Death Alley

Once again we have a sunny half term day with hundreds of families with their kids playing on the beach. The amusement arcade, the ice cream shop and the toilets are all on the other side of the road along which two way traffic can proceed at 30 miles an hour against a fence of parked cars, vans and suvs. There have already been deaths here. Why o why isn’t the road closed all year around?

12:11 PM

Windfarm off Swanage!?

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/purbeck/4140901.FURY_AT_WIND_FARM_PLANS/

2:18 PM

State of the roads

State of the roads

Coming back from Studland today, I counted over 25 holes in the roads from the start of Studland village, along the main road and along the seafront and up the High Street as far as the Black Swan pub.

Under half the holes had marks round them for repair and these were confined to a short section of the sea front.

With all the money we all pay in various taxes which are supposed to be used for the transport system, it dosnt look like much of this is actually going into maintaining the current roads.

Perhaps if more people reported seeing new holes in the roads, they could be repaired before they get too big and dangerous for motorbikes, cycles and cars.



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www.swanageforum.co.uk

http://www.swanageforum.co.uk/ closed again. I wonder if its for good this time or it will be back with the same muppets posting random drivel ?



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 10:49 PM

Hum

HUM MEETING ON
Wednesday 18 February 2009

2-00pm - 4-30pm at the Swanage Town Hall Purbeck District Council is investigating the "hum" in Swanage and people affected by the noise are invited to drop in to give their opinions and comments to the Council’s Public Health Team.

Unexplained noises are a common problem for residents in Purbeck and can be very irritating especially if the source of the noise cannot be traced.

The information gathered will be used to find out how widespread the problem is within Swanage and to help the Council’s investigation to reach a conclusion.

If any members of the public have any queries or concerns, please contact: The Environmental Health Officer, Purbeck District Council.

Telephone: 01929 557 328 Purbeck District Council, Westport House, Worgret Road, Wareham, 0H20 4PP



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 9:50 AM

Feel Good Songs On Sunday!

This Sunday 8 February The Refrains will be performing Feel Good Songs of the 60s and 70s at Bar Seven, 1 High Street, Swanage from 5pm to 8pm. Free admission and All Welcome!



Posted by steve darrington to swanageview at 9:53 AM

School ideas?

ul Angel has left a new comment on your post "SOS (Save Our Schools) for Swanage":

Blimey - this thread reads like a fiesty night in the pub, only it appears that some of the rowdy regulars have fallen asleep or gone home now and the conversation has got sensible again! No doubt I could read back to my earlier posts and find something someone would be offended by though - apologies if that's the case!

Can I suggest that we have a new thread that deals only with POSITIVE and CONSTRUCTIVE ideas about the way forward for education in Swanage and Purbeck? If we were to start from the assumption that the proposal may be re-thought we could play with ideas, either 2 or 3 tier, with any and all ideas put forward?

The rules would have to be that a post could suggest a closure, merger, new-build, secondary school, university or the status quo without being shouted down... difficult I know, but we need to talk about these things. In a new thread you would have to give positive reasons for change though, not negative reasons why a given school might not be one w=you agree with!

Whaddayareckon?



Posted by Paul Angel to swanageview at 9:57 PM

Woolworths

Who is taking Woolies?



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 12:07 PM

Last Straw?

The thatched restaurant area on Swanage Quay had a site meeting today, in order to determine it's future. Of the circa 50 people in attendance nobody spoke against the retention of the "thatch pagoda". Councillors will decide on Jan 22nd whether it has to be torn down or not.

SOS (Save Our Schools) for Swanage

Dorset County Council last week announced their intention to collapse the current 3-tier system of schools in Purbeck to 2-tiers. They have given local residents until just February 25th to raise objections to these proposals.

For Swanage this will force the closure of the increasingly thriving Middle School, of St Marks First School and of Swanage First School.

From age 11 all Swanage children will be forced to make a 20 mile daily round trip to an enlarged Secondary School in Wareham. How many parents will still view Swanage as a viable place to raise their children and what will this do to the future of Swanage as a sustainable community ?

Pupils of the two threatened first schools will have to drive across town to a new large Primary school that DCC propose to build on the Middle School site (where access and parking are already a major problem).

This, together with equivalent closures of the other 3 Middle schools in the area, will cost at least £75 million but save just £400k per year (these are DCC figures), a payback of 188 years. Council Tax bills will doubtless bear the brunt of this cost for many years to come.

The fastest way to express your views on this is to complete DCC's online feedback questionnaire at www.dorsetforyou.com/purbeckreview (click on the “Future school provision in the Purbeck area questionnaire” link at the left hand side of the screen). You can also read their full proposals here.

An on-line petition to fight the closures has been set up at http://www.petition.co.uk/no_to_2-tier_system

Also you can email your views to purbeckreview@dorsetcc.gov.uk and Cllr Hiett is said to be keen to hear local residents' views on this matter at d.w.hiett@dorsetcc.gov.uk

DCC have arranged just one public meeting in Swanage to discuss their plans, on Wednesday 28th January, 7.30pm at Swanage Bay View Caravan Park.

Please help make sure everyone in Swanage is aware of the threat to our schools and of the urgent need to make their views known before February 25th !



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 9:24 AM

SWANAGE HOSTILITY ASSOCIATION

Anybody heard anything about this?



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 8:14 PM

Iceland

Courtesy of the Echo

¨Food giant Iceland has bought 51 former Woolworths stores and plans to create 2,500 new jobs.

They include Salisbury Street in Blandford and Southampton Road in Ringwood¨.

Good news for them, I wonder whatĺl happen if Somerfield gets the chop?

Ho flaming ho!



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 6:35 PM

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HOUSE CONDITION SURVEY

HOUSE CONDITION SURVEY
Is the CPC Survey inspection of our home, Council Tax RE-VALUATION
by the back door ?


Dear Householder

HOUSE CONDITION SURVEY

I am writing to ask for your help with a survey of the housing in Purbeck. The Council has a leqal responsibility to assess the condition of houses in the area to help it make decisions such as how to allocate financial assistance, and how to help improve home energy efficiency~ With this in mind, the Council is about to start a house condition survey. The survey is being carried out for the Council bv~ CPC Ltd, who specialise in this type of survey for Councils across the country~

Your home has been chosen, in a random sample, for inclusion in the survey and I am writing to ask if you would assist in this task by allowing a surveyor to carry out a survey when he or she calls at your home. The survey should take approximately 30 minutes. All information will be treated in the strictest confidence. Following the survey, the Council then recetves collated information, such as the percentage of houses that may qualify for financial assistance for repairs or insulation, and will not use data for any other purpose. Data is presented in a statistical form that does not identify individual property details.

Each surveyor carries a Council identity card, which they will show to you at the beginning of the survey. If you are in any doubt as to the identity of the callerr please do not let them into your home and call one of the telephone numbers listed be’ow. If you would like to arrange an appointment time with a surveyor this would be very helpful. The appointments can be made at a time to suit you including in the evenitigs and at weekends. To do this please contact the CPC Survey Office on Freephone 0800 783 1079 during office hours~ Alternatively you can wait until a surveyor calls on you at your home.

The answers to some frequently asked questions about house condition surveys are set out on the reverse of this letter which has been sent out from the offices of CPC who are carrying out the survey on behalf of the Council. It therefore bears a Portsmouth postmark. Your co-operation with this survey will be of great assistance~ It could help w secure h~creased funding from the Government for investment and assistance in Purbeck. I would like to take this opportunity to thank-you, on behalf of the Council, in anticipation of your help.

Yours faithfully




Mr R. Conway
Principal Environmental Health Officer



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 2:08 PM