Community Speed Watch in Maisemore?

Hartpury and Corse Parish Councils are interested in forming Community Speedwatch groups in their villages and have organised an awareness session on Sunday 4th March at 11am in Hartpury Village Hall.  The session will last about an hour.

The Speed Awareness Session is designed to educate and train individuals/groups in the use of hand held speed guns and to ensure an awareness and understanding of the Health and Safety aspects of carrying out traffic speed surveys.

If you would like to help form a group assessing traffic speeds in Maisemore, you would be welcome to attend.  Andrew Cooley will be going to represent Maisemore Parish Council.  It's a free event provided by Gloucestershire Police.

The session will last about an hour and may include outdoor activities.

If you can't make the Sunday session but you're interested in the idea, please contact the Clerk - clerk@maisemore-pc.org.uk.

Next Parish Council meeting agenda online

The agenda for the Maisemore Parish Council meeting on Monday 5th March is now online here.

The first item on the agenda is a presentation about the possible faster broadband system offered by Voneus.

Apologies - and thanks - to Complete Utilities

In the post about the restoration of Maisemore's milestones we incorrectly referred to Complete Utilities as Combined Utilities.  Our apologies for this error.

It was, of course, our local firm Complete Utilities who generously contributed the manpower and resources to get these milestones back in position.

 

Faster broadband sooner?

The Parish Council has received this email from Voneus, who offer an alternative means of delivering faster broadband:

"Having heard a piece on Radio Gloucestershire describing the woeful state of broadband in Maisemore I thought this would be a good opportunity for Voneus to reach out to your community.

Voneus are a BDUK accredited provider of superfast broadband. With over 3500 homes now installed and a significant number of those in the Cotswolds and the South West, we would welcome the opportunity of meeting with interested local people and the Parish Council to explain our plans in your area and our method of delivery.

In a nutshell, we distribute fibre wirelessly to properties within line of sight and if no line of sight present we create a 'meshed network' to get to those harder to reach homes. There’s no digging or roadworks, we just install a point-to-point link to the highest site we can find – usually the church, and from there to the surrounding houses. The equipment is very discrete and suitable for listed buildings.

We are also partners with Gigaclear, so if their fibre eventually reaches your village we can migrate those who want it to our full fibre service, without them having to break a contract.

Voneus have vast experience of Community Fibre Initiatives and how they are provisioned. In your area we currently have networks near Frampton, Hardwicke and Redmarley so we have the necessary infrastructure in place to potentially provide superfast broadband into your village within a couple of months.

We deliver a service of 30-50mbps to individual properties. We have two simple offerings, £20 for 20Gb p/m or £34.99 for unlimited data, full details on our website.

I’m sure there will be a demand in your village so am eager to find a local champion who may be able to assist. I hope you can help!

We would be delighted to present something to your PC meeting. As Gigaclear partners and part of Fastershire we are aware of the plans, and also aware that dates can be subject to slippage!

As Maisemore is geographically close to Gloucester we see an opportunity to deliver a service in a much shorter timescale. The church would seem to be key, and we can offer a financial incentive in this regard."

As a result of this, Voneus have been invited to attend the next Parish Council meeting on Monday 5th March at 7.30pm in the committee room of the Village Hall.  More information will be put on this website following that meeting.

Milestones restored

Thanks to the help of Complete Utilities, Maisemore's milestones 1 and 3 have been put in place.  

The work required the appropriate licences to close one of the carriageways on the A417 for a short time and install traffic lights, so that the work could be done safely.  


Complete Utilities have the necessary registration and the staff and equipment to do the job, and they were happy to help out.

Thanks to everyone involved.

James Yardley of Complete Utilities
puts the finishing touches to the
installation of the 1 mile stone.

James Yardley, (Marion's son), oversaw the work and we are most grateful for his professional operation and the compliance with Highways requirements.  The result is just great. We are also most grateful to David McDougal for the production of the cast iron plaques for the Maisemore Local History Society. The two mile plaque is with Chris Jones and, it is understood, will be affixed shortly to the stone which stands in the fence line of Cath Brearley's Milestone Cottage.

Plan to complete A417 'missing link'

Highways England is launching a consultation into options for the A417 ‘Missing Link’ - the single carriageway section including the Air Balloon roundabout - and the Gloucestershire County Council wants you to have your say.

The public consultation into the route options for the stretch of road launches on 15 February 2018 and will run until 29 March 2018.  There's more information here.

There are a number of events taking place in the county, where information will be available along with an opportunity to speak to Highways England representatives about the project and the consultation.  The closest to Maisemore are:

Sunday 04 March 2018	11am to 6pm	GL1 Leisure Centre	Bruton Way, Gloucester, GL1 1DT
Thursday 08 March 2018	12pm to 8pm	Henley Bank High School (formerly known as Millbrook Academy)	Mill Lane, Brockworth, Gloucester, GL3 4QF

Residents will be able to have their say on the shortlisted route options that will be published when the consultation starts. To make sure as many people as possible have chance to give their views, Gloucestershire County Council is supporting the consultation by hosting information points in some libraries and will be making the plans available at Shire Hall. The closest libraries are:

• Gloucester Library, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 1HT
• Hucclecote Library, Hucclecote Road, Gloucester, GL3 3RT
• Brockworth Community Library, Moorfield Road, Brockworth, GL3 4ET

 

Early buses into Gloucester retained

The new Swanbrook service 351 timetable includes a bus to replace the one that used to leave Maisemore (Persh Lane) at 8.35am on its way from Tewkesbury to Gloucester.

The new service starts from Hartpury College and leaves Maisemore (Persh Lane) a little earlier at 8.29am.

The continuation of a service at this time will be a lifeline for Maisemore residents who depend on it to get to work in Gloucester.

Congratulations on Fame

Congratulations to the young people from Maisemore who took part in the Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre production of the musical Fame.

It was a most enjoyable performance and a credit to everyone involved.