Crime report Feb 2017

Chiseldon Parish Council Meeting Police Report for the period 1st – 28th February 2017 26/02/17 – Castleview Road – Garage Burglary – garage has been broken into during the early hours No items have been stolen. 26/02/17 – John Alder Close – Criminal damage – three reports received that white paint has been daubed on… read more

Butts Road Cemetery broken tree branches

Butts Road Cemetery – one of the large trees behind the building on the path way has 2 broken branches. They will be removed on Saturday 11th March. In the meantime please spread the word that anyone visiting should avoid the tarmac path directly behind the Chapel building. Thanks

Current Transport news from SBC (March 2017)

Works step up a gear at Junction 16 Works at Junction 16: Construction is now in full swing on both the eastbound and westbound off-slip roads, within the south side of the roundabout, and at the entrance to Upper Studley Farm. Next week, weather permitting, the contractor will start bringing a large volume of material… read more

Hodson Road Yellow Lines update

After contacting SBC Highways and Transport dept, we received the following update in regards to the yellow lines. To introduce a parking restriction involves a statutory process. An informal consultation will be carried out first for those who will be affected by the changes Once feedback has been considered a formal advertisement of the proposals… read more

Dog Warden Update

Jordan McEwan the warden has advised that she will be visiting Castle View Road to do patrols and stick up extra fouling notices. She has asked that information about times of day or suspected dog owners are passed on to her for investigation. Castle View residents (and others) are welcome to contact her direct on:… read more

Information from SBC Library eNewsletter

From SBC Library eNewsletter: Need help to access support in critical aspects of your life – such as your health and wellbeing, money, benefits or work?   Librarians have brought together some of their preferred and trusted websites in one convenient place! It’s called Information4living http://www.information4living.org.uk/   Fully searchable by postcode, the website links directly… read more

19th April Annual Parish meeting

Wednesday 19th April starting 7.00pm at the Chiseldon House Hotel is the Annual Parish Meeting. All residents are warmly invited to attend. Our guest speaker is the Police and Crime Commissioner Angus MacPherson who will be talking about the new community policing model and having a Q&A session. There will be reports on the years… read more

Local Writers Group

Thanks to all of you who contacted me when I suggested setting up a group to give mutual support, help and advice to local new and established writers, and apologies that it’s taken a while to get back to some of you. While it wouldn’t be practical to have too large a group (a, because… read more

Friends of the Path Feb work day

My thanks to Ian, Howard, Les, Mark, Chris and Tim.  We had a successful day, as you can see from the before-and-after pictures below.  Not only did we do a lot of clearing, we also removed four large bags of litter and fly tipping! The geology is now much more visible: and we had several… read more

Neighbourhood Watch open forum 25th March

Wiltshire Neighbourhood Watch A key player in the ‘One Team’ approach to reducing crime. Wiltshire Neighbourhood Watch Association is organising a series of Open Forum’s to inform and raise awareness of the ‘One Team One Approach’ community policing model recently introduced by Wiltshire Police.  The forum will also provide an opportunity to review how Neighbourhood… read more

Precautions against crime

I am sure everyone has seen the recent Facebook and news posts about thefts from vehicles and vandalism etc. Just a reminder to everyone to continue to keep all doors and windows locked (even when in the house) and vehicles secured at all times. It appears this sadly needs to be the norm, not just… read more

Ridgeway mobile phone App?

Would you like a Ridgeway mobile phone app? We’d like to know what you think about a mobile phone app for use along The Ridgeway – is it a good idea? This survey will take less than 2 minutes to complete: https://goo.gl/forms/D4h1wZGpybJABKb02 We are thinking about producing an app to enhance the visitor’s experience through… read more