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Redhouse BMX project dropped Calling all busy people who

After opposition from people living in Redhouse and Wylde Close,
off Tadpole Lane, Blunsdon Parish Council has backed off building a want some more ‘me’ time!
BMX track at one of the highest points of North Swindon.
Resident Diny Howard said her said, “I don’t understand why the We can help!
suspicions were aroused in late June parish council decided that a request
when general rubble was dumped from young people in Blunsdon Contact us now, we have brilliantly
on top of the hill close to her home. could be satisfi ed by a BMX track
A veteran of the campaign to stop about a mile away, without engag- competitive rates for both regular and spring
Crest Homes building a link road ing the people directly affected.” cleaning plus special offers.
from Adinsall to Tadpole Lane, Fellow ward councillor Vera
she said, “it seems that the parish Tomlinson added the lack of con- 01793 205065
council has been investigating a sultation was a great concern.
BMX track since 2007. But they Parish council chairman Stuart http://swindon.domestique.co.uk
couldn’t fi nd enough land on their Boyd agreed the BMX proposal had
side of the A419 so they decided been on the agenda for several years
Redhouse was suitable. and he had attended the Redhouse

Rejecting the Blunsdon BMX track idea, residents with, on the right,
coun Peter Heaton-Jones, Diny Howard, coun Vera Tomlinson
“Then somebody at the parish Residents’ Association meeting
council asked Crest Homes to dump on 20 July to explain the project.
rubble from their nearby building However there were only about Call Stagecoach Swindon
site onto our green space. It was ten residents, ward councillors and on 01793 791746
an unsightly mess, left completely a senior planning offi cer present.
unprotected. He denied that there was rude- for further details.
”I was told the BMX idea had been ness towards Mrs Howard, but in
written about in the parish newslet- the light of the opposition to the
ter but I can’t fi nd anybody in our project, Mr Boyd said obtaining
part of Redhouse who has seen it.” planning permission for the BMX
She and fellow resident Steve track was now unlikely. “Whilst
Tovey attended Blunsdon Parish acknowledging that the communi-
Council on 1 August to present a 50 cation of our objective could have
name petition objecting to the project been better, I am disappointed that
but she added, “I was shocked by an opportunity to provide a facil-
the aggressive attitude towards the ity for the youth of the area has
petition and the patronising view of been lost.”
the councillors towards Redhouse.” The parish council has had the
Abbey Meads ward Swindon Bor- rubble removed and the green space
ough councillor Peter Heaton-Jones is to be reinstated.

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