Category: Rolleston on Dove Parish Council

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Flood photos requested by Environment Agency

Message from David Hughes from the EA. Please forward any relevant photos to him at:

david.hughes@environment-agency.gov.uk

It would be extremely useful for us to know who exactly flooded at what properties and to what extent and to what depth they were affected. I will probably send round a flooding questionnaire again to capture this individual event. I believe things have settled down now, but please pay attention to any alarms. Some showers are expected through the rest of this week.

There were also problems with flooding in the area of Station Road, School Lane, Chapel Lane, Beacon Road and Craythorne Road. Also, there was a lot of flooding of roads which was not a result of water flooding out of the Rolleston Brook. Some of this flooding is related to land drainage, highway drainage and surface water that sheds off Beacon Hill and tries to run down through the village to join the Rolleston Brook. This flooding will need to be investigated by Staffordshire County Council, but I am happy to pass on any enquiries or concerns you may have to SCC, if you would also like to send me details of that flooding too.

I hope that working together we can resolve some issues and hopefully reduce risk to your properties in the future.

Please feel free to  send me your experiences of the flooding.

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Welcome addition of 4 new flower planters on white railings along Burnside

You may have noticed the addition of 4 new flower troughs on the white railings along Burnside. which together with the existing ones, have all been planted with colourful autumnal and winter bedding.
Thank you to the generous donor for funding these.
Thank you also to the Civic Trust, who continue to help fund half of the yearly costs for the plants and planting up costs for the troughs, and the 2 planters located near the village John Bull sign.
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St Mary’s Shoe Box Appeal – Update

St Mary’s Church Shoe Box Appeal
The shoe box appeal continues to go well. Thank you for the excellent support so far.
We have enough things already for 25 shoe boxes, which is marvellous. Thank you to those who have contributed items and to those who have covered and filled shoe boxes.
If anyone has any spare shoeboxes, they would be appreciated.
The following items will also be warmly welcomed, in addition to the things on the original list (pencils, pens, colouring books,, crayons, notebooks, drawing pads, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hats, scarves, gloves, small cuddly toys/ other small toys, games, puzzles, small balls, soap and sweets dated January 2024 or later)
hair accessories/brushes,
face cloths
scarves
socks/underwear
small musical instruments
toy vehicles
If anyone wants to write a card or message, or send a message on the back of a photo of themselves, this would be well received.
You can still do your own box if you wish.
If you wish to make a donation of £3 for transport costs, you can put this in the red box in church.The deadline for all items is 29th October, please.
This year’s boxes are going to the Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Bosnia and Romania.
Thank you once again for your generosity.
If you have any questions or want something collecting, please contact Vivien on 07772447727.