View Across Trent Valley Set To Change

The view across the Trent Valley is set to change as the base of the first of 34 wind towers is erected at the Keadby windfarm as seen in the picture below.

SSE Renewables are the company building the windfarm and acquired the Keadby wind farm project in North Lincolnshire in May 2011. The project had previously been developed by the RES Group and the 34 turbine project received planning consent in 2008.  Turbine deliveries began at the start of August and the company held two sessions in nearby villages to inform site neighbours of exactly what they should expect.

Delivery vehicles will exit the M180 via the slip road then turn right to meet the A18. Once on the A18 the delivery vehicles will travel towards the Double Rivers Roundabout. 

In order to access the site via the Double Rivers Roundabout delivery vehicles will need to traffic contra flow to the traffic. For this to happen all other traffic will need to be temporarily halted. This will involve a Police Outrider/Vehicle stopping the flow of traffic at each junction of the Double Rivers Roundabout. It is anticipated that this stage of the journey will take no longer than 15 minutes for each convoy. 

Once the delivery vehicles have successfully travelled over the Double Rivers Roundabout they will proceed to site via the A18 using the newly constructed Hatfield Bridge to enter site.

Passers by may have noticed new ditches being created in the fields off the A18, just to the south of the site. These ditches are part of the works to create and enhance habitat in this area specifically for Marsh Harriers, but also Water Voles, as part of the site wide Conservation Management Plan.

The whole project is due for completion in the Summer of 2014

Pubs Listed as Community Assets

Over the past few years the Scunthorpe has seen quite a number of pub closures from the Queens on Rowland Road to the Poacher which has been recently demolished. Some of the pubs have re-opened like The Lincoln Imp and The Desert Rat whilst others have opened back up under different names like Harry Charlseworth’s and The Mint. 

There are many different arguments as to the cause of so many pub closures whether it be cheap beer in supermarkets, Pub-Co’s charging tenets high rents & barrelage or simply a change in social activity etc. 

Now some residents are fighting back against closures of their locals. Across England over one hundred pubs have been listed by councils as an ‘Asset of Community Value’ (ACV) which gives local residents a greater chance of fighting against closures. Under the Localism Act 2011 people living in England have been able to nominate a pub to be listed as an ACV. Listing your local as an ACV provides communities with the power to stop the clock when faced with a pub going up for sale, earning valuable time to explore options for saving the pub. 

                                       The Brumby Pub on Cemetery Road