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4 The Link Magazine • Jan 2004

FOR SPECIALIST Consultation Watching and waiting in Toothill.
LEGAL ADVICE closes soon Consulting in Westlea - again

* Conveyancing Swindon Council's seven week Councillors on the West Area Panel on 11 December heard from
(On-Line Estimate Service) consultation on the Local Plan to Swindon Council traffic engineers that no new measures are pro-
2011 ends on 12 January.
* Employment posed to regulate traffic outside Oliver Tomkins School, Toothill.
Planners are looking for public
* Family Law Residents have pro-
comments tested that since the
* Wills & Probate on the re- r SWINDON installation of humps
CITY
For more information or vised pro- CENTRE along Freshbrook a j _____
detailed conveyancing costs visit: p O s a I S OPENING FIRST QUARTER 2004 Way many drivers „^^1
www.crd.org.uk which in- Talking up the town I were by-passing them _ s
elude: and using Beaumaris
C • allocation of land for a univer- Road outside the
sity campus and housing next to school. They say im- "
SOLICITORS Coate Water; proved safety for pe-
• changes to future development destrians walking to
D of the town centre; Oliver Tomkins from Morning congestion outside Oliver Tomkins School,
• adjustments to the development the south across a ter the Freshbrook Way humps were installed
f
Carter Read & Dove
of the Front Garden; Freshbrook Way, has put those saga at Langstone Way, Westlea
Commerce House • amendments to existing policies approaching the school from the after residents' protests stopped
34/35 Commercial Road, Swindon on advertising, nature conser- north and east across Beaumaris work on traffic calming measures
E-mail: [email protected] vation and employment land. Road at risk. in September. Al though curb build
Tel: (01793) 617617 The local plan documents are Traffic safety manager Adrian outs have been installed council
available to view in libraries, the Dean said there had been no acci- workmen did not build the pro-
Fax: (01793) 511249
Swindon Council offices at Pre- dents on either road since the posed humps.
FarAcy° mier House, Station Road, or via humps were installed in April and People living on Langstone Way
www.swindon.gov.uk whilst vehicle counts show a complained that whilst council of-
change in traffic flows, the data is ficers put forward proposals for
not yet conclusive. He said that he creating a 20mph zone in January
would be visiting Beaumaris Road 2003, the agreed plans were not
with the council's road safety of- brought back to the community
ficer in the New Year. for consideration. New proposals
The council's cabinet on 3 De- will now be drawn up and further
cember considered the ongoing consultation will take placein2004.
Meanwhile on Thames Avenue....
Haydon Wick residents concerned with traffic volume and speeds on
Thames Avenue heard little encouragement that things might change
at the North Area Panel on 4 December.
Swindon council officers said that the police were investigating
speeding issues, but official traffic counts show that the number of
vehicles using the road was not as high as residents claim.
No improvement seems likely in the near future to the peak time
congestion at the junction of Thames Avenue and Westfield Way. A
mini roundabout, traffic lights or a no right turn order have been
suggested at various times.
The officers reported that Westfield Way will be downgraded to
30mph and that the housing developers were making adjustments to
the phasing of traffic lights on Thamesdown Drive.

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