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PLEASE HELP TO FIND MY MISSING CAT
He went missing from Cedar Crescent early on Sunday 13th April. He is a 4 year old tabby, gingery/brown with black stripes, a neutered male who answers to the name of Billy. He has got white paws and a white stomach and is actually a Spanish cat and has only just arrived in the country and is very nervous. He looks different from the average English cat with longer legs a smaller head and at the time of going missing didnt have much fur around his neck [looked a bit scrawny]. He is also micro chipped. Please look in your garden sheds and garages as cats often get shut in by mistake.
My name is Carolyn Bailey, phone number 023 8048 0374.
The Parish Council working along side Hampshire Youth Service have been given £85, 000 by Hampshire County Council's Youth Opportunities Fund to add a new youth wing onto the new sports pavilion planned for development on the recreation ground.
A Local Action Group which was set up to look at ways of providing more youth facilities, have been working to reduce antisocial behaviour in the village following low-level problems with vandalism.
Hampshire County Councillor, Alan Dowden has been working behind the scenes to help the high percentage of young people aged 13 to 19 in North Baddesley.
Cllr Celia Dowden, a borough councillor and a member of the Local Action Group. parish chairman, David Knight and Ann Tupper and Steve Cosier (borough members), have been working with outside authorities to get the youth club off the ground.
The Local Action Group decided that the pavilion was the most suitable place because the sports facilities are on the site. The Parish Council has also applied to South Central Connexions for a basketball cage and floodlighting on the recreation ground.
The North Baddesley Parish Council and Hampshire County Councillor Alan Dowden has been working to tackle the speeding in North Baddesley. I have attached an e-mail received by Cllr Dowden:
SUMMARY OF TRAFFIC SPEED SURVEYS – NORTH BADDESLEY - LOCATION PLANS...
Dear Councillor Dowden,
I refer to our earlier e-mails regarding the results of the traffic speed checks carried out along Rownhams Road and Rownhams Lane, North Baddesley following the site meeting in February. Please find attached the document which details the location of the surveys and a summary of the results.
The results for Site 2, Rownhams Lane south of Hoe Lane, indicates that there is generally a high level of compliance of the 30 mph limit at this location. This is despite the fact that this location coincides with the start of the 30 mph limit and motorists are slowing down from the derestricted section of Rownhams Lane from the Nursling direction. It would appear that the traffic islands do constrain traffic speeds to a certain extent. In similar circumstances where there are no physical traffic calming measures, experience has shown that traffic speeds would normally be higher at the start of such a limit.
Although the traffic speed results for Site 1, Rownhams Lane north of Crescent Road and Site 3 Rownhams Road, north-east of Brook Close, are not untypical of those often measured within a 30 mph limit, they are slightly on the high side. I will therefore draw all of the traffic speed survey results to the attention of the Police and ask them to take enforcement action as they consider appropriate. As you are aware, an analysis of the reported injury accident data over the latest three year period for which police injury accident data is fully available shows that the accident data for Rownhams Lane and Rownhams Road is, thankfully, very good.
I hope this information is of assistance to you. Please let me know if you require me to report these findings to the Parish Council or wish to do this yourself.
Martin Wiltshire Assistant Area Manager Traffic Management Environment Department Hampshire County Council.
If residents have any other concerns about speeding in their road, please contact Cllr Steve Cosier: 02380 734335 – stevecsr17@aol.com