Issues Updates
To receive updates on those issues highlighted at the previous Area Board meeting and received online. To include;
· Leigh Park Community Centre update from Cllr Russell Hawker
Minutes:
Sally Hendry updated the Board on a number of local issues that had been raised through the Area Board system www.wiltshire/gov.uk/areaboards
· Speeding on the Mead, Meadow Lane and the Ham had been reported, metro counts would take place where possible.
· Can no smoking signs to be erected in park play areas.
· Issues over dog fouling and litter concerns over pathways.
· White horse viewing gallery is in need of tidying up – this is being looked at and new fencing and a cut back of overgrown trees and shrubs would take place shortly.
· Newtown road had become very overgrown and the Unimog had cut back the hedges and verges.
Councillor Russell Hawker gave a brief update on the Leigh Park Community Centre. Instructions had been issued to Persimmon to start construction, he anticipated that it would take a 6 month period for them to get on site. A Project Manager had been appointed. He advised that a few minor issues needed to be sorted but that he expected work to be finished and the centre to be open by November 2012.