Q&A Meeting

Tonight sees the Q&A meeting at Victoria Road Church Rooms (entrance off Cyril Street).

In attendance are:
Cllr. Winston Strachan - County & Borough Councils
Cllr. Danielle Stone - Borough Council
PCSO Kev Halfpenny - Northamptonshire Police
Andy Langton - Neighbourhood Warden
Lucy Lilburn - Housing Officer
Peter Strachan - Neighbourhood Co-Ordinator

The meeting begin at 6.30pm.

We are all concerned about litter. This idea might make it more fun to dispose of:-

Whatchafink?

This 'Contact your politician' site is excellent. Worth a visit just to see what is available

Contact Your Politician

writetothem.com

An article about an American evolutionary biologist. What's that to do with St Edmunds you might ask? You will find that there is a lot here that involves community action and even includes a competition to design the best public park.
You will find it here

As part of our objective of making St Edmunds a safe, attractive place, I recommend that we support the Times campaign for safer cycling which can be found here:-
The Times - Cities fit for cycling
There is also an interesting article here on Dutch practice. They have a system called 'woonerfs' where the priority on 'streets' in towns is reversed so that the hierarchy is pedestrian/cycle/car.

Jim Wishart
secretary

Improving the street environment.

One way to improve the area is to make the streets more like 'places' than 'traffic routes'. This is a change that is already going on in the country but which will take some time to take root. A good exposition on what this means is here Living Streets. Maybe a long-term aim but worth adding to the list of things for this Association to do. Jim Wishart, Secretary