THE WEEK IN East & North East FREE Issue 544 26th September 2018 Read by over 40,000 people each week Curo housing estate a scene of “deprivation” town councillor Dave Biddleston says pre-war poverty”. vandalism and ant-social behaviour. residents are living in “deprivation” at Curo homes in Last week, a deputation from the 40-plus homes A Facebook page set up by residents shows images of Tintagel Close, claiming “basic sanitary living has been attended the town council meeting to describe some of bare electrical wiring exposed to the elements and other so compromised it's as if Keynsham has moved back to the problems they face as a result of poor maintenance, scenes of neglect. Recently The Week In reported on an arson attack when waste bins were deliberately set alight and although nobody was hurt, considerable damage was caused to neighbouring properties, with the heat even melting drainpipes and guttering. At the time residents reported that the lock on the bin store door had been vandalised and not repaired. Responding to a report by BBC Bristol, Curo claimed that the CCTV system at Tintagel Close had been vandalised beyond repair. This brought an angry reaction from residents who claimed the security cameras have never worked. Continued on page 3

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Concerns at Funding boost for Problems persist at MP changes position Also in this Community Centre . Keynsham one-way tip on Brexit week’s issue . . page 5 . . . page 6 . . . page 12 . . . page 7 2 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 Curo housing estate a Public meeting to scene of “deprivation” discuss traffic concerns Continued from page 1 homes at Tintagel Close. In ownership to Curo. While A public meeting has been called to Two years ago Curo denied March 2016, the open land principally a charity discuss ongoing concerns with the rumours it was planning to adjacent to the site was providing social housing, the volume and speed of traffic using the demolish and redevelop the transferred from B&NES Curo Group also has a lanes around the Golden Valley. commercial property The meeting, which has been called by development arm – Curo villagers in and Beach, Enterprise Ltd - which will be at the chapel in Wick Lane, Upton operates in the commercial Cheyney at 7pm on Wednesday 10th sector as a revenue October. Local councillor Erica Williams generator. is due to attend. Reacting to concerns in Many local people campaigned for years 2016 that Tintagel Close and for a reduced speed limit in the largely another Curo social housing derestricted lanes between the A420, Bath project in Midsomer Norton Road at Wick, the A4175 though had been transferred into Common and the A431 through , There is a sign in there somewhere Curo Enterprise and funds and earlier this year a 30mph limit was set aside for the introduced. still further to 20mph in the residential redevelopment and re- However, residents say the reduced limit areas. housing of tenants, Curo told has only helped a bit and that further Not helping the situation is that some of The Week In at the time: traffic calming measures, with some the 30mph signs are virtually obscured by “We’re always reviewing calling for the speed limit to be lowered foliage. our estates and properties to ensure they’ll be sustainable in the long term. “We’ll be considering improvements to a number of our estates over the next few years, of which Tintagel Close will be one. When this process starts, the first step Saltford will be to talk to local residents about what they’d like to see in their Jewellery stolen neighbourhood in years to A 30mph has been introduced in the lanes this year A property in Claverton Road, Saltford, was burgled last come.” Thursday evening. Patio doors to the rear were forced open and a search was made. Items of jewellery were stolen.

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4 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 Future of Warmley Community Centre at stake An emergency meeting exceeding income. Share Lounge, which was attended by around 150 value at 1st April of this year damaged by a flood last people has been held at was £20,155 but on 31st December, by offering the Warmley Community August it was down to social club the Main Hall Centre which is facing a £6,898.91. for Jazz and Saturday serious financial situation. The NHS which had rented evenings. Work on the All community centre and car parking spaces at the Jubilee Lounge has been social club members were community centre for completed but it is invited to last Wednesday’s workers has moved from understood there has been an extraordinary general Warmley and this has issue with the floor and the meeting by the management resulted in loss of income of social club have refused to committee to enlighten them £650 per month. use the room. about the centre being in The meeting heard that the There are hopes that people “financial jeopardy”. main debtor of non-payment can work together to get the Erected as a memorial to the of rent is the social club and centre back on a stable Staple Hill Second World War, the even though the area of the financial footing. The centre opened in 1947 and is building they rent and centre’s management an important focal point for services they pay for were committee were holding a Community litter pick the area, hosting numerous being used, the total debt to meeting this week, as were There will be a community litter pick in Staple Hill on Saturday 13th October from groups and activities. date is £11,750. the social club committee, 11am to noon. Organiser Ian Boulton, who is one of the local councillors, asks people The management committee The management committee and we hope to bring to get in touch if there is a public area that they feel needs tackling. has sold shares as said they had compensated updates from both meetings He said: “The more volunteers we have the more areas we can visit.” You can sign up expenditure has been for the loss of the Jubilee in next week’s issue. for the event on the Staple Hill and Mangotsfield Residents Facebook page.

The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 5 Funding boost for one-way system Plans to make Keynsham’s one-way The West of England Joint Committee system a permanent feature are expected comprises of representatives from the four to take a major step forward this week local authorities of B&NES, Bristol, North with the West of England Joint Somerset and , Committee set to approve a £1.5m capital together with the Local Enterprise grant for B&NES Council to carry out the Partnership, and has a fund of more than work. £200m for capital and skills investment over In last week’s issue we reported that the a three-year period. council had approved £200,000 spending for Projects which have or are benefitting from consultants to draw up a full business case the fund include the MetroWest suburban rail for the work the work to be paid from the project and the Bristol & Bath Science Park, Local Growth Fund. Now it appears that the and there is an expectation that all Local scheme is likely to benefit from money Growth Fund projects should be complete by already committed to another West of the end of the 2020-21 financial year. England project which is ultimately not However, £4m which has been allocated to ready for delivery. the Nuclear Futures Open Innovation and Some issues still to sort before the one-way system becomes permanent

Technology Centre (NUCLEATE) project with the whole project valued at £2.4m. has been returned to the pot as it will fail to These projections form part of an outline meet this deadline. business case which has already been On Friday (28th) when the West of England presented to the regional committee. Joint Committee next meets, it will consider The application is recommended for three new schemes, including £1.5m to make approval, subject to B&NES Council the Experimental Traffic Regulation Order in providing a detailed programme that Keynsham which came into effect last May, demonstrates the scheme can be delivered by a permanent feature. March 2021. The meeting takes place at City The money will be for footpath widening, Hall in Bristol at 11.30am and you can watch improved walking and cycling facilities, the webcast online at www.westofengland- junction improvements and street furniture, ca-gov.uk

6 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 Kingswood MP changes his mind over Brexit Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore, who “When we look at actually where voted to remain in the EU at the 2016 the EU is going, where Tusk is referendum, said on BBC’s Question Time going, where the EU 27 is going, in Dewsbury last week that he would now we’re not part of Schengen, we’re vote to leave. not part of the single currency. It Mr Skidmore, who is also vice chairman for wants to follow a separate policy for the Conservative Party, said: “I direction, a political project, and voted remain myself, my constituency, we’re not going to be part of that. Kingswood, similar to Dewsbury, 57 per cent And now looking two years on of people voted Leave, and as soon as that into the negotiations, while I still result happened, I respected that result... A want to get a deal for the people’s vote, a second referendum, would economic security of the United be absolutely catastrophic for the democracy Kingdom, I think that now we’re in our country. It’s written into legislation probably now better to do it now that we’re leaving on the 29th of March alone.” next year and we need to make sure that In Issue 415 (24th March, 2016) we’re prepared to be able to leave.” we quizzed all MPs in The Week He added: “I feel the Prime Minister has In’s region about which way they gone out of her way to try to arrange for a would be voting in the EU deep and special partnership with the EU and Referendum. At the time Mr she hasn’t got it... and I think if I’m honest Skidmore said: “I've not made Europe a “But my gut feeling is that even if we did immigration problems. with the audience here and with the panel centrepiece of my campaigning activities or leave the EU, we would still be subject to “I am concerned at the impact on local jobs then I think that if the referendum was re-run work in Parliament. The EU is an important European regulations, without the power to that leaving the EU might cause, and any tomorrow that I’d probably now vote Leave. issue, but there is more to politics. When it control or define them, just as Norway and economic shockwaves that would be caused I think when I look at how the Prime comes to the vote, on balance my head says Switzerland are currently frozen out of any by the destabilising effect of surrendering Minister has been treated that actually I think to stay in. Of course I can understand the say - both these non-EU countries also have EU membership. We have worked hard to we have gone out of our way to try and arguments of those who wish to leave, and had to sign up to freedom of movement in keep interest rates and mortgages low, and I ensure that we can have that relationship and sympathise with many of the points that have order to trade, so it isn't that simple in wouldn't want to see hardworking residents we’re beginning to diverge from the EU. been raised. thinking leaving the EU would solve all our hit by any impact of a Leave vote.”

The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 7 8 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 Tennis court Keynsham improvement Bus timetable work announced Work to improve tennis courts in three parks in Bristol - St George, Eastville and Westbury-on-Trym – has been changes will see announced. The city council says it is part of a long-term vision which will help create a sustainable maintenance model for each of the courts and ensure everyone can access high quality evening taxi services tennis facilities in the future. Further changes proposed for the Both the courts in Eastville and at Canford Park in Westbury-on-Trym will eventually change to a charging 349 bus service will see a taxi model. Any money generated will be put towards operating evening services around ensuring that the courts can be maintained more regularly. the Park Estate and Charlton Road Members of the public will still have free access to the in Keynsham. courts at certain times in the week with some Just over two years ago First concessionary rates on memberships available. announced a raft of changes to services People at St George Park currently already pay to use the in and around the town. It took over the courts but will also be able to access them by using an operation of the 349, hiring the online booking system once the refurbishment work is incumbent operator Abus to run the completed. buses on its behalf during the day on The West of England Sport Trust (Wesport) has been weekdays. First’s own 38 service, named as the provider who will operate and maintain which went on to Bath, was scrapped these courts. It will also be offering coaching sessions. due to low numbers and a joint Cllr Kye Dudd, the council’s Cabinet Member for Sport, ticketing arrangement with the A4 Air said: “These tennis courts are well in need of Decker allowed passengers from the refurbishment and this work will mean we put in place a Park Estate to change buses at system to make sure they can be regularly maintained and Keynsham without financial penalty. Now, a year on, First has announced travel down to the High Street will still that future generations will be able to access good quality The problem of evening services that the 38a bus departures at (times) have to board at a bus stop however. courts in their local park.” around the estate was resolved by the will cease on 27th October. However, At the same time as the 2016 changes This work is being part funded and carried out in introduction of a dedicated shuttle Mr Freeman told us last week that a came into operation, the 178 Bristol to partnership with the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). It service which met with the evening 39 taxi company will be providing a Radstock service also ceased operating is part of a £139,000 investment in the courts. Bristol to Bath services which came shuttle service in its place. According through the Chandag Estate, travelling The council is looking to see if it might be possible to through Keynsham. Speaking to The to Mr Freeman, the maximum number directly up the Wellsway instead. While introduce similar schemes to other parks. Week In last September, First’s of passengers using the shuttle is four, at the time this move was hailed as a Managing Director James Freeman told which makes running a bus a costly factor in improving timekeeping, many us that the 38a shuttle service was not option. The taxi will follow the route of residents still bemoan the loss of a bus Keep in touch, let us know what paying its way but was helping to make the 38a around the Park Estate but link to Keynsham High Street. From you think, send us your news the 39 more sustainable by delivering passengers will be able to alight where 27th October the 1925 weekday service more passengers to it at Keynsham they want to stop, rather than at and 1910 departures from Bristol will www.facebook.com/theweekin High Street. designated stops. Passengers wishing to be withdrawn due to low numbers.

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The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 9 LETTERS We want to hear about it. intrinsically incompetent system Apologies and thank you, good its own policy of the necessary MP’s views on It would be really encouraging of government is more deeply neighbour. number of car parking spaces. To funding cuts for the constituents of North East entrenched than ever. So no Name & address supplied state that the spaces are 25% Somerset to hear some words on change there then! fewer than the required number Dear Sir these matters from the MP who b) If Brexit were taking place in and that residents will use public I see in Issue 543 that Jacob Christian Aid represents them, rather than his the 1980s, when globalisation transport and on-street parking is Rees-Mogg has been back in his collection thanks crusade to save us from the was really starting to take off, ridiculous. The council should at home constituency delivering his Dear Editor wrong type of Brexit. then it might (just) be possible to least abide by its own rules. latest newsletter. These days we Christian Aid Keynsham would A leave-voting Labour justify Brexit (“Swashbuckling However, I am not really are for more used to seeing him like to thank everyone who supporter Britain sails the Free trade seas” surprised as this council is the on TV or hearing him on the donated money to the Christian Keynsham would be The Sun's headline). It one which brought many more of radio about Brexit. Aid High Street volunteers (Name & address supplied) must now however be patently its own employees to work in the Over the last two years he has during our two-day collection in obvious to even the most dim- new town centre offices but did been quick to rubbish any September. witted MP, that protectionism (if little about providing the ‘expert’ who has dared to offer an Plus ça change Your contributions, and every not outright trade wars) will necessary parking spaces. opinion that differs from his own Dear Stephen penny counts, raised £461 and define the global trading scene As a consequence many of us over Brexit, yet he has no more Your recent article on Jacob will go towards helping many over the next decade. This is who live in nearby streets are qualification or experience to Rees-Mogg being quizzed during people currently living in disaster inevitable (whoever is in the plagued by council employees back up the notion that they are a walkabout in Keynsham (Issue areas. Thank you to all our lovely White House) and will mean a who park all day, thereby wrong and he is right. He has an 543) reminded me of the French volunteers for taking the time to significant reduction in trading blocking access to our own opinion, as did the 17 million quotation “Plus ça change, plus collect for this great cause. opportunities for all countries - homes. people who voted to leave in c'est la même chose” (“The more Thank you also to everyone who particularly those outside a major Hazel Powe 2016. That doesn’t automatically it changes, the more it is the same took the time to visit our trading bloc like the EU. mean he speaks for the rest of us. thing”). Uprooted Exhibition which was With masterly timing, the Great Normally, a Government MP When the pin-striped Boy on display in the upstairs room Our farmland needs British public has chosen who openly defies the will of the Wonder next wanders down the and windows of the library protecting probably the worst time in 50 Prime Minister and the High Street, perhaps the anti- during a two-week period in Dear Sir years to bale out of a trading bloc Chancellor of the Exchequer Brexit campaigners will quiz him September. It’s now on its way to It is concerning that no one seems (and probably without a would have a short political on some of the more important Gloucester Cathedral. to realise that post-Brexit we parachute). So no change there career. Just like his good friends questions, such as: Please look out for future events could well need every square acre then! Boris and Nigel, it seems our a) Why is it that when Brexiteer - we will be in St John’s Church of farmland to enable us to feed Name and address supplied media has made personalities of politicians talk about “taking at the Winter Festival. our increasing population and to these people. back control”, what they really From the Christian Aid supplement the possible high In most walks of life, what you mean is giving even greater Missing bricks Keynsham Committee tariff imports from the EU and do is more important than what power to the incompetent, over- mystery solved elsewhere. you say. Like many councils centralised and London-centric Dear Stephen Council should abide Currently the land grab by struggling to cope with system of government, which has Through your paper I need to by its own rules building contractors is eating up Government funding reductions, made such a mess of running this say: “Sorry, very sorry!” Dear Stephen huge tracts of Green Belt land B&NES Council is shedding country for the last 70 years. It is Re my letter in last week’s paper I see that B&NES has given that will never be recovered. staff and cutting services it used one of Brexit's greatest ironies (Please return bricks), it permission for the Grange Hotel A sensible subsidy paid to the to provide. Meanwhile residents that millions of people in the transpires my kind neighbour in Keynsham to be converted into hard-working farmers remaining in Keynsham are suffering the "provinces", who voted for took the bricks away, thinking a total of six flats and four in our country would surely consequences of anti-social Brexit in the mistaken belief that that they were old and of no use. houses. Although I don’t prove more cost-effective, not to behaviour and petty crime while “they were sticking two fingers They were very heavy and he disagree with this conversion in mention eco-friendly. the police say they haven’t got up to the political establishment”, was being very thoughtful and principal, I am concerned that the G Warren the resources to do anything will now find that this flawed and practical. council has decided to contravene Keynsham resident

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The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 11 Spotlight on recycling centre permit scheme There still appear to be a significant Gloucestershire residents use the Sort It number of unauthorised visitors using the recycling centres and to stop commercial Sort It centre at Mangotsfield despite a waste from being disposed of illegally at the vehicle registration scheme introduced in household sites. 2016. “This unauthorised use increases the cost of These photos of screens at the site were running the sites, processing waste and taken by a Week In reader during two traffic which affects the service for South separate visits this month. The first (below) Gloucestershire residents. shows that five unregistered vehicles turned “Our ANPR cameras pick up any up in just 16 minutes. The second shows five unregistered vehicles and drivers will be more that weren’t registered arriving in asked to leave the site. Residents are asked Registration can be completed online at whether it is a misread or not. The alarm may under half an hour. to be prepared to confirm their address with www.southglos.gov.uk/sortitreg, on the also go off if you did not enter your vehicle This week South Gloucestershire Council’s proof of residency, such as a driving licence phone or at a One Stop Shop.” number plate correctly when you registered. Cabinet Member for Communities & or utility bill. The council says these measures have seen “We have experienced a few issues affecting Tourism Paul Hughes said: “Vehicle “Residents of South Gloucestershire must the tonnage of household waste reduce 24 a small number of vehicles where the alarm registration is in use at our Sort It recycling register at least 24 hours in advance before per cent from 36,770 tonnes in 2014-15 to has gone off and the camera has correctly centres to make sure that only South using one of our four Sort It centres. 27,817 tonnes in 2017-18. Visitor numbers read the number plate even though the dropped 18 per cent from a peak of 753,906 vehicle is registered. We are currently in 2015-16 to 619,154 in 2017-18. working with SUEZ to resolve this issue.” The authority’s website adds: “Occasionally • Fire prevention work is currently taking the cameras may misread number plates if place at the recycling centre. It is still open the fastenings are positioned very close to to the public but from last Friday until the letters or numbers, the vehicle Saturday 6th October it cannot accept approaches at an angle or too close to rigid/hard plastics at the site. Residents are another vehicle. If the plate is misread, the advised to take this material to one of the site staff will check your vehicle number council’s other three sites at Thornbury, plate against the camera reading and see and . Crossword ACROSS DOWN 1. Engine (5) 1. Worker in stone (5) 4. Small raisin (7) 2. Braid of hair (5) 8. Marshal (7) 3. Prepared (5) 9. Similar (5) 4. Close embrace (6) 10. Offensive (5) 5. Cook in oven (5) 13. Salad vegetable (7) 6. Farewell (5) 17. Scarlet (3) 7. Topic (5) 18. Egg on (6) 11. Take land illegally (5) 19. Crushed rock (6) 12. Musical ornament (5) 20. Born as (3) 14. Limit (4) 22. Mexican lizard (7) 15. Jewelled headdress (5) 25. Social class (5) 16. Eclat (anag.) (5) 28. Endure (5) 17. Hire (4) 29. Moroccan city (7) 21. Uplifted (6) 30. Perspired (7) 22. Accumulate (5) 31. Brawny (5) 23. Oily fruit (5) 24. Open (5) 25. Marine mollusc (5) 26. Unbending (5) 27. Ahead of time (5)

12 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 13 Advertising feature Boutique style in Keynsham With the Keynsham branch of New Look closing last occasion wear, with new stock coming in regularly. You are fascinators, hats and gloves, plus gift vouchers, and carries weekend, fashion lovers who haven’t already discovered welcome to come in for a browse and try on outfits at your jewellery by Maddie Drury of Saltford. the nearby independent boutique MDINA may be keen leisure. Aimee is delighted to offer personal fashion styling MDINA is open from 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday and to head over. advice to help customers find clothes that suit their own style from 10am to 1.30pm on Saturdays. Call 0749 1729171. MDINA, which opened last year, has built up a loyal and personality. clientele of all ages who appreciate the individual, affordable MDINA caters for sizes 6 to 26. The current collection pieces that owner Aimee Backwell sources from her home includes, among other pieces, animal prints, elegant blouses island of Malta, as well as from Paris and Italy. and dresses in mustard, soft knits in black, red and navy, The shop, which is in a great location at the top of Bath Hill, camel duster coats and houndstooth jackets. There are dusky takes its name from the ancient Maltese capital and Aimee pink gilets, pink suedette biker jackets and stunning cocktail chose to open her business in Keynsham as she says the town dresses in black and navy, and Aimee says more eveningwear has a friendly community which reminds her of Malta. will be arriving in the run-up to the Christmas season. MDINA stocks a beautiful selection of day, night, and special MDINA also stocks handbags, purses and scarves,

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14 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 Care home residents Chance to see Shrouds bowled over by of the Somme neighbours’ offer A new gateway has been created between the Severn An evocative part of the Shrouds of Vale Bowling Club in Bishopsworth and the the Somme artwork exhibition which Bishopsmead Lodge Care Home next door. It allows has been created to commemorate direct access from the care home to the bowling green, 100 years since the end of World War giving residents the opportunity to play bowls or enjoy One, is coming to South matches on the green at their leisure. Gloucestershire. At the opening ceremony 103-year old resident Linda The Trench is part of the exhibition Cryer cut the ribbon to declare the facility open and which has been touring the UK. It will presented club member Pat Dues with a certificate to open at Aerospace Bristol at thank Severn Vale Bowling Club for their act of this Saturday (29th) and run until 14th kindness. October. The two organisations have also joined forces as Shrouds artist Rob Heard has built a fundraisers, with a recent spiritualist evening raising two-metre high free-standing wooden Trench in alphabetical order, sourced should you wish to also visit Aerospace more than £700 in total to be split between the bowling trench in which the tens of thousands of from Commonwealth War Graves Bristol, standard ticket prices will club and Bishopsmead Lodge residents’ fund, which will Shrouds are stacked. Visitors walking records. apply. It is open from 10am to 5pm help to fund more special experiences at the home. through experience the immersive This is your chance to see the Shrouds daily. nature of this installation, giving a of the Somme before they travel to The exhibition has been brought to graphic sense of both being in a trench London where they will be exhibited at South Glos by the council, hosted by and what the large numbers of those the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Aerospace Bristol and with support killed really mean. from 8th to 18th November. There, all from SSAFA Bristol & South The came to 72,396 shrouds will be laid out Gloucestershire, Airbus, YTL, DHL epitomise the bloodshed of the 1914-18 shoulder to shoulder for the first time and the Commonwealth War Graves war. Names and details of all 72,396 covering more than 4,000 square Commission. Commonwealth servicemen killed at metres of the park. For more information about the the Somme who have no known grave Entry to view The Trench exhibition at Shrouds of the Somme art exhibition are displayed on the outer walls of The Aerospace Bristol is free – however, visit https://shroudsofthesomme.com/

The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 15 16 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 B&NES Council budget is £2.6m overspent B&NES Council’s budget for this With social care currently accounting for financial year is currently overspent to the almost 80% of council spending, there was tune of £2.6m. some good news that the adult care and It was announced at this month’s Cabinet wellbeing was actually under budget after meeting that as of 31st July, delays in the first four months of the financial year. implementing planned cost savings However, children’s services had seen a accounted for £1.7m while additional significant rise. Mirroring a national trend, demand in children’s services had resulted in B&NES has incurred additional costs in the £900,000 of extra costs. transfer of children from foster care to Charles Gerrish, Keynsham North councillor residential placements due to a lack of in- and the Cabinet member responsible for house foster carers. finance and efficiency, told councillors that Councillors from all sides of the political there was sufficient in the budget divide called for a national solution to the contingency reserve to cover the overspend council funding crisis which, it was while measures to mitigate the situation were acknowledged at the meeting, had impacted also in place. far more seriously on other local authorities, Already struggling with a reduction of including Somerset County Council. around £20m in central government funding, Between 2011-15, councils received Council leader Tim Warren with Charles Gerrish at the Riverside View development the 2018-19 council budget set out to achieve additional cash incentives from the £16m in savings on top of more than £40m Government for freezing council tax and paying council tax, the loss of revenue is generating rental income both within over the previous two years. Up to 300 full- increases above 2% required a local estimated at around £3m a year. Similarly, B&NES and elsewhere. In July it launched time posts, almost 15% of the workforce, referendum. At a time when a 1% council tax business rate exemptions on listed buildings the Riverside View development in were set to be lost this year. A significant part increase in B&NES equates to around account for another £2.5m. A £1-a-night Keynsham where, over the next two years, it of the budget overrun is down to a slip in £800,000, it was never clear whether this tourist tax added to hotel bills in Bath would aims to sell 90 new apartments. timing on some of the revenue-generating was beneficial, but since the freeze was lifted generate a similar amount, but government Aequus has also just gone into partnership operations within the council’s commercial (and the cap raised this year to 3%) B&NES legislation would be required before the with neighbouring North Somerset Council property department, while forecast savings has applied the maximum increase without council could pursue that particular option. to develop two sites, in Nailsea and in other areas, including the reduction of triggering the referendum. For now it looks as if B&NES is pinning Portishead, into around 70 new homes. opening hours at recycling centres, have not When The Week In interviewed Charles much of its future revenue generation on its Aequus will take a 25% share of the profits been realised. Ironically, the continued Gerrish in January about council funding, he property development and management and with sources at North Somerset Council growth in household waste recycling has pointed to other areas where B&NES was activity. As we reported in Issue 536, the claiming their 75% share could be worth up actually increased the council’s operating lobbying central government. With students council-owned Aequus Development has a to £6m, it would mean an additional £2m for costs. making up 25% of Bath’s population and not portfolio of commercial properties B&NES.

The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 17 Building not just homes The Somerdale story is as old as The Week the 90-hectare site to the contentious issue In. Our very first edition in 2008 carried of access that dogged the 2013 planning The station footpath opens next month news of the closure of the Cadbury application, this iconic site has hardly factory. Through the years of the been off our pages over the 500+ plus subsequent Kraft takeover and the sale of weekly issues which followed. So, a decade later, another catch-up with Adrian Slade, Somerdale project director for Taylor Wimpey, was perhaps overdue. We have met over the years, the first time in the bar area of the old Fry Club to talk about the plans for the site followed by a tour of the now empty factory site being cleared for redevelopment. Last week we shared our coffee in the new B Block Café as Adrian recapped what has been achieved and what is still to come. So far, 240 of around 587 planned homes are the next month the footpath and cycleway ago – there have been issues over public occupied, Phase 1 is complete and Phase 2 from Keynsham railway station will be transport and parking. To try to resolve the is well under way. With two national complete, as will the first stretch of pathway parking issue, Independent Vetcare businesses (Independent Vetcare and Pukka alongside the river. approached Taylor Wimpey about extending Herbs) occupying much of the adjacent These achievements have not been without the overflow car park at the bottom of the hill building and the St Monica retirement a few growing pains – the sort of issues on the Willsbridge Road. While they were village three-quarters full, The Chocolate which Adrian feels are not uncommon but amenable to the idea, it appears that B&NES Quarter is beginning to have buzz about it. temporary with such developments. As we were not so keen, preferring instead that the Better still, with homes, a school and leisure have reported in recent weeks, the arrival of travel plan which formed part of the planning amenities in such close proximity, this is new employees at Somerdale – interestingly permission was adhered to by staff working beginning to feel like a real village there are more staff working here now than at Somerdale. The irony will not be lost on community. And there is more to come. In when the closure was announced a decade residents in streets close to the Civic Centre who still complain of vehicles parked all day, despite the council also having a staff travel plan for its building. Public transport and cycling are key parts of the Somerdale travel plan and here too there have been problems. While the number of commuters travelling to Keynsham by train has increased noticeably, major problems with reliability and overcrowding still persist. Cycling will get a lot easier next month when the path from the railway station to The Chocolate Quarter opens and those arriving by train will have a shorter and more agreeable start or end to their commute. As part of the Section 106 agreement signed after planning permission was granted for the development, Taylor Wimpey had to make a number of financial contributions to B&NES Council to provide the necessary infrastructure. Among those was £800,000 to provide a bus connection between Somerdale and Keynsham town centre for three years. A service did commence in January 2015, which also served to connect the emerging development at Bilbie Green as well as a link to Whitchurch Village and on to the South Bristol Hospital at Hengrove. At that time, only a small number of houses were occupied and the retirement village was a work in progress. By the following March the council had pulled the plug, blaming low

18 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 but a community patronage and the fact that around a fifth of the plan is that new residents will already the journeys it was subsidising were between find an established wildlife area by the time points within Bristol. Today, as the limited they move in. round Keynsham shuttle services are Taylor Wimpey is still looking for a partner demonstrating, there is more demand and the to manage the wildlife area at Somerdale. Taylor Wimpey man is hopeful that the Talks with Avon Wildlife Trust ended service will be restored by the end of the without agreement and a public tender offer year. three years ago failed to find a partner. It is a Another S106 requirement was a £1m large and varied area and the company is still contribution towards the cost of building a happy to talk to any organisation with an cycle and pedestrian bridge across the River imaginative plan. The jigsaw is gradually Avon which will ultimately form part of a coming together at Somerdale and the end network connecting to Bristol city centre. It result will not just be to provide a pleasant is understood that the council has been living and working environment for up to carrying out scoping work this summer and 600 families and a similar number of once the project is live, work will be workers; Somerdale and the Hams will also completed on the pathway from the Chandos be a leisure destination for people living Road area. nearby and, once the transport infrastructure As for the future, one look at the site map is in place, much further afield. will make clear there is still a lot to do. There is a way yet to go in achieving that Attention now turns to the residential particular goal but Adrian Slade believes development beyond The Chocolate Quarter there needs to be a change of mindset before but to this end, the woodland area has people will truly divorce themselves from already been planted and the community their cars. The buses, bikes and trains need orchard will be planted this winter, along to be working first before any of those

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20 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 New free Brexiteers’ blueprint for careers foreign competition in the NHS While North East Somerset MP Jacob Rees-Mogg was out and about in Keynsham the weekend before last, service delivering his ‘Chuck Checkers’ newsletter, another Future Bright is a new service being offered throughout Brexit story made some of the national newspapers about the West of England, aimed to improve skills and expand the prospect of American firms bidding for National current career choices for eligible people over the age of Health contracts. 19. A discussion paper published by the Cato Institute in America The programme is managed by the West of England and the UK-based thinktank the Initiative for Free Trade Combined Authority and delivered locally by individual (IFT) sets out a vision for a post-Brexit trade deal between councils (B&NES, Bristol and South Gloucestershire). the United Kingdom and the United States. The “Ideal UK- And best of all, services offered by Future Bright are US Free Trade Deal” outlines a situation where regulation is completely free, allowing you to access the career advice swept away and opens up all government procurement you need, without the cost of doing so. markets to the other side. If you’re currently living within the West of England, are The IFT was founded by MEP Daniel Hannan, one of the over the age of 19, and receiving eligible in-work leaders of the Vote Leave movement, in 2016. While Mr benefits, Future Bright could be your answer to a more Rees-Mogg has no official connection, North Somerset MP fulfilling and rewarding career path. This scheme is and International Trade Minister Dr Liam Fox has been tailored to each individual’s needs and works around the closely involved, as has Boris Johnson. goals and skills you wish to achieve. The prospect of US firms bidding for NHS contracts is not A careers progression coach can help you with: new (albeit somewhat ironic in the light of Boris’ bus during • Improving your work skills - arranging training and the Referendum campaign). The opening of NHS contracts fitting this around your current commitments. to US bidders was one of the most controversial elements of to fund it as a free at the point of use service. However, if • Balancing priorities - access to help regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) people do not like TTIP, they may on 23rd June vote to leave childcare, personal finances, etc. negotiations between America and the European Union. the European Union.” • Overcoming personal barriers – those that prevent Jacob Rees-Mogg was the target of local People’s NHS Hailed in 2010 as potentially the largest ever international you from achieving your goals. campaigners in the Bristol area who staged regular protests trade deal, negotiations made slow progress amidst • Careers advice - to identify what you would like to do in Keynsham and delivered a petition to his constituency accusations of a lack of transparency. In a final irony, it was in the future and help create an achievable plan to get office in the town. When we covered that event in Issue 412 the incoming President Trump who called a halt to the deal there. in March 2016, he gave us a response: “TTIP will not affect in 2017. • Taking the next step - giving support and advice to the National Health Service or the ability of the Government help reach your ultimate goal. All conversations with Future Bright are confidential, Kingswood allowing participants to talk freely about their personal St George career issues and concerns, and what they want to Remembrance achieve. Action to improve To be eligible you must be resident in Bristol, Bath and Day parade North East Somerset or South Gloucestershire, be 19 or air quality Kingswood & Hanham Royal British Legion tell us that over, and receiving Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, The St George Breathing Better group, set up to help the Remembrance Day parade will be going ahead this Housing Benefit or Council Tax Reduction, but not JSA, tackle air pollution, will be holding their next meeting on year on Sunday 11th November, despite rumours that it ESA, Income Support or Universal Credit. Sunday 7th October from 7.15pm to 9pm at St George has been cancelled. Future Bright also offers support for local businesses and Community Centre. The parade will assemble as usual at Cecil Road car park aims to help employees realise their full potential. The group, which have a Facebook page, say they need at 2.15pm before setting off for the war memorial at Holy Find out more at https://www.westofengland- more people to join up and join in with local action to Trinity Church where there will be a wreath-laying, ca.gov.uk/future-bright/ improve air quality in the area. followed by a church service. Abi Dudbridge

The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 21 22 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 Research into 20mph speed limits The reference made by a Midsomer Norton where letter writer last week there were no 20mph zones. regarding the 20mph speed The report admitted that limits in Bath and North East there were no significant Somerset stems from a improvements to report on report presented to the the £800,000 scheme and council’s Communities, suggested that further Transport and analysis should take place Environmental Policy once all the 20mph zones Scrutiny Committee last had been in place for three South Glos year. The report was actually years. published in May and Critically it also highlighted considered by the scrutiny that results in other parts of panel (on which two the country were far more Council gets tough Keynsham councillors sat) conclusive where councils in July. had introduced traffic The story emerged in the calming measures as part of national press just prior to their speed reduction on parking offenders Christmas after a Bath operations. In B&NES, only resident made a Freedom of road signage had been The number of penalty charge month where among the issues raised 13 the council issued 6,774 and in Information request about utilised. notices (PCNs) issued by South was parking on yellow lines in 2017-18 the figure was 20,375. This the impact of the speed Gloucestershire Council’s parking Shellards Road, near the Tesco store. also includes bus lane and camera car restrictions. enforcement team has trebled over He urged residents to report “hotspot statistics. While the headlines used by the last six years. areas” so the council can target them. The camera car, which has been the Daily Telegraph focused Parking issues come up regularly at the Cllr Savage said that in 2012 there were in operation in South Glos since on the rise in serious injury community engagement forums that 16 full-time equivalent members of the 2013, is fitted with a camera and or fatal accidents in seven of are held throughout South Glos and the council’s parking enforcement team automatic number plate recognition the 12 areas, one of the main council’s leader Toby Savage was at the and now there are 23. technology to capture any parking conclusions from the report Hanham & Longwell Green one this In terms of numbers of PCNs, in 2012- infringements. was the lack of time after implementation to draw any significant data and the Mobile speed camera locations resulting small sample sizes. In Keynsham for example, Here are the locations in our area where you can expect California Road and Long Beach Road; in Oldland the number of serious to see police mobile speed cameras this week (starting Common on Mill Lane and the High Street; on Parkwall injuries reported was 13, as 24th September). Road in Cadbury Heath and at Victoria Road in North opposed to 12 the year prior Common; on Gloucester Road in Staple Hill and at to implementation of the Bath & North East Somerset: Bromley Heath Road in Downend; on the A432 20mph limit. Average speeds In Keynsham on Coronation Avenue, Park Road, Charlton Badminton Road south of the A4174 Avon Ring Road and had reduced by 1.3mph Road and the Wellsway; in Saltford on Manor Road; on at Kendleshire. which was the same in the A431 Kelston Road; on the A37 at Pensford Hill, the A39 at Corston and on Timsbury Road at Farmborough. Bristol: In Brislington on the A4174 Callington Road and West South Gloucestershire: Town Lane; in St George on the A420 Bell Hill Road/Two On the A420 at Wick; in Bitton on Cherry Garden Road Mile Hill Road, Nags Head Hill, Furber Road and Crews and the A431 Bath Road; in Hanham on Abbots Road and Hole Road; in Stockwood on Sturminster Road, Hollway Whittucks Road; in Longwell Green on Court Farm Road, Road and Stockwood Lane; also on Whitchurch Lane.

Find out more about Dementia Friends There will be a free Dementia Friends session at the Bean come and find out about the small ways you can help to Tree Café in Page Park, Staple Hill, on Monday 1st make your community more Dementia Friendly. October from 11.30am to 12.30pm. Dementia Friends is For information and to book your place call 01454 868570 an Alzheimer’s Society initiative. People are invited to or email [email protected]

The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 23 Pioneering dance company bring their latest show to Kingswood Stopgap Dance Company, which launch at the Lilian Baylis Theatre still sees her everywhere. She is create productions for national at Sadler’s Wells. lying in his bed, sitting at the and international touring and The show features David Toole, kitchen table and laughing with employ disabled and non- whose achievements and skills as a their daughter Sam. Dave has disabled artists, will be bringing disabled performer have been withdrawn into the living room their latest show at Circomedia widely influential, plus newcomer unable to let his memories go, but in Kingswood on 5th and 6th Hannah Sampson as a father and going is all that Sam can think October. daughter living through their own, about…. The Enormous Room is touring the very different experiences of grief. The role of Dave adds to David country following its London Dave’s wife Jackie has died, but he Toole’s distinguished career that includes a prominent solo in the 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony and the landmark 2004 film from DV8, The Cost Of Living. Sam is played by Hannah Sampson, a young dancer with Circomedia in Britannia Road. To studying the 2014 production Down’s syndrome who has book tickets visit Artificial Things. Out of six received more than 10 years of www.circomedia.com or call the compulsory works in the new professional training with Stopgap box office on 0117 924 7615. GCSE specification, Artificial Dance Company. The Enormous Room is the first Things is the only work David and Hannah are joined by major show since Stopgap’s choreographed by a woman and non-disabled dancers Amy Butler, inclusion in the new GCSE Dance the only work that is inclusive. Tamar Daly and Hannah Rotchell. Specification. Year 9 students from Find out more about Stopgap at The show is at 7.30pm at this academic year are now www.stopgapdance.com

24 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 Residents step up their fight to make Siston Lane safer Siston residents lobbied parish councillors The lane, which is unclassified, has a 7.5 last week about the volume and speed of tonne weight restriction. Residents would traffic going through their village and the like to see traffic calming measures and feel motorists who use it as rubbish dump. the current 40mph speed limit should be They have already raised their concerns with reduced. the highways authority South Mrs Savage, who lives on Siston Lane, told Gloucestershire Council and with MP Chris the meeting that it was becoming Skidmore but are ramping up the pressure, increasingly difficult for residents to leave because, as resident Zillah Savage fears: home other than by car because it is so “There will be an awful accident in Siston dangerous. Lane and then with no satisfaction we will And she pointed out that when South Glos be able to say, ‘We told you so’.” Council does a litter sweep along the lane As we reported over the summer, residents every six months, it is closed to traffic of the conservation village say the already because it is deemed too dangerous for the bad traffic situation has worsened since operatives to use, yet residents have no Road, which links Wick and choice but to risk the traffic when they leave Pucklechurch, closed for major drainage on foot or horseback. works. Parish councillors voiced their support for Although the official diversion route on the the residents. Chairman Cllr John Hunt said council’s website is via the A420 and the ring the council was hoping to include funding in road, B4465 and Road, many its budget next year for speed activated signs vehicles are using Siston Lane as a short cut. around the parish.

The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 25 Oldland Common New church launching in Kingswood Football stars taking A new church is launching in Kingswood on Sunday 14th October at King’s Oak Academy in Brook Road. Freedom Church meets at 11am on Sundays at the school, part in charity match except on the first Sunday of the month when members meet at Kingswood Park at 11am for games, Everyone is invited to support a Ryan’s cousin, the TV weatherman refreshments, story-telling, music and craft activities. charity football match taking place Alex Beresford. Freedom Church says it welcomes anyone of any age in Oldland Common on Saturday Ryan organised a raffle for companies who is looking for meaning in life, is exploring faith, 7th October. to enter to be in with a chance to hasn’t been to church in a while or is interested to find The family of Des Beresford, who has sponsor team kits and they donated £50 out what church is like. The church is in partnership with pancreatic cancer, will be taking on a each to be in the draw which took place Woodlands Church in Bristol. team of ex-Bristol Rovers and Bristol on Sunday. Email [email protected] or call City players managed by the former The winners were Lebeqs and Primoris 07767 626039 to find out more or visit the church’s England and Tottenham star Ledley Electrical. The match ball and website at www.wearefreedomchurch.co.uk King. mascot winner was The Fruit Box The day starts at 11am and kick-off for Company. the Des Beresford Utd v Ledley’s XI On the day there will be stalls, Kingswood game at Oldland Abbotonians Football entertainment, food, a bar, a raffle and Club in Castle Road is at noon. auction with amazing prizes including Free community meal Des has been receiving care at St use of a Mercedes-Benz for the People are invited to enjoy a free community meal, with David’s Hospice in Newport. The day weekend, a hotel stay, signed delicious food cooked by local people from different will raise funds for the hospice and the merchandise from football stars backgrounds, at the Made for Ever Community Centre in family have set a £2,000 target. Jermain Defoe, Peter Crouch and Kingswood on Saturday 20th October from 1pm to Des’s nephew Ryan Bernard, who has Bobby Reid, hairdressing and beauty 2.30pm. The event is being organised by Southern Brooks been helping to organise the event and vouchers and more. Community Partnerships, a community development will be playing, said his uncle planned Entrance is £4 for adults, £2 for organisation that brings people together to build strong to be there to watch. Other family children or £10 for a family of four, communities. members playing in the match will be payable on the day. Tickets are available on Eventbrite or text 07971 671076.

26 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 Saltford Environment groups Musical tea party focuses on protecting The next concert by Nomine, the choir representing and supporting the Children's Hospice South West, will be a tea party with musical accompaniment at St Barnabas the Green Belt Church in Warmley at 3pm on Saturday 6th October. Entrance is free, with retiring donations to support the Saltford Environment Group (SEG) members will be how they can help the village protect its Green Belt in 2019, work of the hospice. discussing how to keep Saltford’s Green Belt green when a crucial year for the village as the West of England Joint This will be followed by a lunchtime concert at Fishponds they hold their annual general meeting on 8th October. Spatial Plan and B&NES Local Plan reach important stages Methodist Church at 1pm on 12th October. There are nine sites on the Saltford Housing and Economic towards their completion and adoption. The choir mainly rehearse in the United Reformed Land Availability Assessment (HELAA) that are being SEG takes the sustainable development view that there are Church School Room in Oldland Common. considered to inform preparation of B&NES Council’s Local no genuine “exceptional circumstances” that could support Their website - http://www.webjam2.com/nomine_bristol Plan. The sites are all in the Green Belt and were submitted a case for building on Saltford's Green Belt when taking - says they are looking to expand all sections of the choir to B&NES Council by developers/land owners following a account of ecological, environmental, transport, economic, and would welcome sopranos, altos, tenors and basses. call for sites last year. At their AGM, members will discuss social and employment factors. Community meeting The next meeting of the Downend, Bromley Heath & being discussed for the area. Emersons Green Community Engagement Forum (CEF) will CEFs are organised by South Gloucestershire Council and be at Lyde Green Community Centre, Willowherb Road, on are a chance for residents to raise any concerns and find out Wednesday 10th October, from 7pm to 9pm. Everyone is what is happening in their community. welcome to attend, you can raise any improvements or issues Local councillors attend, along with representatives from you may have, or simply come along and listen to what is other local organisations including the police.

The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 27 Salon appeals over ruling that mural ‘harms’ Hanham High Street A Hanham salon has started appeal vibrant and colourful. however the side elevation is not as proceedings after South Among them was Nicola Bartlett, neatly designed as the front of the Gloucestershire Council said its from the nearby Eclectic Gift Shop, premises, as the artwork has been colourful advertising mural has a who said: “As a fellow trader on the directly painted onto external facing “harmful impact” on the High High Street I am writing in support of brick which results in the advert mural Street. the artwork. It has brightened the High having a more untidy appearance. The Style Creation Hair & Beauty owner Street which helps support small local mural, given its size and design, is Leanne Jefferies applied to the council businesses.” unrelated physically to any other for advertising consent to retain the The council received one comment buildings or signage in the immediate mural on the shopfront but it was saying the mural looks “tasteless” and area; appearing isolated and a refused so she has now lodged an does nothing to enhance the High somewhat alien feature in the area.” appeal. Street. They concluded: “Officers find that She has a petition which has more than Hanham Parish Council did not object while the mural offers a distinctive 140 signatures and has had lots of to the sign but said it had concerns and unique feature, it is found that it support on social media. over the general appearance of the does not have a beneficial impact on The mural is painted on the front and frontage by painting over the old the visual amenity of the locality. side. The advertisement writing is next stonework. “The design and scale of the mural to the door of the salon and along the In their planning report, council appears incongruous and side elevation. officers said the design is not poor and disproportionate to those surrounding As part of her application seeking it was clear there had been an attempt advertisements. In such a prominent consent, she submitted comments of to replicate the appearance of parts of position, the retention of the mural support which said the artwork brings Bristol where brightly coloured would have a harmful impact on the individuality and the feel of Bristol to artwork on buildings is prevalent. visual amenity building itself and of the high street, and that the design is But they added: “Officers consider the High Street.”

28 The Week in • Wednesday 26th September 2018 Family Announcements Warmley Bereavement ‘Happy’ care home Saltford praised by inspectors Former Care home Kendall House in Warmley has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission following an unannounced inspection. The home in Wesley Lane, which is run by Care Futures, provides accommodation, playgroup personal care and support for up to eight people with a learning disability. The recently published report rates the home as good in the five key areas – safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well led. leader dies The inspectors found that people living there were treated in a dignified, caring manner. Annette Sanders, who ran Saltford Playgroup in the There were sufficient numbers of staff to meet their needs and to spend time socialising Church Hall for more than 20 years, has died at the with them. age of 81. The home provided an extremely caring service and staff were very knowledgeable Her funeral will be held at Haycombe Crematorium about the people they supported. Residents were treated with kindness and there was a in Bath on Friday 5th October at 10.45am. happy inclusive atmosphere, with family and friends made to feel welcome. When walking around the village she would often “There was a culture that had been embedded where Kendall House was viewed as bump into people whose children she had taught and people's home rather than a care home,” the report adds. enjoyed hearing of their progress.

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