Road Safety Campaign & Mobile Phones
Please find attached some information about a new road safety campaign aimed at drivers using a mobile phone at the wheel. The campaign will run for one week starting on Monday 14th November.
The attached will also give you some suggestions about ways that could help reinforce the messages with your community.
Many thanks
Kindest regards
Garry Handley OBE
Road Safety Delivery Manager
Gloucestershire Road Safety Partnership
Tri Service Centre, Waterwells Drive, Quedgeley, Gloucester, GL2 2AX
Tel: 01452 888714
Elections: Please register to vote now and avoid a visit
Please register to vote now and avoid a visit from a canvasser
Release date: 1 November
Over 85% of residents in the Cotswold district have responded to the Council’s annual canvass to ensure the electoral register is up to date.
The Council sent out electoral registration forms to households at the end of August, and reminders in September. We are now employing canvassers to visit properties which have not yet returned their form.
To avoid a visit from one of our canvassers, please return your form to us now. If you are not on the electoral register, you will not be able to vote and may be refused credit when shopping or conducting other transactions.
Residents who haven’t received a form should contact the Elections Team immediately on 01285 623002.
Sarah Dalby, the Electoral Services Manager for CDC, says:
“Being on the register means you can vote and will also help with your credit rating. Please check the details printed on the inside of the electoral registration form. If the information is correct, all you need to do is confirm your registration either online, by text, Freephone or post.
“If you need to make changes, you can register online or by post.”
For more information or for help or advice, contact us on 01285 623002
ENDS
Bob McNally
Press and Media Liaison Officer,
Cotswold District Council
Tel: 01285 623120
Website: www.cotswold.gov.uk
email: press@cotswold.gov.uk
Twitter: @CotswoldDC @CDCBizmatters
Road Safety Community Hub
I am pleased to inform you that a new one stop shop for reporting road safety concerns in Gloucestershire is launching this week.
The Road Safety Community Hub is being launched by Gloucestershire Road Safety Partnership, made up of Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucestershire Constabulary, the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office and Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service.
The new hub launches today Friday 28th October and will be the main point of contact for residents to report any concerns they have about road safety in their local area. Reports can be made via the Road Safety Partnership’s website.
This one central hub will bring together the expertise of the police, engineers and the road safety experts to provide a better, more efficient way of resolving the problems encountered in our towns and villages. It will bring a more consistent approach and because people will know where to go with their concerns, their ideas or for advice, it will make decision making more accountable.
A good number of Parishes have already engaged with the hub through the Road Safety Website ; http://roadsafety-gloucestershire.org.uk/communityhub/ as well as via email to roadsafetyhub@glosfire.gov.uk
Please do not hesitate to contact the hub with your concerns.
On behalf of the hub I welcome the opportunity to work with you and your community to improve road safety in the future.
Andrew Parker-Mowbray
Gloucestershire Road Safety Partnership Hub
Tri Service Centre, Waterwells Drive, Quedgeley, Gloucester, GL2 2AX
www.roadsafety-gloucestershire.org.uk
Kingscote Parish Council Meeting – Tuesday 1st November
Please be advised that the next Parish Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday 1st November 2016 at 8pm at the Hunters Hall.
Below is the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting together with Minutes of the previous meeting.
A4135/A46 Calcot Crossroads Temporary Road Closure
Please be advised of the following temporary road closure:
A4135/A46 Calcot Crossroads
These roads will be closed (as per the attached), between the 28th November 2016 and 30th November 2016, to allow for a essential carriageway patching by Amey, on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council. There will only be a small partial closure for one of the roads, the rest will be controlled by four way temporary lights.
If you require any further information regarding this closure, please contact the office on 08000 514514.
Regards
Bill Bellerby
Road Space Co-ordinator
Telephone: 01452 328986
Email: william.bellerby@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Road Closure – Calcot Crossroads
Hallowe’en – Trick or Treating
If you are happy to welcome a few trick or treaters tomorrow, Monday 31st October, between 6pm and 7pm, please let me know via email, and put a pumpkin or other appropriate welcome outside your house!
Thank you.
Fastershire Survey
Tell us what you think about broadband in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire!
A survey looking at the availability of broadband in the two counties is being undertaken by independent researchers at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU). The survey is part of the ‘Evaluation of the impact of superfast fibre broadband in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire’ and is due to be published in 2017.
The responses will directly feed into to the Fastershire project and the results will also help demonstrate the level of demand in communities that are yet to benefit from the Fastershire rollout and help raise their profile for better broadband with potential suppliers.
The survey will be live until the end of November and takes around 5 minutes to complete, with questions relating to how residents and businesses currently use broadband and internet services and where better broadband services are required.
To complete the survey, please visit, www.broadband-feedback.com.
Regards
Fastershire Broadband Project
The Forerunner – November 2016
Fireworks at Kingscote Barn – 28th October
Dear ALL
PRIVATE Fireworks at The Kingscote Barn on Friday 28th October 2016 at 9.20pm for approximately 10 mins and will be run by Coates Fireworks .
Kindest Regards,
Juliette
Juliette Ford
Kingscote Barn, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8YE
01453 861161