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GP set to open on Elstree Way Aromatherapy Christmas Gifts at
After delays and bureacratic negotiations which have gone on for
about two years, the people for Abbey Meads have a doctors surgery. Affordable Prices
Therapeutic
Dr John & Partners open the Appointments can be made dur- An extensive range
doors of their new temporary sur- ing these times on 702068. At all body massage of jewellery and
gery on Elstree Way, next to the other times, call the Carfax Street treatments accessories from
community centre, on Monday 29 surgery on 692062.
September. Plans have been submitted for a Waxing & eyelash/eyebrow £3.99 to suit all the family.
Surgery times are: permanent health centre at Abbey tinting also available Call to arrange a party,
Monday 430pm - 6pm Meads village centre. If agreed by Fully qualified & insured private presentation,
Tuesday 845am - 1015am Swindon Councils planning com- For an appointment,
Wednesday 930am - 11am mittee in October, the building or to receive a catalogue.
Thursday 8.30am - 10pm could be ready in a year. call Paula Mathewson Orders taken 7 days a week.
ICHT DIP
01793 423276 Call Paula Johnstone on
Mobile coffee bar on the way Home treatment available 01793 - 705081
Swindon Council's Youth Service is planning to bring the Octobus to
Abbey Meads for a four week trial starting on Wednesday 22 October,
7pm to 9.30pm.
The exact location on St Andrews Ridge has yet to be agreed, but Life's cosier
teenagers should look out for a silver double decker staffed by welcom-
ing youth workers offering coffee, chat and youth club activities.
with a

Builders league table planned living flame
Abbey Meads residents' association is organising a
league table of builders' performance and want to NO CHIMNEY
hear opinions from home buyers.
Chairman Ian Dobie, right, said the league table NO PROBLEM
will rate builders on cooperation, provision of work-
er's car parks, willingness to fix problems, and any
other points brought to his attention. THE
IREPLACJ' Swindon • Tel: (01793) 612288
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Heading for first 1,000
October should see the occupation of the one thousandths house
somewhere in Swindon's northern expansion, three years to the
month after the first arrivals. WESSEX CONSERVATORIES'
The first showhome was opened west of Lady Lane. But Friends of
in August 1994 and the Scotney the Earth Swindon are urging peo-
family were the first to move into ple to comment on the scheme to DOUBLE GLAZED
the area, from nearby Haydon ensure the best wildlife sites are CONSERVATORY
Wick, on 21 October of that year. protected and that the design and
A total of 10,000 houses are timing are people friendly. Model 810 - Solitaire
planned to be built over the next "We are worried that it will be iOOff
One Window • Glass to Ground
ten to twelve years in four 'urban' no more than a place to sleep and Lead Flashing
villages. The main development drive through for the first few ~
• Glass or Polycarbonate Roof
has been at Abbey Meads, but 20 years," said FoE spokeswoman Ckegg a,s'°'
houses are now occupied at Taw Jean Saunders. "Without shops, • Double Sliding Door.
Hill in the far west of the expan- schools, community halls in place 1 0y guarantee, installed to your base. £3275 inc. VAT
sion area, off the Moredon Road. early, the area will have no heart
Developers have just submitted whilst families are likely to be car- SINGLE GLAZED CONSERVATORY
an outline planning application to dependent which is bad news for
build the next 6,000 houses, to the everyone, and the environment." Model 810 - Flavius
• Glass to Ground • Glass Roof • Two Windows
School should be at the heart of community • Double or Single Sliding Door
Jean Saunders also expressed concern that the site for the northern DIY £1200 inc. VAT
expansion secondary school is out on a limb, in the far north west of
the area. "The school should be central to the whole development so All products & work guaranteed
that young people can easily walk or cycle," said Mrs Saunders.
Greendown Community School enough about the lack of a second- COMPTONS Ring UPvC
in West Swindon is the most re- ary school. It opened in 1985, nine CONCRETE WESSEX WINDOWS
cent secondary school to be built years after the first people moved GARAGE 5 point
in the town. The site on the devel- in. Being next to Lydiard Park is 8'G" x DIRECT locking
opment master plan drawn in the delightful, but its a long way from
1970s also located it on the edge of Toothill and particularly Sparcells. from £850 inc. VAT (01793) Internally glazed
the expansion area. I would urge northern expan- + installation 422477 Back door fitted
Asked to comment, former chair- sion residents to press Swindon to your base £388 inc. VAT
man of governors Roger Ogle said, Council to relocate the secondary Base service Newcombe Drive Front door fitted
"West Swindon people did not school site, and also to start dis- Hawksworth
raise the school siting until it was cussions on the kind of school lo- available Swindon from £475 inc vat
far too late. Nor did they protest cal people want."