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@ www.swhu1onlinkcom The Link Magazine • September 2006 5
West Forum to look at Link Centre's future and also council performance
Swindon Council is carrying out a major review of leisure and recreation facilities across the town and grand ideas are forming in the minds
of officers and councillors.
The Oasis Leisure Centre is due future of Link Centre environmentally
for demolition. Some people at with the eight Swindon sound.
Swindon Council also seem keen councillors representing ^ All parts of the cen-
to pull down Link Centre and see the area at the West Swin- 4 i! tre reopened in early
p
y
it re laced with a et-to-be defined don Forum on Mond __ exceptxcept the
August
Monday
super centre of pleasure and rec- 11 September, 7.30pm in ° 'f rink which will be
reation - somewhere. the centre's community ? back in action in early
What they dori t comprehend, is suite. September after the
that in the 21 years since Link The agenda has been heat exchange equip-
opened,thecentrehasbecomeboth held over from the July ment has been com-
a town wide and regional sports meeting which was missioned.
and recreation centre, and it is also washed out by the Council leader Rod
the centre for the West Swindon monsoon-like rainfall which rearms the swimming pool. Euro- Bluh will also be attending the
community. Closing or relocating knocked out the centre's plant pean pollution regulations re- meetingtodiscussSwindonCoun-
it would seriously damage corn- room. That flood and a second two quires the harmful freon gas to be cil's performance over the last year
munity health and as the publica- weeks later forced Swindon coun- replaced by a climate friendly al- and also plans for town centre re-
tion responsible for lending its cillors into a decision they have ternative. generation.
name to the building, we don't been debating for some time: when Councillors had the stark choice The forum on 11 September is
want that to happen. to renew the heat exchange system of closing the centre forever or in- open to all West Swindon resi-
There's a chance to discuss the which freezes the ice pad and vesting to make the building more dents.
Environment Agency explains Westlea flood reduction plan
After Whitehill Brook burst its banks and flooded houses in Westlea in early June - the second time in two years - nearly 50 residents from
Moresby Close and Benwell Close packed a meeting on 14 August to find out how the responsible agencies are going to prevent a recurrence.
In a lively discussion with rep- Agency explained they had taken term remedial action will be pro- Mitchell said, "the meeting was
resentatives from Swindon Coun- over responsibility for the brook duced in about six months. useful to allow everyone to vent
cil, Thames Water, the Environ- in April 2006 and declared that However some work to clear their feelings and find out what is
ment Agency and local councillor work was needed to bring it up to debris and vegetation has already to be done about the brook. We
Mary Martin, residents heard that EA standards and those required been carried out and further in- will be monitoring progress of the
maintenance of the brook is to be by DEFRA. terim work will take place as nec- clearance work and we will look
improved. A study is to be undertaken in essary before the report is pub- closely at the survey report and
Jeff Bell and Marcus Van partnership with the council and lished. thelongtermproposalsandimpli-
Someren from the Environment Thames Water and a report on long Moresby Close resident Sheila cations."

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