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Check your parish area using online checker News in brief

Households in Swindon can check many years. the postcode checker at: www.
what parish council area they will The four new parishes being swindon.gov.uk/parishes Stem cell service
live in, thanks to a postcode checker created are West Swindon, Central In each of the new parishes, a
on the council’s website. Swindon North, and Central shadow parish council has been given green light
Last month, the council decided Swindon South, all of which are formed. This is made up largely
to create four new parish councils in previously unparished areas, of Swindon Borough Council The stem cell service at the
in Swindon, which will mean that while a new St Andrews Parish ward councillors from each area. Great Western Hospital has
64,000 additional properties will be has been created from part of the The shadow parish councils are been awarded an important
incorporated within a parished area current Blunsdon St Andrew Parish. responsible for deciding which international accreditation to
for the first time. In addition, the existing Parish of services they wish to provide in provide stem cell transplants.
Parish councils are already well- Nythe has been extended to include each of their areas, setting their Without this patients would
established in other areas of the Eldene and Liden. budget and the precept, and putting need to travel to Bristol or
Borough and have provided local Residents can find out which in place arrangements for services Oxford for treatment.
services for the residents there for parished area they live in by using to be provided from 1 April. Up to 20 patients a year, with
blood cancers such as lymphoma
South Swindon MP aids Shelley Street planning dispute and multiple myeloma, receive
stem cell transplants at GWH.
South Swindon MP Robert Buckland This is the second time the
has pledged his support to an hospital has received the
ongoing planning dispute centred accreditation which must be
around Shelley Street in Eastcott. renewed every four years,
Pat Maskell, who has lived in following an inspection by the
the area for 35 years, and her Joint Accreditation Committee.
neighbours have found themselves Protest over cuts
locked in a dispute with developer
Old Charm Properties over a parcel Swindon library campaigners have
of land adjacent to Pat’s property, submitted an official complaint
which has drawn support from her to the department for Culture,
local MP due to the disputed area Media and Sport following the
being situated over one of the key Council’s cutting of funding to all
drainage areas for Old Town. but five of 15 Swindon libraries.
Pat said: “We have been involved even have pictures from the last permission. Campaigners have made the
in this dispute for a very long time, time the land was developed on, Robert Buckland QC MP said: case that this cut to public library
and we thought it was over when and the ensuing flooding when they “People need to understand there provision is in serious breach of
two houses were built directly hit the waterway below.” are waterways here that will erode the legal duties of the Council
opposite my property. There have The full application to Swindon any foundations laid down. I’ve under the Public Libraries and
been a number of problems with Borough Council is for a three followed this case since before I Museums Act 1964.
that site in its own right, but we storey complex of 10 two bed flats was elected and we collectively Hamlet rebooted
felt it was the lesser of all the with only one point of access via thought it was over. ”
potential problems. a private road from Dryden Street, A council spokesman said: “The Local actor and videogame
“Now the developer has decided which has raised concerns with application is due to be determined enthusiast Edward Day is trying
to put in this new application with refuse collection officers and local by 9 March and is currently not to raise £3000 on crowdfunding
no access for cars meaning more residents. scheduled to be determined by the site Kickstarter for his new
park on our roads, no thought to From planning documents Planning Committee. Most planning project, Super Hamlet 64: Parody
the spillways below, and ignoring available, it appears the decisions are made by planning DLC, a one person production of
the fact that every development Council officers are asking for officers, unless they are referred Hamlet in the style of a computer
that has been attempted here has a contaminated land condition to the planning committee by game. at Swindon’s Shoebox
ended in flooding and failure. We attached to any planning councillors”. Theatre on 27 May. Tickets are
Swindon selected as part of new ultrafast £10.
The kickstarter campaign can be
broadband trial by BT Openreach found here: http://bit.ly/hamlet64
Join male choir
People living in Swindon will be a warm welcome by Swindon and learn.” Swindon Male Voice Choir are
amongst the first in the UK to Borough Council. “Swindon’s ambition is to provide looking for new members.
benefit from the new ultrafast Thousands of premises in access for all businesses and Find out more by joining the
broadband technology being Swindon will be given access to the residents to the highest speeds choir during their open rehearsal
developed by Openreach, BT’s local technology during 2017 with details possible and we can now look evening on February 20 or on any
network business. about exactly where and when to forward to many more premises Monday during school term at
The company recently announced be published shortly. in Swindon being able to access the New Century Club, Gorse Hill
Swindon as a pilot location for its Councillor Renard, Leader of broadband through this exciting G. from 7.30pm. Call Gordie Smith
new ultrafast technology, known Swindon Borough Council says of fast technology.” 01793 822495.
as G.fast, which provides download the announcement: “I am delighted Clive Selley, Openreach’s CEO, See Adam Henson
speeds of up to 330Mbps – more that Swindon has been chosen as said: “I’m pleased that Swindon
than 10 times the UK national one of the first pilots across the will be one of the first locations to BBC’s Countryfile presenter Adam
average. UK for Openreach’s new ultrafast get ultrafast speeds using G.fast Henson, will be sharing stories
Openreach plans to make G.fast broadband. Having fast, reliable technology, it’s a technology we’ve about his TV career when he
available to more than 10 million broadband connectivity is critical chosen because it enables us to get appears at the Wyvern Theatre on
UK homes by the end of 2020, and for the way our businesses and an affordable ultrafast service to 14 September.
news of the pilot has been given residents work, communicate, shop people in the fastest possible time.” To book call 01793 524481.
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