Kingsway Villagers

I would like to report seeing a white and brown cat being hit by a car at 10am this morning.

Sadly the car did not stop and the cat was fatally injured

As I went out to move it from the road, a lady pulled up in a car and together we put it into a bag and I think she said she had phoned the vets and they advised her to bring it to them.

Tog

Here’s the latest news about BT’s new, superfast fibre optic broadband, BT Infinity… It’s called The Race to Infinity – the chance to make our area the next to experience BT Infinity.

Fast broadband is being launched all over the UK. Harwicke – which is our local exchange – is in the running to have it very soon. So please cast your vote in the Race To Infinity NOW, and help Hardwicke be the winning area.

With enough votes, you could be looking at speeds of up to 40Mb – in other words, a totally transformed internet, where downloads, uploads, chat and play can all happen at once. Suddenly, all those things that used to take forever on the internet, don’t.

All you need to do is follow the link above, which asks you to enter in your postcode, and vote, vote, vote

On Sunday 31st October 2010, the Residents Association committee invite all children to come and enter a competition for the best Halloween costume at the (little) park on Valley Gardens.

A prize for all who enter and an even bigger prize for 2 winners!

Photographs will be taken, so all children must be accompanied by an adult who can give consent.

Come and find us at the little park from 5pm until 7pm

For older children, the youth pod will be open that night too, down by the school.

If you would prefer children to still have fun, but not knock on your door, please click on this link to download a police notice, and display it clearly on the night.

Hi All,

The Police are keen to put a SARA plan together for Kingsway which will provide a resident-directed policing effort. PCSO Debbie Brimfield has put the groundwork in to work with us to determine what needs to be done and has suggested the Residents Association as a suitable organisation to work with to develop it.

In essence, the SARA plan is a short term goal-based plan, which is agreed through a resident panel. This goal is time constrained too, normally around 3 months. The Police will then work towards these goals with the aim to significantly reduce the problem.

The example of a potential goal for us could be "To reduce, by 60% the amount of Anti Social behaviour in the Big Park". They have to be realistic, therefore it’s not realistic to put "completely eliminate anti-social behaviour".

Debbie Brimfield and Beat Manager PC Sam Jones will be at the AGM to give a much better description than I have and hopefully to give us the benefit of their experience in running them.

So this planning will need our input. As previously said, the Police will be giving a presentation at the AGM to kick it all off, but I want to use the time up to the AGM to get as much input as possible to "hit the ground running". Therefore can you either comment below, or email me (mrbpkirby@hotmail.com) with specific areas of Crime that you think should form part of this plan. To be most effective, I need to know what the specific problem is, where it is (more specific than Kingsway please), when it occurs (such as late evening etc) and how often.

Cheers
Barry
Chair – Kingsway Residents Association

As many know, my view on the Parking issue is that the Village has been very badly designed in terms of it being a commuter Village. While we as residents have a duty to park as responsibly as possible, I do not believe there is enough proper parking to allow for 2 cars per house as well as parking for visitors and friends.

To this end, in the last meeting I had with City and County Council representatives as well as QUVL, I laid it out as to what a problem it is becoming and that it was having a number of cascading effects on living here.

We are now going to determine exactly where the problems are to determine what could be done, to potentially get some more parking without impinging on the large green spaces.

The areas I have identified are as follows:
Halton Way (due to the Lines in Woodvale)
Thatcham Avenue/Marham Drive Junction
Thatcham Avenue/Mildenhall Junction
Thatcham Avenue by Millar homes
Valley Gardens just before Bollard by post box

If you would contribute to this list please join in by posting specifically where there are real parking issues; the more precise the better. Post it here, or email me on mrbpkirby@hotmail.com

I will then mark up the map that Planning have sent me and I will drive this forward to see what the “art of the possible” is.

It is also worth pointing out that by next May (ish) we will have the second access from Naas lane to the local centre (by the school) so that will also ease the burden of through traffic that Thatcham currently takes.

Yours
Barry
Chair – Kingsway Residents Association

Sheila Golder (Equals Youth Centre) has announced the opening launch of the Youth Pod on October 18th:
 

Pod opening invite.

 
Regular opening will be:
Monday & Wednesdays from 7.15pm to 9pm – for local children aged 13yrs+.