The cabinet this morning, recommended approval to full council next Tuesday, the housing allocation sites, which has caused consternation locally.

The only adjustments they made, was lopping off some housing for Market Lavington. Crazy.

So, we are likely to be faced with 740 houses along Netherhampton Rd. My cynical head tells me, this number will increase.

The council’s Transport Strategy document has already shown a huge 17% increase along Netherhampton/Harnham Rd between 2006 & 2016.

Yet the document goes on to say that the traffic will decrease in 2026, compared to 2016! Just what planet did this document come from? We all know that’s just not true. Yet this is just what the council wants, to help prove its case for housing here.

I spoke against at cabinet today (3rd July) citing many reasons. Exposing this document; massive traffic already through Salisbury; the increase to come; (Tory) landowners rubbing their hands at the land allocations.

Salisbury will become a gridlock. Is it time to debate an orbital ring-road around Salisbury?

https://www.change.org/p/salisbury-city-council-save-salisbury-tourist-information-centre?recruiter=384511892&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

You couldn’t make this up. The Tories voted to close the tourist information centre (TIC) behind the Guildhall- the centre of town, to relocate it to Shopmobility, under Sainsbury’s.

This is a barmy decision by a barmy council.

They plan to spend approx £37,000 of local taxpayers money on this short term, short sighted scheme. The Maltings is due for development, so it’ll have to move again.

An award winning TIC will be killed off.

Our manifesto is being written. The TIC will be moved back to the Guildhall.

Harnham’s Tory cllr Jackson, voted to move it. This will come back and bite those Tories.

Barmy, barmy, barmy.

Hurrah! I’ve Got both local councils to paint the railings in Coombe Rd. One will supply paint, the other, labour!

This will finally tidy up, what was an eyesore until last year, when the rails were repaired by Wiltshire, after years of nagging and nagging!

The section of the A354 Coombe Rd, between the roundabout at Bouverie Avenue and Harnham Gyratory is due to be resurfaced next Friday evening, 22nd June.

All being well!!

At long last and after years of waiting and numerous complaints to Wiltshire Council, the white handrail, which was broken in numerous places, was finally repaired a few weeks ago.

The next job is to ‘nag’ to get the whole rail painted white – watch this space!

The public consultation on building 840 new houses around Harnham commences on July 14th and will last ten weeks. Please click the link to have your say. Please contact me if you need any help or assistance.

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/planninganddevelopment/planningpolicy/wiltshsgsiteallocationsplan.htm

Wiltshire’s ruling Tories have approved the draft Housing sites plan, which if approved (very likely) then an additional 840 houses, without infrastructure, will be built in and around Harnham. This includes:

• 100 new homes just to the south west of Woodbury Rise, Rowbarrow.
• 100 new homes near Waldron’s Farm, Netherhampton Rd (North)
• 640 new homes near the Cattle Market, Netherhampton Rd (south)

The council will be running a public meeting in Salisbury on 19th July at the Guildhall, from 12pm to 7pm, where Officers from the Council will be available during the day to answer questions about the draft Plan.

Further details will follow in due course, with links to the consultation on this website.

Wiltshire Council are proposing another 840 houses for Harnham. Hasn’t the time come to stop more piecemeal development, which will bring Harnham’s roads beyond bursting point? More to follow.

The Tory candidate, in his leaflet, has the nerve to stand near the railings at Coombe Rd, appearing to complain about it.

Well, if his Tory colleagues hadn’t botched up the previous contract (Balfour Beatty LP) then works would have now been long completed.

An absolute disgrace.