BOROUGH COUNCILLOR MARTIN CARTWRIGHT

HINCKLEY & BOSWORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL NEWS Councillor Martin Cartwright reports

Coronavirus : COVID-19

AS THE country, including Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council residents, slowly return to normal following the pandemic the Borough Council have produced a COVID recovery plan.

For more information please visit the web site at www.hinckleybosworth.gov.uk Outdoor Waste Bins

YOU MAY have noticed that for sometime some of the bins around Groby have for been removed.

The reason for this was during the pandemic our bin crews were fully stretched struggling to cope with the collections from people’s homes.

The Borough Council removed some of the bins from across the Borough including Groby to help ease the situation. As things return to normal the removed bins will be replaced. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

As I said in my last article a great deal of thanks goes to the bin crews for their hard work and effort throughout the pandemic in order to keep our bins emptied. Hello Homes Section 106

Hello Homes attempted to deprive Groby of £265,511.00 of infrastructure payments on their development at Leicester Road, Groby.

Hello Homes’ reasoning for the application to pay nothing whatsoever in the previously agreed S106 agreement, was that now the site tenure had changed, their choice I must point out, from 40% affordable housing provision to 100% affordable housing they could no longer pay any of the S106 money desperately required to support the community, Groby, which would be impacted by their development.

You may recall previously in my articles previously in the Spotlight that I called this into the planning committee as ward member because Hello Homes were going from hero, agreeing the contributions requested of them in the section 106 agreement, a legally binding agreement, to zero in that now the properties were built and agreements in place for residents to move into all the thirty homes, they have now decided that they couldn’t afford to pay anything, whatsoever. £265,511.00 down to Nil, nothing, Zero, £00.00.

This is only one part of the story as their application to go from all to none was independently assessed on behalf of the Borough Council.

The independent experts, Lambert Smith Hampton, appraised the Hello Homes Viability Assessment and came to the conclusion that it wasn’t acceptable for Hello Homes to go from all to none and that they could afford to pay something equivalent to £210,082.00 of the S106 agreement that was already in place. This very seriously calls into question the viability assessment submitted by Hello Homes in this application in the first place.

Lambert Smith Hampton formed the view that the S106 agreement should be reduced by £55,429.00 - still a significant amount of loss to Groby - although the independent report did not say how that £55,429.00 reduction should be levied.

So I read the independent report from Lambert Smith Hampton that for clarity was not enclosed in the Committee report to the planning committee members on the night.

Their figures, used to complete the assessment in this case were at least 18 months out of date. Significant uplifts in value have taken place during this time and the comparisons of nearby sites were of sites in Anstey and bordering Beaumont Leys.

I have absolutely nothing against either of these settlements but you simply will not be able to convince me, I doubt you either, reading this, will draw the conclusion that house prices and rental prices are comparable in Groby to that of Anstey and or neighbouring Beaumont Leys.

As said, they also failed to identify where the axe should fall if the reduction was to be agreed by the Borough Council’s planning committee, should it be health provision, education, libraries, highways public transport, play and open space? Etc.

Our Borough Council planning officers agreed that the £55,429.00 reduction in this case was acceptable and on that basis recommended approval to members.

Furthermore the officers’ view in the committee report was that the total amount of £55,429.00 should be forfeited in the play and open space provision in its entirety.

I disagree, the report stated Marina Park for which incidentally is not the nearest play and open space to the Hello Homes site. That said Marina Park would qualify for the money and desperately needs the full amount allocating to it as the flooding issue needs sorting out at significant cost.

The BMX track needs constant maintenance and money spent on it too. The footpaths are in desperate need of repair, the list goes on all of which requires financing.

As I reported to the planning committee the reduction if it were to be agreed should be levied equally across all parts of the S106 agreement and not isolated to the play and open space provision as per the Borough Council’s officer opinion.

Pressure was applied by officers that this was an either or scenario to get the 100% affordable housing or the extra money for the S106.

This is ridiculous along with the comment to members by officers that you can’t get 18 affordable homes built for £55,000.00?

In my view it was never ever an ‘either or’ scenario this late in the stage of the development.

The developer, Hello Homes has 30 homes built with agreements signed all ready to be moved into; indeed the first residents may have taken occupation by the time you read this article, certainly shortly thereafter. Should Hello Homes go to court I will do my level best to see Hello Homes fail in their attempt not to

Cllr Martin Cartwright

Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council – Groby Ward. Executive member for: Licensing, Environmental, Climate Change, Rural Issues & Klondyke Community Hub

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FaceBook: Cllr Martin Cartwright • Twitter: @CllrCartwright • Instagram: cllr.martincartwright honour an agreement that they themselves signed up to in the first place an agreement that was impacted by them making changes to the tenure whilst being fully aware of the legal agreement that they signed up to.

Some of my colleagues just didn’t get it on the planning committee night. Persuaded by officers that it was an ‘either or’ situation that Groby would either get a greater number of affordable homes albeit with a reduction of infrastructure money or less affordable homes and the £55,429.00 instead.

The motion to overturn the officers’ recommendation and simply keep to the original agreement signed up to by Hello Homes in the first place was moved by myself and seconded by Cllr Hollick. I only just won the vote on the night by the skin of my teeth.

Hello Homes do not have any right of appeal to this decision - all they can do is to refuse to pay the section 106 money ending up in a legal battle in court with the district Council and planning authority. It is my view that this will delay at least some of the homes being occupied whilst the legal arguments take place.

I have set out why I believe they will not choose to take this option.

I stuck my neck out well and truly on this issue in order to see that agreements were kept and pledges honoured so that Groby received just what it deserved and nothing more.

The effect of me doing this is far reaching; instead of the authority being seen by developers in the Borough wide as a ”soft touch” who may give in when a reduction of S106 money is applied for, the reputation will have changed to the Borough Council who will take us on and we may not succeed!

I conclude that Hello Homes changed the business model having purchased the site and were fully aware of the money they agreed to pay in the first place in a legal agreement and undertaking. Neighbourhood Planning

GROBY is sadly lacking a Neighbourhood Plan.

When many parishes in Hinckley & Bosworth are either a significant way through their Neighbourhood plan process or have adopted plans.

Please see the articles from Groby Parish Council and Norman Griffiths on this subject in this edition of the Spotlight.

Tel: 0116 287 4500 Mob: 07850 707050

Groby - The Best Place for Wellbeing in the Borough

GROBY has been named the best village in Hinckley & Bosworth for wellbeing.

A new index looking at indicators such as jobs, health, public spaces, schools, public transport and culture aims to show where areas are thriving and where communities can come together to make improvements.

The Co-op’s Community Wellbeing index offers everyone the chance to understand what makes their community different to 28,000 others across the UK.

By entering your postcode, the index will reveal your community’s overall wellbeing score and indicate its performance across nine specific areas.

Groby had the highest overall average score for community wellbeing in Hinckley & Bosworth, at 63.8 out of 100.

On the downside Groby did not score well in areas such as it had long working hours, air quality, traffic and noise pollution. I am here to help you

AS YOUR Borough Councillor I am here and available to help you.

If you live in Groby and are experiencing any difficulties please contact me and I will do all I can to help you

Thank you and take care, Martin

To keep residents updated I am posting as much relevant information as I can on my social media channels. Face book, Twitter & Instagram. Should you have any comments or problems you would like me to mention in my article please get in touch. Please remember if I can ever be of help to you or your family please do not hesitate to contact me. My contact details are listed in the coloured panel on the left.

The Midnight Library

By Matt Haig WHEN NORA SEED finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right.

Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?

And I Quote ...

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

Charles Lamb, 1775-1834, British essayist

“The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.” William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, British writer

HootS – Heads out of the Sand – Groby Thinking beyond the LOCKDOWN

AT THE END of June 2019, Janet and I travelled to London to join the mass lobby of parliament ‘The Time is Now’: we met with our MP Edward Argar to share our concerns about the current climate emergency and to ask the government to take action.

The year that has passed since then is not what we would have predicted, and it is not what any of us would have wished for. As life evolves into a very different normal, we all know that - as well as continuing to deal with the health emergency - there are many repercussions of the Covid pandemic that we still have to face. Many people have, or will, lose jobs and our economy will struggle.

I hope that in all this we can take time to pause and think about the future that we hope for. What do we want our future to look like? The lock down came suddenly and – amazingly - not only here in the UK but all over the world, humanity responded to a health crisis by adapting lifestyles drastically. It is important to recognise that our experience of the lockdown has not been the same: for some it meant an increase in their work and a more stressful workplace; for some it meant a period of loneliness and isolation; for some it meant being confined in a dangerous situation. Many of us in Groby were able to retreat into our houses in relative comfort, make the most of family time, get to know and assist neighbours and make the most of the beautiful countryside around us. But everyone has had to adapt their lives drastically, and this should give us hope. Not only here in the UK but all over the world we have made necessary changes – we have shown that humanity can respond to an emergency by drastically changing our behaviour.

Change is what is needed as we face the climate emergency. And many of the changes that we made in response to the Covid crisis are ones that we need to make in the face of the climate emergency: we have worked together as a community; we have travelled less by car and plane and more by foot and bike; we have shopped locally (our local shops did a fantastic job!); we have learnt to use technology that enables us to have virtual meetings; we have shopped less for things we don’t really need; we have found joy in reading books, baking, gardening and going for a walk; many of us have done a lot less washing!

So as we continue on this journey can I encourage you to take a bit of time to reflect on your lockdown experiences? Think of the things you have learnt and the changes you have made that will lead to the future you hope for, not only for yourself but for humanity.

We need to respond to the climate emergency now and put pressure on those in positions of power to make decisions and investments that have the survival of our planet at their heart. HootS (Heads out of the Sand) – Groby, aims to educate, act and lobby on these issues at a local level. We want to explore what we can do in our village: to make a difference; reduce our carbon footprint; build a resilient community. Along with other groups in the village our meetings have been put on hold during this time, but please look out in future editions of the Spotlight to hear how we will be making changes so we can carry on working together for the sake of our planet. Ruth Mwenya

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• Set of LEFT HANDED GOLF CLUBS, plus GOLF BAG. Price: £30.00. Tel: 0771 2438515 (Markfield)

• Adidas black & gold MAN’S BAG, minor mark on front - £5 • Shark Rider FANCY DRESS COSTUME, worn once, small repair where stitching came undone, but not noticeable. Cost £30 new - £15. • Mini Cooper R56 LED front FOG LIGHTS. Unopened and comes with all wiring and connectors needed - £100. • 5 x power 8 AWG WIRING KIT, up to 800 watts, unopened - £5. • Nerf Centurion DARTS - £2. • Pioneer Full Range CAR SPEAKERS, 200 watts RMS, 400 watts ACH, 25HZ20KHZ, sensitivity 95DB. Unused and never installed. Comes with all equipment needed to install as standard - £25 • Female AB-TEK BELT in good working order, fully anti-bac cleaned plus carry bag - £8. Can deliver locally if unable to collect.

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• Set of universal CAR MATS. Price: £5.00.

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• Early Learning Centre TURTLE SAND PIT with lid, sand (bagged), plus toys. Price: £20.00

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• 8’ x 4’ single axle GALVANISED TRAILER with separate 5’ ramp and includes hitchlock bolt with 2 keys and waterproof cover. Good condition. Price: £350 o.n.o.

Tel: 01530 244893 (Groby).

• Power tech VIBRATION MACHINE. Very good condition. Comes with instruction book. Price: £90.00.

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• Red leather 2 SEATER SETTEE / SOFA BED. Excellent condition. Only used on half a dozen occasions.Currently resides in the conservatory. Price: £100.00 o.n.o.

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• TV CABINET & COFFEE TABLE

for sale separately or as a job-lot. Both matching solid wood, handmade Indian style carpentry. Good condition but might benefit from polishing. £100 for both or individual price on enquiry.

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• FOLDING COMMODE - 5 litre bucket with lid. Lightweight but strong. Never used. Price: £20.00. Must collect.

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• LOUIS VUITTON SHAWL - Ruby Red - originally costing over £400 - size 142.5 x 142.5 cm/56.10 x 56.10 inches - combination of wool and silk - in pristine condition complete with Louis Vuitton box. Price: £75.00.

• BOSE WAVE MUSIC SYSTEM -

Model AWRCC6. White AM/FM Radio and CD Player. This is a very compact stereo system in pristine condition complete with remote control. Price: £50.00.

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• Hoover Smart Express VACUUM CLEANER with TOOLS. Good working condition. Price: £25.00

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• ELECTRO ACOUSTIC GUITAR - Takamine EG 124C Series. Excellent condition. With case. Price: £150.00. • PICNIC SET - Vintage 1950’s/60’s Sirram 4 Person Picnic Set in Wicker Hamper.Excellent condition. Price: £45.00. • Vintage 1960’s WICKER ARMCHAIR. Excellent condition.Price: £45.00

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• ROOF TILES - 350 second hand clay roof tiles - size 7” x 11”. Approx. 100 square feet. Price: £50.00

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• Set of LEFT HANDED GOLF CLUBS, plus GOLF BAG. Price: £30.00

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• Set of UNIVERSAL CAR MATS. Price: £5.00.

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• LE TOY VAN CHEROKEE TIPI - as new, in box. Price: £5.00. Plus TWO FIGURES - 50p each. • Melissa & Doug’s CATCH & COUNT FISHING GAME. Unopened. Price: £10.00. • LITTLE CARPENTER’S TOOL BOX - as new, unopened. Price: £10.00. • LE TOY VAN FIRE ENGINE SET - unplyaed with. Price: £10.00. All of the above are suitable for children of 3 years plus, and still boxed.

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• GARDEN TOOLS - 5 items. Price: £15.00 • Two RADIATORS (300mm and 1200mm) Price: £10.00 each. • FISHING KIT - bag, rods, reels, etc. Price: £75.00 • COMBO SENSAS BOX NEW - pole bar, side tray, plus foot/plate. Price: £300.00.

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• HIGH SLEEPER BED - Very sturdy wooden high sleeper bed. Provides great extra play/storage space beneath for children over 6. This bed can be lowered and used without the extensions too. Frame size approx - 207.5cm lg x 101.5cm wide. For use with mattress 200cm lg x 101.5 cm wide. Full original instructions provided.Price: Offers around £110.00

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(not for publication, just to know where you are). Cllr Stuart Bray hits out over inappropriate development

~ From Borough Councillor Martin Cartwright ~ LEADER OF Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, Stuart Bray, has written to local MPs Dr Luke Evans and Edward Argar seeking the Government’s support to help protect the Borough from unwarranted and speculative development.

The letter states:

I am writing on behalf of the communities in Hinckley and Bosworth to seek your support from Government to help protect the Borough from unwarranted and speculative development. Two key measures can be taken, firstly by relaxing the requirements to demonstrate a five year housing supply and secondly to exclude the requirements to meet the three year ‘housing delivery’ test in 2020/21.

The COVID crisis has led to housing developments not progressing on many sites and to delays in developers submitting planning applications as housing companies have furloughed staff.

Why is this so important and what do these requirements mean? The Five Year Housing Requirement - is a requirement set by Government in the National Planning Policy Framework. It highlights that councils are required to have enough sites ready for development to meet housing needs for the next five years. This means that there have to be enough permissions granted and land allocated, based on targets set by Government, to deliver these housing numbers. For this council we are expected to deliver over 450 homes every year for the next five years.

If you can’t demonstrate this, Government policy requires that on new applications for housing, regardless of location, should be approved unless there are clear exceptional circumstances.

The ‘Housing Delivery’ test is a further requirement introduced by Government which measures how many homes have been built in the last three years against targets set by Government.

The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in a significant slowdown on construction sites and a number of national housebuilders have forecasted 50% lower build out rates as a result of the crisis. However if you are unable to demonstrate the three year delivery test this also is likely to mean planning permissions get granted on unwanted locations.

Councils all over the country are experiencing speculative housing applications by land promoters and developers seeking to exploit this situation, which is causing untold misery and upset for many communities. Even when many of those consents are granted we are not seeing delivery. This creates a vicious circle and undermines the council’s ability to achieve a five year land supply and meet the three year delivery test. So what do we need Government to do? • Remove the five year housing supply requirement of at least another year to allow for the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic to be addressed by the housing industry. • Exclude the requirement for the Housing Delivery Test for 2020/21 due to the impact of the pandemic this year. • Allow councils to rely on our current Local Plan Allocations and Neighbourhood Development Plans to direct where development should happen.

When my administration came to power last May this council did not have a five year land supply. We consider we are well placed to help support local economic recovery but we want to have local control over where housing development happens, to safeguard our communities from unwarranted speculative development.

I therefore urge you to raise these issues and suggestions to your Government, which I am sure will be well received by the communities of Hinckley & Bosworth.

I look forward to your support and response on this matter.

Yours sincerely

Stuart Bray, Leader of the Council

Always Day One

by Alex Kantrowitz AT AMAZON, ‘Day One’ is code for working inventively and urgently, as if it were the first day of your startup.

Day Two is, in Bezos’s own words, ‘stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death.’ Amazon and its fellow tech giants are under fire for their size and power, but there’s more to their story than anti-competitive practices and tax avoidance. These companies have kept ahead of the competition by embracing a new leadership model, one built for an age where companies can spin up new products and services at record speed.

On the inside, these tech giants operate nothing like the corporate giants of the past - the likes of Exxon and GM - which built core advantages and did everything they could to defend them.

For these new goliaths, it’s always day one.

News from St Philip and St James Churches (Ratby & Groby)

Dear Friends During these very strange and difficult times our churches are endeavouring to do all we can for those of you who would like the opportunity for worship.

We are striving to make our churches as welcoming as possible to absolutely everyone. There are obviously challenges and constraints so that we can do all we can to ensure the safety of everyone who wishes to worship and so we have been trying new ways to worship.

For people who would like to worship in church • We have opened our churches in both Ratby (8am) and Groby (6pm) for worship. • Groby (Saturday 10am-12pm) and Ratby (Saturday 2-4pm) will also be open for private prayer.

Please be aware numbers in church will be limited by 2m distancing requirements in both churches - exact numbers will depend on whether there are households who can sit together, but singly we can manage about 22 in each church. Full details can be found on our ‘A Church Near You’ web pages (search for Ratby or Groby).

• Services online

Every Sunday at 10am via Facebook we have a live service

Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 9pm Compline (Night Prayer)

Every Thursday at 10am Morning prayer

All available via the GrobyRatby Rector Facebook page and Sunday services posted to the benefice Facebook page @StPandStJ and YouTube (Search for Ed Bampton)

• Telephone Church

Alongside this, for those who are unable to access our services online, we are also doing ‘Telephone Church’ on Sunday at 11.15am (the calls are at normal call rates and are included in any bundled minutes on your landline or mobile). Basically it is a form of conference call which means that all “attending” have the opportunity to talk to each other as well as listen to a very short service led by one of our ministry team.

Using your phone (Landline or mobile) DIAL 0333 0164757

You will then be asked to dial 10336316# and then to dial your guest pin 1920# and then join in and enjoy the service and the friendship.

All are welcome.

Dogs can mean better-behaved children IS YOUR child naughty? Consider getting a dog. A recent study has found that children who grow up with a dog are far more likely to be willing to share and help others.

Researchers at the University of Western Australia in Perth have found that young children who live with a dog and who frequently interact with family members who interact with the pet dog are far less likely to be naughty or uncooperative. Small children who are taken for a dog walk with their parents and siblings at least once a week even show a 30 per cent drop in being naughty and disruptive, and a 40 per cent drop in falling-out with friends. “Dogs help children learn about responsibility and unconditional loyalty. But they can also help with language development and verbal skills, while promoting trust and empathy.” Say the researchers. Their study was published in the journal Paediatric Research.

LISTED below are some recent planning applications local to our area:

Single storey rear extension -

at 31 Anstey Lane, Groby, Leicester LE6 0DA

Creation of 2 Juliet balconies to first floor, use of existing flat roof as balcony and installation of 0.9m and 1.8m high screens - at 11

The Paddock, Markfield, Leics. LE67 9RR.

Approval of reserved matters (appearance, landscaping, layout & scale) of application number 19/00680/OUT for the erection of 168 dwellings - at Springfield

Riding School, Groby Road, Ratby, Leicester LE6 0BS.

Roof extension, single storey side and rear extensions and front porch - at 17 Marston Drive,

Groby, Leicester LE6 0DY.

Rear extension and alterations to front fenestration - at 215

Leicester Road, Field Head, Near Markfield, Leics. LE67 9RF.

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Why Can’t We All Just Get Along: Shout Less. Listen More

by Iain Dale Why Can’t We All Just Get Along is part-memoir, partpolemic about the state of public discourse in Britain and the world today.

In an increasingly divided society, Iain examines why we’ve all become so disrespectful and intolerant. Using experiences from his career in politics and the media, he says it doesn’t have to be this way, and suggests how we can all emerge from tribalism and division and become more respectful to each other and those who govern us.

It is a book that is optimistic about the fundamental decencies embedded in human nature and uses deeply personal anecdotes to explain why we can look forward in a positive way to a better life both in personal and material terms.

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Both of the churches in Groby are closed for the foreseeable, with our usual services & activities suspended.

But, we are still there for your spiritual needs during this time of great challenge. The brick/stone church has been replaced by a church of people communicating and supporting via telephone, e-mail and social media. Please check out what we are doing –we are actually reaching more people via our Facebook pages than we could fit in our churches, but we would love to reach even more.

Rector –Rev Ed Bampton 01162396520

Rev Noel Colley 07757 302271

If you need any spiritual support or prayers please text/message your name and home telephone number to one of our elders on 07807036944 or 07368405207–you will get a call back. www.facebook.com/grobyurc/

www.facebook.com/StPandStJ www.achurchnearyou.com/church/5501

Online live streamed regular services as follows: Every Tuesday at 9pm Compline Every Thursday at 10am Morning Prayer Every Sunday at 10am Morning Worship

Online live streamed services 10am Sundays –follow us on Facebook for more information and daily posts to support & encourage you.

Christian Booklets/Gospels/Magazines and DVDs - have been put outside the church on Chapel Hill for anyone who is interested and would find them helpful.