Thurmaston Parish Council

Thurmaston Parish Council provides YOUR local services. We strive to make Thurmaston a better place to live, work and visit. Our website includes a wealth of information about how we conduct business and what we do. Use the search or browse the site to find whatever you are looking for. If you can't find what you want or would like to recommend any improvements to our website then please contact us.

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THURMASTON - LOCKDOWN JULY 2020

Most of you will have read posts from news feeds concerning the Lockdown of Leicester and locally. Thurmaston does not have a spike in numbers of Covid19. The outbreak is in the North East of Leicester with 136 cases for every 100,000 (the County's average is 60). Thurmaston is classified a buffer zone and, therefore, lockdown applies to Thurmaston including all Parish Council premises. This will be reviewed every two weeks (the first review taking place on 18th July). There will be increased testing along with track and trace. Only essential travel should take place and working from home if possible.

Council premises:-

Elizabeth Park Sports Centre - closed until further notice.

Memorial Hall, 722 Melton Road - closed until further notice.closed until further notice.

Thurmaston Cemetery - open for visitors and funerals. Maximum of 30 funeral attendants, observing social distancing. All visitors to observe social distancing regulations and do not approach Council Staff.

Parks:-Elizabeth Park, Garden Street Park, Silverdale Park: Parks will remain open, but play equipment will remain closed until further notice. No groups of more than 6 people, Social distancing to be observed at all times.

CHARNWOOD WASTE SITES RE-OPENING SCHEDULE - COVID 19

Posted: Sat, 16 May 2020 14:55 by Julie Preston

Please click on attached document for information regarding the re-opening of Charnwood Waste Sites.

• WASTE SITE REOPENING - COVID 19 (PDF, 37 Kb)

LATEST NEWS - GARDEN WASTE SERVICE - COVID-19

The borough council's garden waste service, which has over 30,000 customers, is resuming on Monday April 20. It was suspended due to resourcing issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Working with our waste partner Serco, we are able to start a limited service from Monday April 20 but clearly that leaves little time to contact all customers.

All the information is on the Council website www.charnwood.gov.uk/gwr

Over the next four weeks we will be emptying bins in different areas of the borough.

LATEST NEWS - COVID-19

TEMPORARY BAN ON BONFIRES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

In order to protect the safety of members of the public during the Covid-19 pandemic, we have taken the decision to temporarily ban bonfires at allotments.

People with respiratory problems are extremely vulnerable to the effect of smoke inhalation and requiring treatment for this puts them at risk of exposure to Covid-19.

Residents spending more time at home in lockdown may also suffer nuisance from bonfire smoke preventing them spending time in their gardens which is often the only place where they can get exercise, relax or enjoy some fresh air.

We appreciate this will cause inconvenience for plot holders needing to dispose of green waste, but please bear with us and respect the others during this difficult time.

Please do not ignore this instruction

Further details; Charnwood Borough Council Environmental Protection Team Tel. 01509 634636

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YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS YOU

WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF GATHERING THE NAMES OF WILLING VOLUNTEERS WHO WILL HELP DURING THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

WHAT WE NEED:

VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH SHOPPING, COLLECTION OF PRESCRIPTIONS DOG WALKING, FRIENDLY PHONE CALL

• VOLUNTEERS FOR EVERY STREET

Ideally you will volunteer for the street or adjoining streets where you live so that residents will be familiar with you.

• VOLUNTEERS - LOTS OF THEM PER STREET

The more people evolved the easier it is, remembering no one is safe from Covid 19.

• LEAD VOLUNTEERS / GROUP CHATS FOR EACH STREET OR AREA .

Once we have the names of people wishing to volunteer, we would ask that you make a group chat between yourselves for your street.

• DISTRIBUTING FLYERS

we recommend that lead volunteer will organise all the volunteers within the street, so that each house is covered, but also that each volunteer adds their details to their flyer which ideally they will be posting to their neighbours where possible.

PLEASE CONTACT US VIA FACEBOOK – HELPING OUR COMMUNITY THURMASTON OR THE PARISH CLERK – clerk@thurmastonpc.gov.uk tel: 0116 2696347 WITH THE STREET NAME OR NAMES YOU ARE WISHING TO VOLUNTEER ON.

RESIDENTS THAT ARE ELDERLY, THOSE WHO LIVE ALONE, PEOPLE IN SELF ISOLATION, PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE FAMILY OR FRIENDS THEY CAN RELY ON: IF YOU NEED THE HELP OF OUR KIND VOLUNTEERS PLEASE CONTACT US ON FACE BOOK – HELPING OUR COMMUNITY THURMASTON OR BY EMAIL: clerk@thurmastonpc.gov.uk or telephone Thurmaston Parish Council: 0116 2696347/07889180459

Charnwood Borough Council - Garden Waste Service Suspended

Sent from The garden waste service was suspended on March 23 and while we had hoped it would resume soon, it is now clear that it will not be operating for some time. This is because our waste partner Serco is experiencing staff shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic and they are having to divert staff to ensure the recycling and refuse service is maintained.

Therefore, we would like to inform garden waste service subscribers that we will not be taking any payments to renew subscriptions. This means that any automatic renewal payments which were due to be taken on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 will not be taken. Please do not call us if you usually pay over the phone.

We will not be taking any future payments until the service is ready to resume. When the garden waste service begins to operate again, we will contact those customers whose subscriptions were due to be renewed and encourage them to sign up again.

Refunds
We are offering extended permits instead of refunds. Anyone who is a current subscriber will have their permits extended by the amount of time the service is not running for ie one month or two months etc. We apologise for any inconvenience and will aim to restore the service as soon as possible. We are sure customers understand that we are operating our services during very unusual and unprecedented times. iPhone

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