Kingsway Villagers

I have notice a lot lately, that dog walkers let their dogs roam Kingsway without their leads; thus they just enter residents’ gardens and at times leave their mess, only for the residents to clear the dog’s mess up.

The other day a dog came bounding into my garden and started to jumped up and down at my son at the front door. My son did start screaming, as he was frightened, only to be told by the dog owner to calm down. I was not happy with this comment and my son was clearly upset.

Surely dogs should be on leads and be in control by their owners, until they are at an open space for the dogs to run with full control of owners?

As many of us do not have gates, how do we deal with this situation or is this norm?

Can anything be done about this, as one day a child may get bitten or knocked to the floor by a dog, due to the children screaming through fright?

Have you recently changed or upgraded your PC or have any old but usable equipment stored away?

If so then the Rotary Club of Severn Vale can use your old system or monitor to help children in Africa learn by donating it to IT Schools for Africa.

Please bring it next Saturday (7 Jan) to Tescos in Stroud between 11am and 12 noon or Tesco Quedgeley 1.30pm – 2.30pm.
Monitors especially welcome. PC’s should be able to run Windows XP please.

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Editors Note: General Questions and Comments: 2008-2011 are here

Well… the year has flown, and it’s that time of year again when the lights go up all around the village – making it all that much more pleasant for us all to enjoy (spent the weekend putting ours on display around the garden).

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year ahead too!

Steve

Editors Note:
Steve also emailed me with information about the website for The Barn Owl at Kingsway and how – if you visit that website and sign up – Marston’s will send you a voucher for a FREE DRINK; which he asked me to pass on… (Cheers Steve)!

Whilst I’m here, I would also like to take this opportunity to say:

MERRY CHRISTMAS NEIGHBOURS…
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR 2012

From Angelina, Clive and all the family.

Hopefully you have all received a travel plan questionnaire by now.  If not please go to www.rslht.co.uk and click on the Kingsway Residents link to complete a questionnaire or contact us on 07530-527514 for a paper copy. Alternatively you can pick one up from Badhams Pharmacy which is also a drop off point.

It is really important for you all to try and improve your links to the outside world!  This could be improved cycle/walking routes, more frequent buses (further into Kingsway), links to trains etc.  It gives you the opportunity to voice your opinion on the subject in order for change to happen. We need a good return from you to make an impact though.

Quedgeley Urban Village Ltd (the developers) and Gloucester County Council are sponsoring this initiative.  It will become an annual event so we will have to ask the same questions again to continue the sustainable travel initiative.

On behalf of RSL Highways and Transportation.

Just a post following on from the previous thread regarding litter problems:

I believe that the majority of the litter is from recycling boxes that don’t have lids. Either because the clips have broken off (as mine have and have been replaced by The Council), or by owners who don’t use them, because they have slightly too much recycling for one box for example, so can’t use a lid, or because someone else has stolen the lid to replace their broken one.

I don’t know what other peoples opinions of this are but I have emailed and let him know of the problem.

The more people who complain the better as it might help The Council to see that there is a big problem with the design of these leading to litter problems that could be easily solved.

Paul