Kingsway Villagers

Re: Broken Double glazed window frame (which did have a 10 year guarantee).

Due to the (very heavy) lorries still using Thatcham Avenue, one of our windows has developed a crack in the frame!

I have contacted Taylor Wimpey who said you need to contact "Windows Build". I telephoned and e/mailed pictures as requested, but their reply was "Sorry we cannot help as your windows were fitted by N.B.W. Windows who have stopped trading"!

They thenn told us to try N.H.B.S. I ‘phoned them with all the details, plot number, policy number etc, only to be told "it’s not covered you will have to fix them yourself"!

Can you tell me who to contact at QUVL? (I understand they have insurance to cover for things like this).

We now have more heavy lorries than ever using Thatcham Avenue and last week I ‘phoned Smiths Transport when a low-loader (so large it had to mount the islands in the middle of the road to get by), spoke to a gentleman called Ben from Smith’s Transport, who said they had been instructed to carry on using Thatcham as there was a bung in the road!

We have had to replace our front window sill – which developed a large crack in it – at our own expense.

Every time a large lorry comes down here the whole house shakes…
Please – please QUVL: You have it in your power to stop them and make them use the Naas Lane road.

Tog
(One very frustrated and fed up house owner here in Kingsway).

On Sunday 14th August as we were walking down by the Charles Church homes in the vicinity of Fylingdale Gardens we could hear children making quite a noise. On investigating we found – to our horror – four children, the eldest would be about six and the youngest about three or four, floating about in the middle of the balancing ponds!

The eldest boy and girl were sat astride a large white sack (these are what contractors use in case someone falls off a building), the other two were floating about on a wooden pallet, but what alarmed me was that these children were totally unsupervised!

Where are the parents to these children don’t they realise building sites are potential death traps to young children?

We did speak to the children and told them about the danger they were in, to which the replied "it’s OK, we can swim", and just carried on!
We went into the Sales Office opposite and showed the Sales Lady the pictures (taken on mobile phone), to which she replied she was appalled and she would get onto the security man and speak to The Foreman on the site today.

There are several questions that need to be answered here:
1. Why are the balancing ponds by the underpass and the one on the unopened road to Naas Lane surrounded by metal railings and all the other ponds left open? Surely this is a MASSIVE HEALTH AND SAFETY PROBLEM or does the cost come into it?
2. Why didn’t the building contractors clear there things from the ponds and lock them in there compounds away from the children?
3. Who is to blame? Probably Severn Trent will blame the contractors or maybe Gloucester council or the QUVL, (if we wait for them to investigate anything it could be to late… My advice to them is get out of your office and come and speak to the people on this Estate).

One more thing: Someone has broken 2 of those beautiful young trees planted on the green area just below the turn for Marham; they would have matured into beautiful trees. Why do we have to have so much mindless vandalism? Just look at all those reflectors on the posts (to stop people on bikes from going onto the road), all scratched and broken… Their motto must be "it’s there to be destroyed at all costs".

Tog

Every day we are plagued by large lorries using Thatcham Avenue. Are the drivers of these vehicles illiterate or Blind? Can they not see the large signs at the entrance to Kingsway stating clearly NO CONSTRUCTION TRAFFIC, or have they been advised by the owners of the vehicles to take no notice of the residents who live here, as they are powerless to stop you using the road?

I have sent photos and countless e-mails to the QUVL and they have not had the courtesy or decency to reply to me; what a waste of space they are as an organisation. Their motto should read "we have had your money, now you are on your own".

Every time these large lorries go past our property the whole house vibrates. We have already had one of our front window sills replaced at quite a cost, perhaps if I had sent the bill to QUVL they might respond to me, but then I might be waiting a couple of years for them to reply?

One very fed up home owner on this estate.

Tog

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

Today we found an injured cat by our back garden gate – a long furred grey/brown tabby – wearing a gold collar.

We were trying to establish the cats injures in our kitchen and it looked like he had been struck on the back legs, we think by a car but not 100% certain.

We took the cat to the Animal Hospital in Quedgeley.
The vet said he was in shock and had very little pulse… (for further information please call him on 01452 520056).

I do hope he recovers to full health.

Has anyone any news on the accident halfway down Thatcham Avenue last night (03-12-08)? I just hope the young motorclist was not too badly injured.

What I could see was the Police and Ambulance were in attendance with all the traffic backed up on Thatcham Avenue, which makes me think back to the old question about the illegally parked cars blocking the road in Thatcham Avenue; if those cars had not been there, traffic could have still got through.

This has been an accident waiting to happen. I have seen these young lads going past our house at very high speeds. It’s about time we had a 20mph speed limit on Thatcham or what about a few speed humps on the road to stop Mr Barry Sheen and his friends going so fast.