On Tuesday, 8 March 2011 members of ORA attended the Connecting People, Connecting Places (CPCP) meeting at North Swindon Library. On the agenda, among other topics, were SBC’s proposed Core Strategy document and the Tadpole Farm community consultation with the developers.
After a good discussion, a resolution was put to the meeting by the chair of Haydon Wick Parish Council and seconded by ORA – the resolution was that there should be no further development in north Swindon until the promised and future infrastructure is in place such as roads (including the Iffley Road link), community facilities and schools.
This motion was unanimously supported by the floor, except for Cllr Barnett, (Haydon Wick) who thought he might support the infrastructure argument if he had more information. Cllr Renard (Haydon Wick) left before the vote but said that he would second the motion at Full Council (after he had checked with the Head of Law and Democratic Services about procedure). Community representatives from Blunsdon Parish Council, Haydon Wick Parish Council, Rodbourne Cheney Residents’ Association and ORA have asked that our councillors take the cluster’s resolution to Full Council a.s.a.p. and that they support the views of the local community through the resolution. We are now awaiting a response from the Cluster lead, about what support our North Swindon ward councillors will give to residents in response to this resolution.
