Kingsway Villagers

Following on from my 1st post on the subject (here), Cllr Hall kindly sent me this:

Kingsway/Quedgeley briefing

Jan 8th 2008

Background information

Primary Care

3 practices provide services to the area, Dr Siva (single handed), Pavillion (St James Branch) and Rosebank (Severnvale Branch). St James and Dr Siva have at times closed their list to new patients as they say they are running out of space.

Currently St James are saying that their list is closed. Patients who contact that practice are being informed to have a GP allocated to them via the Family Health Service Team at Victoria Warehouse.

The PCT is reviewing plans to provide additional space at the St James surgery and the commissioning cluster have asked both practices to keep their lists open.

Severnvale are continuing to accept new registrations.

• The developers on the Kingsway site are required to provide land community use (shops, health centre etc) by a covenant once 1000 homes have been occupied. Current estimates are that 650 are now in occupation, although a lot more than this number have been built.
• The housing mix is approx 30-40 social housing.

Since the PCT issued the last press release the PbC cluster have worked through and agreed an outline estates strategy for the whole city.

Rosebank Health being identified as the primary care contractor to operate new premises on the Kingsway site. The same partnership already have a surgery on the Quedgeley health campus and are taking the new referrals from Kingsway now.

They are looking to move into temporary premises as soon as a suitable site is found.

The PCT estates team has begun discussions with the developer to identify either a location for a temp building or to rent a show home from the developer until a permanent surgery has been built.

In terms of looking at provision at St James surgery, the PCT may be able to relocate some of the countywide services currently provided at the Quedgeley health centre so that St James can move in and expand.

The long term plan is under review. Although the developer is required to provide land, there are a number of issues with this proposed site (cost, access and proximity to the Hunts Grove development if that goes ahead). The cluster preference (and that of the practice) would be to develop a poly clinic facility closer to the centre of the combined development. This would make more long-term sense. However, until the planning enquiry has been completed the PCT will plan for a solution with and without the Hunts Grove development.

Councillors Surgery

Jackie Huck (Deputy Director of Commissioning) and I attend Jackie Hall’s surgery on Dec 15^th to meet any members of the public who dropped in. About 10 members of the public attended. The main concern that was expressed was about the need to improve dental access, communicate regularly and ensure that services were close to bus routes.

The PCT agreed to communicate regularly on developments.

Adverse weather conditions in Alabama - coupled with a string of unfortunate incidents for our hosting company - combined to cause some problems with my web server, from late January through most of February.

To make matters worse Wordpress have updated their software twice this year, the second time I was unable to process the upgrade due to the server issues!

Hence the lack of recent posts and updates from me, I’ve been completely snowed under!

Thankfully I have now managed to fix the upgrade issues and the server is back up; sadly it’s very slow right now but hopefully it will soon be back to full-speed.

My apologies to users who have been adversely affected by these issues and my thanks to Julian Powell and Cllr Bryan Claridge for contributing in my absence

Quedgeley Parish Council has teamed up with ‘A Bed of Roses’ from Painswick to offer one lucky mum the chance to receive a hand tied bouquet of flowers.

Mums are the people we rely on to make things better when we are little and to offer support through difficult times when we are “not so little”. They are the people who would give us the world and more if they had it to give. Does this sound like your mum?

To be in with a chance of winning a magnificent Mothers Day gift answer our easy question now:

“I think my mum is the best mum in the whole of Quedgeley because”… (No more than 20 words)

To enter, simply send your answer with your name, address and telephone number to [email protected] quoting “Mothers Day” in the subject box, or by sending a postcard to: Quedgeley Parish Office, 9C, The Old School House, School Lane, Quedgeley, Gloucester, GL2 4PJ

The winner’s mum will receive a bouquet of flowers on Sunday 2nd March 2008,
courtesy of A Bed of Roses, The Granary, Painswick Court, Painswick, Stroud, GL6 6UB.

Closing Date: Midday, Thursday, 28th February 2008.

This post was submitted by Cllr Bryan Claridge.

We are very glad to announce that Mrs Paula Needham has been appointed as the Head Teacher of the new Primary School at Kingsway.

She takes up post at the end of April and one of her first jobs will be recruiting the teachers and support staff in time for the school to open in September. Next will be contacting all new pupils and their parents and welcoming them to the school.

To allow for people moving to the area, parents can still apply for places for their children at the school, even though the deadline for admission by the normal reception intake has passed.

Welcome to Kingsway Mrs Needham!

Julian Powell
Chair of Governors, New School at Kingsway

This post was submitted by Julian Powell.