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Quedgeley News is a magazine published monthly by Quedgeley News Limited, a wholely owned trading subsidiary of the charity, Quedgeley Community Trust, and delivered free to all the 5,600 homes and many businesses in Quedgeley. Feel free to look around our web site where you will find more information about our trust along with information on Quedgeley and back issues of our publication.
This picture is of the church in Quedgeley, St James that dates back to 1210. Quedgeley was once made up of several farms, but is now home to over 6,100 houses and a population of nearly 12,000 people. It’s no longer a village; in fact it’s big enough to be a town. Quedgeley Community Trust is 30 years old and is a continuation by a group of people who got together to arrange and celebrate the Queens Silver Wedding Anniversary back in 1976. They had so much fun that the concept of a community continues and it publishes a monthly 44 page magazine, a mixture of local news and adverts to keep this ever growing village of Quedgeley together. Any profit it makes it gives back in grants to deserving local groups.
Latest News - Updated Tuesday May 13th 2008 at 11:06am
This year's Quedgeley Show is on Saturday 12th July, 2 pm at Severnvale School. Show schedules can now be downloaded from this website - click on the Community tab at the top of this page and then Quedgeley Show. If you want to book a space for a craft stall or to tell people about your local group or organisation please ring our Show Organiser, Mike Skidmore on 07984 614109 or complete the Contact Form on the Contact Us page.
If you are an Advertiser in Quedgeley News you can now pay your latest invoice "on line". Click on the Advertiser tab at the top of this page - you only need your customer number (top left hand corner of invoice), the amount you owe and your credit/debit card details. It's that easy!
We have had a good response to the request for volunteer distributors for the new Kingsway area of Quedgeley, but we still need a few more especially in Holbeach and Halton Way. Remember if you are going on holiday and are unable to deliver the Quedgeley News, please tell our Distributon Co-ordinator, Joy Barham, on 01452 553241 or complete the Contact form on the Contact Us page.
- | Different commuter routes urged(Posted: 08/05/2008 08:06 AM)
- | Centre for elderly set to close(Posted: 26/02/2008 01:45 PM)
- | Work to start on new fire station(Posted: 14/02/2008 04:30 PM)
- | Date set for M5 junction upgrade(Posted: 05/02/2008 07:16 AM)
- | Plans for fire station approved(Posted: 28/01/2008 12:50 PM)
- | Inquiry into housing development(Posted: 22/01/2008 07:32 AM)
- | Hovercraft rescues girls in mud(Posted: 20/01/2008 05:58 PM)
- | Panel backs contentious schemes(Posted: 10/01/2008 12:27 PM)
- | Work starts on new primary school(Posted: 09/11/2007 09:33 AM)
- | Air monitored after factory fire(Posted: 21/09/2007 05:09 PM)
- | Fire breaks out at business park(Posted: 21/09/2007 08:24 AM)
- | Biker critical after collision(Posted: 14/09/2007 04:02 PM)
- | More children's centres to open(Posted: 09/09/2007 02:34 PM)
- | Rescue team finds quake survivor(Posted: 22/08/2007 01:55 PM)
- | Emergency rescuers leave for Peru(Posted: 17/08/2007 09:14 AM)
- | Team collects up plastic empties(Posted: 11/08/2007 02:56 PM)
- | Don't know your Merlot from your elbow?(Posted: 03/08/2007 11:22 AM)
- | Flood teenager's body identified(Posted: 31/07/2007 03:39 PM)
- | Emergency water supplies run low(Posted: 25/07/2007 10:34 PM)
- | Fears as floods loom in new areas(Posted: 25/07/2007 07:50 PM)
May 2008
The best laid plans of man and beast
So it’s finally in the public domain, the new school on Kingsway will not be open and be ready for the September intake. Instead the children will be bused to temporary buildings to be placed on the existing Beech Green site, and when the school is finally finished, it will accept the new intake. A few, Quedgeley News included, had suspicions some weeks ago that things were not going to plan, and that the September intake of 58 children was going to be a problem. While we can (will have to) live with the problem for a few weeks, until the school is completed and ready. It’s not very good for the children and their parents but just about tolerable. This problem has made Quedgeley News look at a far greater need than just the school.
On everyone’s mind that has sought medical assistance, when will Quedgeley get more doctors practices? We were promised more some time ago, a new all bells and whistles doctor’s practice to help cater for the growing population in the Parish, to be built by the developer QUVL as their part of the planning permission for the Kingsway site, so where is it? Kingsway has over 670 occupied houses on the site, all with no services at all. We have covered the shortage of doctors on several occasions over the last TWO years, and what have we got, nothing. Two out of the three doctors practices in Quedgeley have closed their books to new patients, so what do ill people do, they attend the out of hours doctors at the main hospital, not the reason it was sited there for, but if you are ill, you are ill and need medical attention, so what else can people do. The growth in the provision of services has not kept pace with the growth in the population, the plain fact is, there is NO forward planning, wait until there is a demand, then look at the problem. What a way to plan for the future!!!
Press release from the County Council Website some months ago-- The school will meet demand for places from the new Kingsway housing estate in Quedgeley, where more than 2,600 homes are being built in the next ten years. The 14-class school is expected to open in September 2008, starting with four classes and rising as need increases.
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