Thorney Medical Practice (Laurel Farm Medical Centre in Eye is a branch practice of Thorney) aims to merge with several other practices in the Peterborough area from July 2018 and form a new group named Octagon Medical Practice. The practice will be writing to patients and holding patient open evenings. Continue reading “Thorney Medical Practice merger”
Larkfleet Homes have come up with a proposal for the area of land to the east of Eye behind the Primary School. The proposed development will include up to 280 homes with access to the site from Eyebury Road, this is 30 more homes than specified in the Local Submission Plan.
Not to be taken lightly this is one of the largest single estates added to the village in its history.
The proposals also include additional land (around 0.8 hectares – total area of the new development is around 13 hectares) and a new access point for the school. The additional land would be paid for from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL*), which Larkfleet Homes would need to pay. According to Larkfleet this is likely to be in excess of one million pounds for the estate. Continue reading “Update: Eyebury Road development”
In 2015 a Commons Select Committee concluded that that “England is a litter-ridden country compared to most of Europe, North America and Japan”. There’s been a lot of news around the pollution caused by plastic waste in the environment. You don’t have to go far to see this. The A47 to the west of Eye along the southern edge Star Pit Nature Reserve is one of the cities grot spots. The nature reserve is a site of special scientific interest with many species of water beetle found in the shallow pools.
Cans, coffee cups and plastic bottles seem to make up a lot of the litter but there is also a wide range of packing, plastic bags, drinks cartons and miscellaneous pieces of cardboard. Some of it is quite old so it obviously hasn’t been cleaned for a while. If this was along Bourges Boulevard in Peterborough there would be an outcry because this is in the ‘countryside’ it almost seems fine to ignore it.
Research on roadside litter by the RSPB and Keep Britain Tidy has found more than 8% of bottles and almost 5% of the cans contained remains of some of our rarest native mammals, including shrews, bank voles and wood mice.
1918 was the final year of World War One. Germany had been in retreat since the middle of 1917 but it wasn’t until the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that fighting ended. Also known as the Armistice of Compiègne from the place where it was signed, it came into force at 11 am and marked a victory for the Allies and a defeat for Germany but it wasn’t a surrender, that had to wait for the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty was signed in June 1919 and was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Continue reading “The First World War Centenary – Village life in 1918”
The cold weather has been caused by weather sweeping in from Russia. Winds from Siberia have pushed in from the east, causing the temperatures to drop to minus five, with a windchill as low as minus 12. This has been caused by the northern polar jet stream which has twisted its direction unexpectedly, drawing in cold air as it crosses the country. The last time happened was 2013, but the UK has not experienced such low temperatures since 1991.
The south-east has gotten off fairly lightly with the north and south-west affected the most.
The full crime statistics for 2017 have been released on police.co.uk. For the fourth year in succession, the figures show an overall increase in recorded crime across the parish.
In 2012 the figure was 351 recorded crimes for the whole year. Last year the figure had risen to 578, a 65 per cent increase.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crime type | Total | % | Total | % | Change | Total | % | Change | ||
| Anti-social behaviour | 178 | 42.1% | 156 | 29.7% | -12.4% | 139 | 24% | -10.9% | ||
| Bicycle theft | 4 | 0.9% | 5 | 0.9% | 25% | 2 | 0.3% | -60% | ||
| Burglary | 26 | 6.1% | 48 | 9.1% | 84.6% | 54 | 9.3% | 12.5% | ||
| Criminal damage and arson | 48 | 11.3% | 46 | 8.8% | -4.2% | 43 | 7.4% | -6.5% | ||
| Drugs | 7 | 1.6% | 6 | 1.1% | -14.3% | 3 | 0.5% | -50% | ||
| Other crime | 10 | 2.4% | 7 | 1.3% | -30% | 7 | 1.2% | 0% | ||
| Other theft | 24 | 5.0% | 74 | 14.1% | 208.3% | 69 | 11.9% | -6.8% | ||
| Possession of weapons | 0 | 0% | 2 | 0.4% | 200% | 1 | 0.2% | -50% | ||
| Public order | 3 | 0.7% | 13 | 2.5% | 333.3% | 22 | 3.8% | 69.2% | ||
| Robbery | 9 | 2.1% | 4 | 0.8% | -55.6% | 3 | 0.5% | -25% | ||
| Shoplifting | 11 | 2.6% | 28 | 5.3% | 154.5% | 70 | 12.1% | 150% | ||
| Theft from the person | 3 | 0.7% | 2 | 0.4% | -33.3% | 2 | 0.3% | 0% | ||
| Vehicle crime | 33 | 7.8% | 46 | 8.8% | 39.4% | 42 | 7.3% | -8.7% | ||
| Violence and sexual offences | 67 | 15.8% | 88 | 16.8% | 31.3% | 121 | 20.9% | 37.5% | ||
| Total | 423 | 525 | 24.1% | 578 | 10.1% |
Continue reading “Recorded crime rises by a third in two years”
You’ve ruined Eye and you should be ashamed of yourselves” said Mayor of Peterborough and village Councillor at the time David Sanders to city planners in October 2016. Even as late as 2005 you could look across grass meadows from the north side of the High Street. This has now been lost forever. Over the past 10 years approximately 365 homes have been built across the village:
The ‘ proposed submission’ version of the Local Plan is available for comment until the 20 February 2018. This is the final version that is put to public consultation and independent examination. The plan sets out the council’s planning policies for growth and regeneration of Peterborough and the surrounding villages up to 2036 (although the previous Peterborough Core Strategy Development Plan Document (DPD) which was adopted in February 2011 was supposed to last until 2026). The next stage the council will submit the local plan to the Secretary of State together with feedback received during the proposed submission stage. Continue reading “The Local Plan – Proposed Submission”
Westleigh Homes, a building company based in Leicester has applied to build 67 homes on the former Northam Brickyard site adjacent to Eye Nature Reserve. In the new Local Plan, this has been increased to 55 but is nearly double what was recommended in the original 2011 Site Allocation Development Plan Document. The plan includes 2, 3 and 4 bedrooms homes including a number of social rented (shared ownership or other) homes. From their website, “Westleigh Homes build modern contemporary new homes across the UK from our base in Leicestershire. We design homes & specifications with the modern lifestyle in mind.” Continue reading “Guilsborough Road estate – Planning application mk2”
Christmas 1916 was beset with food shortages, bad news from the front and the worst weather for over 30 years. Rationing wasn’t brought until December 2017 but there were growing shortages on the domestic front, as bread and meal prices increased sharply on the previous year – the consequence of German naval action. Many families couldn’t afford what they had previous years and had to make the best of what was available.
The recipes below are from the Peterborough Standard, 16 December 1916. There are links to more detailed alternatives where available. Continue reading “Economical Christmas Dishes from 1916”
Welcome to the new and improved Eye Village website. With a fresher look and feel the new website is designed with you in mind. Its taken over a month of work and a quite a number of late nights to get to this stage.
Time has moved on since the original site was conceived and it had become time-consuming to manage. The new site should work should work a lot better on mobile devices with easier navigation and have more interactive sections. There’s a whole host of smaller changes, all designed to give you a better experience. If you have any problems please contact me here.
The home page has been updated and the news pages are now a lot easier to comment on. The heritage section has always been my favourite section and that stays much the same as it was, the directory has been revamped, companies based in the parish of Eye can add their business for free to this section.
The site costs £60 a year in hosting so if any Eye businesses would like to sponsor the site or advertise please click here. You will get a banner on the front page and a link to your website at the bottom of each page (currently I pay all the running costs myself).
Thank you for visiting.