Blunsdon parish council continues heroic quest to fund a path
Eight months after first raising the idea, councillors remain confident that walking to school without dodging traffic is an achievable long term goal.
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Council
Decisions, consultations and the occasional U-turn from the civic offices.
Ombudsman rules council was wrong to be right, or possibly right to be wrong, about school transport
Watchdog confirms Swindon council followed the rules perfectly while a teenager's attendance fell to 65 per cent, which is apparently a different question entirely.
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Council to study inconsiderate lorry parking considerately, for as long as it takes
Swindon Borough Council confirms it is taking a measured, evidence led approach to lorries that are neither measured nor particularly evidence led about where they park.
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Commercial Road parking decision remains under review, review of review also under review
Council confirms no date for a verdict on whether to keep the experimental scheme, the non experimental scheme, or simply the reviewing itself.
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Haydon Wick takes matters into its own hands as borough's weeds are left to go to seed
A parish council has declared itself the last line of defence against dandelions after the borough's spraying programme arrived fashionably late, with some weeds now old enough to have families of their own.
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Councillors prepare to measure Swindon's houses in houses
Full Council will spend Thursday working out exactly how many people are allowed to live near each other before it stops being a neighbourhood and starts being a problem.
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Council draws up plan to stop extension leads turning pavements into obstacle courses
Swindon Borough Council considers giving electric car owners their own dedicated groove in the pavement, so the rest of us can go back to tripping over dog leads like God intended.
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Swindon not invited to Thames Valley party, say posh kids from Oxfordshire
Government wants to merge Swindon into a shiny new mega council with Berkshire and Oxfordshire, but the cool kids say the geography, and possibly the vibe, is all wrong.
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Council to rule on whether 1970s theatre is heritage or just very tired
A sub committee has reportedly been asked to decide the precise moment a concrete box stops being 'of its time' and starts being 'in the way'.
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Councillors nobly decline pay rise, ask that this be mentioned often
Swindon Conservatives turn down a 10% allowance increase in a move widely praised by everyone, mostly by the councillors who turned it down.
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Parish council told to spend £9,000 making sure speed sign never gets too comfortable
Under new rules, the device must be uprooted every two to three weeks and never returned to the same spot for six months, like a supply teacher with trust issues.
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