Strategic Plan

What is this Swanage Community Strategic Plan all about? It’s just setting up more talking shops. Most of the needs they want to identify were identified years ago but have still not happened. No concrete proposals at all. No commitment to a leisure centre or swimming pool. No commitment to pedestrianisation. No commitment to more affordable housing. No commitment to improve the Mowlem. No specific commitment to youngsters. Improving holiday accommodation? Better targeted marketing of the resort? Sheltered moorings?
Please let’s just do it instead of more talking.

Posted by Anonymous to swanage view at 5:28 PM

Hospital 'minor injuries unit' cuts?

At a public board meeting in Sherborne last week Dorset Primary Care Trust proposed reducing Swanage Hospital's minor injury unit's opening times from 24 hours to 8am to 10pm.

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/purbeck/display.var.1417511.0.hospital_opening_hours_concern.php

Kit off?

There's a nudist hike planned between Lulworth and Swanage. Anyone interested in taking part in the walk should meet at Swanage Pier at 9am on June 2. For more information contact Mr Lamb on 0208 778 2851.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/display.var.1412888.0.coming_to_dorset_the_naked_ramblers.php

Recycling?

Why do we have to take the tops off empty plastic bottles and "dispose of them elsewhere" before they can go into the recycling skip? What happens when nobody bothers? Can you recycle polystyrene? Cardboard? The plastic envelopes magazines come in? Who has “clean” aluminium foil?

Posted by Anonymous to swanage view at 12:17 PM

Local artist wins major prize

The Jerwood Charitable Foundation has awarded the £25,000 award for the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize to Langton artist Juliet Haysom for her work Spring. Juliet will drill a bore hole above a natural aquifer in Jerwood Sculpture Park, in the grounds of Ragley, Warwickshire. The spring she creates will emerge as a mist of fine water approximately 100 x 100 x 200 cm in size.
More on: http://www.jerwoodsculpture.org/newsandpress/latestnews/index.cfm?mode=view&news_id=48
and http://www.juliethaysom.net

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School admission numbers?

I see there's an ad in the Advertiser (page 27) about proposed reductions in admission numbers for certain schools . Can someone explain the significance of this and what anyone may be able to do about it, if it has a bearing on keeping our schools open?

Annual Parish Assembly (Mon 21 May)

Monday 21st May 2007, 7.00 pm at the Town Hall. But this is not a Council meeting. It's a public meeting (with no 15 minute limit, like the Council meetings), for anyone in the town to raise anything they want, even propose a specific resolution if you want. Ideally, give notice of any agenda items (or get last year's minutes) by phoning 423636 or call in at the Town Hall or email admin@swanage.gov.uk.

Your town. Your meeting. Your views, Your chance to have a say.

European Cup Final?

Not posting this to upset other supporters but is there anywhere in Swanage where Liverpool fans are going to watch the European Cup Final on the 23/5/2007?

Posted by beachdrifter to swanage view at 8:23 PM

Swanage drug arrests

The BBC website carries a report about drug raids being carried out on Wednesday 9 May in Bournemouth, Swanage and other towns. Arrests have been made. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6638129.stm

Posted by Anonymous to swanage view at 1:39 PM

Council meeting Monday 14th May

The first meeting of the new Council will be at the Town Hall on Monday 14th May. So if they all turn up, you can meet all your new councillors then. And if you have something to say, there's Public Participation at 7 pm.

Pier Head!

real gull nesting with painted gulls for safety
nina and antonia and gull

New Car Park

The planned resurfacing has been postponed until shortly before Easter next year. Thanks councillors for sorting this out.

The resurfacing of the lower High Street will cause traffic chaos with cars backed up in Institute and Station Road. Will someone please organise the temporary reversal of Church Hill to help alleviate the problem? "Please find an alternative route" is rather ironic. Now the local elections are over perhaps we will see some action to provide a permanent solution to the problem of accessing the Pier/Durlston without using the Town centre. Maybe there will be the resolve to close the Shore Road too.

District Councillors for Swanage

* If elected the word 'Elected' appears against the number of votes. South ward Name of Candidate	Description (if any)	Number of Votes*
HADLEY, Mike	Liberal Democrats		539
HOBSON, Mike	U.K. Independence Party		226
HOLMES, Tom	The Labour Party Candidate		336
PRATT, Michael William	The Conservative Party Candidate		734 Elected

* If elected the word 'Elected' appears against the number of votes.

North ward

Name of Candidate	Description (if any)	Number of Votes*
CHENNELL, Anita	Liberal Democrats		422
MOORE, Tricia	UK Independence Party		221
RABSON, Chris	The Labour Party Candidate		182
TRITE, William Stanley	The Conservative Party Candidate		862 Elected

Swanage Town Council election results

Swanage Town Council * If elected the word 'Elected' appears against the number of votes. North ward Name of Candidate	Description	Number of Votes*
AUDLEY, Barry John	Conservative		977 elected
CLARK, Peter Benwell	Liberal Democrats		700
GAINSBOROUGH, Constance Dorothy	Conservative		843 elected
LEACH, John Ernest	Liberal Democrats		641
MARSH, Gloria Ann	Conservative		1015 elected
RABSON, Chris	The Labour Party Candidat		360
THACKWAY, John	The Labour Party Candidate		305
TRITE, William Stanley	Conservative		958 elected
WHITWAM, Michael Alan	Conservative		853 elected

South ward

Name of Candidate	Description (if any)	Number of Votes*
BENNETT, Edmond Cyril	Liberal Democrats		564
BRIGHT, Colin Richard	Conservative		728 elected
FLEMING, Andrew	Independent		420
GLOYN-COX, Laurence David	Conservative		631 elected
HADLEY, Mike	Liberal Democrats		673 elected
HARRIS, Avril	The Labour Party Candidate		461
HOLMES, Tom	The Labour Party Candidate		433
MACKENZIE, Ian Donald	Liberal Democrats		572
PAGE, John Allen	Liberal Democrats		537
POULTNEY, Steven	Conservative		730 elected
PRATT, Michael William	Conservative		797 elected
STANFORD, Max	The Labour Party Candidate		385
STOREY, Margaret Anne	The Labour Party Candidate		424
SUTTLE, Gary Maurice	Conservative		867 elected
TURNER, Alison	Conservative		809 elected
VAN DE ZANDE, Leigh	The Labour Party Candidate		384
WHITLOCK, Ivor James	Conservative		619