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The Link Magazine • August 2002 43
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Penhill will not be shut off from Abbey Meads
From Marilyn Beale on behalf of the Penhill Forum Handbuilt fitted bedrooms
The story, a shock, horror front several occasions we have corn- ♦ Individual handbuilt finish on
page in the Evening Advertiser in plained about the flooding of this all bedrooms
June, was incorrect. No footpath route and no doubt this is the rea-
link between Penhill and Emerson son the people are going through ♦ Manufactured individually to
Close, Abbey Meads is to be closed, Emerson Close. customer requirements Free tes
and it was unfair to run the story The stretch of cycle route be- Choose from over 40 different estima Woodworking
with no comment from anyone in tween the two bridges from Penhill finishes - hardwood, since ]969:
Penhill. to Abbey Meads does not comply pine sprayed and vinyl wrapped an excellent finish and
with Swindon Council's own personal service guaranteed,
cycle route safety policy and Tel: 01793 526335 all at an affordable price
this was pointed out at the
planning stage. There are too
few exits and not enough
houses overlook it to make it
open enough for personal
safety.
Residents of houses which
do overlook the route have
planted cypress leylandii
trees and pedestrians are
faced with a long run of side
walls, 6 foot fences, tall trees,
bends etc.
We have also had cause to
complain to the Swindon po-
lice about the impression
some of them have given.
One is reported to have stated
One of the winning photographs in the Swin- that Penhill children are sent
don Volunteers photographic competition by parents to rob and not to
during June's volunteer week. A young come back empty handed!. If
helper cleans up Groundwell Brook between this was true it would be a
Penhill and Abbey Meads on a community child protection issue.
environmental clean-up day organised by The perception of Penhill
the Environmental Group for Groundwell as a crime ridden commu-
nity, apart from not being
The facts are that there is a true, is that people who are on
cycleway with two bridges, cost- their own and vulnerable on both
ing over £10,000 each, crossing sides of the brook, are unnecessar-
Groundwell Brook between ily furtherisolatedby fear. Penhill's
Penhill from Abbey Meads, which crime rate at present is at an all
give the two communities access time low.
to the wider cycle way network. Lastly, some councillors have
And they will not be closed, suggested fencing off Penhill. We
There are further cycleways say, forget it. Penhill is not a no go
across a flat green'kickabout area' area and we will not allow them to
(which Penhill negotiated at the make it one. Some 7,500 adults and
framework planning stage to ben- 800 children live here and they
efit both communities)which leads deserve as much respect as any
to Abbey Meads village centre. On area of Swindon.