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46 The Link Magazine • February 2005
e-Citizen campaign
Registered Childminder
The Swindon based British Computer Society launches a new na-
Flexible, friendly, negotiable rates tional IT literacy campaign on 14 February, to encourage people with
8 years experience. One week free little experience of computers to get online.
Childminder in Taw Hill area
Available Monday to Friday. 6am to 9pm. The BCS is working with Swindon College to offer the chance to study
has places available from
including school drop-offs and pick-ups. for an e-Citizen certificate before courses are set up in the rest of the UK.
January 2005
Also weekends & late evenings For details call 417530.
Call Tina 01 793 701683
for more information Call 07957 166529 or 871466 • Age Concern Swindon has published a booklet about how older
people can get computer connected. For a copy send three second class
stamps to 14 Milton Road, Swindon SN1 5JE.
B E Lill STBRT A ELISABETH
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Domestic Cleaning Services
• Regular weekly cleans wedding stationery LETTERS TO THE LINK
• Fortnightly cleans
Individually designed stationery More people should come forward at parish level
• One-off Spring cleans
created with exquisite materials Front: Hanson Wick Parish Couucittor Phillip Eagle
Call Christine
Contact Anna on 07717 775577
on (01793) 701413 (9am - 5pm) or [email protected] Hayden Wick Parish Council has their communal lives at the cost of
Mob: 07951 184424 www.annaelisabeth.co.uk places for 18 councillors, but cur- one or two evenings each month?
rently there are only 11. Would you care-or even notice-
It would appear that not enough if local government disappeared
PIANO & THEORY
people are willing to give the time from our society to be replaced by
DISC SERVICES LESSONS 1 r ^^ and effort to take part. central government control?
We transfer anything onto DVD Disc Relaxed and friendly atmosphere Around the free world the cry is Wasn't that what we fought wars
- Cine Film, Video tape, Wedding Photos Beginners welcome. All ages 'democracy,' and 'government by to avoid?
WE MAKE MOVIE CLIPS OF Graded exams - not compulsory the people and for the people.' No Parish councils are in danger of
YOUR CHILI) GROWING UP End of term musical evenings one disagrees but it seems the peo- losing their right to self-goverment
Tel: 01793 705333 Contact Mrs G Bush CT ABRSM ple here don't want to bother. without more volunteers to repre-
Mobile: 07831 575758 Swindon 873012 Many community groups, be it sent their residents. This cannot
parish councils or junior football happen.
teams, are struggling to find re- Haydon Wick Parish Council
DECOTEX 5.D. 21pho(stery sponsible members to organise would be better for an injection of
new faces and ideas. As a result
their affairs. Surely it is a mark of a
Repairs & Recovering responsible and mature society this will benefit the Hayden Wick
Painter & Decorator Antique and Modern that it wishes to govern the run- community and the parts of North
Large range of fabrics ning of its own community. Swindon that the parish covers.
Specialist Artexing Do those who daily manage the • For details about Hayden Wick
Call 871808
Tel: (01793) 791388 great commercial enterprises dur- Parish Council and becoming a
for competitive prices ing the day not wish to use their parish councillor, call the clerk on
skills to influence a small part of 722446.
No to a university campus at Coate Water Country Park
From Chris Barn, Chairniau of Chisciclon Parish Council
Ae/,w(i4% In the January Link Swindon coun- cards were as nothing compared
cillor Barrie Thompson wrote of to the 414 from his constituency
his support for the Gateway pro- who signed the petition against
posals on land near Coate Water. development in its first few weeks,
l'.I2 PI^('aiw J^ If I can summarise him fairly, he and an estimated 3,000 who, at the
says that he's always been opposed same rate, will have signed it by
YOUR LOCAL PVC-U MANUFACTURER to any development at Coate other now;
than enhancements to the park, • Reputable studies have shown
and that he supports a 'substan- that there is plenty of room in the
• Buy direct from
tial' buffer zone around it - the size town centre for a university, pro-
our factory to be guided by a scientific evalu- vided there is some medium to
• We make it and ation. But he doesn't oppose de- high rise building and that play-
velopment around the actual coun- ing fields are not adjacent.
we fit it
try park. Bath University does not want
• High security He eloquently described the ad- that - but they've been offered the
vantages of having a university, land for free by the Gateway de-
• 10 year guarantee but contends that the arguments velopers, so no wonder! And if the
• Lowest prices for having a town centre univer- developers have done that, they're
sity arefalsebecausethereisn'troom. hardly going to be agreeable to
He asserts that if the University contributing further to public
Why not let does not come to the Gateway site amenities. Free land to Bath, vast
y
at Coate, 'by 2030 it will be co - profit to developers - what cost to
us handle ered in large measure by houses Swindon?
and the economy of Swindon will We all agree about planning de-
everything be in decline.' velopment properly and that peo-
from start to What he did not say is: plc create communities. So how
• Well before 2030, that site will about meaningful regeneration of
finish? be covered 'in large measure by the town centre by having a uni-
houses' with these current propos- versity there, perhaps subsidised
Call today 01793 790944 als. The university will take up by a progressive council - and re-
only one third of the site - the rest spect for the stated opinion of over
or 07973 232435 (evenings and weekends) would be houses, with a 'Science 13,000 people by preserving a
Park' next to M4 Junction 15; meaningful buffer zone around
The Marsh, Lower Wanborough. SN4 OAS • The 20 people who sent him Coate Water Country Park?