I hope you had a good break over
Christmas and are refreshed and ready
for the New Year!
2008 promises to be a very interesting
year for Salisbury and, indeed, for
Wiltshire. Just some of the changes
which lie ahead…
Victoria Park - the park has
won the
first stage of lottery funding for a
major ‘revamp’. This first stage pays
for a detailed design of the desired
improvements, which enables the
District Council to bid for money to
actually do the work…
Hudsons Field - the Management
Plan has now been formally adopted by
the City Area Committee, so we should
be seeing some improvements here too.
Stratford Community Centre - the
plans to regenerate this area, with new
affordable housing, were rejected by
the Planning Committee, so it’s back to
the drawing board…
Salisbury Vision - this is
continuing
apace, with plans and projects becoming
more specific. We should see some of
these coming to fruition within a year
or so, while others, such as the major
change of use for Churchfields, will
take much longer. Plans for the Market
Place go to the District Council
Cabinet for approval this month and, if
approved, a Design Competition is
planned, with entries to be judged by
the end of the year.
One Council for Wiltshire -
the County Council and the four
District Councils are working hard to
ensure that, when the new Council opens
for business in May 2009, you, the
customer, will receive an excellent
service.
This process of becoming one Council
will be overseen by Councillors from
all 5 authorities - 2 from each District
Council (8 in total), and the 8 Cabinet
Members and Leader from the County
Council. This ‘Implementation
Executive’ met informally for the first
time on 28th November.
To find out more, go to
www.wiltshire.gov.uk.
Salisbury City Council -
Salisbury is the only part of Wiltshire
to have no parish councils. The bid
for a Wiltshire unitary included a
proposal to set up a Salisbury City
Council, which is basically a parish
council for a city. The District
Council will shortly be asking you for
your views. Do please give them…
Health and Social Care - with
major changes in 2006 in the top
management teams of both the Primary
Care Trust and at County Hall, there is
now a real sense of working together to
address the (considerable) challenges
facing us. The County Cabinet meet
regularly with the non-executive
Directors of the PCT to make sure that
we join up our services, our plans and
our funding.
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