Kingsway Villagers

Hi All,

Just a note to say that the next P.T.A. meeting will be held at the School on Friday 1st May in room 10 at 9:50am.

Tea and coffee will be available (and free)!

All are welcome and it would be nice to see some new faces.

Hope to see you there.

Sarah Mustoe (Chair Person).

The next meeting of the Book Club will be on June 12th at 7.30pm at 127 Woodvale.
The book we’re reading is The Bolter by Frances Osborne.
All are welcome for a chat and a laugh!
Call Clare on 725458 for more info’.

Please circulate to all your friends and neighbours in the Quedgeley area.

Sorry, just picked up the details from the organisers… Better late than never!

Please come on a march to protest about Gloucestershire County Council’s plans to build an incinerator at Javelin Park.

Join at any of the points as below (or anywhere in between)…

9.30am Quedgeley Retail Park

9.50am Roundabout at Naas Lane/Fieldcourt Drive

10.15am McDonalds/Esso Garage, Hardwicke.

11.00am End at Javelin Park with the releasing of 99 Red Balloons – representing the danger of possible emissions; each balloon will be tagged to trace how far they travel.

Editors Notes:
1. For more info’ about the issue see this article from 10/12/’07.
2. Sorry about the late addition. This wasn’t submitted until either very late yesterday or ealrlier today and I wasn’t available to edit/add articles until now.

I had a visit from the local Police today (that’ll get the neighbours gossiping)

They called to tell me about the new Quedgeley Community SCT Police Website which has recently been launched.

Fraser Mackie has kindly agreed to furnish us with future copies of the monthly Police Crime Reports for Kingsway, which will give us some insight into local crime and ASB statistics on an ongoing basis (which should help to dispel unsettling rumours in the future). These figures are reported to the Quedgeley Parish Council on a monthly basis and those relating to Kingsway will – in future – be published here.
You can see an example of the latest statistics by visiting the Quedgeley Community SCT Police Website and clicking the link near the top of the page (“Performance Stats Quedgeley”).

Fraser told me that – comparing statistics with the size of the local population – crime figures for Kingsway Village are below average for the area; which means that levels of crimes in Kingsway Village are lower than in Quedgeley / Hardwicke… and that’s official!

Finally – There will be another meeting of the Gloucester South Police Safer Community Team in mid-May, so please remember to use my Community Police Report Form to keep us aware of all local incidents and to allow us to allocate local Police resources effectively…
(if it isn’t reported, it isn’t counted… but before that becomes fuel for further speculation, bear in mind that it works the same for all areas)!

For more details, please review my previous article on the subject.

Several cars were clamped in Kingsway Village this morning and it’s likely to happen again.

After hearing some details from local residents, I was concerned that the clamping / removal was done in a seemingly ad-hoc fashion so I spoke to Andrew Hunter (QUVL) to check that the company levying the fines was legitimate (bearing in mind that recent BBC Watchdog reports have been broadcast about bogus clamping companies).

Mr Hunter said that the only company authorised to clamp on Kingsway is CPS Enforcement and residents should check to make sure that they don’t pay fines to anybody else. He said that cars were clamped for parking on double-yellow lines on Woodvale (the main bus route) and Valley Gardens (where folks tend to park on bends and cause severe problems for passing traffic).

Evidently some cars were also clamped on other roads (Thatcham Avenue for instance) but clamps were removed without charge (although it seems that some of those people did pay to have the clamps removed but AH said that he would try to get those fines refunded).

Just to reiterate some points covered in previous discussions, the roads in Kingsway are currently owned by the QUVL and – as such – are not subject to “normal” restrictions, but – as private owners – the QUVL have the right to enforce parking restrictions by clamping vehicles, and charging for removal of the clamps.

Parking in Kingsway Village has been a problem for a long time now and doesn’t look like it will get any better. Unfortunately the Governement Guidelines of 1 car-space per family on new-build properties are hopelessly inadequate for modern-day families in commuter areas like Kingsway and have led to people ignoring restrictions, and – unfortunately – to some parking on their front gardens and a lot of irresponsible parking on pavements, bends and junctions!

Following discussions between the Residents Association and Andrew Hunter last year, some concessions were made and sections of the double-yellow lines on Thatcham Avenue (and other roads) were painted out to allow some parking areas.

Sadly the lack of road surface on Thatcham Avenue has meant that some of the double-yellow lines have worn off and much of the “black-out paint” is completely gone… so I have also reported this to Mr Hunter by Email.

I believe it may have been a problem throughout the whole of Kingsway, but it definitely was in the new development of Kingsway.

Apparently there should have been a collection in our area on Good Friday, which was missed!

The next scheduled collection will be a day later this week – IE: Friday will now be Saturday.

They are arranging an individual collection in my area now, after I expressed concern.

May be worth others saying something; the City Council’s refuse number is 01452 396396 and can be found here.

Hope it helps others.