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A Bank Holiday Monday at GWR Park, Swindon THE future of one of the most popular and historically important parks in Swindon is up for discussion. People are being asked how they want to use GWR Park in Faringdon Road and how it should be developed and preserved in an online survey launched by Swindon Borough Council. One of the closest green spaces to the town centre, the park was bought by Great Western Railway as a cricket pitch for its workers and is the oldest public park in Swindon. Cabinet member for regeneration of culture, heritage and leisure Dale Heenan said: The GWR Park on Faringdon Road has played an active role in the town centre s social and leisure life for over 170 years.
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And nobody knows that more than the residents of St Andrews. The huge and growing Tadpole farm development is in the ward and could be said to be responsible for its creation. Until 2012 St Andrews was just a part of the Blunsdon ward, which was one of the biggest in the borough, stretching from Swindon’s northern border with Wiltshire to the Ridgeway ward in the south. But because of the growth of the population in the past two decades, electoral authorities created a new ward, putting Blunsdon in with Highworth and making a one for the developments. That growth will be one of the issues affecting voters here. As more houses are built, there are concerns about how those residents will get about – traffic, parking, congestion – and how infrastructure is developed to cater for them.