VILLAGE NEWS
Burnham Market Community Car Scheme
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Burnham Market Area Community Car Scheme organises volunteer drivers to take passengers for medically-related appointments from Wells-next-the-Sea and surrounding area to the east and coastal villages, west to Old Hunstanton and approximately 20 miles inland.
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The scheme attends local surgeries including Burnham Market, Wells-next-the-Sea, Docking, Hunstanton, Fakenham Medical Centre and Gayton Road Medical Centre. It also attends hospitals such as, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Addenbrooke's Cambridge, Papworth, Queen Elizabeth King's Lynn, Sandringham Hospital, Kelling, Wisbech and Wells Community Hospital etc.
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It also visits opticians, physiotherapists, dentists, podiatrists, day centres and care homes. Whilst medical appointments are its main aim it also arranges hospital and nursing home visiting, and sometimes this includes shopping. Collection and delivery of prescriptions.
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Passengers pay 45p per mile for journeys.
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To use the service please contact Linda 07301 011303
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A new single point of contact for flooding in Norfolk has been launched, allowing
residents to report any sort of flooding quickly and efficiently.
ln the event of flooding residents can call 0344 800 8013 to report it. Alternatively, residents can continue to report flooding online via our flooding pages.
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The new number gives residents a single point of contact and allows reports to be made swiftly. Different agencies respond to different types of flooding, which has historically made reporting a flood by telephone more-complicated when and where it is not possible to ascertain the source of floodwaters. The new number provides a single point of contact making the reporting of flooding quicker and easier.
Where there is a potential risk to life from flooding people should still call 999 immediately.
Lord Richard Dannatt, Chair of the Norfolk Strategic Flooding Alliance (NSFA), said: 'When flooding hits, people have to make quick decisions on
how to react. For those who want to alert others and report a flood, the process of finding the right agency could be slow and frustrating, wasting
Valuable time. This new initiative makes reporting a flood faster and easier, allowing residents to get on with protecting their families and
property.
'The introduction of this number is the result of the work of the NSFA over the past few months, and is the first step in the Alliance's programme of work to address the risks of flooding in Norfolk and will make dealing with flooding in our county simpler and easier for the people of Norfolk."
A leaflet detailing the new number, including a pop-out-and-keep card, is being delivered to households across Norfolk this week to ensure
everyone knows how to report flooding in the county.
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The new number has been set up by the Norfolk Strategic Flooding Alliance, a partnership of agencies across Norfolk working to provide a
consistent and coordinated response to flooding in the county, while also making communities and infrastructure are safer and more resilient.
The number is staffed by Norfolk County Council officers and funded by the County Council.
Cllr Andrew Proctor, Leader of Norfolk County Council, the councils Lead Flooding Authority, said: "Last winter saw heavy rainfall and flooding
across our county. People affected were trying to report flooding and get some help with some residents using phone numbers 15 years old or
more. That can't happen again. ln an emergency we need to be able to know where people need help and make it easier for them to report
incidences of flooding. By introducing this new number and sharing it far and wide, including to every home in Norfolk, we're making sure everyone knows how to make a report quickly and easily."
As part of its ongoing programme of work, he NSFA has identified sixteen sites across Norfolk that are regularly at risk of flooding. These sites will form the first tranche of locations that the NSFA will inspect with a view to proposing how to minimise or mitigate local flooding risk. The work carried out on this first tranche will inform work across Norfolk in the coming years.
The sixteen sites included on the initial list are located at:
Burgh Road/Beccles Rd, Gorleston
Ferry Road, Horning
A1101, Welney Wash
Necton
Burnham Market and North and South Creake
Tunstead
A140, Long Stratton
Norwich Road, Strumpshaw
Gayton
Watton/Saham Toney
Mattishall
A143 Redenhall
Yaxham
Kenninghall
Cranworth
Newport Rd/Yarmouth Rd, Hemsby
Each site will see work led by a Lead Agency - Norfolk County Council or Anglian Water, depending on the site - to develop an outline, costed
solution that will form the basis of any necessary future funding bids.
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While flood risk at many of these sites will not prove easy or quick to resolve this work will provide the blueprint for addressing other flood
sites across the county.
The NSFA is finalising a Strategy and an Action Plan, to ensure the partnership working between its members continues for the longer term,
providing a consistent and recognised forum for responding to flooding in the future.
Notes to Editors
The Norfolk Strategic Flooding Alliance is a new taskforce, brought together in early 2021, to work so that Norfolk communities and
infrastructure are safer and more resilient to the risks of inland and coastal flooding. The Alliance includes, among others, the Environment
Agency, Anglian Water, the Association of Drainage Authorities, the Water Management Alliance, Water Resources East, the Norfolk Resilience
Forum, the Broads Authority and Norfolk's County, Borough, City, District and Parish Councils.
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The Ostrich Inn - Commission Art Work WINNER
The Ostrich Inn have announced the winner of the commission piece of art work to be displayed within the reception area of the newly refurbished building. The contemporary artwork by South Creake artist Ricardo Pimental was chosen from an overwhelming response to the competition. One Community, Twelve Stories | Past, Present and Future (2021) consists of twelve panels, with each panel reflecting a different aspect of the community's history, present state or future direction.
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To find more out about each of the images, or the rationale for the orange frame itself, visit Ricardo Pimental's website.