JANUARY 2025
There will be a meeting of Rushden and Wallington Parish Council held at 8.00pm on Thursday 23rd January 2025 at Wallington Village Hall.
The agenda for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
Minutes of the meeting will be posted in due course.
These are the current planned road closures for the Parish that could take place any time from the dates specified. Usually these notices are valid for a period of 18 months from when the application comes into force.
Please see the attached notices and maps of the stretches of roads affected (marked in red on the map).
The trial of recycling plastic bags and wrapping has been extended and parishioners should have received a supply of loose blue bags to join in.
Follow this link to see more information on the new trial of recycling plastic bags and wrapping.
There are planned changes to the frequency that the purple general waste bins are to be collected starting in 2025.
Follow this link to see how and why the changes are being made.
OCTOBER 2024
There was a meeting of Rushden and Wallington Parish Council held at 8.00pm on Thursday 19th September 2024 at Rushden Village Hall.
The agenda for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
Minutes of the meeting can be found in the link below.
At this meeting there was a presentation on Home Energy Advice by Tom Hogan, Energy Champion at Citizens Advice North Hertfordshire. In his presentation he covered topics such as :
- Solar Power and batteries
- Heat Pumps – Air Source and Ground Source
- Home Insulaition
- Energy Bills
- Energy Tariffs.
Useful information about Home Energy Solutions can be found by following the link below.
June 2024
There was an Extraordinary Planning meeting of the Rushden and Wallington Parish Council held at 8.00pm on Tuesday 13th June 2024 in Rushden Village Hall.
The minutes for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
The agenda for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
MAY 2024
The annual meeting for Rushden and Wallington Parish Council was held at 8.00pm on Thursday 23rd May 2024 in Wallington Village Hall. This was followed by the May Parish Council Meeting.
Minutes of the meeting will be issued and posted on the website in due course.
The Finances for the year were approved and can be seen by going to the Finance Page above or following this Annual Finances for 2023-24 link.
Agendas for the meetings can be found by following the link below.
APRIL 2024
The annual Parish Assemblies for Wallington and Rushden were held on the 16th and 17th April respectively.
As with the Parish Council meetings, members of the public were invited to attend to find out how their Parish has been served by their Parish Councillors and NHDC over the past 12 months.
Agendas and Minutes for the meetings can be found by clicking on the links below.
Shaw Green Woodland Trust and Forestry Commission sponsored ‘Rose and Lion Wood’ woodland planting scheme.
The project, which is to be known as Rose and Lion Wood, consists of planting circa 25,000 deciduous native trees over 18 hectares in a scheme which has been developed by the Woodland Trust and is supported and funded by the Forestry Commission.
Nick Stainthorpe of Bee Field Projects Limited purchased the land from Shaw Green Farm in 2022 and is about to embark on a large scale tree planting scheme for the field around Shaw Green and Mill End. In the links below there are plans of the scheme he is undertaking.
Works are about to start with the first works being improvements to the field access by making it more level and firm so that can vehicles can be brought in to assist with planting, fencing and related tasks and the locating of a temporary container and a new shed as already consented for tools and implements whilst works are underway. The field will be fenced against deer to enable the trees to grow without being grazed with a view to planting beginning in Autumn 2024.
Click here to view the latest detailed wood design map for ‘Rose and Lion’ Wood
Click here to view the site appraisal plan for the ‘Rose and Lion’ Wood
Click here to see key site appraisal photographs of the proposed wood
Click here to see where the photographs for the key site appraisal were taken
Click here to see the proposed mix of species to be introduced to the ‘Rose and Lion’ Wood
MARCH 2024
There was an Extraordinary Parish Council Planning Meeting at 8.00pm on Tuesday 5th March 2024 in Rushden Village Hall.
Minutes of the meeting will be posted to the website as soon as they are available.
FEBRUARY 2024
We have been asked to share with the Parish news about a food distribution service open in Baldock. This will provide free food to people in Baldock and the surrounding areas.
It is open from 10.30-11.30am every Thursday morning at St. Mary’s Church Hall in Baldock and the food is free to all. In the words of Kaotic Angles, the organisers there is “no means testing, no judgement”.
You can read here the article that appeared in On Our Doorstep magazine in the January edition.
They also have a poster that they have asked be displayed throughout the Parish on notice boards, in windows and any other prominent place that people will be able to see it. The Kaotic Angels foodbank poster can be found here.
JANUARY 2024
There was a Parish Council Meeting at 8.00pm on Thursday 25th January 2024 at Rushden Village Hall.
There was a Parish Council Meeting at 8.00pm on Thursday 25th January 2024 at Rushden Village Hall.
At that meeting it was agreed to publicise the proposal to build an 80Ha solar power plant in the Beane Valley spanning Cumberlow, Cromer and Cottered.
There is a local opposition group and their contact details are oppositiontobeanesolarfarm@outlook.com
It is in the very early stages but there is an Environmental Impact Study Screening report that can be found following this link to the NHDC planning portal and members of the public have a limited amount of time to make their feelings about the proposal known. The deadline for submitting comments is around 4th /5th February.
Follow this link to read the Environmental Impact Study Screening report