Just come home after picking my wife up from work.
The blue meanies are working Frendstaple Road, at the entrance to Woods Edge, close to home with a hand-held speed trap.
Sorry but I was on the wrong side of the road, sneaking up behind him.
Phew !!!
Do you live in the Waterlooville area ?
Do you care about what is happening to your town and the surrounds ?
Are you concerned about our town centre and the number of empty shops ?
Are you concerned about the amount of traffic on our roads ?
Are you concerned about the amount of development in our district ?
If you do and you want to have your say then you should come along to the next meeting of The Waterlooville Community Forum where you can discuss this and much more.
As an example of subject matter discussed, at a recent meeting of the forum we had a presentation from Vail Williams regarding the BAE Site in Waterlooville. This was an early look at the proposed development of that site.
The next meeting of Waterlooville Community Forum will take place on Thursday, July 26.
The meeting will start at 5.30pm at the Baptist Church in London Road.
Anyone with any queries can email davidscrichton@compuserve.com.
Issues to be debated in Waterlooville – News – Portsmouth News.
Proposals have been put forward to Havant Borough Council for the development of the BAE site in Waterlooville. This site comprises the land bounded by Elettra Avenue, Silverthorne Way and Hambledon Road.
These proposals include
If these proposals go ahead they could bring many benefits to the town, not the least of which would be the employment opportunities.
However, this would also be tempered by the additional industrial traffic that would be required to service the new industrial units at the heart of this proposal.
I have a growing concern that many of the new developments, being proposed for the Waterlooville area, include industrial units but there is no sign of the businesses that are going to take up these new properties. In the meantime there are many existing industrial units that remain empty.
Waterlooville seems set to be swamped with such “opportunities”. One only has to look to the plans for the Dunsbury Hill Farm site.
Havant Borough Council and the developers are always quick to point to the number of jobs that these developments will create. However, they aren’t so quick to highlight that these are “potential” jobs. At no time do you see them parading a list of employers who have committed to move into these new premises.
Of course, in such economic times as ours it is always good to be prepared for the upturn.
And how about the existing Aston Road industrial estate. That could do with a bit of a facelift. It really does look a bit tired now.
Every year a Classic Car Show is staged in the Waterlooville centre.
Despite the weather letting the exhibitors down there were quite a few folks up there and I include a few snaps for your edification.
The pedestrianised precinct is ideal for this type of event. It is a shame that there wasn’t some music and perhaps a barbecue or hog roast to supplement the static car display. Now that the precinct has been refurbished the town has to make maximum use out of the facility. I arrived around 13:30 and all I could see aside from the cars was some kind of Face Painting and a caravan with someone bending balloons. I couldn’t see much to indicate if there was any kind of “Best in Show” competition.
The owners of the cars were not much in evidence although some had obviously taken refuge within their cars. I did wonder if the old lady, asleep in one of the cars, might have been an optional extra at the time of original purchase.
I can only wish them better luck with the weather next year.
The next meetings of the Forum will be held in the Lancaster Room at the Baptist Church Hall in London Road from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on
All local residents, community groups and businesses are welcome
Come along, make your views heard and help us to make this a better place to live and work in!
For more details please contact
Laura Bevis on 02392446123 or laura.bevis@havant.gov.uk
David Crichton on 02392262469 or davidscrichton@compuserve.com
A bit late posting this.
A classic motor show event is being held in the Waterlooville shopping precinct on Saturday 7th July 10am – 3pm.
There will be free children’s entertainment including face painting and magic shows.
I’m plagiarising the whole article from the news in order to help spread the word. We don’t need this sort of activity in Waterlooville.
POLICE have released an e-fit image of a teenage girl they want to speak to about an attack on a couple in Waterlooville.
An 18-year-old man was walking with woman through an alleyway from Stakes Hill Road to Purbrook Way when he was sprayed in the face by a teenage boy who was passing by with a teenage girl. Some of the spray also went in the woman’s face.
The girl is white, about 18 and has a boyish pixie haircut with dyed blonde hair. She was on a bicycle.
She also had arched and thin plucked eyebrows and at the time of the incident she had black eyeliner on both eyelids drawn to a point at the outside corners. The offender is white, of medium build with short, dark hair. Det Con Pete Budgen said: ‘This type of assault is thankfully rare. It was a mindless and unprovoked incident. The couple who sprayed the substance may have thought it was a joke, however the consequences could have been more serious.’
Anyone with information can call 101.
Police want to contact girl about Waterlooville attack – Local – Portsmouth News.
Hooray. Somebody trying to encourage businesses by reducing the overheads.
Now all we need is the owners of the empty shops in Waterlooville to do the same thing and we might see some growth in our little town.
Low-cost office lets trial for new businesses in Waterlooville – Local Business – Portsmouth News.
I well remember seeing the 2004 movie “Paper Clips” that has so inspired these pupils and their button collection.
The movie is a documentary about the children of the Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee who try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis. They did this whilst studying the Holocaust.
I wish the pupils of Oaklands Catholic School, in Waterlooville, well in their endeavour and hope that the additional publicity that I can gain for them through this post goes to help with their button collection.
Personally I think its a shame that pupil parent vehicles are not banned from the roads outside of this school too.
With three schools alongside each other the number of vehicles clogging up this road twice each day is beyond a joke. On occasions the tailback caused by these vehicles reaches down Frendstaple Road and almost back to the Hulbert road roundabout.
The cars that can’t get into the school sites tend to park all over the show and when turning into St Peter’s Primary School quite often end up staionary with the rear of their vehicle projecting into the road because there are people on the pedestrian way across the entrance.
But parents have started a petition – now with 62 signatures – calling for the ban to be withdrawn.
They say it will lead to parking chaos in surrounding residential streets.
I’ve got news for you folks, it is already chaotic in the area.
They are also concerned as children may have to walk for up to a mile in bad weather.
Oh Dear !! The poor little darlings, is that such a hard thing. Perhaps it’s the parents that are worrying about having to abandon their 4x4s and walking as far as a mile.
Back when I was in primary school we regularly walked a mile or more. It was part of the day and was made interesting by my mum or dad walking with me.
Parents’ fury as cars are banned from Waterlooville school site – Education – Portsmouth News.
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