Councillor Steve Swift

North Lincolnshire Council has announced plans for bus facility improvements at locations in Ogilvy Drive and Cambridge Avenue, Bottesford.

Ogilvy Drive is to have 'bus friendly kerbs', which provide easier access - particularly to wheel cahair users and parents with children and pushchairs, introduced at its three drop off/pick up points supported by timetable cases, new posts etc.

Cambridge Avenue, too, is to have the 'bus friendly kerbs' with supporting timetable cases, new posts etc at all six of its drop off/pick up points. An additional bus shelter close to the doctors surgery is also proposed.

These enhancements are proposed subject to positive feedback through consultation. 

North Lincolnshire Council has today supported Bottesford Town Council in its efforts to improve the Town's Greenacre Park.

The grant of £30,000 has been secured from North Lincolnshire under the Council's 'Aid to Communities' programme and will go towards the regeneration of the Greenacre Park Play Area including the installation of new play equipment.

This is excellent news that will allow Bottesford Town to move forward with the much needed and overdue improvements. 

I attended the North Lincolnshire Neighbourhood Network Event on Wednesday evening at the South Leys Campus, which was well attended by people and organisations right across the area.

However the highlight of the evening for me was seeing the Bottesford based Black Beauty Neighbourhood Watch Group pick up one of the three HANWaG awards available for 'Watch Groups'.

As Chair of the Bottesford Neighbourhood Action Team, I am aware of the amount of time and effort put into the local community on a voluntary basis by the Black Beauty Team as well as other Watch Groups in their areas, not just in Bottesford but right across North Lincolnshire.

Congratulations to everyone involved. 

I find it a crying shame that no matter where I go in my capacity as a local Councillor, whether it be the Neighbourhood Action Team, the Town Council, residents' meetings etc that the number one issue of the moment is graffiti hot-spots.

Do we really have a nation of youth that were so deprived of crayons and colouring books as youngsters, that we, as a society, have to endure their less than artistic daub on every public building and utility in every street ?

I believe not !

Wouldn't it be good to concentrate on introducing new schemes and initiatives into our communities instead of having to continually use well earned tax payers money to clear up after others ?

Until such times as we have a more respective community as a whole, anyone having problems with graffiti in their neighbourhood or street can contact me via this blog site or at my e-mail address steve.swift@northlincs.gov.uk when best efforts, through the Council, will be made to remove the offending material. 

Street lighting repairs is by far the most topical issue of the moment based on the number of representations I've received from local constituents.

Many residents are feeling disgruntled, and quite rightly so, at having to wait not just days, nor weeks but months and are still waiting for street lights to be repaired.

Having taken up these cases by writing and phoning the electric companies responsible it appears that they are law unto themselves as time after time I have been promised and given assurances of completion dates that have never materialised.

I appreciate I am not alone as I attempt to secure a solution for the people I represent in Bottesford, as many of my colleagues are encountering the same difficulties in neighbouring wards.

Just what does it take to make these people accountable ?, as one thing's for sure the present situation is nothing more than a FIASCO.

One Hell of a frustrated Councillor, on behalf of even more frustrated residents. 

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