PRESENT: Chair Karen Leakey, Vice-Chair Pam Freegard, Secretary and Archivist Kevin Leakey, Treasurer John Freegard, Muhammad Chaudhry, John and Vi Clark, Kath Cridland, Paul Izquierdo, Kate Johnson, Kay Malko, Cluniford Mason, Rebecca McIntosh, Ros Timlin, Bob Walter
ALSO PRESENT: PCSO Bird, PCSO Rogers, Frances Barrone -Town Centre Locality Facilitator, councillors J and B Wright, Marie Lennon - BBC Wiltshire, Tim French
APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE: Vice-Treasurer Madge Sutton, Alan Jones, Evelyn Mason, William Murray, Mark Walker SBC Town Centre Locality Lead,
The following issues and points were brought up
ALEXANDRA ROAD - Alexandra Rd and the surrounding area always looks a mess.
ALFRED STREET - Rear alleyway (other side of Manchester Rd) people drinking.
Alleyway by side of 53 Alfred St (from Alfred St to Corporation St) is never
Cleared/cleaned.
Cars always parked in the alleyway (not just on Friday’s).
Double yellow lines please.
Continual parking on pavements – and double yellow lines.
Path o/s 53 Alfred Street has sunk and retains a lot of water.
ARMSTRONG STREET -‘Vegeland’ sign directing customers to park in Armstrong Street is still in place.
The road is in a terrible state – more potholes than road.
To avoid cars ‘rat running’ from Corporation St to Manchester Rd via Armstrong Street and Alfred Street – could there be a no left turn into Armstrong Street from Corporation St?
AYLESBURY STREET - Is the Old Laundry being demolished?
BATHURST ROAD - Could the road be ‘greened’ – long road very bland.
BROAD STREET - Breakfast Club can cause problems – most recent complaint user’s hiding drink outside while they visit the Church Hall.
CARFAX STREET - People wanting their surgery medicine (users waiting for the methadone) sit outside in groups with dogs intimidating passers by and people entering the Health Centre.
CORPORATION STREET - Bus stop encourages street drinkers and makes life uncomfortable for other people.
Shop on Lagos Street corner - there are always vehicles parked on double yellows or on the path. The same shop has faulty guttering; this overflows onto the pavement in Corporation St.
COUNTY ROAD - Has problems at times with prostitution.
The old 1930’s road sign on the Manchester Rd junction in dire need of re-painting before someone decides to use it for scrap metal.
FLEMING WAY – Litter bin is needed by the bus stop outside Cockram Court.
GAMBIA STREET - Traffic coming off Magic Roundabout/County Rd cuts through Gambia Street and Rosebery St during rush hour – this has been a problem for residents for many years.
GLADSTONE STREET - Alleyways are being badly fly-tipped.
People are learning to drive in the alleyway between Gladstone St - Salisbury St and Bathurst Rd - Broad St.
Fly tipping between Gladstone St - Ponting St and Ponting St - Alfred St between Broad St and Manchester Rd.
MANCHESTER ROAD - Serious concerns with Prostitution.
Parking on Manchester Rd and pathway to visit shops and businesses in the area.
Alleyways blocked with cars all day – there is always a taxi parked in the alleyway at the rear of Abbeys. (The taxi problem – the person who parks it there lives in the next street and does not have a parking permit).
There are too many shops.
We hate the drinkers in the area – spoiling happy times for us – the residents.
Dirty Alleys – sick and tired of people being selfish and lazy.
Businesses take little responsibility for their rubbish – they need to be told they should ‘hide’ the rubbish and manage it properly, after all this is a residential area primarily.
MEDGBURY ROAD - Grass area at the end of Medgbury Rd would be a nice place to make a community garden, (like the Phoenix Garden in London) – which is a fabulous community project.
STREETS FOR LIVING AREA - Post missing (Manchester Rd end)
Road is sinking by the gateways and the tarmac is breaking up in certain areas.
The Yellow lines are missing at the Broad St end of Ponting St - at the side of the shop.
Problems with fly tipping in alleyway.
Still waiting for the costings of the project – over the years many requests have been made by the community.
At the end of 2012 is the ‘sign off’ for Streets For Living project - need to make sure SBC upkeep the 1.1 million pound project.
SALISBURY STREET - Big problem with fly tipping on the corner of Salisbury St and Broad St at the side of the Braid It salon.
Salisbury Street signs (on the Bathurst Rd junction) in need of re-painting.
SHRIVENHAM ROAD - St Joseph’s school parking problems (in hand).
There is ASB from young people playing in County Ground extension area at different times of the year.
Overgrown bushes in the Shrivenham Rd alleyway (between Shrivenham Rd and the County Ground ext).
This is a very long-term problem and nothing has been done.
The Alleyway at the same area needs cleaning.
STATION ROAD - Problems with overgrown bushes along the railway bank.
GENERAL PROBLEMS IN BROADGREEN
Lack of litterbins.
Illegal parking in the area.
HMO’s are a very major concern.
Prostitution.
Serious lack of enforcement by SBC.
Could community payback clear the area on a regular basis.
Spitting in the area – serious concerns about spreading diseases.
COUNTY GROUND AREA
Litter bins are needed in the area.
Bushes at the rear of County Road and the County Ground car park need rubbish clearing.
No fairs, circus or lorry parks.
Poor lighting in the area.
Uneven pathway needs work at the County Ground extension – many people have been complaining just recently.
Repair damage to Shrivenham Road/Magic Roundabout entrance to the County Ground car park caused by heavy lorries from the circus.
BROADGREEN CENTRE AND GREEN AREA - The grass area is a boggy mess and not a good place for the young people in bad weather.
BROADGREEN BUSINESSES - No more food Businesses in the Broadgreen area.
Would be nice to have: a flower shop, a Bread shop and a Charity shop
CORRESPONDENCE
Sent – None
Received – None
PLANNING
S/12/0572 - 27 County Road SN1 2EG - Change of use of Vetinary Practice to 1no. dwelling. - Application granted - Case Officer – Miss Heather Carlisle
S/12/0860 - Budget Bikes, 148-149 Manchester Road SN1 1TU - Change of use from car hifi shop (Sextons) to motorcycle shop and insertion of new windows and shutters (retrospective) and new fence with gates - Application Pending Consideration - Case Officer – Miss Heather Carlisle
TREASURERS REPORT - to 04 JULY 2012: John Freegard
HISTORY REPORT: A number of images from the Central Libraries Flickr website, from the R. Perry collection, were displayed, including –
Manchester Rd shops, probably in the early 1930’s. 148/149 - a fruit and veg shop and a fishmongers, 150 - G &B Higgs a hairdressers and 151 – H Coram a butchers.
A road accident between a motorbike and sidecar and a lorry, probably in the late 1920’s early 1930’s in Corporation St, outside what is now Abbey’s Store.
There were also some images of the ‘Jubilee Arch’ in County Road taken in June 1897 in celebration of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. As the arch appears to have possibly been built with wooden scaffolding poles, it was suggested that Colborne the Builders might have supplied them as they had a yard in County Road.
How long have lorries been hitting Whitehouse Bridge? For many years apparently! Colin Finch lent a copy of an Adver image from 1939 of a GWR ‘conflat’ lorry that had hit the bridge and partly dislodged the container from the back of the lorry.
Was Colbourne Street misnamed? Although Arthur Joseph Colborne had a yard in County Road, and built the houses in Colbourne Street, named after him, around 1905, his name was allegedly spelt wrong when the Council put up the street signs, but did Arthur actually change his family name by dropping the ‘U’?
Last year we requested, via Councillor Montaut, that the old 1930’s road sign on the county Rd - Manchester Rd junction was in dire need of re-painting before someone decided to use it for scrap metal. Despite the modern signs being replaced since then, a resident from Amber Court pointed out that the old sign remained in a bad state of repair and thought it would be worth chasing up.
