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20 swindonlink.com • January 2008 -
Lost roads are cause for concern
Following the December Link's story on the problems faced by Jeff and
Mansfield Nicky Northam of Wynwards Road, Abbey Meads, when an ambulance
could not find their home because it fronts onto Cagney Drive, readers
Begbie
MO B have pointed out two more roads that nobody can find.
E ,r Associates Ltd Paul Beare of Sand-
Mortgage Brokers bourne Road in newly
built Haydon End
y
Providing mortgage services for the communit since 198, called us to say that
nobody can find his
street.
Sandboune Road
COULD YOU J , is off Casterbridge
Road, but houses
numbered on both
PAY LESS 90'''r ' 3. roads face each other.

.6,1659 Road name plates are Paul Beare, zaith one of the confusing signs in his nets'
poorly placed whilst
FORYOUR «c . visitors will be com- road
pletely confused if they drive into and a half miles from one side to
the adjacent Guernsey Lane to see the other."
MORTGAGE IN 2008? a sign for Sandbourne Road. The lost road connection was first
"Deliveries are always going raised in The Link by Ted Spalding
astray and the drivers just take from Toothill who has been cam-
The earlier you carry out goods back to the depot if they paigning to have houses fronting
can't find us," said Peter. "It needs Idovers Drive but addressed as
a review, the sooner sorting out." Beverley more clearly signposted.
By contrast Colin Goddard has • The Link is drawing these roads
you might save lived at The Elms in Nine Elms for to the attention of relevant coun-
over 40 years and he doubts the cillors.
emergency services would be able If you're in a difficultto find loca-
We may be able to find you a lower interest rate.
to find his house. "The problem is tion, let us know on 608840 or mail:
You may have to pay an early repayment charge that there are three streets called The [email protected]
to your existing lender if you remortgage. Elms - one of new houses opposite We will also be trying to make
the Nine Elms pub, a stretch to the our acclaimed maps of North and
Whether you're planning to move to a new house or to west of the pub, and our houses West Swindon clearer.
remortgage your property, at I to 10a which are
with over 20 years experience providing mortgages on the back road from
Tewkesbury Way to
in Swindon, Mansfield Begbie Associates
Common Platt."
aim to provide an excellent and personal service. "But there is a gate
blocking the road,
There may be a fee payable at completion for placing
separating our houses
your mortgage. The precise amount will depend from the others in
on your circumstances but the maximum will be £300. The Elms. It was put
However, no completion no fee. there when the new
houses were built. Un-
less emergency crews
know, they could be
on the wrong side of
the barrier. Firefight-
ers have bolt cutters
to get through but it
would take another
to all Link readers 10 minutes for an am- LongtimeresidentofThe Elms, Colin Goddard, separated
bulance to drive one from his neighbours
Mansfield Begbie Associates arranges mortgages with
the majority of building societies and banks in the UK Where's Peatmoor?
For free mortgage consultation and After nearly twenty
further information, call us now. years in existence, there
is only one, solitary
Your home may be repossessed if you road sign helping driv-
do not keep up repayments on your mortgage ers find Peatmoor -
and it's in a remote
Swindon location, at the top of
Swinley Drive off Pur-
772779 ton Road.
Try and find Peat-
moor from the south,
e: [email protected] off Whitehill Way and
Tewkesbury Way, and
www.mansfieldbegbie.co.uk
you won'tbe successful.
Mansfield Begbie Associates Limited is an appointed representative of = There is no indication
Legal & General Partnership Services Limited which is authorised and regulated by the
Financial Services Authority for advising on and arranging mortgages and insurance where the 800 homes
are.