No 24: February 2011
Published by Rothay House, Mayfield Road, Eastrea.
Eastrea Village News SUCCESS! £50,000 FROM FENLAND AT LAST
The offices of Fenland District Council, where councillors have at last agreed to help fund the construction of our new village hall, the Eastrea Centre.
EASTREA Village Hall Trust has now secured full funding for the construction of the Eastrea Centre. The villagers collected core funding over the decades after the campaign for our own village hall began in 1945, and we have been promised a major injection of money by our developers. We needed a ‘top-up’ of £50,000 from Fenland, and two of their senior officers, Ross McGivern and Roger Money, came to Eastrea to examine the project in great detail. Our funding was approved by Council on 24 February 2011. We have agreed grants for furniture and equipment, so building could start in April.
WORK on the village hall is moving ahead rapidly now. More than fifty people are working on our project! The Trust has had all our legal work done for us by Buckles. At the start, a fixed fee was agreed with them, and Buckles went on working well past the limit. Our work has been done by Peter Haynes, who brought in specialists as necessary without any additional charge being payable by Eastrea. The total legal cost for all the legal work on the project is well over £10,000 yet the Trust’s bill has been less than £300. Our partners in the development are Rose Homes and their legal team at Roythorne & Co are still working on the details under Paul Osborne. Due to the loss of our Big Lottery backing, we had the hall redesigned so that it could be completed at a fraction of the original cost and the plans had to be finalised, and then prepared for the planners. This work has now been done so we are now on the last lap.
South Holland District Council The land survey is being dealt with by Matt Radcliffe at Ratcliffe Land have been brought in to handle the & Engineering Survey. Landscape requirements for Building Energy design is requiring much detailed Model Calculations for Emissions. work and our plans NEWMARKET RACE VISIT are being finalised by Julie Robinson at Robert Doughty Consultants. Building and fire regulations require further specialist work which is being done by David Broker, Adam Sutton and the staff at David Nags’s Head supporters were thin on the ground when Broker Design the pub organised a day trip to Newmarket Races. The pub’s co-owner David Lepla said: ‘We put up notices in Services. Each has a the Nag’s Head, but unfortunately only ten tickets were support team sold. So we invited regulars at the Fenman to join us, of computer and they took the rest of the tickets—more than 40 of and secretarial them!’ All had a great day out, though the Nag’s Head are disappointed as they had hoped for more support. staff.
WHAT IS
GOING ON?