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July 2022
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New sports village to be built
Rushcliffe Borough Council has agreed to a loan of up to £250,000 to help fund a new sports pavilion in East Leake.
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The building will offer a contemporary new facility for the village and surrounding area’s sports teams and function room for community use.
The authority’s Cabinet approved the sum to East Leake Parish Council at its meeting on May 10 that will now help complete the ongoing project to modernise facilities for the new building at Costock Road Playing Fields in the village.
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The improve of playground
Nottingham City Council is to spend more than £180,000 on improving playgrounds in some of the most deprived wards in the area.
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The money is coming from Section 106 contributions – which is money handed to the council by developers to contribute to community facilities.
A decision on these two play areas will be confirmed in June 2022.
Moor Road Play Area will also have same refurbishment plan as Arkwright Park Play Area while Marmion Park will have the existing play area refurbished and fitn... June 2022
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Council Budget Increase
The City Council has brought in over £30m of income from selling land and property it owns over the last two years – with over £90m more in the pipeline over the next few years.
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The council owns over 3,600 property assets with a combined asset value of over £1bn and is undertaking a rationalisation programme to identify whether it remains appropriate to continue to hold particular assets or to sell them.
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New homes to be built in Edwalton
Work is set to begin on another phase of new homes at a major development in Edwalton, after detailed plans were given the go-ahead by the local authority.
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Vistry Mercia is to build a further 120 new homes at Edwalton Fields, off Melton Road, after Rushcliffe Borough Council approved its detailed planning application.
Vistry is to build these new homes as another phase of its Bovis Homes development at Edwalton Fields, where it has already delivered a range of two to five-bedroom homes.
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Nottingham's new sports pavilion
Rushcliffe Borough Council has agreed to a loan of up to £250,000 to help fund a new sports pavilion in East Leake.
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The building will offer a contemporary new facility for the village and surrounding area’s sports teams and function room for community use.
The authority’s Cabinet approved the sum to East Leake Parish Council at its meeting on May 10 that will now help complete the ongoing project to modernise facilities for the new building at Costock Road Playing Fields in the village.
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Nottingham New £10.5m Library
Nottingham City Council has announced plans for the £10.5m fit-out of the city’s new Central Library and for it to be ready to open to the public next summer.
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The new library, spread over three floors and fully accessible via lifts, will feature a high-quality children’s library with an immersive story telling room, extensive book collection and comfortable areas to sit and read.
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200 new homes on Nottingham farmland
Plans to build as many as 200 homes on farmland in Nottinghamshire have been deferred over concerns with two of the proposed houses.
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The development, on Blidworth Lane in Rainworth, has already been granted outline planning permission, meaning the homes have been agreed upon in principle.
The original proposal could lead to 200 properties built on the farmland, with 10 per cent or 20 of the homes to be marketed as ‘affordable’.
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Nottingham new hotel and homes granted permission
Major plans to transform derelict land include an 18-storey hotel are set to be granted planning permission.
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Developers plan to create a mixed-use commercial development on the site just off London Road including the building of a large hotel, apartments, office space and retail units.
The proposed development would include a 223-room hotel and roof terrace; 247 build-to-rent apartments with a podium roof terrace; co-working office space and associated facilities; ground floor car and cycle park...