SouthdownBath

The Roundhill is now the subject of a decision for our Conservative Cabinet. A request has been made to the Council to buy a small strip of the land on the Whiteway Road at the cemetry end. This is to enable the person to build an additional home for family reasons. The Cabinet members Cllr Hanney (Con - Chew Valley) and Charles Gerrish (Con - Keynsham) will be making this decision after the 26th.

Both Cllr Romero and Crossley have spoken to the Cabinet Councillors and asked them NOT to sell this land for a number of reasons. We would like to hear your views on this subject and all comments - for and against - will be forwarded to the councillors in a Southdown Views digest  for their consideration before reaching their decision.

The full report can be viewed at the following link:c  

http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/Committee_papers/Executive/WL/2008/080118/01E1564TwertonRoundhillLNR.htm

Hillcrest Drive Field  

* As you will have seen the fenced children's area is now fully repaired.

* The Council is now regularly strimming around the disputed development site to ensure that no further claims of ownership can be made. As notified yesterday his appeal has been turned down. So we will not have two bungalows built there.

* The kissing gate at the Hillcrest entrance is to be modified to allow easier access to buggies and wheelchairs whilst still restricting bikes and motorbikes.

* We have asked property services to renew the very old turnstyle arrangement at the Sladebrook/Coronation side of the field.

* We have asked for the dip in the path between these two gates which is holding water to be repaired.

* The overgrowing brambles from the field to the Drive will be pruned back.

* We will be continuing for a third year with the new mowing regime.   Advance warning. The very large Leylandii Hedge by the flats has been declared anti social for the residents of the flat. This decision was also upheld on appeal. It will be pruned back fairly heavily in the spring when the field is dry. This will require some fairly heavy machinery being on the field for a few days whilst the pruning is happening.  

A question to you? We have been asked by a resident if we could provide a climbing frame in the play area. In the past residents have been reluctant to have us proceed with getting equipment. However this suggestion is just for a single item and the resident feels it would also take some of the pressure of the group of trees in the palyarea which are used for climbing. We would appreciate your views on this.

Marsden Road

We have met with parks today to discuss the poor state of this green and the trees. The trees are shedding lots of small branches and this interferes with the grass cutting regime. Parks will ensure that the wood debris is removed before the next scheduled grass-cut. Whist there we also discussed the state of the trees and a tree officer will be inspecting them soon to determine whether any crown thinning would be appropriate and also about removing the dead branches.  

ALSO   Marsden Road did not have their recycling collected this week due to a problem that the collector has had over the weekend. On behalf of ECT and the Council we would like to apologise for this blip in service delivery. There was a break-in at the ECT Recycling depot at Keynsham over the last weekend. The effect of this was that none of the regular round vehicles were available for use on Monday morning. ECT have managed to borrow a number of vehicles from other areas and have hired some vehicles too but the recycling rounds have been significantly affected due to delay and the fact that these vehicles are not designed to take the range of materials we collect meaning they need to return to tip more often.

New locks are being fitted to the trucks and it is expected that this will be completed by Wednesday. Around only half of Monday's rounds were completed and Tuesday was also affected. ECT will return to clear up some of those streets remaining from Monday. The Council have agreed that, anyone still waiting from Monday or Tuesday on Wednesday will not be done until next week - otherwise the disruption could carry on all week and people may be given promises that can't be met.

The aim is to return to normal service on Wednesday providing the lock repairs are done as scheduled. We really value the effort made by residents to fully recycle and again we regret this incident and the impact it has had on this week's collection.