Author: The Editor

by Dan Hopgood, Ethelburt Avenue resident A planning application is in process for the redevelopment of the car park, youth club and housing office opposite Market Buildings. A 15 storey tower with…

With the threat of a travellers’ transit site at Monk’s Brook removed, you might have supposed that the application to register the land as a village green had been quietly dropped. Indeed…

How will you be spending the extra bank holiday when Prince William and Kate get married on Friday 29th April? Why not organise a party with your neighbours? The Committee of HCERA…

The Swaythling Lawn Tennis Club is a small and friendly LTA-affiliated tennis club with two well maintained grass courts, located in the corner of the lower green in Ethelburt Avenue. We welcome…

by Ray George I was motivated to write my article in the previous newsletter, by seeing that a resident had made planning applications for things I thought did not require them: like-for-like…

Open Gardens Day will be on Sunday 15th May. This is three weeks earlier than last year when some flowering shrubs should be at their best. Don’t delay in offering to open…

The City Council is undertaking an appraisal of this Conservation Area. It will result in a new document “Character Appraisal and Management Plan” which will replace the present “Design Guidance” and be…

At the meeting of the North Southampton Community Forum on 24th February there was a presentation to Dawn Jones who recently retired from the City Council. Dawn was part of the community…

There is a vacancy in the Herbert Collins Estate Book Club. We meet on the last Thursday of the month at 19.30 (except August and December). No money is involved because we…