Autumn Meeting – This will take place on Thursday October 23 rd at 7.30pm at Widcombe C of E Junior School. Representatives of the Rossiter Road Scheme contractors and members of our local police team will be attending to speak to us. Rossiter Road – We are assured by the contractors that the work on…
New Committee Member – We are delighted to tell you that David Maxwell, of David Maxwell Hairdressing, has been elected to the committee. David will be responsible for trader liaison. We look forward to welcoming him to our next meeting. Transport Strategy – The committee discussed the WA response to the draft Transport Strategy. You…
Rossiter Road – Construction on the Rossiter Road scheme will begin at the end of the month. Road closures will commence on 26th June. Looking to the future of the Widcombe Association – Now that Rossiter Road is to become a reality, we thought it an appropriate time to start looking to the future role…
Bath BID – A meeting will be held shortly with Andrew Cooper of the Bath BID (Business Improvement District) to discuss the benefits and possibility of Widcombe Parade being included in the BID. Local History Society – Margaret Burrows attended our meeting to discuss ways in which stronger links could be put in place between…
Sixty one members attended. Jan Shepley was elected to the Committee to serve as as member for planning. Chairman Paddy Doyle, Secretary Liz Littlewood and committee members Chris Rogers and Ann Ashworth were re-elected. Guest speaker was John Isserlis of Julian House who gave an excellent an informative speech about the problems of street drinking…
Students and WA – We had further discussion about how to involve the student population in WA. We will be contacting the teaching staff at the Universities to explore the possibility of students using their expertise, particularly in marketing, branding and website design and maintenance, to assist WA whilst including this work as part of…
Students and WA – Jenny Dean, who works for the Student Community Partnership which links the two Universities, the Students’ Unions and the Council, and Sally Williamson, Community Officer for Bath University, joined us at our meeting on Tuesday. Students are looking to become involved in the local community and it soon became clear in…
Heritage Lottery Fund Bid – A number of local partners including the Council, FoBRA and the National Trust are submitting a bid for funding to protect the landscape setting of Bath. We would welcome members’ ideas of appropriate ways to spend this funding for inclusion in this bid, which has to be submitted by the…
Widcombe Ward Councillors – Councillors Ian Gilchrist and Ben Stevens attended the committee meeting. Covered in the discussions were:Rossiter Road: Concern was expressed about the recent lack of progress on this scheme. The councillors assured us that this is a priority for the current administration. A Steering Group meeting is scheduled for next week when it…
At a well-attended meeting. Keith Palmer was elected Vice Chairman, Jeroen Weimar was elected to the Committee, and Helen Peter was re-elected. For Secretary Liz Littlewood’s excellent minutes, click here