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Shaw Forest on the home stretch CYCLe rePAIrS

Finishing touches are being made to Shaw Forest Park over the next few months to complete a major green Free collection
lung close to the centre of the town.
From the air Landscape architect Chris Annis & delivery from
the land has been said, “Shaw Forest has evolved over home or work
shaped to rep- quite a long period and has involved ★ Servicing & repairs
resent Gaia, the the community at many stages in its
Over 25 yrs ★ New cycles
ancient god of development. The park should look experience ★ Parts & accessories
the earth, on its wonderful over the summer and I’m
side. The humps hoping lots more people will visit Safety alert
and bumps that to see the work undertaken over Bikes bought on the internet
can be seen from the last few years.” or mail order must be checked
ground level before ridden. CALL NOW
close to a large Get involved
events field and Forest clean-up. The park is fOr fAst, frieNdLy serviCe
car park, rep- becoming very spoilt with rub- Phil Mitchell: 874873 day or eve.
resent its head, bish. The Link is organising a or 07850 650956 (mobile)
shoulders, hands Chris Annis, holding up the plans for the forest with new community litter pick on Sunday
and leg, on its trees overlooking the River Ray Parkway in the background 11 May, 10am to 12noon. Wear
side. boots and gloves and come along
Last year a network of stone appalled that a project that they had to help. Meet in the car park off
footpaths was built and in April been so fully involved with could Mead Way.
contractors planted 5,000 trees to be sold off. Discuss the forest and its future.
add to the 60,000 planted since The forceful campaign had a Landscape architect Chris Annis
1994 when the project to turn the quick result when Swindon Council will be attending the West Swin-
former landfill site into a country in July 2004 reaffirmed its policy don Forum on Monday 12 May,
park was included in the Great made ten years previously that 7.30pm, in Link Centre community Serving Swindon
Western Community Forest 30 year all three phases of the developing suite to review the work on the
Master Plan. park would be protected from forest over the last few years, as for 90 years
1 May is the fourth anniversary development. well as explaining short and longer Legal problems?
of a huge gathering of 1,500 people Later this year footpaths and term plans for the area.
on Mead Way to protest at the pos- drainage will be completed, the The Forum is open to all inter- We have the answers
sibility that the park could be com- Mead Way entrance will be im- ested in West Swindon community
mercially redeveloped to include a proved, with a large new sign, and affairs and is an opportunity to Telephone 526601
new football stadium for Swindon fencing is to be erected around the meet the eight councillors repre- www.morrisonandmasters.co.uk
Town. Many had attended three car park to prevent people driving senting the area. Morrison & Masters Ltd
community days over the previous onto the events field.
ten years, to plant trees with their In May grass and wildflower seeds
children as symbols of hope for the will be scattered across the head and
future. Some had scattered ashes of shoulders of Gaia to turn the whole
loved ones on the site. They were park green by the summer. The Accident Specialist
1 May 2004. People power claiming Shaw Forest for the community S.J.EdnEY SolicitorS

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Unwelcome by-product of dumping Shaw Chiropractic Clinic
The Shaw Forest is built on a landfill site which served Swindon IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM:
for forty years until it closed in the mid-1980s. ❍ Backache, Leg Pain ❍ Neck, Shoulder, Arm Pain
Nobody really knows what went into the site when it was controlled ❍ Headache & Migraine ❍ Sciatica
by Wiltshire County Council and an environmental disaster was feared ❍ Sports Injury ❍ Numbness
if it was disturbed by a stadium development. Methane and leachate ❍ Scoliosis ❍ Arthritis Open
containment has always been part of the landfill, but with heavy rains in ❍ Whiplash Saturdays

the last 12 months there has been an increase in low level contamina-
tion seeping out of the site where the layer of clay has failed. YOU SHOULD CONSIDER CONSULTING A CHIROPRACTOR
Swindon Council reported the problem to the Environmental Agency
who promptly took them to court and they were fined £10,000 which Sandra E. daviES d.C. & aSSoCiatES
was paid by council taxpayers. Members of BCA • Registered with GCC Members of the College of Chiropractors
The council has set aside £1.4 million to build a large reed bed de- Also: Child Screening • Free information Sheets • Ergonomic and Rehabilitation Products
signed to EA standards to biologically treat leachate. This should be tel: (01793) 887801
ready by the end of 2009. In the short term leachate is being pumped
out from a holding pool and transported for specialist treatment. www.shawchiropracticclinic.co.uk

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