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Intruder Entering Property
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 […]
Merry Christmas From The Speedwatch Team
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…
A Poo Bag in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush
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 […]
Public Meeting: The Gate Inn
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:
No Uninvited Callers
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 […]
Sutton, the Threat from AI and a Retreat
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: […]
Why Sutton Meadow is Closed at the Moment
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 […]
New NCC Highways “Repair Tracker” Website
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 […]
SpeedWatch Report July 2023
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 […]
Traffic Survey
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 […]
Speedaware/Speedwatch Day 8th July
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 […]
SpeedWatch Report June 2023
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 […]
SUTTON’S SPEEDAWARE DAY JULY 8TH
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:
15% of cars Speeding on a road in Sutton ……. Does that Surprise you?
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 […]
Suspicious Caller 19th April 2023
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 […]
Application to Strip Mine at Bellmoor Sutton cum Lound
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 […]
Speeding Accident Sutton Lane
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 […]
Speedwatch on Station Road
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 […]
The Dog Warden Cometh
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 […]
Community Speedwatch Sutton Lane
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 […]
Community Speedwatch Mattersey Road
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 […]
Community Speedwatch Reborn
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 […]
Pick Up or Pay Up
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 […]
Scam Phone Call
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 […]
Giving Speedsters The Bird
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 […]
Cybersecurity Attack & Smutty Scam
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 […]
“Enough is Enough”
“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 […]
RCEP, Presentation 25th October 2022.
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, […]
RCEP Consultation Deadline 26th October 2022
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 […]
EDF, Extraction of PFA from West Burton
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 […]
Are You RCEPtive?
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 […]
Pick-Up, OtherWISE………….
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 […]
Two Very Recent Scam Attempts
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 […]
Scam Telephone Call
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 […]
Energy Rebate Email Scams
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 […]
Hot Squats
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 […]
Sutton, It’s Time to Talk About Dog Poo, Again!
There has been an increase in dog fouling over the last few months as has been reported by a number of our members. Now most owners around here are conscientious and pick up after their animals but there are a number who do not. This post is prompted by the latest offering that the writer […]
Sutton Fly Tip, Sorted!
A Sutton resident and member of the Neighbourhood Watch advised us yesterday that there were piles of Fly Tip waste on the service road at Sutton Cross Roads (yet again!) and another off North Road between Sutton and Barnby Moor. The piles of waste were duly reported to Bassetlaw District Council (BDC) and Lindsey Marsh […]
Wall Barrier Repair
A number of residents have advised us that over the weekend the safety barrier around the breach in the wall on Town Street has collapsed. Blown over we believe in the blustery winds on Saturday. The responsible party for repairs Notts County Council/VIA have been advised this morning and will be making good. Let us […]
Scott Free!
A member of the Watch returning from holiday, found an email in his intray ostensibly from Mackenzie Scott the philanthropist and author suggesting that our member might be a beneficiary in a share of $4 billion. Whilst recognising that such largesse would be nice our member concluded that this was a scam attempt. The email […]
VIA are Here!
A spot of good news. Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) workmen (VIA) on site today making a start to what we hope will now be a timely repair to the wall on Portland Place. It seems that once the Police declared that they had no further interest in the scene that NCC were able to […]
Suttons Wall Still Down!
9th August 2022: Repairs to the damaged wall on Town Street are yet to start and as we understood matters that would not happen whilst the Police investigation was ongoing. Several residents have raised concerns that neither the making safe or the repairs have been started some two weeks after the incident. The image shows […]
Our Community Heating Hub?
8th August 2022: On the news this morning you might have heard Gordon Brown, Labour former Prime Minister talking about the cost of living crisis, calling for targeted support for low income families. Brown suggested that there was need for an emergency budget to address the situation, “The reality is grim and undeniable: a financial […]
Fire at Ranskill Friday 5th August
5th August 2022: If you looked north out of Sutton this morning at around 10.30 you will have seen a dense pall of smoke coming from Ranskill. A serious fire had broken out earlier in the morning morning at a tyre store off Common Lane (east of the main railway line). Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue […]
Neighbourhood Watch Newspaper
4th August 2022: We have added the latest edition of the National Neighbourhood Watch Newspaper “Our News” to the menu bar above. For us it is a new feature on our website that we hope you will find of interest. Either available from the menu bar or directly here.
Lost Bracelet Your Help Requested
2nd August 2022: We have received the following request for help from a member of the Neighbourhood watch. “Today (1st August 2022) our new Ukrainian guest lost a silver bracelet, very possibly whilst we were walking the dogs along Church Way, St Bartholomews Court, a bit of the north end of the meadow, then through […]
Suttons Wall Down Again!
25th July 2022: Last evening a little before 11.00 pm a car travelling as we understand matters along Town Street from the direction of Sutton Lane careered into the wall around the Green at the head of Portland Place on Town Street. Difficult to understand how the vehicle ended up on the opposite side of […]
Keyless Vehicle Theft
9th June 2022:Nottinghamshire Alert Message from Inspector Crawford We have noticed an increase in keyless car thefts. This is due to technology acquired by suspects which enables them to transmit the radio signals from the key out to the vehicle enabling an easy and quick escape. To protect your vehicles we are recommending the use […]
Suspicious Male, Offering Driveway Cleaning Services
1st June 2022: Nottinghamshire Alert. Please be aware that there is a suspicious male offering to clean driveways travelling around the Rural East Bassetlaw area. He is driving a Grey or silver coloured Ford Transit type vehicle. The registration number is BK18WTU. If you do not wish to purchase any services then please be polite […]
Ofgem Scam Emails
20th May 2022: Nottinghamshire Alert. Action Fraud has received 752 reports in four days relating to fake emails purporting to be from Ofgem. The emails state that the recipient is eligible for a rebate as a result of a newly announced government scheme. The links in the emails lead to genuine-looking websites that are designed to […]