A petition has started against Wiltshire council’s proposal to increase the speed along part of Coombe Rd to 40mph and Netherhampton Rd to 60mph & 50mph.
The petition will go to these and nearby streets and is also on the next issue of Focus, due shortly.
I will be supporting residents and fightling these proposals all the way!
The CQC logo is “Our job is to check whether hospitals, care homes and care services are meeting government standards“.
Well, you can now see how they are doing, particularly if you have a relative in a Care Home, or about to go into one. Hospitals and Dentists are assessed too.
Click HERE for full details of Hospitals, Care Homes and Dentists near you.
Report via the Wiltshire council website via this link.
Litter; clear it up!
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An outstanding application has been lodged with Wiltshire council (WC) to ‘stop up’ some land on Carrion Pond Drove (CPD), which is an ancient Drove and a ‘Right of Way’.
The applicant wants to ‘gain access’ to ‘his land’ in CPD, but via Essex Square; the loop that runs down to CPD.
If WC grant the application, then many residents who park here will probably be unable to do so, because the applicant may claim that the ‘access’ to ‘his land’ is being blocked.
Please see the link here
I voiced a strong objection to the order at a site visit on 4th April and have done so over the years.
The cabinet member for transport’s decision is imminent on this.
All Park & Ride sites around the City will open between 8am and 6.30pm on the following Bank Holidays:
•Good Friday – April 6 2012
•Easter Monday – April 9 2012
•May Day Monday – May 7 2012
•Jubilee Monday – June 4 2012
•Jubilee Tuesday – June 5 2012
•August bank holiday Monday – Aug 27 2012
Click here to read the council’s press release.
More than £1.3m of funding for improved bus services around Salisbury has been secured thanks to a joint bid to the government from Wiltshire Council and Wilts & Dorset Bus Company.
Wilts & Dorset will be putting in nearly £1m following the successful £394,000 bid to the government’s Better Bus Area fund which will help improve and extend the bus services in the city.
Although the details of the schemes have not been finalised, it is hoped they will include:
•The extension of the Wilton park & ride service to allow access to the Churchfields industrial estate
•Improved access to up-to-date bus timetable and Real Time Information
•Highways improvements a five key locations in the city identified through the Salisbury Bus Quality Partnership to help alleviate delays
•Improved waiting facilities in Salisbury city centre including the introduction of a waiting room at the bus station
•A “Bike to Bus” scheme including secure cycle facilities at key bus stops
•LED lights to replace all fluorescent lighting tubes on all buses operating in Salisbury which would reduce the carbon footprint
I will be aiming to get West Harnham included (at long last) for Real Time displays at our Bus stops in West Harnham.
Wiltshire council are to do a consultation, starting in the autumn, on proposals to increase the legal traffic speed on three of Harnham’s busiest roads. This is a ludicrious suggestion.
Their proposals are to:
1) Increase the speed to 60mph on Netherhampton Rd (from 30mph) by In-Excess
2) Increase to 40mph, the speed on Coombe Rd to the approximate location of Francis Way
3) Increase to 40mph, the speed on Downton Rd from Britford to the Milton Rd junction
The plan can be seen here
The full details can be seen here
I believe that this will be a retrograde safety-step for Harnham Residents.
THIS ITEM WAS DEFERRED TO THE NEXT MEETING ON 17TH MAY. It has the support of other councillors and is very likely to be approved then. The funds for the financial year that ended in April were used on other projects. The funds for this will come from the current financial year. Click on the relevant links below for details.
The next Area Board on 15th March, will have an important Harnham issue on the Agenda. The Agenda can be read here.
I have submitted a councillor bid for £9,000 funding to help build a shared foot/cycle path from East to West Harnham. The scheme will cost about £24,500 in total. Funding, it is hoped, will come from two other sources.
The aim will be to widen the path along New Harnham Rd to allow school children to cycle safely to our Harnham School’s, from the gyratory to Old Blandford Rd.
New Harnham Rd – Plan of Proposed Shared Use foot/cycle Path Plan
A move by Tory councillor’s to ‘stop’ democracy, was pushed through at the budget setting council meeting.
Liberal Democrat councillors had forced recorded votes on issues of free parking, free swimming and re-opening our Leisure Centre’s on bank holiday’s. Conservative councillors closed our Leisure Centre’s on bank holidays.
By having recorded votes, resident’s can then see which way their councillor voted, which some councillors detest. They think they can tell their community one thing, whilst doing another far away in Trowbridge.
Conservative councillor Chris Humphries moved a Motion at the meeting to stop further recorded votes at this meeting. Dictatorship?
The administration was told that only one further recorded vote was forthcoming on re-opening Leisure Centre’s on bank holidays and that they had a choice:
Tories refused to listen, even against some strong protest by some of their own councillors.
The embarrassing vote was forcefully pushed through by the ruling administration.
In due course, we can all see which councillors voted to halt democracy at a council meeting.
The Conservative Motion proves that they prefer dictatorship to democracy.