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The Link Magazine • August 2005 7
Keeping Front Money allocated to sort out Toothill danger road
Garden green Another accident involving a child crossing Beaumaris Road close to Oliver Tomkins Infant and Junior
In advance of a start on building Schools in late June has infuriated parents who want Swindon Council to make the road safer - once and
for all. Now there is hope for traffic calming by next April.
4,500 homes on Swindon's Front
Garden between Old Town and Ever since the about pedestrians.
the M4, developers Taylor council installed Residents are sick of
Woodrow have committed £15 humps on the dirty looks from
million to environmental protec- Freshbrook Way in the rat runners and
tion and improvements to in- May 2002 following also parents who
clude: a near fatality, park outside the
• 4 kilometres of canal, much of through traffic has school."
which will be managed to create shifted to Beaumaris Oliver Tomkins
new habitats for water voles and Road, increasing governors have been
other aquatic species and birds; dangers to pedestri- successful in a bid to
JVlicHelle $ulliz'an and Jayne Kiddell outside Uhver I onikins
• 73.6 hectare country park and ans going to school the Safer Routes to
wildlife corridors through the from other directions. Toothill to avoid Whitehill Way. School fund, which is independ-
housing areas to link key areas for The September 2003 Link fea- That year a 50 name petition call- ent of accident related road safety
nature conservation; tured the worries of Oliver ing for action to restrict traffic vol- budgets. Bob Sanders of Swindon
• routes for horses, cyclists and Tomkins Junior School head- ume and speed was submitted, but Council highways said, "the safety
walkers throughout the area; teacher Elizabeth Wood who said council officers said Beaumaris features to be installed, such as
• planting over 130,000 trees; Beaumaris Road had become a rat Road had to be considered by coun- speed cushions, will depend on a
• new hedgerows and the im- run from Freshbrook and Grange cillors with all the other dangerous number of factors, but the aim will
provements to existing hedgerows Park to Great Western Way, via roads across Swindon. be to create a 'school safety zone.'
r
not removed by development; Afte the latest He said up to £30,000 could be
September 2003 Link, Ros Hollands can be seen trying to
• restoration of 50 hectares of reduce the dangers to children crossing Beaumaris Road accident Jayne spent and he hoped that plans
grassland to encourage flora and Kiddell from Tin- could be put on display for par-
fauna and improve biodiversity, tagel Close said the ents and nearby residents by early
like putting up heated bat barns chaos outside the October, after consultation with
and bird boxes and digging new school had in- the headteacher and governors.
ponds for great crested newts. creased since lolli- Toothill councillor Steve Wake-
Around 50 per cent of the 309 pop lady Ros Hol- field said, "myself and coun Mary
hectare Front Garden will remain land left. Martin are amazed our transport
as open space. Construction work Carol Buley, experts did not consider the conse-
is scheduled to begin in October. who lives next to quences of the humps on Fresh-
Some of the money will be spent the school, has brook Way before putting them in.
on improving land south of the M4. seen greater traffic "We want the safety features on
Full details can be found at: volume and speed. Beaumaris Road built as soon as
www.swindonsda.co.uk "Drivers don' t care possible."

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