Local residents have been in touch with the Liberal Democrat FOCUS Team over the past couple of years expressing their concern about cars speeding along Stewartby Way. The Tory-controlled County Council has said several times to us that any measures to control traffic speed along Stewartby Way are not a high priority for them. Spending nearly £600,000 of council taxpayers’ money on their doomed bid to save the County Council seemed obviously a higher priority for them!  However, I am pleased to report that the Stewartby Police Constable has now been trained on the use of speed guns. He will be using his new gun regularly on Stewartby WayAlso, Stewartby Parish Council and the Liberal Democrat FOCUS Team are continuing to work hard to address this urgent issue. I have proposed that the Parish Council should formally invite an officer from the County Council to attend its May 08 meeting to lobby him/her for any measures to control traffic speed along Stewartby Way to be done. 

Last summer, I had raised my concern that although making Bury Farm a good place for walkers to visit is a good idea, having no height barriers for the car park would make it open to travellers. The relevant officer disagreed and was supported by the Council Executive including the Mayor. Local residents have been in touch with Judith Cunningham and I expressing their concern about the travellers who visited Bury Farm a couple of weeks ago.  Just to let you know that Judith immediately contacted the relevant officers at the Town Hall to let them know the travellers had arrived and that a clean-up would need to be organised when they left. I pressed them to:·        Do a final clean-up of the remaining debris. ·        Now agree to provide a height barrier and strengthen the fencing to make it difficult for travellers to enter the site. I am pleased to report that:·        A final clean-up will now be done.·        The relevant office at the Town Hall as now been asked by the relevant officer to put together a design for a height barrier, how the fencing might be strengthened and to provide an estimate of the likely costs.