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DAY IN THE LIFE
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Troubleshooting with a smile
LOSE WEIGHT QUALITY SHEDS
QUICKLY AND SAFELY Sue Dennis is a Development & Project Assistant at Thamesdown
Council. She deals with the 'nuts and bolts' of the development process,
FOR SPRING AND FENCING from setting up meetings between different departments, to handling
Call your Counsellor DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER complaints about untidy building sites. After 6 years involvement with
Glenis at SHEDS West Swindon she knows most of its nooks and crannies
Z' WORKSHOPS
-. • STABLES My day begins at 6.30a.m.
çriVol • AVIARIES No alarm required, as our seven
• DOG KENNELS your old grandson is in residence!
This is the time of day when his
creativity is at its best, and he may
need assistance in producing
Mondays to Thursdays T 'something' outof empty eggboxes,
10.30am-2.30pm. Swindon 693875 cardboard tubes, bits of string and
sticky tape U do feel that Blue Peter
Cambridge ALL TYPES OF FENCING & GATES has a lot to answer for!). Next we
SUPPLIED AND FITTED
FREE ESTIMATES • FREE DELIVERY have the queue for the shower, and
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Tel: (0793) 854967 then amidst the roar of hairdryers
there are discussions as to who needs
a packed lunch, and how many will
beathome fordinnerintheevening.
Curtains, Bed Fashions, I collapse into the car at about 8
Old Sofas, Blinds, Cushions, o'clock and traffic permitting arrive
for work around 815a.m. _-
Lighting and Carpets The Development and Project
Management Division is concerned Sue Dennis - dthinjing somebody along
all beautifully co-ordinated
OS with the co-ordination of Thames- increasingly difficult for Local
down Borough Council's deve- Authorities to fund these facilities.
Free measuring service and sample loans lopment and redevelopment At present Councillors and Officers
schemes throughout the Borough. fromThamesdownare investigating
Superior Fitting Service For the past six years, I've been possible ways of financing the
Please call in to browse involved with various development Community Centre. In the
projects in West Swindon. meantime a tidying-up exercise is
In addition to housing proposed.
DREAM INTERIORS at CURTAIN DREAM development, many other facilities Following this meeting, estimates
38 Havelock Street, Swindon. have been provided in the area will be produced for the work, and
including surgeries for doctors and it will then be the responsibility of
Tel: 513701 dentists, community centres, my division to establish whether
churches and village centres. The finance is available for part or all of
latest project to get 'off the ground' the work, and then produce a
VETERINARY is the open air market at the Link suitable programme.
On my return to the office, there
Centre.
The development of West are memos to write and enquiries to
ENTRE Swindon had just begun in 1973, deal with, usually regarding the
when I first joined the Council to availability of development land. At
work in theCivilEngineering Design lunchtime it's a quick dash to the
SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE Office. Since then I have watched shops, followed by a sandwich and
with interest as the area has diet coke.
RAMLEIA ZE DRIVE, SHAW developed and matured into the five Thisafternoonl will be discus sing
Urban Villages there are today. The with my manager the setting up a
final village will be Roughmoor, but working party, involving officers
there's still some way to go before it from other groups within the
Consultations by Appointment
is completed. Recently plans for Council, with a view to to setting up
Mon to Fri 8.30am - 6.00pm Roughmoor Village Centre, priorities for the West Swindon
8.00pm -1 O.00pm prepared by the Council's Planning completion programme. Due to the
Sat 9.00am - 1 2.3Opm Department, were exhibited at constraints now imposed upon Local
Sparcells. This will be the last village Authorities, careful consideration
centre to be built in West Swindon, has to be given to the way money is
and is another project which will be spent, and we are all becoming even
• LATE NIGHT co-ordinated by the Development more 'budget' conscious.
and Project Management Division. Provided that there are no last
SURGERIES Today I have two site meetings to minute problems, I aim to leave the
attend at Shaw Village Centre. The office at 5p.m. and return home to
• 24 HOUR firstat9a.m. is with a BritishTelecom an evening meal with my family.
representative to agree the siting of We have a discussion on the day's
EMERGENCY a long awaited payphone. Later I events, generally followed by an
TREATMENT am meeting with other Council argument as to whose turn it is to
officers from Planning, Property wash up! Then it is time to complete
Services, Landscaping and the general household chores (this
WESTLEA
Engineering Divisions, to discuss could actually form 'A Day in the
TOOTHILL
completion works at the Village Life of' on its own!). Finally if I've
Centre. any energy left, I like to 'potter' in
TEL: 881919 given to the Community Centre site. read a book (unless of course my
Particular consideration is being the garden, or go walking or just
Due to recent Central Government grandson has any other interesting
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legislation, it is becoming plans!).
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