number of years ago I made two sizeable donations to the Nottinghamshire Community Foundation (NCF). The purpose of the […]
County Councillor Tracey Taylor has written to inform constituents of a new NCC website. The website is designed to allow us to inform ourselves of progress in the County with road repairs. Tracey writes as follows: I’ve received confirmation that the new NCC highways website was launched earlier this week https://www.nottshighways.co.uk/ The site allows […]
The Speedwatch Team have been active since March checking the speeds of vehicles on the roads of Sutton. We now have sufficient data collected to be able to determine and describe the driving characteristics of vehicles driven into and out of the village. We prepare a monthly report that we share with the Police that […]
If you were walking along the pavements of Sutton a few weeks ago you might have spotted some traffic survey tubes (small bore rubber pipes) stretched across Sutton Lane, Town Street and Mattersey Roads. These appeared without warning and disappeared a week later and we were left guessing what they were there for. We recognised […]
Well it has to be said that the weather was not so kind to us on Saturday but that did not daunt the good number of villagers and visiting Parish Councils from attending at your village hall. On display outside were the Fire and Rescue Service who had a tender on site, the Traffic Safety […]
The Speedwatch Team have been active since March checking the speeds of vehicles on the roads of Sutton. We now have sufficient data collected to be able to determine and describe the driving characteristics of vehicles driven into and out of the village. We prepare a monthly report that we share with the Police that […]
You are invited to attend our SpeedAware event held at Sutton Village Hall next Saturday. Flyers are being distributed and posters placed on the village notice boards. Just in case you have missed them, they have been also been posted on the website, here:
Probably not if you live on Mattersey Road! Nor perhaps to hear that Speedwatch have “gunned” an individual clocking 70 mph on that road in the 30mph zone. We do seem have a bit of a problem here in Sutton and from what we hear that is the case in a number of other local […]
A member has written to us reporting a suspicious caller: I wanted to warn villagers about an unusual visitor we had at our house today. A person rang our doorbell and went to take a good look at our caravan near the house. When questioned, he said he was a tree surgeon that had recently […]
Hive Lound Limited have now submitted their planning application to Nottinghamshire County Council Minerals Planning Authority (MPA) to strip mine in the vicinity of Bellmoor Sutton cum Lound. That application involves an extraction and processing of pulverised fuel ash (PFA) that was originally deposited at Bellmoor some 40 years or so ago. The PFA was […]
You may have heard about the accident that happened on Sutton Lane on Saturday evening. We have received the following description of the accident from a passenger of the vehicle, a member of the Neighbourhood Watch, that was hit by the speeding car as it careered up Sutton Lane, mounting the verge to the West […]
The Speedwatch Team are now active throughout Sutton, you may have seen us, you may have been “Speedwatched” already. For those yet to encounter a Speedwatch a friendly motorist has shared this video snippet of his experience on Station Road. You will see the Team of 3 in High Visibility jackets, one is handling the […]
At the Parish Council Meeting (PC) on Wednesday the District Councillor Darrell Pulk updated the PC on the steps that Bassetlaw District Council are taking to assist the Parish in dealing with the problem of dog fouling. You will likely have received the flyer in Spotlight and will be aware of the patrols being mounted […]
During a break in the weather the Speedwatch Team put in a session on Sutton Lane on Tuesday 14th March 17.00 until 18.00. In the main we gunned traffic entering the village, heading north from Sutton cross roads but picked up an errant speedster or two travelling South towards the cross roads as well. In […]
Certainly not ideal weather to be standing around on a road side but our well laid plans for the week were cancelled due to adverse weather and at short notice we put in a session on Mattersey Road on Wednesday 8th March. We gunned the traffic entering the village heading south as shown on “Speedwatch […]
The Community Speedwatch Team (Team) attended a statutory training session with Nottinghamshire Police on Sunday 26th February and conducted our first session on Town Street this morning (3rd March 2023). Our newly formed Team of 11 local residents will be conducting their Speedwatch sessions on Sutton Lane, Town Street, Mattersey Road and Station Road. The […]
The District Councillor Darrell Pulk, hosted a visit by Bassetlaw Environmental Enforcement Officers today (image above) to see at first hand the extent of the dog fouling in and around Sutton. Environmental Enforcement in Bassetlaw and in particular the targeting of individuals who deliberately drop litter or fail to pick up after their dogs is […]
A member of the Neighbourhood Watch reported what we believe to be a scam phone call this morning, 20th January 2023. At 08.45 today I received a call on my mobile as follows:- ” An arrest order has been taken out in your name in connection with money being taken out of an account […]
It seems we have hit the headlines today as a local man and member of our SpeedWatch Team has been interviewed about the speeding that takes place on Town Street. Residents have made their concerns known to the authorities but the appearance of a rather fetching bird box in our mans front garden has certainly […]
A member of the Neighbourhood Watch received notification from their pension provider on 28th October that the providers IT network had suffered a cybersecurity attack. It turned out that the attack which was first identified on 16th October resulted in a loss of access to the system, since recovered. However the attack was not solely […]
“The Idle Valley is one of England’s most important wildlife reserves, home to dozens of rare species, and a popular access to nature for people from near and far. But it’s under threat. The landscape was restored and rewilded years ago using ash dumped from nearby power stations. Now they want to dig it all […]
We attended the face to face meeting of Tuesday 25th October 2022 with HIVE Aggregates (HIVE) to hear more about the Retford Circular Economy Project (RCEP). The meeting was held at Lound Village Hall during the public participation segment of an Ordinary meeting of Lound Parish Council. The session with HIVE was in two parts, […]
You will likely have heard that there are plans to extract 6.7 million tonnes of Pulverised Fuel Ash (PFA) from the vicinity of Bellmoor Sutton Cum Lound (as shown on the satellite view here). The plans are at a consultative phase and you may have already attended a webinar or face to face meetings with […]
It seems that EDF are also keen to recover PFA from settling ponds/lagoons on site at West Burton. EDF applied to Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) in March 2020 for permission to lift the PFA and the comprehensive Method Statement they provided to NCC is attached here. One imagines that the process of recovery is ongoing […]
You will have received a post card from Hive Aggregates (Hive) advertising a public consultation event held by Hive Aggregates at Sutton Village Hall on 6th October. If you were able to attend you will have learnt a little more about Hive’s proposal to strip mine the PFA (Pulverised Fuel Ash) deposits in the vicinity […]
Over the last month or so concerned villagers have been keeping an eye on our public spaces in Sutton and noting the piles of dog poo. We have reported previously how those individual piles have been geolocated and plotted on our “Hot Squats” satellite view. The idea being to highlight those areas where most fouling […]
28th September 2022: Our members report two scams received on their mobile phones over the last two days. The first is a variation on a theme similar to that we have reported before. It is supposedly a text from a son/daughter to a parent asking for the latter to make contact via Whatsapp. This is […]
A member of the Neighbourhood Watch reports what has all the hallmarks of yet another scam to gain access to a bank account. This particular scam features a spoofed local (01777) telephone number. Our member wrote to inform us as follows: “We had an automated phone call this morning about unusual activity on our bank […]
Dear Member, Action Fraud is warning the public about a sharp rise in reports relating to fake emails purporting to be from Ofgem, the independent energy regulator for Great Britain. The emails claim that the recipient is due a rebate payment as part of a government scheme and provides links for the recipient to follow […]
Several members have contacted us in response to our previous post “Sutton, Its Time to Talk About Dog Poo, Again!”. It is certainly a hot topic in the community. One member reports being shocked about the number of unpicked poos on local footpaths (as opposed to pavements), making several cogent observations. “Dog poo left anywhere […]
