Author: The Editor

Kevin White, Historic Environment Team Leader, has obviously decided to bring to an abrupt end the drafting of the Appraisal and Management Plan and have the document he wants. A cynic might…

Habitual parking on a verge, results in hard, bare earth where there should be lawn. We have been asked to request that people in Leaside Way do not do this, but parking…

A planning application has been made for an address in Leaside Way to replace the steel windows, so unpopular with owners, with look-alike aluminium double-glazed windows. Manufacturers of windows are good at…

The Summer guided walks will be on 9th and 10th August 2014. All are most welcome. Meet at Swaythling Railway Station Car Park at 11 am. Walk duration is approximately 3 hours…

At a recent HCERA Committee meeting, it was reported that the gate beside St George’s School, leading to the fields, had been found locked. As far as anyone could remember, this was…

by Ray George There was one of the occasional meetings for residents associations at the Civic Centre on 9th June at which I learnt a few things. Chris Lyons, Planning and Development…

Rich Martin, Plastering Services, tel 023 8036 5862 mob 07768 136342, for repair of lath and plaster soffits – he repaired the laths and used a hydraulic lime mix in two coats….

by Barbara Cooke, Radian (formerly the Swaythling Housing Society) You may well have noticed the Round About Café on Westfield Corner in Mansbridge. (Go under the Swaythling Railway Arch and the café…

Our Open Gardens Day is on Sunday 18th May. Unlike last year spring has arrived on time this year and let us hope winter is not resumed. We look forward to seeing…