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Does anyone still look at this site?!
Or have the local Facebook pages made this redundant now?
Mike
I still check this site regularly and over the years have found it a great source of information and debate. Whilst I know that not everyone will agree with me, the ability to post anonymously has, in my honest opinion, been a great benefit. It is far easier to be candid – especially if you occupy a position of responsibility in Swanage! Facebook can never replace this unless you set up a pseudonym (e.g. ‘Worried Parent’!) Sadly Swanageview has never recovered from the heated, but ultimately objective, debate which took place shortly before Christmas 2012. This resulted in the ‘anonymous’ option being suspended for a while and the vast majority of posters have never returned. This is unfortunate as opinion about the merits of human scale education and the new Free School continues to be much divided in Swanage, particularly amongst parents.
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Swanage Area Senior Forum open meeting 12th February
Should be an interesting evening !
COMMUNITY NEWS FAIR
COME AND HEAR THE LATEST INFORMATION ABOUT IMPORTANT NEWS WHICH AFFECTS US ALL IN THE COMMUNITY – ALL WELCOME
•SWANAGE BAY AND ITS COASTAL PROTECTION
GUEST SPEAKER: MALCOLM TURNBULL
(CHAIR, SWANAGE COASTAL CHANGE FORUM)
•SWANAGE PLAN CONSULTATION PROCESS
GUEST SPEAKERS: DIANE BEMAND (PDC PLANNING) AND
BOB FOSTER (CHAIR,SWANAGE DEVELOPMENT TRUST)
•SWANAGE RAILWAY
GUEST SPEAKER: MIKE STOLLERY, SWANAGE RAILWAY TRUST
•SWANAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
GUEST SPEAKER: JAN TURNBULL
(CHAIR, FRIENDS OF SWANAGE HOSPITAL)
7PM WED 12TH FEBRUARY
EMMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTRE
VICTORIA AVE, SWANAGE
TRANSPORT AVAILABLE – TO BOOK CALL MO ANDREWS ON 07971 338486
PARKING AND REFRESHMENTS
Whats happening on the lower Downs? Normally if you want to blow your nose or prune a rose bush you need planning permission. What's happening to all the top soil? Are they going to build a retaining wall? Who has actioned this with no consultation?
Is anyone going to post this up? Or is this blog dead?
Better local public transport needed.
A regular, punctual, circular bus service would be a great asset for Swanage promoting tourism, cutting the number of car journeys and of great help to the elderly and infirm. I would suggest from the Railway Station, to the Pier, Durlston Country Park, Hospital, Arkwrights, Hereston via the Caravan site, the Middle School, Ship at Langton, Square and Compass, Kingston, Harman’s Cross, back down Victoria Avenue, St Georges Car Park, Northbrook Road, Village Inn, New Swanage, North Beach Car Park, Seafront and home. I would say running two, hourly services, one in each direction would ensure people don’t need to wait more than half an hour for a bus. I would hope to pay £1 for a single trip and £2 for an all day rover ticket. No bus passes. Bus drivers should be instructed, if for unforeseen circumstances, they are late at a stop no fare is chargeable; and that they should not leave a stop until the timetable stipulates. Hopefully the buses could be electric, and obviously accessible.
Fund it locally
1) With all the money from development tax, instead of stupid cycleways which only a tiny fraction of residents use.
2) With the revenues from all this recycled stuff they make us save.
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