Ashfield District Council's leader has said he is "confident" the area's fire station will return to being a full-time one as Nottinghamshire's Chief Fire Officer draws up proposals for the site's future. Ashfield fire station lost its full-time crew in 2018 and since that time, it has been operating from 8am until 6pm with 12 full-time firefighters, then relying on on-call firefighters outside of that timeframe.
Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service at the time of the 2018 arrangements said the alternative would have been redundancies or station closures, but it then said last December that it could invest £660,000 in returning Ashfield to a full-time station. This sum of money is the amount that would have been saved by removing the night-time shift from West Bridgford instead.
But the West Bridgford plans sparked controversy and they have now been officially dropped at a meeting of the Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham Fire and Rescue Authority on Friday (February 24). Despite dropping that plan, as well as proposals to take fire engines away from the London Road and Stockhill stations, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service is continuing to look at the future of Ashfield fire station.
