MARK Spencer has been the member of parliament for Sherwood, which includes Lambley and Woodborough, since 2010. With a general election on 12 December 2019, voters have a chance to award him a fourth successive victory, or sack him in…
NEW shopping bus services provide links between villages in our area and nearby shops – but on a limited timetable. The new S6 runs from Lowdham to Calverton, Woodborough, Lambley, and Arnold on Mondays only. Three buses run in each…
NEWS reaches us that Floralands garden centre re-opens today, Monday 16 July 2018. Director Jackie Loftus tells dumbles.co.uk that “the whole site, cafe, gifts and garden, has reopened. The plant sales area may be opening a little later in the…
Floralands, a garden centre and visitor attraction in Catfoot Lane Lambley, is to close.Its owner, Home and Garden Group, was placed in administration on 27 March 2018. Floralands had been operated since the 1980s and was part of the business…
The long-running issue of proposed crematorium development at Catfoot Lane, Lambley, has entered a new phase. A judicial review into the decision of Gedling Borough Council to grant planning permission for development in the protected Green Belt was heard in…
Lambley-based photographer Sarah Wilkes has reached the final of the prestigious Guild of Photographers Image of the Year competition. Her picture is one of just ten images selected from the guild’s monthly photographic competitions. Over the course of 2015, almost…
The legality of the decision to grant planning permission for a controversial crematorium development on Catfoot Lane has not yet been decided, but that has not prevented the developer Westerleigh group beginning work on the site. We learned this week…
The ongoing saga of proposed crematorium development on Catfoot Lane, Lambley, has taken yet another twist with the submission by Westerleigh of a new application for planning permission. The new application was lodged with Gedling Borough Council on 11 November…
Controversial plans for a crematorium on Catfoot Lane in Lambley will be subject to a new judicial review, dumbles.co.uk has learned. The hearing has been scheduled for early February 2016 in Birmingham, and is expected to last two days. Crematorium…