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40 The Link Magazine • July 2005
New ways to contact Safer Swindon Shop Palace event postponed
A fundraising gala at the Pagoda
The Safer Swindon Shop at 38 Havelock Street has two new ways for deaf people to access its services, Palace restaurant, to raise money
writes manager Jean Goncalvez.
for a garden in the courtyard over-
This is through minicom, tel: 529215 and also MSN Hotmail: ° looked by the Mother and Baby
[email protected] Unit at the Great Western Hospi-
Customers can receive advice on all aspects of community safety tal, planned for 1 July, has been
including home, personal and business security. Personal alarms are L...._- postponed until 30 September.
available at £6 each. Fire safety checks can also be arranged. " For details and also to help sell
A police officer, crime prevention officer and a fire safety officer are tickets, call Albert Tang at the Pa-
all available at different times for advice and an informal chat. Ring the goda Palace on 877888.
shop for details.
Consumer advice from Swindon Council Trading Standards can also J ^^-' Still time to apply
be accessed through Minicom and Hotmail. So if you have any con- The deadline for voluntary groups
sumer problems — whether it's a builder that won't finish a job or a shop in the Haydon Wick area to apply
that won't give you a refund for faulty goods - please do contact us. for grants to develop their work
The shop can be visited in person or contacted by telephone on has been extended to 15 July. For
525114, between loam and 3.30pm. details call Jill Dyke on 01380
Jean Goncalvez, left, with police liaison inspector Wendy Grant 729284.

Ash Brake residents await council reasons
for refusing KFC
wL People living close to the junction of Thamesdown Drive and Lady Lane were overjoyed on 24 May when
Swindon Council's planning committee blocked an application for a KFC drive-thru restaurant on the
commercial site.
_ l,lll rc" But councillors, mindful of the accessories and servicing. Nearly mandedrefusal.Theplanningoffic-
difficulties of refusing permission 70 residents submitted objections ers have been asked to draft reasons
on a site which is included in the on the grounds of smell, litter and for refusal which are watertight."
North Swindon Master Plan for vermin, traffic congestion, rat run- He acknowledged that this will
commercial use and already has ning and anti-social behaviour, be difficult and that if a refusal
permission for a fast food outlet, Abbey Meads councillor Justin were overturned and KFC lodges
deferred a final decision so that Tomlinson welcomed the decision. an appeal, council taxpayers could
officers can come up with valid "The frustration isthatplanninglaw face significant legal costs.
reasons for refusal. often takes precedence over com- The planning committee meets
The application also included an mon sense and residents made it on 5 July to consider reasons for
autocentre selling motor and bike crystal clear that common sense de- refusal.

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