My/our condolences to Averil, Sue, Savannah, Victoria and Frank.
Peter was a very good friend of so many in our community and will be sadly missed.
Donations in Peters memory are gratefully being received in support of Addenbrooke’s Hospital – L5 Vascular Surgery Ward.
GhostedMemories.
FDC Planning Portal F/YR25/0793/A Illuminated Signage. Click Here…..
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Ghosted.
Reducing Isolation and Loneliness Survey
GhostPost.
District Council
Conservative – 483
Curtis – 127
Reform – 346
Labour – 60
Turnout – 27%
Town Council
Conservative – 490
Curtis – 132
Reform – 337
Labour – 55
Turnout 27%
Congratulations to Alec Branton and commiserations to the other candidates.
I always respect democracy.
After many years again being left derelict for the second or third occasion after its closure as a public house and restaurant.
‘I/we’ StreetPriders cleared the area up many years ago when I was chairman to stop it being an eyesore coming into Whittlesey.
In this recent case of unoccupancy and becoming derelict – no one cared enough to take up the challenge (why should they) – private land…
The owner of a former riverside pub near Peterborough has been granted permission to convert it into a family home.
Quaffins Ltd applied to Peterborough City Council for planning permission in December 2024 to change the use of the Dog In A Doublet pub on North Bank in Thorney.
Plans for the building, which were approved by city council planners on October 21 this year, will see the empty property transformed into a private five-bedroom home.
According to planning documents, the scale of the building will be reduced through demolition, with the rear demolition work taking the building back to what it was like before it was extended in the late 1970’s.
A planning statement reads: “Due to viability the owners of the building are unable to let it out to a new landlord to continue running it as a public house.
“Also, the manner in which the building was vacated has meant that the building is no longer fit for purpose without significant work.”
©PT & Ghosted@SP
The election called by resignation of ex conservative councillor Elizebeth Sennitt-Clough.
Widely publicised being the 6th conservative councillor in recent years to have resigned.
Today there is a bi-election for the ward and some candidates have been actively campaigning to be elected.
It’s a cool, rainy day, and at 7:00am when the polls opened, there was no queue at the Bowker Way polling station (surprised). Postal votes play a large part in elections and I would think so on the occasion as well.
‘We’ Independent Councillors, are backing Martin Curtis who is standing as an Independent, and for anyone who hasn’t voted or can not decide I urge you to vote,
Independent – ‘we’ are here for the community.
I am a Community Councillor NOT a political Councillor.
Time will tell, the polls close at 22:00 and the count will be held at The Manor Centre Whittlesey.
I hope to publish the result as soon as they are announced.
GhostedIndependent.
16 members of the Whittlesey Street Pride Group attended this evenings extraordinary general meeting, chaired by The Fenland District Councils Co-ordinator Ashley Dolling.
The meeting was quorate, and presentation for and against the motion were made.
The result was 12 for the motion (no confidence) and 7 against.
There were some proxy votes and 2 abstentions (including myself).
Therefor Luke Robinson has been deselcted in a motion of no confidence.
Lynn Curry will be acting as intrim chair until the next meeting in November.
I did ask for permission to take photographs (public meeting) however some did no want this to happen, and I have duly respected their request.
GhostedStreetPrider.
A picture of what a pile of IBA looks like.
Have your say to the EA before 31 October –
Major changes proposed at Saxon Pit
The Environment Agency consultation on the Johnsons Aggregates Recycling Ltd permit variation closes on 31 October. This is the permit only, the separate planning application will follow next year.
The company is seeking to:
– increase IBA throughput from 250,000 to 460,000 tonnes per year (an 84% rise)
– double daily IBA processing capacity
– more than triple C&D waste throughput (up 208%)
– expand total on-site waste storage by 43%
– reduce freeboard (the buffer space between the top of the waste piles and the top of the wall) from 1.0 m to 0.5 m
– and introduce outdoor IBA crushing.
IBA (Incinerator Bottom Ash) is the ash and residue left after the burning of municipal and commercial waste in energy-from-waste plants. It is processed on site to produce IBA Aggregate (IBAA) for use in construction.
Freeboard is a critical safety margin that helps prevent dust, material, or runoff escaping the site during high winds or uneven loading. Reducing it by half increases the risk of escape at the boundary.
All of this is being proposed with a site footprint increase of less than 7.5%, effectively squeezing far more activity onto the same site.
In Saxongate’s view, this scale of change should be treated as a new application, not simply a variation. We believe the same approach should apply to the associated planning application due to be heard next year, given the scale and nature of the proposed changes.
There are only a few days left to make your voice heard. Submit your comments to the Environment Agency here:
https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/psc/pe7-1pj-johnsons-aggregates-and-recycling-ltd/
Ghoster@Saxon.
There has been called an ‘Extraordinary General Meeting’ tonight at 19:30 at Whittlesey Manor Centre, calling for a vote of no confidence in the current chairman Luke Robinson.
It is my plan to attend this meeting.
Ghostrider.
