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intouch with Barnwood Conservatives March 2015

How to contact us 1143 Regent Court, Gloucester

Business Park, GL3 4AD

01452 371630

gloucester@gloucestershireconservatives.com

www.gloucesterconservatives.com

City Councillor

Tarren Randle

01452 506633 tarren.randle@

gloucester.gov.uk

City Councillor

Lise Noakes

01452 610702

lise@lisenoakes.org.uk

14 Middle Croft,

Abbeymead GL4 4RL

Richard

Graham MP

01452 501167 richard.graham.mp@ parliament.uk

COME AND SEE US Why not come along and talk to us face to face at

the Surgery that your Barnwood In Touch Team

share with the Abbey Councillors? This is held on

the last Saturday morning of every month at

Abbeydale Community Centre, from 10am -11am.

The local police are usually in attendance too.

Lise and Tarren use Facebook to post

up-to-date snippets of information,

telling you what they are up to. To find

them on Facebook just search “Lise Noakes” or

“Councillor Tarren Randle (Barnwood)”.

For Twitter see @LiseNoakes and

@TarrenRandle

Also see www.lisenoakes.org.uk

Tarren uses her Barnwood Member Allocation

All City Councillors can spend £1,000

in their ward this year, provided they

have a suitable use for the money.

Lise and Tarren didn’t want Barnwood

to lose out so have been putting in the

effort needed to come up with some

good uses for the money. Last month

we told you about the Scouting Fun

Day to be held on 21st March – see

www.lisenoakes.org.uk for detail.

Tarren has helped a large number of local residents with a variety of challenges they

have put her way, she has represented the interests of Barnwood within the City and

has worked hard within the City Council on many committees including as current Chair

of Licensing.

Tarren Randle and Lise Noakes work well as a team for you in Barnwood and they both

hope you will vote for Tarren on 7th May so that they can carry on with the work they

are doing: there is always plenty more to do.

HOLLY HOUSE SITE

Tarren Randle: best for Barnwood

At the election on 7th May you will

be voting for your MP (Richard

Graham) and also for a Barnwood

City Councillor to represent you.

Tarren is the best choice by far.

She has served as your City

Councillor for the last four years

and has a proven track record.

Tarren has used part of her allocation fund to purchase stickers to supply to residents wanting to

take part in a scheme to help to reduce dog fouling. These stickers can be stuck to your black

bins in a bid to help decrease the amount of dog fouling in your local streets, by stating that you

have a dog friendly bin. Tarren said “I know this won’t appeal to everyone but many fellow dog

owners like me will be bound to sign up. Just contact me for a sticker”.

Residents had contacted Tarren & Lise to report anti social behaviour at the Holly House site, mainly after dark in the car park. Your Conservative Councillors spoke to the 2gether NHS Foundation Trust who very quickly installed a barrier to keep cars out after office hours. They are now reminding the key holder to ensure the barrier is in place after each working day.

A few facts about Tarren Tarren has lived in Gloucester all her life including for a

number of years in Barnwood.

She is married to Simon and has two children aged 13 and

22.

Tarren attended Winifred Cullis School (now Barnwood

Park).

Tarren has a great deal of experience of life having being

brought up in care and then a foster home.

She turned her life around from a single mother living on

benefits to where she is today as a happily married mother

and house owner, as well as an active councillor.

Tarren’s experience gives her a great understanding of

many of the challenges faced by residents.

Tarren, Cabinet Member Jim Porter and resident Gordon test a sticker

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Barnwood Bowling Club Several residents have spoken to Tarren & Lise about the problem

sometimes faced when driving from Gloucester and turning right at the

roundabout into Blake Hill Way. On occasion a car coming from the

opposite direction is speeding and has to brake as the driver sees a

car coming round the roundabout. We have spoken to Gloucestershire

Highways who have said that local people are aware of this

roundabout, signage is in place, accidents are low, so other than

renewing the road marking on the lead up to the roundabout they don’t

suggest any other action.

Tarren & Lise undertook a speed check here and found an average

speed of 27mph with 3 cars in 100 tested travelling at a speed of

35mph or over. All will have been written to by the police.

Please be aware of people coming round the roundabout to turn right

at this, or any of our other roundabouts.

Tarren & Lise get things done in the Barnwood Ward

The works to the crossing and bus stops on Barnwood Road

have been very frustrating to residents. Your Barnwood

Conservative team has been fighting every step of the way to

get this crossing put in correctly and to get the bus stops back

in action. Lise campaigned long and hard from 2005 to get

the original crossing point put in, which was eventually

installed in 2010. This new crossing will make it even easier

for people to cross the road but it has been a painful journey.

Gloucester City Planning Committee, which Lise sits on,

insisted that the crossing should be in place before the store

opened but unfortunately an error in issuing the statutory

notices caused a delay. Then unbelievably when the crossing

was put in the hump was twice the height specified by

Gloucestershire Highways. Tarren & Lise were quickly on the

case to ensure that the error was rectified.

Blake Hill Way Roundabout

Tarren and Lise view the bollards which they had installed

Action at York Road

Clock Tower The Clock Tower Estate hasn’t been fully

adopted yet because the development

company still hasn’t fulfilled all of its

commitments. It is unfortunately not a quick

and easy thing to resolve but clearly no area

can be passed on to a Council to maintain at

public cost until everything is in place. Your

Conservative team are working with the

Council to try to get some movement as

adoption is in the interest of the residents.

Meanwhile it is hoped that another Fun Day

will take place in Clock Tower Park in the

early summer with an aim of getting the

Friends of Clock Tower Park up and running.

A work day is also planned for next month

when Tarren & Lise will be helping with such

tasks as repainting the basketball frame.

Tarren & Lise continue to ensure essential

maintenance is carried out; Amey are kindly

cutting back some overgrowth from the paths

(though not yet their official responsibility)

and Lise has reminded Bellway of their

duty to cut back other areas.

Action on Eastern Avenue

Whilst it’s great to see the shops thriving at the Eastern Avenue Retail

Park, your Conservative team have been contacted by a number of

residents who have suffered from shoppers parking where it would be

better if kept clear. The numbers of cars moving around the entrance to

the shopping car park, coupled with parked cars is dangerous as well as

making life difficult for local people. We’ve been discussing this with

Gloucestershire Highways since December 2013 and in August last year

they agreed to apply further parking restrictions here, though not until

February/March 2015. Lise and Tarren are very persistent when

something matters to local people. The official notices that precede these

additional restrictions have been prepared and should be in place by the

time you read this. The extra double yellow lines will be in soon.

Residents living on Eastern Avenue who need to join the main

road from the slip road have often suffered reduced visibility

from cars parking on the grass verge. Your local Conservative

team have discussed this with Gloucestershire Highways who

said that whilst they wouldn’t normally put bollards into verges

to stop people parking, given the location and the level and

speed of traffic on Eastern Avenue they felt that bollards were

appropriate over a small section to keep sightlines clear.

Barnwood Road Crossing