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Councillor Jim Grant and fellow Swindon Labour group members at the Rodbourne roundabout A PETITION asking Swindon Borough Council to make fixing the road surface at a major roundabout has been launched online. The petition started by Will Stone asks the council to fix the surface at St Mary’s roundabout in Rodbourne Cheney at the junction of Akers Way, Beech Avenue and Cheney Manor and Vicarage Roads It says: “The road surface has been in need of repair for a number of years and its condition has caused damaged to numerous vehicles during that time. We, therefore call upon Swindon Borough Council to urgently resurface the road to prevent any further damage to vehicles in the future.”
The state of the road surface at a major junction in central Swindon has sparked a petition calling for it to be fixed. Rodbourne Cheney councillor Jim Grant and his fellow members of the Labour party visited at the St Mary’s Church roundabout at the junction of Akers Way, Beech Avenue and Vicarage Road, bordering Moredon, Cheney Manor and Pinehurst. They were asking people to sign a petition to have the surface of the highway going round the island and into the feeder roads included on Swindon Borough Council’s list for repairs as a priority. The petition says: “We draw the attention of Swindon Borough Council to the state of the road surface at St Mary’s roundabout, Rodbourne Cheney.
A POPULAR councillor has had a community centre named in his honour after years of service to the town. The Western Community Centre in Somerset Street, Rodbourne Cheney, has been renamed the Des Moffatt Western Community Centre by Central Swindon North Parish Council. It recognises the work of the long-serving Swindon borough ward councillor for the area, who was also chairman of the parish committee and died in late 2019. Chairman of the parish council’s finance and general purpose committee Kevin Small is a fellow Labour borough councillor. He said: “Des was very closely associated with the Western Community Centre. He was a keyholder and he worked a lot with the management committee and did a lot to help out when it was short-staffed.
SIX Swindon schools rated as outstanding will face inspectors on routine visits for the first time in almost a decade. Several primary schools around the town became exempt from routine re-inspections under rules introduced in 2012 which meant they would only see Ofsted popping round if people raised concerns about their performance. The exemptions were introduced by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government to give outstanding schools more freedom - but it led to many schools across England going years without being visited by inspectors as a result. So now they are being scrapped and Drove, Haydon Wick Primary School, Moredon , Rodbourne Cheney, St Francis CofE and The Croft Primary Schools will have the same amount of inspectors visits as every other school in the area from September.