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12 The virtual Link Magazine now online @ www.swindonlink.com
New village outlet Priory Vale five years on
for post office Wednesday 22 November marked the fifth year since Thamesdown Drive was officially opened.
A new post office opened at
Toomers Garden Centre on 13
November to serve Lydiard
Millicent village.
However postmaster Neville
Stone, who lives in Taw Hill, hopes
that people living in Shaw, Nine
Elms, Peatmoor and Sparcells will
also find it convenient to visit him
in Stone Lane. "We're very close to The road which has become (NSDC) said the area's success has secondary school will open on the
a large number of people and Swindon's northern by-pass from exceeded all expectations. "Priory site in September next year.
there's free parking." the A419 at Blunsdon to the M4 via Vale's properties are selling faster Work on the Priory Vale village
Apart from postage for letters West Swindon, opened up the 5,000 than anticipated." centre, next to the campus, is ex-
and packages most post office serv- home Haydon III development, Lorraine Palmer, sales director pected to start in the Spring.
ices will be available, apart from marketed as Priory Vale. from Bloor Homes, said, "I was Mike Christmas said the NSDC
car licences. Pick up your Christ- In the afternoon of the same day one of the first to move to Priory is working to complete public open
mas gifts there as well. Asda Walmart opened its doors at Vale. The area has grown into a spaces and join up the foot and
the North Swindon District Cen- thriving community with attrac- cycle routes across the area.
tre, to be followed by the other tive properties,
retail units and community facili- shops and lovely Lorraine Palmer in the November 2003 Link, with a
ties such as the library and youth country walks on poster promoting a Bloor Homes site dedicated to her
grandfather Tom who farmed Priory Vale land in the
centre. the doorstep."
1930s
Building started a year late after Since 2001 the
Swindon Friends of the Earth, in North Swindon
1997, managed to get the Govern- Centre has doubled
ment to force the developers to in size and in Sep-
carry out an environmental audit tember Red Oaks
on the original design for the area. and Orchid Vale Pri-
Now it is responsible for much mary Schools
of the rapid expansion of the town. opened their doors.
Last year 1,891 homes were built In mid-November
in Swindon - half of which were in two special schools
Philippa Philippa Read, deputy chief ex- Priory Vale. There are now over transferred to the
ecutive of Community First, launches the 2,700 occupied there. North Swindon
post office with Neville Stone, left, with Mike Christmas of the North Learning Campus
parish council chairman Tom Pepperall Swindon Development Company and the Isambard

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