I didn’t have to wait long for my introduction to being a local Councillor and taking on casework. Just a few days after the election, I was faced with the Swindon Advertiser’s front page detailing a fire in a derelict building in the ward and it wasn’t long before residents were contacting me.
I didn’t have to wait long for my introduction to being a local Councillor and taking on casework. Just a few days after the election, I was faced with the Swindon Advertiser’s front page detailing a fire in a derelict building in the ward and it wasn’t long before residents were contacting me.
I knew that there had been a fire before at the property at 9 Deburgh St at the end of last year and that the Council were in the process of a getting a Compulsory Purchase order granted on the property.
I followed up the question by getting the Council Chief Exec, Gavin Jones, to update me on the progress of the Compulsory Purchase Order.
He has been keeping me up to date, and I’m pleased to report that the Council made the Compulsory Purchase Order on the 26th June, and that if no-one objects before the 20th July, the Council will be able to take the order to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and take over ownership of the property in due course.