Well, first I wish you all a very Happy New Year. As we start 2025 I have lots to report on, particularly after a long, recent meeting with the new Highways Manager. – Good news on the footpath between Shaw Green Lane and Laxton Meadow on Southam Road, which has now been included in the budget for April. – Glebe Rd; the Highways Manager has seen the problem himself and his view on moving forward with this long term flooding…
Feedback from Councillor Stan Smith on January road closures impacting Prestbury: Monday 13th January: A road closure will be in place on the Wellington Road / A435 Evesham Road junction between 8pm and 6am to install a temporary mini roundabout on the junction. From 6am on Tuesday 14th January: the permanent traffic signals will be deactivated, and the temporary roundabout will be in operation. Tuesday 21st January – Friday 24th January: The previously scheduled road closures on the A435 Evesham…
As we race towards the end of 2024 I want to, firstly, take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year from Sheila and me. In addition to the usual discussions and meetings, here are some of the matters I and PAB have been working on recently: – Evesham Rd roadworks (by the GWR station). Met with the Highways Dept to enquire about timings. This is a big job, a 14 week full closure…
Councillor Stan Smith highlights to readers the closure of A435 Evesham Road for repairs near the Race Course. More details of his conversation with Gloucestershire Live in the link below: https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/traffic-chaos-fears-collapsing-road-9663061
– Following Stan Smith’s representation to Highways regarding the confusing new road markings layout on the approach to the Racecourse roundabout from Swindon Lane, Highways have now altered the road markings to make the left lane a left only turn to Bishops Cleeve. – Subsidence of the Evesham Rd, almost opposite the GWR station. We are informed the roadworks here are not connected with the Cycleway but are in connection with road subsidence. Hard to establish when this might be…
Feedback from Stan Smith regarding the following road closure in Prestbury: High Street, Prestbury from Baytree Court up to the mini-roundabout at the junction of Noverton Lane & B4632. This road will be closed (including no waiting and no loading during all of the works and footway closure) on Monday 21st October between 09:30 & 15:30 to allow for a crane to remove a 40ft tree. Emergency and pedestrian access will not be maintained. There will be a pedestrian walkway…
Another month filled with lots of meetings both in council and around the ward. Here are just a few of the matters I have been involved with. I have just finished a course on speed cameras so I can go around the ward doing checks, but I have to wait for police clearance first. Idsall Drive car park is now about to start being developed, with a five-bedroom, five en-suite bathroom house. The local residents are not too happy about…
Doesn’t time fly, since the May election I have not had as much free time as I would have liked to walk round the whole Ward. There have been some big projects getting under way and I have been working hard on them, but there are still many smaller, local matters I am involved in pursuing – the grass verges in Southam Road, between Shaw Green Lane and Laxton Meadow, I thanked the Highways Department for cutting the verges, but…
Thanks again to Les Godwin for the latest PAB bi-monthly News Sheet. Click to access Click to access PAB_Members_News_Sheet_No-17_August_2024.pdf
As the Senior Councillor for Prestbury I take very seriously making progress with the smaller issues which local residents bring to my attention in addition to my responsibilities to our Town as a whole. Here are just a few of the day to day matters I have been dealing with recently: Priors Rd resurfacing – at long last we managed to persuade the County Council of the importance of this work being done on this major road approaching Prestbury. The…