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The Link Magazine • June 2003 5
Is Swindon destined to get Where's your favourite Swindon place?
Swindon Civic Trust has launched a free competition to celebrate
another 20,000 houses? 'Swindon's Favourite Places.'
Last month Mark Newey from the forward planning section at Entries can be in any form suit- The judges will look at the qual-
Swindon Council's planning department wrote of the work by Swin- able for exhibition visually or ity of the personal entry and its
don and Wiltshire County Councils to review the Wiltshire and acoustically such as graphics, pho- ability to evoke a positive response;
Swindon Structure Plan to 2016 and invited the public to an exhibi- tos, drawings, writing, recordings, vision, imagination and public rap-
tion in early May. The deadline for receiving comments on the videos, DVDs, models port will all be highly
proposals in the document, available at libraries and the council and art installations. valued.
offices at Premier House, Station Road, is 9 June. Any place that can The closing date is
be readily visited by 24 October, ready for
Between 1996 and 2016, Gov- No development proposals have
ernment specified that 60,000 been identified yet, and the head- the public can be fea- an exhibition in No-
tured. Submissions in vember. For details,
houses be built in Wiltshire, 24,500 line above is a provocative ques- call 520592.
in Swindon, along with 260 hec- tion. But Government regional several age categories,
tares of land for employment. planning guidance has identified as well as non commer- Left, a favourite place for
The majority of the houses have Swindon as one of 11 principal cial groups will be many in Springtime, Old
been built, or land has been com- urban areas in the South West des- welcomed. Town Gardens
mitted for them, for example in the ignated for growth.
Front Garden. Sites for another In the short term the planners
1,900 homes have yet to be found, want to know where the last 1,900
as well as another 50 hectares for houses to be built in the plan up to KINGFISHER IF
employment purposes. 2016 should go. Should they form
But the big questions are, where a new village on the edge of exist-
should the land be allocated and ing urban development, for exam- WINDOWS • DOORS • CONSERVATORIES
what are the implications for the ple West Swindon?
period after 2016? On the other hand, should they
form the basis for a major as yet THE CLEAR CHOICE
unspecified housing development
THE Need after 2016?
COMPLETE curtain s The planners have set out choices FOR QUALITY,
CURTAIN orblinds to be considered with regard to
SERVICE made? transportation, the environment, VALUE AND SECURITY
employment, brown field devel-
Design, making and complete opment and are considering com-
fitting service available ments from the exhibition; further • Full Range of PVC-U
Large range of material samples y and Aluminium Products J ' AL
views can be submitted b 9 June
Free estimating and advice • Various Colours and Finishes
before a final report is made later
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01793 611051 As Mark Newey wrote in the
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1 r Home Sew Curtain L County Councils are required to Visitors are always welcome

Supplies plan for the future and 'cannot Open 6 days a week
1 00's of fabrics in stock choose to do nothing.' Mon to Fri 9. 00am - 5. 00pm
from £2.50/metre He added that the councils are Saturday 8.00am - 12.30pm
Heading from 25p/metre looking inwards at existing urban FOR FRE fr
Lining from £1.50/metre areas to maximise the use of previ- LAD
Cushion pads from £2 each ously developed land. 'Only then, LOCAL ADVICE J Gm,
AND ESTIMATES
All types of rails _r3 whilst respecting existing residents wwy
quality of life, will greenfield land
be considered for development.'
Home visits arranged or
If Swindon is eventually to get
even more houses, it could grow WE ARE
UNIT 7, BARNFIELD ROAD, GREAT WESTERN WAY,
well beyond its present bounda- SWINDON SN2 2DJ HERE
ries into previously protected ar-
eas such as Wootton Bassett,
Lydiard Millicent and Purton.

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