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FOR ALL YOUR PRINT & West Swindon Forum to meet on 11 July
DIGITAL REQUIREMENTS A new forum chairperson will be appointed at the meeting on Monday 11 July, 7pm, in the library at
IN WEST SWINDON Link Centre. The meeting will start with ques-
Only councillors who are not Police Teams covering the West and
ARTWORK & DESIGN • WEBSITES on Swindon Council’s cabinet can the results of a survey of residents’ tions raised by the public.
LITHO / DIGITAL PRINTING take the chair. As four of the eight views at the Toothill festival in May. Minutes of previous meetings
LARGE FORMAT • CANVAS PRINTS councillors representing the three The progress of phase 3 of Shaw can be found at: http://bit.ly/
STATIONERY • NCR PADS, AND MORE wards in West Swindon are on Forest will be discussed. swindonconnect
the cabinet - Nick Martin, Peter
Greenhalgh, Gary Perkins, Keith North Swindon clusters together on 7 July
Williams - one of councillors Mary
Martin, Michael Bray, Michael People living in the neighbourhoods covered by the ‘North Swindon
Dickinson or Steve Wakefi eld will Cluster’ are invited to the fi rst meeting of the municipal year to discuss
be the next chairperson. However matters of community concern on Thursday 7 July, 7pm, in the Hay-
Unit 101 Basepoint Centre don Wick Parish Rooms, next to the Haydon Centre, Thames Avenue.
Rivermead Swindon Wilts SN5 7EX only councillors have a vote.
Telephone: 01793 490490 Also on the agenda will be a Abbey Meads councillor Vera open. How does the council expect
www.mllprint.co.uk report from the Neighbourhood Tomlinson has been elected as chair, to foster trust and community en-
but a furious row has broken out gagement if a chair is imposed by
over the way the election by e-mail secret ballot? This is an example of
was carried out between the council- wanting to control how the cluster
lors representing the four borough operates.”
council wards covered by the cluster. The cluster clashed with Swindon
Some councillors were unaware Council when, in March, it sent a
a ballot was taking place whilst resolution calling on all new hous-
Oakhurst resident Stephanie Exell ing development to be suspended
says the exercise is not democratic. until promised infrastructure had
She said, “the way the council has been provided.
set up these clusters means that the However, according to Stephanie,
chair will be a councillor, but this council leader Rod Bluh shrugged it
is the third year a representative of off and said councillors do not have
Abbey Meads ward has taken the to take the views of the community
role; what about the other areas? into account.
“I was stunned when I heard the Areas covered by the cluster
outcome of the secret ballot. The Abbey Meads, Ash Brake, Bluns-
cluster is supposed to be a partner- don, Castle Eaton, Hannington,
ship of residents, parish councils Haydon End, Haydon Wick, More-
and local councillors. The least they don, Oakhurst, Redhouse, Stanton
could do is have an election in the St Patrick, Woodhall Park
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