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Where in the west will
Mansfield Begbie 1,000 houses go?
Associates Ltd The August 2005 Link looked at Swindon’s further expansion to the
West, and we’re still wondering what ideas are coming forward.
All the publicity in the last two “Anybody who uses Mead Way
Providing mortgage services for the community since 1987 years has been given to proposals regularly will have noticed the in-
by the South West Regional As- creasing congestion and delay get-
TAKE IT EASY IN sembly that Swindon should be a ting into town and to the motor-
regional growth area and should
way. Forcing more housing on
accommodate up to 40,000 new Swindon, let alone building to the
AUGUST, homes by 2026. This includes those west of the town, needs to stop
already with permission: 3,500 still until some serious support is forth-
BUT MAKE to be completed in North Swindon coming on road infrastructure and H I J K L M N O
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and 4,500 to be built in the Front
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mass transit systems.”
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Whilst big scale building
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is likely to take place to the Tadpole Farm Learning Campus TADPOLE LANE
North Swindon
MONEY east of the town, a decision Tadpole Brook except secondary school Uplands Brimble
Open September 2006
which will open in
Special
September 2007
Hill
School
Special
School
in 2004 by a planning in- OAKHURST Primary Secondary Priory Vale
School
Park Car School Village
Centre
(due to open
spector reviewing the Wilt-
September 2006)
WORK FOR shire and Swindon Structure Primary OAKHURST REDHOUSE W AY R EDHOUSE WAY
WAY
RE D HO U S EWAY
school
site
Plan still stands. He called Haydon WAY J7
English Nature Site of Special
GARSINGTON DRIVE
Meadow
YOU AFTER A for another 1,000 homes to River Ray Swindon & Cricklade Railway (in restoration) Scientific Interest (no public access) Priory Vale J8
be built ‘west of Swindon.’ J9 DRIVE visitor centre
MORTGAGE REVIEW cillors and planning officers THAMESDOWN Open September 2006
A working group of coun-
Haydon End
Primary
School
from Swindon, North Wilts Berrimans Wood The Haydon Wick Brook
You could be surprised and Wiltshire County Coun- Woodland Trust Boulevard Surgery St Francis
Village
Centre
C of E
Primary
School
cil has been considering pos- Q. ELIZABET H DRIVE H
& Church
by how much you could save sible development zones, DRIVE HAYDONLEIGH DRIVE
from M4 junction 16 right Lake QUE E N E LIZABET H
round to Tadpole Lane, next J10 WESTFIELD WAY
We may be able to find you to Priory Vale. Mouldon Hill WOODHALL
Country Park PARK
a lower interest rate. You may have to pay A report was due this All the zones to ‘the west’ are in North Wilts
summer but The Link under-
an early repayment charge to your stands that none of the sites except Tadpole Farm which lies within Swin-
don. It is also the only one big enough for another
existing lender if you remortgage. have been considered ad- 1,000 homes. In the August 05 Link a Swindon
equate to build 1,000 more planner said the site was not required to meet the
Whether you’re planning to move to a homes. land requirements of the Local Plan to 2011.
new house or to remortgage your property, Nine Elms councillor This may no longer be the case.
Keith Williams, a member
with over 19 years experience of the study group, would not re- In the June Link coun Peter
providing mortgages in Swindon, veal any details but said the road Greenhalgh, cabinet member for
infrastructure in West Swindon highways and transport, comment-
Mansfield Begbie Associates aim to provide was under great pressure. “With ing on the plan to link Thamesdown
an excellent and personal service. over 3,000 houses still to be com- Drive to Great Western Way said,
pleted in Priory Vale roads such as “the current build estimate is over
There may be a fee payable at completion Mead Way will be pushed way £100 million, far more than Swin-
for placing your mortgage. The precise amount beyond the capacity they are al- don could fund without central gov-
ready struggling to accommodate. ernment support.”
will depend on your circumstances
but we estimate it will be £300.
However, no completion no fee.
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