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Redhouse pub cancelled for time being

Mansfield The plan to build a pub at the new Redhouse Village Centre suffered
a severe setback just days before the scheme was to be considered by
Begbie Swindon Council’s planning committee in early July.
Marstons Inns and Taverns an extremely attractive location,
Associates Ltd were selected by landowners with a large catchment area ideal
Crest Nicholson to build the pub to alternative operators.
on Millgrove Street and had an “I believe Crest had three pub
Providing mortgage services for the community since 1987 Easter 2009 completion date in groups vying for the site, so I
mind. However things changed at have my fingers crossed that
the last moment. there will again be keen interest
Acquisitions manager Steve Rob- in Redhouse.
Take iT easy in erts said, “the plans for a Marston’s “As ever, I will be doing all I
augusT, Inns and Taverns Pub in Redhouse can to help push this for fellow
Village have regretfully been with- local residents as a pub is a much
buT make drawn due to unexpectedly high needed local facility.”
development costs.”
Swindon brewer and pub op-
Abbey Meads councillor Justin erator Arkells were known to be
your Tomlinson was surprised by the interested in the site, to add to
money decision when told by The Link. their North Swindon pubs at Taw
“It is extremely disappointing. Hill and St Andrew’s Ridge. MD
work for However despite the economic James Arkells was not available
uncertainty I believe this is still for comment.
you afTer a

morTgage review West humps still to bump
The West Swindon Forum reviewed the infamous road humps on
Freshbrook Way on Monday 14 July and continued the discussion that
You might be surprised by has been going on for years.
The humps of various heights and is a blind bend.
how much you could save widths were installed after a bad Monica Thompson, whose gar-
accident involving a child crossing den wall was demolished by a
the road to Oliver Tomkins Junior speeding driver last summer, was
We may be able to find you a lower interest rate. School in 2002, and have been a pessimistic about what might be
You may have to pay an early repayment charge constant source of problems. done. “We’ve been talking about
Apart from complaints about the problem of traffic volume and
to your existing lender if you remortgage. their height and the damage to speed on Rowton Heath Way for
vehicles, bad backs and house vi- years and years, but the council
Whether you’re planning to move to a new bration, residents living off parallel seems incapable of understanding
Rowton Heath Way and roads off the problem they caused by putting
house or to remortgage your property, with it have always said the road right in the humps.
over 20 years experience providing mortgages outside Oliver Tomkins Primary “It’s quite clear: make Freshbrook
School has been turned into a rat run Way more usable and slow traffic
in Swindon, Mansfield Begbie Associates by motorists avoiding the humps. on Rowton Heath Way to even out
aim to provide an excellent and personal service. After discussion at the forum a the problem.”
zebra crossing outside the school Swindon Council traffic engineer
There may be a fee payable at completion was installed in 2007 and 500 yards Gwillam Lloyd is looking into the
away green paint was put down on situation and will be returning to
for placing your mortgage. The precise amount a pedestrian crossing where there the forum.
will depend on your circumstances but the
maximum will be £300.

However, no completion no fee.
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