Tag: Great Western Hospital

New Parish Councils New Parish councils are now being formed with Liden and Eldene joining Nythe Parish. Councillor Derique Montaut aims to join Nythe parish as he is concerned that Liden and Eldene residents will be under-represented on the parish during this year’s precept setting process. Thank you to those who have come forward interested in becoming parish councillors too. More parish councillors will still be needed. It is important for Eldene and Liden to have adequate representation as decisions…

New Parish Councils At the time of writing this article it looks certain that Swindon Borough Council will be introducing new parishes across Swindon and joining up Eldene and Liden with the current Nythe Parish. The Conservative Cabinet on the Council have said new parish councils will be providing services like street cleaning, grounds maintenance and fly-tipping collection. The Council have said that together with general Council-Tax increases, this will mean residents in non-parished areas will have their council-tax increased…

Libraries In our last article we mentioned Swindon Council’s plan to reduce Swindon libraries to just four, with the closure of both Liden and Park South libraries unless volunteers are found. We can now advise that consultation events will be taking place to allow you to have your say on Swindon Borough Council’s new library strategy. Within our area these are Mon, 5th Sept (11am-3pm) at Parks Library and Weds, 7th Sept (10am-2pm) at Liden Library.  The consultation ends on…

Liden Councillor, Derique Montaut, has joined local residents living near to the Great Western Hospital in Liden who have voiced their anger and frustration over increased volumes of hospital worker cars using their streets as a free car park.  It appears that staff at the Great Western Hospital are parking in streets near to the hospital in order to avoid paying the parking fees that are in place at the hospital.  These parking fees are for both hospital visitors and…