Issue 425

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Issue 425

The Week in
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Issue no 425
2nd June 2016
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In this week’s issue ......
Young film actress meets the Queen . . . page 5
Big day out for Summer-Jade
Travellers evicted from common . . . page 7
Unauthorised encampment moved on from Chesley Hill
McDonald’s plans withdrawn . . . page 19
Controversial Lyde Green proposal is dropped
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The Week in • Thursday 2nd June 2016
More than £2,500 raised in memory of student
Friends of a student at St Brendan's Sixth Form College in
Brislington who died of suspected meningitis two weeks
ago have already reached a fundraising target in her
memory.
Izzy Gentry, 16, who was previously a student at the John
Cabot Academy in Kingswood, had been revising for her ASlevels when she was taken ill.
She was discharged from the Bristol Royal Infirmary after being
told it was a migraine. But she was readmitted when her
symptoms worsened and died two days later on Friday 20h
May.
Antibiotics have been given to her close friends and information
has been provided to the college about the signs and symptoms
to look out for.
Some of Izzy's friends have decided to cycle to the border of
Scotland in August to raise money for the charity Meningitis
Now in her memory. Already they have smashed through their
Look out for speed cameras
£2,500 target.
Meanwhile Izzy's stepbrother George Booty, who lives in New
Zealand, will be running the Auckland Half Marathon in her
memory to raise money for the charity Cure Kids, which works
towards finding cures for serious illnesses that affect children.
Police mobile speed cameras will be out and about on more
than 20 roads in our area this week.
In Keynsham the locations are Albert Road, Coronation
Avenue, Queens Road and Rock Road. Over the course of
the week they will also be at Manor Road in Saltford and at
Barry Road, High Street and Mill Lane in Oldland Common.,
along with Court Farm Road in Longwell Green, Tower Lane
and Tower Road South in Warmley, Parkwall Road in
Cadbury Heath, Abbots Road in Hanham, and Court Road in
Kingswood. Other locations are: A431 Bath Road at
Swineford, Wick Road at Brislington, A4174 Bromley Heath,
A432 Badminton Road, B4465 Westerleigh Road at
Pucklechurch, Blackhorse Road at Mangotsfield, and
Naishcombe Hill and Milford Avenue in Wick.
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Charges brought following inquiry
into theft of prescription drugs
A movie star in
David Bamford, of Quakers Road, Downend, has been
charged with the theft of Fentanyl and Diamorphine from
the centre, where he worked.
Summer-Jade Webber, who has just turned seven, plays Anna,
Alice's daughter. In the title role is Ali Bastion, who played PC
Sally Armstrong in The Bill and Becca in Channel 4 soap
Hollyoaks.
Emersons Green & Downend
A 46-year-old man has been charged following the theft of
prescription drugs from the Emersons Green NHS
Treatment Centre last year.
He has also been charged with causing a public nuisance
which relates to the contents of ampoules being tampered
with and changed.
Police have been working closely with Care UK, which runs
the treatment centre, throughout the inquiry to investigate
offences which came to light last July.
Bamford has been released on police bail and is due to
attend North Avon Magistrates' Court in Yate on 28th June.
A Keynsham girl beat off competition from nearly 300 other
children to win a part in a movie called Who is Alice which
is due to be released in cinemas in December.
Billed as a philosophical comedy, the film follows the lives of
stressed actress Alice and car salesman Dick, who dreams of
becoming a spiritual teacher. Also starring in the film is Patrick
Holland, who was a stunt double for Brad Pitt in the film The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and David Fahm, whose
roles include a part in the recent hit TV series Marcella.
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n the making!
Summer-Jade, of Lincoln Close, went to London to audition for
Who is Alice and was chosen over 292 other young hopefuls.
The role meant six days of filming in Helmond in the
Netherlands when she was accompanied by her mum Opal.
While they were there they enjoyed star treatment, being put up
in five-star accommodation and being driven around in a
Porsche.
While the interior shots for the film were in Helmond, the film is
actually set in London and Summer-Jade is currently practising
her lines for three days of location shooting in the capital in
early July.
A pupil at Saltford Primary School, she is already something of
a seasoned performer who has an agent, has done some
modelling and appeared in TV adverts as well as a
'mockumentary' - a tongue-in-cheek television documentary.
She has not had any formal drama training but attends the local
Lucy Ratnett dance school and also does gymnastics.
A red carpet premiere will be held to mark the movie's release
at the end of the year and Summer-Jade says she is planning
to wear some sparkly shoes.
• As well as mixing with movie stars, Summer-Jade also met the
Queen last week when Her Majesty attended a review at the
Royal Artillery's headquarters on Salisbury Plain to mark its
300th anniversary.
Summer-Jade was there with her family, and a royal footman
saw that she had a posy of flowers and arranged for her and
two other young girls to present them to the Queen.
Summer-Jade told the Queen “I hope you have a nice day,” and
was rewarded with a smile.
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Travellers evicted from common
Siston/Wick
An unauthorised encampment of travellers moved on last
Thursday after spending a week on common land at
Chesley Hill.
In recent summers, groups of travellers have spent several
weeks on commons in the Siston area, leading to complaints
from the local community about intimidation and the mess and
damage left behind.
Last week there were eight caravans on the common at
Chesley Hill, plus a further eight industrial vehicles. South
Gloucestershire Council liaised with the travellers during the
week and served two notices before they left around lunchtime
on Thursday. It is understood the convoy moved to a site at
Brislington.
Within two hours of leaving Chesley Hill, a major tidy-up work
was well under way by the council and its contractors, with
several black bags of rubbish filled. The travellers also left
behind a huge pile of junk, pictured, including furniture, breeze
blocks and wooden panels.
also created at Siston Park and a bank was extended to
prevent vehicles driving on to the open space.
Last year a petition was set up by people in the Siston area
calling for action by South Gloucestershire Council, the
custodians of the commons, “to reverse the years of neglect” to
the commons. The petitioners said there had been a lack of
enforcement to prevent trespassing, shrubs and bushes had
been allowed to grow out of control, streams were full of rubbish
and pollutants, and original drainage ditches and bunds had not
been cleared, causing flooding issues.
Two months ago the council held a public meeting about the
future management and maintenance of the commons, saying
it wanted to make sure it understood and met local needs. A
friends of the commons group has now been set up.
Ian Adams, South Glos councillor for the Siston ward, said he
had asked the council's open spaces team to re-dig the ditch
that had been “compromised” by the travellers to gain access to
the common.
Chesley Hill actually falls just outside of the area he represents
and he said he had been liaising with his Boyd Valley
colleagues - councillors Ben Stokes and Steve Reade - about
the possibility of getting wooden bollards erected, similar to the
ones installed on common land at Siston Park two years ago
after a series of incursions by travellers. A ditch and bund were
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Free history
walk leaflets
Keynsham & Saltford Local History Society has now completed
the first two in a series of free leaflets to encourage families to
enjoy country walks in the area and learn something about local
history at the same time.
Produced with the help of a grant from Keynsham Town Council,
the leaflets are in full colour and comprise a map with full
instructions plus information on points of historical interest along
the way.
Both walks are about five
miles in length and take
two to three hours. The
first route covered is
Keynsham
to
The
Chequers, round Cleeve
Woods and back via
Willsbridge. The second
is Keynsham to Queen
Charlton via Stockwood
Vale, returning through
Chewton Keynsham.
Vintage
motorbikes'
25th rally
The 25th annual Douglas motorbike cavalcade was
held on Sunday.
The world-famous Douglas bikes were built in Kingswood in
the first half of the last century and there were many vintage
motorcycles taking part in the rally which set off from
Kingswood Heritage Museum in Tower Lane, Warmley.
For the silver anniversary Douglas riders were joined by the
Bristol Vespa Club as the scooters were also built at the
Kingswood factory.
Waving them off was Bill Douglas, great-grandson of the
founders of the firm, and the Chair of South Gloucestershire
Council Erica Williams.
The leaflets can be
obtained by calling at the
town council offices,
Saltford
Library
or
Community@
67
in
Queens Road.
Copies will be available at
all the society's events
and will be published
online at a later date.
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Letters
MP should have spoken out
sooner
Dear Editor,
I was interested to read in last week's The
Week In that Kingswood MP Chris
Skidmore is saying that his Conservative
colleagues on South Gloucestershire
Council should have spent some of the
last-minute transitional funding from the
Government to lessen the cuts they are
pursuing to our library service. I had written
to him back on 29th February on this very
subject but he never replied to me.
It is regrettable that Mr Skidmore was not
applying this pressure ahead of the
council's budget-setting meeting in
February. Labour councillors not only made
the point then that the Government itself
had said that this £1.8m transitional
funding was for an “ease in the pace of
reductions during the most difficult first two
years” rather than to initiate new spending
commitments such as the free green bins,
but also moved an amendment to do just
that. Kingswood's Conservative councillors
voted against that move, as reported by
The Week In at the time. Our proposal
would have put £460,000 towards the
library service rather than the £150,000
being suggested by Mr Skidmore now.
It is interesting to note that in parallel the
National Audit Office is poised to conduct
an investigation into how the Government
doled out that transitional funding as many
of us at the time said that last-minute handouts are not the proper way of financing
important council services.
If the audit authorities decide that the
Government was wrong in the way it
distributed the funds, and public opinion
agrees that the majority on South
Gloucestershire Council was wrong in the
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way that it spent them, that would be quite
an embarrassment for the Conservatives.
Perhaps that is why Mr Skidmore is putting
some distance between himself and those
decisions, but he should have spoken out
much sooner than this.
Cllr Pat Rooney
Leader of the Labour Group
South Gloucestershire Council
Leaving the EU is not a
step in the dark
Dear Stephen,
I read Stephen Farthing's letter with a great
deal of regret really. My husband is
disabled and has been for some years so I
speak from a position of understanding.
With all due respect to Mr Farthing, surely
he should be pressurising OUR
government to achieve our rights, not
needing to go cap in hand to a foreign
entity?
I know he declares that efforts have been
made to do just that and they have failed,
but surely the old adage comes into play
'We get the government we deserve', does
it not?
The main task of any government has
always been to protect our property, and
under common law (which the Queen
under her Coronation Oath swore to
uphold) property was everything the
people own, including their bodies!
Is the suggestion seriously made that, to
get anything done, we must turn to others?
So, pray, what then is Parliament for?
As concerns jobs which will be lost on an
EU exit, surely Keynsham residents are
qualified to speak from experience of job
losses as the letter following that of Mr
Farthing concerning the closure of
Cadbury's so ably demonstrated.
A step in the dark, leaving the EU? Not for
me, I am old enough to remember what it
was like, as a youngster, to CHOOSE
which job I would like. Kingswood was
brimming
over
with
employment
opportunities prior to EU membership.
As concerns the point made in a previous
edition about the number of cars on the
road, your reader was quite right to say that
new arrivals to this country don't come with
cars - but how long is it till they enjoy our
rights of travel and buy one? Or is the
suggestion that they are made to walk
everywhere like second class citizens forever?
Anne Upton
Disabled rights
Dear Editor,
Re Stephen Farthing's Bristol letter on
disability, if you go to some EU countries
like Romania, then you would be very glad
NOT to be disabled.
To quote George Osborne is laughable; he
is seeking to destroy the disabled with his
austerity measures.
William Houghton
Bath
Another option
Dear Stephen,
As Ambrose Bierce says in his dictionary, a
VOTE is 'The instrument and symbol of a
freeman's power to make a fool of himself
and a wreck of his country.''
More than half of the populace disagree
with 'leave', and more than half disagree
with 'remain', but if we abstain, the
politicians will feel free to do whatever they
want, and that's sure to be wrong.
I believe that most people want change,
but not in either of these black-and-white
directions. I suggest that we should all find
a partner, agreeing that one of you votes to
stay and the other to leave. That would
indicate a strong demand for other options,
with the possibility of something better
amongst them.
Ron Payne
Keynsham
Letters
Down but not out
Dear Editor,
British society is gradually adopting an
undesirable Victorian value - that if you
can't succeed with your own efforts and fall
on hard times, then it's 'hard luck'. And that
there will be no space, or seat in public
areas for you to use, even if you are doing
no harm. Clearly there will be people who
don't want to fend for themselves, are
basically bone idle and like to live off the
welfare state, even though it is shrinking
under the Tory Government.
But there are others not in that category,
who were working, lost their jobs and then,
being unable to pay the appallingly high
rents, are on the streets until they can get
back into wage-earning and renting.
Such as the young couple we stopped to
speak to a few months ago: they had been
sleeping in the entrance of the City
Museum in Park Street. Stephen had lost
his job with a large optical retailer and
Lauren was a redundant care worker. So
they were 'fortunate' to be able to sleep
there for several nights. We have kept
contact with them and are so pleased that,
through their own efforts, they both have
some - though separate - temporary
accommodation whilst looking for work.
But they are not whingers and very
determined to get back into mainstream life
as soon as possible, otherwise our
relationship would not have lasted.
Also Stephen is a talented poet, putting
some of his words on Facebook. Attached
is one of his poems which we hope you will
publish. He has given us permission to
promote it.
Alan & Jane Elkan,
Downend
Another night on Park St
Watching people passing by
We're not so different from the rest
Somehow feeling worthless as I lie.
Some people stare blankly
Others can't help but look
Loves young dream out in the cold
Unlucky not thieves or crooks.
I'll never ask for change
Even when not a penny to my name
For all my problems are my own
There's no one else to blame.
Others ask and ask
And the cash comes flooding in.
Why do I find it hard to ask
When it could help the mess I am in?
Then out of the blue a lady comes
And sits down for a chat.
The cash alone was good enough.
She leaves £20 on the mat.
I never saw her again
But really hope she knows
The chat we had that day was great
It picked me up when feeling low.
The cash was helpful too
But what really meant the most
Was that she stopped and cared
Not looking through me like a ghost.
Because I am human too
With emotions hope and dreams.
My world came tumbling down.
Climbing back is harder than it seems.
But that makes me more determined
Not to let this world make me sad.
How can you appreciate the good
Until you've appreciated the bad?
Then when things seem as though
They just can't get any worse
Something else will kick you down.
But with the bad will come the good.
Instead of sitting here feeling down.
It's time to take some action
Or else all things will remain the same
And I won't taste the satisfaction.
First Step is out to try and find
A stable place to live
For once you have a place to lay your head
You Have Step Two to get along with.
Step Two is to find a job
And Start Creating Wealth.
And you can always add some more.
You can achieve all that you dream
When you know what you are striving for.
Until then I'll sit here
Watching the people passing by
And every now and then I hope I'll get
A chat or just a 'hi'.
Stephen (Park St 2016)
Leaving the EU won't solve
our problems
Dear Sir,
This reminds me of an old friend of mine
who tore up his golf club membership and
stormed out of the clubhouse because "he
couldn't reduce his handicap and spent too
much time in the bunkers". He also used to
complain
(frequently)
about
the
membership fee and how the Committee
"was very bureaucratic and didn't reflect
the views of the club members".
Unfortunately for him, it was only after he
had left the club, that he discovered that all
the other golf clubs in the area had a threeyear waiting list. He now plays at the
municipal course and has learnt the hard
way that "performing on the course is the
only way to improve, not moaning about
the club”. The truth is that for more than 40
years the EU has been an Aunt Sally for
this country's political, economic and social
failings. The vast majority of the electorate
knows this and is therefore totally at a loss
on how to vote in the referendum, given
that the issues that confront them in their
daily lives will not be resolved by leaving
the EU.
Jerry Moore,
Barrs Court
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Dial-a-drink service gets
the go-ahead
Kingswood
A new service delivering alcohol from 7pm to 7am seven
days a week has been granted a licence to operate from an
industrial estate in Kingswood, despite a local councillor's
concern that it might disturb residents.
Late Liquor Line will be based in Unit 1G at the Kingswood
Douglas Industrial Estate in Forest Road.
Along with delivering alcohol on demand overnight within a 10mile radius of Kingswood, the firm will also offer snacks and
toiletries.
concerns that the application may pose.
Cllr Andy Perkins had raised concern about possible
disturbance to people living nearby but South Gloucestershire's
Licensing Sub-Committee, which met last Tuesday, heard that
the nearest home is 100 metres away and there were no
objections to the licensing application from the environmental
health team, Trading Standards, or the police.
Deliveries will be made in a small vehicle and credit card
payments will be encouraged, with a surcharge if people want
to pay cash. If the driver is carrying cash, he will have to return
to base after each journey.
Deliveries will only be made to a fixed postal address and can
only be made to over-18s. All delivery vehicles and drivers will
be equipped with security standard video recording equipment
and the unit itself has been equipped with CCTV equipment.
The three directors of the business - Deon Williams, Darren
Scott and Joel Whyte - say they want to run a compliant,
professional business. Prior to submitting their application Mr
Williams organised a meeting with the council's licensing team
and the police to seek advice and guidance and discuss any
Late Liquor Line, which has a Facebook page, hopes to be up
and running as soon as possible.
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DownThe Week in •
Thursday 2nd June 2016
Find out about
school's plans for
public playing field
Saltford
Residents are invited to a meeting next week to find out
more about plans to let Saltford Primary use the adjoining
Manor Road public playing field during school hours.
The school is planning to replace the temporary classroom
buildings with a new permanent classroom block built on a small
area of the school field which would reduce pupils' recreational
and sports provision.
To mitigate for the loss, B&NES Council is proposing that the
school has exclusive access to an area of the public playing field
during school time for sports and outside recreation. The area
would be enclosed to keep out dogs, and a formal football pitch
would be set out.
Kingswood
Road closures for remedial
work on speed tables
The A420 Kingswood High Street and part of Alma Road
will be closed on Sunday (5th June) to allow contractors to
return and carry out remedial work on the speed tables that
were installed last November.
At the time we reported on concerns that the tables were
barely making a difference as the gradient was so slight.
Although within specification, the construction meant the
speed tables were unlikely to be as effective as required.
The remedial work is being carried out at the contractors'
expense and it is hoped it will be completed in one day to
minimise inconvenience to residents and road users.
This enhanced sports provision would be available to the
community when not used by the school. In addition and in
conjunction with the council's open spaces team, the plan is to
landscape the field and make provision for picnics and informal
play, as well as improvements for dog walkers.
The plans for the field will be available to view at the school on
Wednesday 8th June at 6pm.School staff and council officers
will be on hand to answer questions.
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Continuing the war on anti-social
behaviour
Another multi-agency meeting has taken place to discuss
progress in the anti-social behaviour crackdown in the
Barrs Court, Longwell Green and Cadbury Heath area.
The meeting was held to ensure this week's half-term break
passed without trouble.
There were issues for months with large groups of young
people congregating, reports of fighting, property being
damaged, and alcohol and drugs in circulation. Matters peaked
during the Easter holidays when five youngsters hurled bricks,
concrete blocks and manhole covers off the Palmers Close
footbridge into the path of traffic on the ring road.
In April a meeting involving representatives from South
Gloucestershire Council, the police, councillors, local
secondary schools, voluntary and community groups agreed an
action plan to tackle anti-social behaviour and the bridge was
put under CCTV surveillance.
“The action plan has been provisionally agreed to remain in
place for the school summer holidays which begin at the end of
July, however the multi-agency group will reconvene again,
around two weeks before the holidays to ensure that it is still fit
for purpose.
A spokesperson for South Gloucestershire Council said: “A
second multi-agency meeting took place on Thursday 26th
May. The aim was to review and reaffirm the action plan
currently in place to ensure that it is fit to help tackle anti-social
behaviour in the area over the half-term school holidays.
“We will continue to monitor the situation.”
Last Thursday's summit was to see how the action plan was
working and also to look ahead to the long school summer
holidays.
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“Since the last meeting, we have been further engaging with
local schools and we are continuing enforcement work with our
partners. Upcoming plans include work to engage further with
Year 8 and 9 pupils at local schools, and also to engage with
parents at school parents' evenings to explore how we can help
raise awareness about the existing activities available for young
people.
Concern over chapel conversion
compromises
Kingswood
A Kingswood councillor has called in plans to turn the derelict
Wesleyan chapel in Blackhorse Road into 15 flats amid
concerns about a string of compromises with the development.
South Gloucestershire planning officers are recommending
approval for the scheme for the Grade II listed building, which
controversially involves building 15 car park spaces over
graves, but Woodstock ward councillor Andy Perkins wants
councillors to visit the site before making a decision.
The church closed in the 1970s and the building, last used as a
dance school, became derelict in the 1990s before being
devastated by a fire in 2004. After being sold at auction, plans
for nine one-bed and six two-bed apartments, plus a car park
and a store for 15 bicycles were submitted by InSpace Design
last November.
The applicants drew up a survey of graves which shows there
are more than 100 bodies buried in the section covered by the
planning application. The plans involve moving some
gravestones to a proposed memorial garden within the site.
The council received 20 letters of objection from people
unhappy about the graveyard being paved over. There were
five letters of support, saying the site is an eyesore, restoration
is long overdue and will provide much-needed housing.
Planning officers say that although the amount of hardstanding
proposed is ”excessive”, and would normally be considered
harmful to the setting of the listed building, 15 flats are required
for the scheme to be viable and any reduction in the amount of
hardstanding for parking would be insufficient.
Andy Perkins at the old chapel
have any private amenity space, instead sharing access to
communal space.
Cllr Perkins said: “Due to the derelict nature of the site and thus
viability issues, a number of compromises are proposed which,
ordinarily, would not be compliant with council's planning
policies. I would like members to judge whether, on balance,
these compromises should be accepted in order to bring the
site back into some form of use.”
He added: “Albeit not a matter for planning, this is a sensitive
application involving the creation of a car parking area over
graves some of which are within living memory. The application
ought, therefore, to be decided in public. “
They say the moral issues raised about the graves is not a
planning matter, but comes under the Disused Burial Grounds
(Amendment) Act 1981 and other relevant legislation and
recommend that the developer contacts the Diocese.
Although the proposed sub-division of the building will cause
further loss of “historic fabric”, planning officers say it has been
justified by the developers.
They accept that due to the costs involved there would be no
surplus to meet any on or off-site affordable housing
contributions, nor are insisting on contributions towards off-site
open space. They consider it acceptable that the flats do not
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Situations Vacant
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Popular pub closes
Hanham
The award-winning Queen's Head pub in Hanham closed
last week.
A sign on the front door announces that it closed on 23rd May.
There is also another sign pinned to the door quoting the
French-born writer Hilaire Belloc: “From the towns all inns have
been driven, from the village most. Change your hearts, or you
will lose your inns, and you will deserve to have lost them. But
when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves - for
you will have lost the last of England.”
There are hopes however that this is not last orders for the
Wadworth-owned inn on Lower Hanham Road which four years
ago was awarded the title of
Community Pub of the Year
by Kingswood MP Chris
Skidmore. The vacancy is
being
advertised
on
Wadworth's website and the
brewery says it plans to
invest in the business by
refurbishing the trade areas
and toilets.
For many years the Queen's
Head was run by Patrick and
Michelle Murphy who, as
Restaurant closure
mystery
Keynsham
Mystery surrounds Farrells Irish Italian restaurant on Temple
Street which has been closed for almost two weeks.
A notice appeared on the door saying “Closed today due to an
electrical fault” but has remained in place ever since.
While Farrells had previously achieved a TripAdvisor Certificate
of Excellence for the quality of its food, the restaurant has been
plagued by financial difficulties and in February of this year it
was given a poor rating (1 out of 5) by the Food Standards
Agency.
well as winning the community pub crown in 2012, made it on
to the award shortlist in 2013 and 2014. More recently the pub
has been run by a couple called Christine and Martin.
Meanwhile the fate of another former Kingswood Community
Pub of the Year, the Cherry Tree at Oldland Common which
won the crown in 2013, is due to be sealed today (Thursday).
Plans to turn it into seven apartments by building a two-storey
extension were due to be considered by South
Gloucestershire's Development Control (East) Committee.
See next week's issue for the decision.
Youth theatre
recruiting
Phoenix Keynsham Youth Theatre are looking for cast members
to join their production of Joseph & his Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat being staged Easter 2017.
There are lots of parts available for girls and boys aged 10 to 17.
No experience is required, just lots of enthusiasm and a passion
for singing and acting.
The youth theatre meet on Tuesdays at 7pm in Broadlands
Academy Theatre.
Find out more at a free taster session. Contact Jo on 0759 780
7517 or email at [email protected]
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Plans for McDonald's, pub and
supermarket are withdrawn
Lyde Green
Controversial plans for a McDonald's Drive-Thru at the
gateway to the new Lyde Green housing development have
been withdrawn.
A mixed-use development was being proposed just off the
Rosary roundabout on the ring road, opposite Emersons Green
town centre. Along with a Drive-Thru, a 2,748sq m Lidl
supermarket with 157 parking spaces was proposed, and a
Greene King Farmhouse Inn with 94 parking spaces.
The site had originally been earmarked for a David Lloyd leisure
centre to serve the new Lyde Green community, where around
2,550 new homes are being built.
Permission was granted on appeal in 2005 for a racquets,
health and fitness club including tennis courts, swimming pools,
a multi-purpose sports hall, fitness hall and related facilities. In
2010, an application was submitted seeking an extension of
time for the implementation of the leisure centre for a further
three years, which was granted. However, it was not
implemented and permission lapsed in 2013.
The new plans for the site prompted a flood of objections to
South Gloucestershire Council and nearly 700 people signed a
petition. Many of the concerns focused on the Drive-Thru, with
complaints that it would be close to homes and would lead to
noise, disturbance, odour and anti-social behaviour. There was
also concern that a development so close to the roundabout
would lead to congestion.
Emersons Green Town Council's planning committee raised a
“strong objection”, saying there had been permission for a
leisure centre on the site and some people may have moved to
Lyde Green expecting such a facility.
And this week a South Gloucestershire Council spokesperson
confirmed that the plans for a mixed-use development had
been withdrawn following “extensive discussions”.
“The reasons for withdrawal focused predominantly around
planning policy, highway, design and landscape issues. If any
future applications are received on the site, these will also be
subject to public consultation."
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OUT & ABOUT
Your guide to eating, drinking and entertainment in June
Mangotsfield Village Festival
The 24th annual Mangotsfield Village
Festival takes place on Saturday 11th
June at Cleve Rugby Club, starting at
11am.
adequate disabled parking.
Festival goers are asked if possible to
walk or cycle to the event as there is
limited parking, although there is
Admission for adults is £2. There is no
charge for children but they must be
accompanied by an adult.
A parade for local schools and youth
groups will leave the village green
(opposite the Lamb pub) at 10.30am.
Art exhibition
Attractions will include a fun dog show
with proceeds to the Bristol Dog Action
Welfare Group, as well as music, dancing
and stalls. For more information visit
www.mangotsfieldfestival.co.uk/2016schedule/
Hanham Art Club is holding its 46th Annual Art Exhibition
from 6th to 11th June at Hanham Community Centre.
With around 100 paintings on show and many for sale it is
a chance to pick up an original painting at a bargain price.
Charity auction
A charity auction in aid of Help for Heroes will take place at
the Conservative Club in Keynsham on Saturday 18th
June.
There will be a coffee and cake morning at 10am and
entertainment all day with the auction in the afternoon.
People are asked to take along items before Wednesday
15th June so they can be catalogued.
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Kingswood to host Armed
Forces Day
Armed Forces Day will be marked in South Gloucestershire on
Saturday 25th June with a free event in Kingswood.
The annual event gives people the chance to show their
gratitude and appreciation to our past, present and future
military forces from air, land and sea units.
A parade will assemble at 11am on Kimberley Road by the
shopping precinct, which will then go along Regent Street and
High Street. The procession will include veterans, cadet groups,
bands and military vehicles and will end in Kingswood Park
where a drumhead ceremony will be held.
There will be a wide variety of stalls, stands and activities in the
park from 10.30am to 4pm, including a glider, military vehicles
from the past and present and a climbing wall. The day will also
include performances from singers and bands.
* Stanton Drew will be also be marking Armed Forces Day on
25th June.
This will be a family day with live entertainment and food from
1pm in the Paddock area next to the village hall and run by the
Druid Arms.
Community invited to picnic
St Brendan's Sixth Form College in Brislington will hold a
community arts picnic on Saturday 11th June from 11am to
3pm.
The free event is suitable for all ages. People are invited to
bring a picnic and enjoy performances, music, arts, food
stalls, local business stalls and more. The college will be
open to the public and future students for tours.
For more information contact Carrianne on 01275 332230.
Pimm’s and cream teas
St Anne's Church at Siston holds its summer fete on Saturday
25th June from 1pm to 4pm.
The fete layout will be much the same as previous years with
parking in the field at the end of Gibbs Lane, stalls along the
lane and then in the church car park and on the churchyard
green.
There will be the usual Pimm’s and beer bar, hot dogs, pizza
and ice cream stalls, and cream teas and cakes in the hall.
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OUT & ABOUT
Your guide to eating, drinking and entertainment in June
Summer fete
Doynton's summer fete will be held at the village hall on
Saturday 11th June at 2pm. There will be a barbecue and tea
stall, tombola and other competitions, a bric-a-brac stall, silent
auction, and more. The gardens of the Old Rectory next door
will be open to view from 11am to 4pm at a cost of £4, and
cream teas and plants will be on sale.
Queen
Charlton
Queen Charlton's annual fete
is on Saturday 11th June from
2pm to 4.30pm.
There will be entertainment
from Keynsham Brass Band
and Morris dancers, a
barbecue, homemade cakes,
a beer tent and cream teas.
Walk over the Hanham Hills
The next guided footpath walk jointly organised by Bitton and
Hanham Abbots parish councils will be a tour of Hanham Hills
on Sunday 19th June.
People should meet outside the shops in Ellacombe Road,
Longwell Green, at 2.30pm.
The walk is open to all ages but under-16s should be
accompanied by a responsible adult and if you bring a dog you
must keep it on a lead where appropriate.
The walk will be led by Clive Brett who can be contacted on
07434 869429.
Summer fair
Chandag Junior School PTA in Keynsham will be holding their
summer fair on Thursday 23rd June from 6.30pm to 8pm.
There will be a barbecue and bar, a variety of stalls, cakes, ice
creams, tombolas, raffle, a secret auction, _bouncy castles,
games including football penalty shoot, and a gym display by
pupils.
Local businesses and individuals are invited to donate to the
secret auction.
Funds raised by the PTA go towards play equipment, ICT tablets
and support learning experiences with trips and theatre visits.
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Former bank staff gather
for reunion
More than 100 former employees of NatWest's Bristol
Overseas Branch met for a special reunion at the
Conservative Club in Keynsham last month.
What started out as an idea, discussed among a few friends,
quickly snowballed, thanks to social media, and while many
former staff happen to live in the Keynsham area, others
attended from all over the UK and Europe.
The Overseas Branch opened in Bristol in 1971 and
operated for many years from Colston Avenue until
reorganisation within NatWest brought about its closure in
1996. The event was organised by Luke Haughton and
Geoff Leonard to mark the 20th anniversary and many old
friends and colleagues were reunited after several years.
A DJ played music from the 1970s, '80s and '90s to a
backdrop of images and personnel from the Overseas
Branch during that time.
Alyson Lewis, who worked for NatWest in the 1970s and
1980s, said: "Although it's been 20 years since the demise
of the branch, in many cases people hadn't seen each other
for more than 30 years. Some attendees travelled from as
far away as Stockport, London and Kent, and there were a
few now based in the Netherlands and France, who made
special efforts to get here.”
Pic: Matt Prosser
their diary to do it all again in five years' time when 2021 will
mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Bristol
Overseas Branch.
The event made a small surplus which is being donated to
St. Peter's Hospice. All present have also made a note in
Archery open day
As part of the national Big Archery Weekend, people are
invited to have a go with Bitton Archers this Sunday (5th
June) from 10am to 4pm at Bitton AFC in Bitton.
All equipment is provided and no experience is necessary.
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B&NES Chair gets the picture
The new Chair of Bath & North East Somerset Council had
a Space Station style vision check when he visited Norville
Opticians in Keynsham last week.
Alan Hale was invited to officially open the company's newly
relocated practice in High Street and jumped at the chance
when he was invited to try an instrument used by Tim Peake
and his colleagues to make regular checks on their vision in the
microgravity environment of the International Space Station.
The instrument uses a technology which enables 3D images to
be built of the various layers of a patient's eyes. The resulting
scans, especially if repeated over a period of time, can give a
vital early warning of several serious conditions long before
they become apparent to the patient.
The instrument, a Heidelberg Engineering SPECTRALIS, is
based on a technique called Optical Coherence Tomography
(OCT) which until recent years could only be accessed in
hospitals. It is a complex technology used to measure the eye
and particularly the layers of the retina which can be damaged
by many common diseases such as glaucoma, diabetes and
age related macular degeneration.
Crew members on the International Space Station (ISS) have
been using the Heidelberg SPECTRALIS OCT for eye
examinations every four weeks since June 2013 as part of
NASA's ongoing ocular health study.
Cllr Hale said: “This is a very impressive piece of technology. I
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Alan Hale with practice manager Beth Bracey
already knew I had a progressive problem with my eyes but to
be able to see it like this and to have the ability to track and
measure its development is incredible.”
Norville Opticians director Adrian Street said: “The test is very
simple, takes just a few seconds and is completely non-contact;
there are no sudden puffs of air or flashes of light. Any areas
that appear unusual can then be measured and later repeat
scans can be lined up with the original and any changes can be
seen and measured.”
He added, “Unfortunately this test is not part of the NHS eye
examination and so we have to charge a nominal fee but when
you consider what it can detect then it's well worth the money.”
Mum's desperate hunt
for treasured blanket
A mother is desperately trying to get back her son's memory
blanket after she accidentally donated it to a charity shop in
Downend during a clear-out.
Last month Lisa Richardson packed up some black bin liners
with unwanted items before she moved house on 12th May from
Downend to Staple Hill. She gave some to the Clic Sargent shop
and another lot to the St Peter's Hospice shop in Downend.
After moving in to her new home she couldn't find the blanket
and suddenly realised it may have been bundled into one of the
black bags by mistake. Staff at the Clic Sargent shop told her
they remember selling it and she has now launched a huge
appeal to try to recover it, putting up posters in shops in
Downend, using social media, posting messages on selling
sites and also appealing to our 30,000 readers in the hope of
getting it back. She said her son Redd, who was seven on
Tuesday, was missing his blanket.
Old youth centre
demolished to pave
way for housing
Cadbury Heath
The old Cadbury Heath Youth Centre at Park Road has
been demolished to make way for 25 new properties being
built by Cotswold Homes Ltd.
The old building was vacated when the new Batch
community and youth centre was built nearby and the site
sold off by South Gloucestershire Council.
The new development will be a mix of flats and two and
three-storey houses with parking, landscaping and access.
Nine units will be affordable homes.
“I don't know how it got in to one of the bags,” she said. “This is
a blanket that has all his first clothes on, what he came out of
the hospital with, his pyjamas, T-shirts etc, and means the world
to us. I am devastated.
“He is a IVF baby and it took me six years to conceive with him
so you can imagine it means a lot to us as a family.”
Lisa can be contacted by email at
[email protected]
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Have your say on
changes to the X39,
38 & 39 bus services
South Glos
More delays and
diversions for ring
road works
Drivers face more delays and diversions in the months
ahead as work is carried out on the A4174 ring road.
There will be closures in the Downend area on several
dates in June for Metrobus works, then in July resurfacing
begins from the Deanery Road roundabout at Warmley to
the Dramway roundabout near Emersons Green.
South Gloucestershire Council has given notice to
temporarily close both carriageways between the two
roundabouts from 4th July for a maximum of 18 months
between 8pm and 6am. However, the closure will not be
implemented for the whole of the period but only when
traffic signs are in place and only for as long as the works
take, which is anticipated to be eight weeks. Diversions will
be signposted.
Meanwhile this weekend (4th & 5th June) there will be a
diversion in place when the eastbound ring road between
the Hambrook and Bromley Heath roundabouts is closed
overnight from 9pm to 5.30am as narrow traffic lanes are
put in. These lanes will be in place until October, allowing
MetroBus to build a new bus lane between the two
roundabouts. By narrowing the lanes, two traffic lanes can
be kept open.
Whilst the work is being completed, there will be a new
30mph speed limit in place on this section of road and wide
vehicles will be able to use lane one only. Work on this
section of the A4174 is due for completion by the end of the
year.
The installation of the new Church Lane Bridge over the
A4174 starts at 8pm on Friday 17th June and will continue
through the night until 6am on Monday 20th June. A 350tonne mobile crane will be set up on the dual carriageway
to lift the bridge sections into position. The ring road will be
closed between the Bromley Heath and Wick Wick
roundabouts with a diversion route in place. The A4174 will
also be closed on Sunday 3th July from 8am to 8pm in both
directions from Bromley Heath to Wick Wick roundabouts
again so BT can divert utility cables under the road.
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First West of England is consulting people on changes to the
X39, 38 and 39 bus services which operate between Bath and
Bristol along the A4, with the 38 and 39 serving Keynsham.
Announcing on 19th May that it was about to launch the
consultation, First said there was a ”tight window to ensure we
meet the Traffic Commissioner's deadline for registration”. It is
indeed tight, with the survey closing on Saturday (4th June).
First is looking to make a series of improvements to the services
which are due to come into effect on 4th September: “These
changes will look to: improve the punctuality and reliability of the
services, improve the spacing between buses right along the
corridor and help to provide a high quality service for the
community. “
It is asking for feedback on what is good and not so good about
the existing service, adding: “In August the layout of Bristol city
centre will change as part of the ongoing re-modelling works.
This will force a change of route to Services X39, 38 and 39 (as
access to Baldwin Street will be restricted). We will make this
change based on the feedback provided from this survey.”
Customers can find paper copies of the survey on buses and at
Bath and Bristol bus stations as well as online at
https://response.questback.com/firstgroupplc/e716ncacak/
Keynsham
Collecting tools for Africa
The Rotary Club of Keynsham Chew Valley supports the charity
Tools for Self-Reliance and will be collecting unwanted tools (not
electrical) at Waitrose car park in Keynsham on Saturday 11th
June from 8am to 1pm.
The charity refurbishes tools throughout the UK to send to Africa
where they work with experienced local organisations to train
artisans to earn a living and help build communities.
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