An update from your Labour Councillors, Fay Howard, Neil Heavens and Derique Montaut, in Liden, Eldene and Park South on the development of the proposed new Morrisons Superstore development near the Eldene Centre.
An update from your Labour Councillors, Fay Howard, Neil Heavens and Derique Montaut, in Liden, Eldene and Park South on the development of the proposed new Morrisons Superstore development near the Eldene Centre.
The Sussex Square regeneration scheme has finally been drafted and your Walcot and Park North Councillors are having a public consultation meeting on Wednesday 5th June at Mountford Manor primary school from 7.00pm.
Councillor Watts said “I very much look forward to the new community centre opening later this year. I am sure it will have an important role in strengthening the community in Old Town.” Work will begin on the new community centre over the coming weeks. The new centre is expected to be completed by September.
Councillor Fay Howard concerned at the lack of progress on the planned play park at Cavendish Square asked for an update and date when we would see it complete. We are pleased to report the Lead Member replied that the project is now a priority and acknowledged the delay. It is hoped the play area will be complete by the school summer holidays.
Swindon has a heritage and cultural life to be proud of, but we have not made the most of our railway history and green spaces. Labour has worked hard on plans for economic recovery, the town centre, and a long term plan for Swindon's growth. Your votes in May reduced the Conservative majority to just one and has opened up the opportunity for us to pursue our ideas more strongly, gaining cross party agreement to a common vision for Swindon…
We have launched a campaign to bring back the Christmas Market to Swindon town centre. Please sign the petition at www.swindonchristmasmarket.co.uk The annual Christmas Market in Swindon town centre has been cancelled this year. The Council have banned street trading in Canal Walk, the previous location for the market. The Council’s town centre managers, InSwindon, had planned for the event to be in Canal walk and have now cancelled the market as traders are not interested in running a market…
The Council proposal is to relocate playground equipment (pictured). It has been in the ‘Diamond Park’ Collingsmead but is need of replacement.
The Shadow Police and Criminal Justice Minister David Hanson visited Swindon on Tuesday 23rd October in response to a request by Clare Moody, the Labour Police and Crime Commissionaire candidate for Wiltshire. The local Police and Pubwatch had asked local councillors for action to improve the Fleet Street area before it gets any worse.
In his column last week the Leader of Swindon Council, Rod Bluh, announced that cross-party support had been reached on the emerging Economic Strategy for Swindon Borough Council. Councillor Bluh is absolutely right in acknowledging this, indeed when the Labour Group first read the Economic Strategy we thought it was so similar to our own Economic Strategy published a year ago that Council officers had been instructed to lift extracts from our policy document.
My first success as a Councillor was getting Swindon Borough Council to agree to restore a sculpture in Freshbrook Village Centre.
Swindon has missed out on a share of £1.5m earmarked for town centre improvements designed to rejuvenate high street shopping. Swindon was one of over 400 towns that submitted funding applications after a report by Mary Portas into the state of the High Street identified high streets as at crisis point.
Labour Action: Through partnership with the local community, we secured £52,000 investment for projects in Parks and Walcot. We have opened new Youth Club serving Parks. We have also allocated money to create new children’s football pitches on buckhurst Fields. Tory Failure: Tory Council ‘lost’ the money that was allocated to Parks and Walcot. Tory Councillors for Walcot could not agree on how to spend the money and so investment went unspent for a year.