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Outline plans have been submitted sports retailing;
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The vast £120 million leisure
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alley.
www.shawchiropracticclinic.co.uk Moirai Capital Investments are Moirai chairman Martin Barber
seeking approval for their 31 acre said: “This is a crucial step in the
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• Backache & Leg Pain will be built adjacent to and around development. Getting to this
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• Head Pain BCA Member • GCC Registered the newly refurbished Oasis Leisure consideration given to the best
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• Arthritic Pain Member of the College of Chiropractors But although the outline plans possible layout for the project, but
• Sports Injury also to address issues such as traffic
• Injury after Accident FREE EVENING & mention a skate park - at the management and the potential
THEN YOU SHOULD CONSIDER SPINAL SATURDAY moment it is not clear whether it environmental impact of the
CONSULTING A CHIROPRACTOR CHECKS APPOINTMENTS will be a free to use outdoor one to development.”
replace the current facility on the
5 Ramleaze House, Shaw Village Centre, Swindon SN5 5PY site or an indoor paid-for one. Coun Garry Perkins, Cabinet
A campaign to save the free Member for Economy, Regeneration
outdoor facility has been launched & Skills said: “The application
by Diana Kirk of ATBSkate Ware- represents another step in this
exciting project. I am satisfied that
house at Hawksworth but she
believes that their pleas are being now Moirai have put together a
ignored as it appears on the plans proposal that matches the council’s
that it will be an indoor site. You ambitions; I look forward to hearing
can sign the petition, which so far more as they get closer to turning
these plans into a reality .
has 700 signatures, at: www.bit.ly/
oasis-skate “These are only the outline plans
She said: “We’re going to keep on and until we see the detailed ones
fighting to make sure that there it is difficult to say what form the
are the free facilities in place for skate park will take, but at least it is
part of the plans at the moment.”
the huge number of young people
who use the outdoor skate park. A It is believed that many visitors
lot of the users are from deprived to the facility will arrive by train,
backgrounds and would not be able as Swindon’s station is only a short
to afford a paid for indoor park. distance away. Forward Swindon
has completed a feasibility study for
“I’m disappointed that there’s
nothing in the plans to suggest that a new pedestrian crossing over the
the existing free outdoor facility mainline, adjacent to the station,
will be safeguarded; we will keep connecting the north and south
making a loud noise until they are.” parts of the town centre. Seeking
funding for the crossing is the next
The plans, which come after a stage.
public consultation, include: Chris Hitchings, director of
• Up to 50,000 square metres of development at Forward Swindon,
mixed leisure including a cinema, said: “Swindon is well connected
5,000 seat entertainment arena, ski to a huge, affluent catchment. The
centre and other leisure uses which arena and ski centre, for example,
could include a crazy golf centre, will provide Swindon with high
comedy club, laser tag and skate profile destinations to compete
park; with the likes of Cardiff, Bristol and
• Up to 12,000sqm of restaurants Milton Keynes.”
and cafes • Resilience is the watch word for
• Up to 12,000sqm retail space, North Star. Read Richard Pagett’s
with a minimum of 9,000sqm of Viewpoint on page 46.
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