MMR pop-up walk in vaccination clinics across Staffordshire

A series of pop-up, walk-in MMR vaccination clinics will be taking place across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent over the coming weeks. The clinics are open to anyone (children and adults) who haven’t had their second, or any, dose of MMR vaccine. You need 2 doses for life-long protection from measles, mumps and rubella. You don’t need to make an appointment at any of the below clinics.

East Staffordshire:

  • Wednesday 31st July 10am-2pm – Red Lion House Community Centre DE13 0ST
  • Thursday 1st August, 10.30am-3pm – Family Hub Launch Day at Waterloo Street, Burton on Trent, DE14 2NJ
  • Saturday 17th August, 10am – 1pm – Barton under Needwood Village hall. Crowberry Lane Barton under Needwood, DE138AF

Stafford:

  • Saturday 3rd August 10am-2pm – Milwich Village Hall ST18 0EG
  • Monday 5th August 10am-2pm – Family Hub, Faraday Road ST16 3NQ
  • Saturday 10th August 10am-2pm – North End Community Centre ST16 1JG
  • Wednesday 14th August 10am-2pm – Rising Brook Community Church ST17 9LT

Stoke:

  • Friday 2nd August 10am-2pm – Chell Area Family Action Group (CAFAG) Whitfield Valley Centre Fegg Hayes Road ST6 6QR

  • Thursday 15th August 12pm-3pm – Sudanese Community Centre, 17 Birch Terrace, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 3JN (other childhood immunisation catch-up vaccines available – HPV, MenACWY and 3-in-1 Teenage Booster)
  • Saturday 8th September 11am-3pm – Stepping Stones Community Organisation 77 Raymond Street Hanley ST1 4DP

Clinics are updated on our website here Vaccinations and Immunisations – Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, ICS (staffsstokeics.org.uk) 

Road closures around the village

There have been some concerns raised about the current road closures around the village. To clarify, there are currently two road closures in operation – one on Beacon Road and one on Station Road near the Brookside Hotel. Both have alternative routes that can be taken with diversion signs in place.

Both of these closures are official and road users should obey the signs in place. Because of the close vicinity of the two and the confusion arising a highways inspector will visit today to ensure that disruption is kept to a minimum.

Update following the village flood meeting.

In addition to the update below the Parish Council has also contacted our new MP asking him to pick up the actions agreed at the last meeting by Kate Kniveton.

Mark Swain, PSO Team Leader, Flood Risk Management, Environment Agency West has provided a brief update on activities they have been involved in over the past month:

1) The Environment Agency position statement which I shared with the public at the meeting on 23 May was requested by and supplied to Kate Kniveton’s office on 13 June. I am assuming the pre-election period has prevented the Action points being shared until after 04 July.

2) We have a project team set up to discuss the options for Flood Risk Management in Rolleston. Our consultants (Arup) are leading this and as requested at the public meeting we have identified dredging and increased maintenance in that list of options for consideration.

3) Dave Hughes has had meetings with landowners to discuss removal of debris and watercourse obstructions in the Rolleston Brook and plans to arrange for removal/cutting back are progressing.

4) There has been a meeting between Arup, our EA Flood Risk Team and our Natural Flood Management leads to discuss the opportunities for flood risk management upstream of Rolleston.

5) Dave Hughes has met with a resident to discuss their proposal to install fishing platforms in the Brook Hollows area.

Following the meeting mentioned at point 5 above we then received the following update from Dave Hughes:

I have been speaking to Assets and they tell me they are willing to help with some of the works on the Rolleston Brook channel downstream of the village. In particular, they will:

  1. Remove all the existing cattle barriers and dispose of them.
  2. They will remove the debris that has built up in front of the non-return valve at the end of the ditch across the field where Catherine Smith keeps her horse (behind the Scout Hut).
  3. They are also proposing a one-off maintenance of the channel from Brookside all the way down to where the Tutbury Mill Fleam joins it. This will consist of removing all debris that gets caught up in that stretch and also cut back vegetation to keep the channel clear.
  4. They are going to investigate whether this can become an annual occurrence.