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8 The Link Magazine • August 2002
Street name suggestions needed
NAWAB Link readers asked to help address a problem
r yf : FABRIC As the expansion of Swindon continues remorselessly, Swindon Council officers are faced with the
problem of coming up with names for a multitude of new roads.
FASHIONS Their 20th Century forerunners To prevent problems for the tinue with Haydon End, south of
SWINDON'S exploited untapped resources of Royal Mail as well as the general ThamesdownDrive,andtheFront
BEST FABRIC place names, Great Western Rail- public, the council mustavoid hav- Garden in about two years time.
"- SHOP way engineers, statesmen and sol- ing similar names within the same The council would welcome sug-
diers. Nowadays, for the develop- postal collection district. Names gestions from readers of The Link
Come and see us ment in Priory Vale and soon the of living local people are not con- whocouldhelpinfluencetheiden-
Example: silk saris only £4.99 Front Garden, originality is a little sidered appropriate and, naturally, tity of the area.
harder to come by. anything the slightest bit salacious Suggestions sent to The Link, ad-
The various areas of North Swin- is ruled out. dress on page 4, will be forwarded
25 Tennyson Street, Swindon don already developed can be dis- The need for new ideas will con- to Swindon Council.
(Near the Health Hydro. Milton Road)
tinguished by the themes chosen
Tel: 01793 611869 to provide most of their street Map is well received
Monday - Saturday loam to 4pm names. Greenmeadow's rivers and Version 4 of the North Swindon map produced by The Link with help
Haydonleigh's flowers and herbs from staff at Swindon Council is again proving to be a hit with
are well established, residents, the emergency services, delivery drivers and trades people.
Abbey Meads features names The map is the only up to date housing area has been started.
Cetetk4tiwy 15 yeew
associated with leisure and enter- guide of the fast changing land- Copies can now be obtained
pailstilq 6Ke tainment, especially the cinema, St scape in North Swindon and is from a wide range of outlets - see
Andrews Ridge writers and art- already out of date because a new opposite.
t ecow6tiKg kossies ists, Ash Brake long distance foot-
paths. Red House in Priory Vale, Asda Walmart still not big enough
iK Pea Wigboµ
to the west of Lady Lane, will in- Plans have been submitted for a 15,000 square feet extension to the
Offering a high elude streets named after Manor Asda Walmart supercentre which is barely six months old.
standard of work Class locomotives of the old GWR. H a d e n
Attention now turns to the y A sign of things to come
with references Wick Parish later in the year at the
Oakhurst area to the north of
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available. Thamesdown Drive. Swindon Council has l Q
Council is considering names objected to =—} C e r^
Telephone for a based on famous golf courses and the self-con- p l -
free estimate: nature conservation. But it is be- twined unit _ -, ;
attached to
07774 - 208527 days coming increasingly difficult to the main
think to think up original themes
or 870515 eves. store selling 1 b i
from which an adequate stock of
names can be gleaned. non-food F n ^
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cause of the
disruption to existing car-parking, Asda-Walmart store is 145,000
servicing and pedestrian arrange- square feet and phase II which
SUMMER ments. opens in late August covers 200,000
square feet. Big names like Comet,
However the extension falls
;. PECIAL within the legal agreement to build and Homebase will open there.
• Art project takes shape in North
360,000 square feet on the North
Swindon District Centre site. The Swindon - see page 22.
Revised drive-through restaurant plan
still presents traffic and smell problems
Quarter Satay chicken on skewers Residents of Ash Brake will be turning out in force to Swindon
aromatic OR Mini veg spring rolls Council's planning committee meeting - probably on 30 July - to hear
crispy duck & seaweed its decision on the controversial commercial development of the site
on the corner of Thamesdown Drive and Lady Lane.
After protests from residents have submitted their views on the
Chicken Roast pork
supported by two parish councils, application to planning officers.
with cashew nuts OR & mushrooms the developers scaled down their The site was earmarked for
in yellow bean sauce in black bean sauce proposals to one restaurant, a take- 'roadside uses' on the framework
away and a retail unit, which could plan passed over ten years ago.
Shredded chilli chicken be a video shop. Derek Richards of Haydonleigh
Beef with ginger & spring onions Campaigner Tracy Godwin said, wrote to The Link in June to say
Egg fried rice, fortune cookies & prawn crackers "we're still not happy with the pro- planning designation for the site
posal. The smell and traffic move- was known to residents. He said,
Special offer price £17.33 ment around the site is going to be "fast food facilities and a video
Please note: the special menu cannot be changed a major nuisance to those living shop would, I am sure, be wel-
close by and the developers are comed by many living in the area,
unable to give us any guarantees especially youngsters."
that this can be avoided." But Abbey Meads coun Charles
These concerns are shared by Lister responded in the July Link
Haydon Wick Parish Council, but saying that residents have every
their colleagues at Blunsdon feel right to complain. While the na-
thattheschemeisprobablyasclose ture of the commercial use was
to an acceptable solution as is likely unspecified, he believes people
to be achieved, have a right to expect neighbour-
Both councils and the residents friendly proposals.