THE NEW SWINDON COMPANY, UNION SQUARE and the BSACC

Following a New Swindon company (NSC) forum meeting attended last night by the BSACC chair Karen Leakey (10 Dec. 08), it would seem that plans are afoot for them to work with SBC and turn one of the boarded up areas that will not be redeveloped for at least 3 years, on the recently renamed Union Square site* (bus garage, Davis House etc), into some sort of short term adventure playground for youngsters.
A move in the right direction? Let’s hope so. At least if this does happen it will be an improvement on the views we have to look at now.



With regards to the relocation of Carfax Street health centre, this will be moving to the old Police Station site but not until 2012 and the present building will not be closed until the new one is open. Carlton Street car park will also be moving to the same site.

In the past couple of years representatives of the NSC have attended a number of our monthly meetings, they have also recently joined the Broadgreen Police Tasking Group and have offered to visit the Community Council once again in 2009 to keep us updated on the regeneration progress.



*About Union Square, from the NSC website:

Union Square will be a flagship regeneration project for the town centre, which will provide up to 160,000 sq m of high quality new offices and new homes. It will also help to rejuvenate the town's leisure opportunities, providing new shops, restaurants, cafes and a new hotel, creating a safe and vibrant family friendly area throughout the day and into early evening.
In addition to delivering new buildings, Union Square will include a range of new public realm and facilities to improve local people and the visitor's experience of Swindon. These include the provision of walkable streets and attractive new open public spaces, a new and improved bus interchange, a new facility for the Primary Care Trust, and high quality car parking in a new multi - storey car park.

COMMUNITY GARDEN UPDATE

SBC started converting a small area of the Broadgreen Centre for use as a community garden back in the middle of October HERE
Two months on and some progress has been made:

CHRISTMAS MEAL, 4 DECEMBER 2008

Members of the Community Council partook in their annual Christmas Meal at the Grove in Drove Road, and all had a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Many thanks to Karen Leakey for organising things.

MINUTES OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON 5TH NOVEMBER 2008

PRESENT: Chair Karen Leakey, Vice Chair and Treasurer Richard Coates, Secretary Kevin Leakey, Minute Secretary John Phillips, John Banville, John and Vi Clark, Karen Coulthard, Stella Edwards, Pam Freegard, Elizabeth Grady, Olive Hitchcock, Kate Johnson, Alan Jones, Cluniford Mason, Rebecca McIntosh, Val Purvis, Derek Sutton, Ros Timlin, David Webb.

ALSO PRESENT: John Taylor, Councillor Derique Montaut, PC Crouch, PC Sophia McIntyre Vice Officer, Matt and Sue O’Sullivan, Tony and Joanne Felstaed

AGENDA - BSACC Monthly Meeting 03 December 2008

WEDNESDAY 03 DECEMBER 2008
7.30 PM in the LOUNGE, BROADGREEN CENTRE.