Welcome to Quedgeley News!
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 6,700 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 1972. 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 Monday January 30th 2012 at 4:09pm
**The contact telephone number for Quedgeley News is 01452 549899**
Thank you to those volunteers who came forward to help take on producing Quedgeley News (see November front page below). It looks like we have the core of a team, but could still do with a few more please. Especially someone(s) who want to help in linking with our advertisers. Let me, Andy Jarrett, know if you are interested in gettting involved. Tel: 01452 883450 or email andy.jarrett@ymail.com
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 are currently short of volunteer distributors in a number of roads in Kingsway, and despite a number of appeals only a few people have come forward. As you probably know, everyone who helps QN does so as a volunteer, no one is paid. However, distributing the magazine each month will take no more than 30 to 40 minutes and will help people to get to know their neighbours and build community spirit. The roads we are currently having problems with are:
- Aldergrove
- Boddington Drive
- Buchan Drive
- Northolt Way
- Waddington Way
However, we know there are many other roads on Kingsway which are new and we have no cover for. We also need help with sickness or holiday cover in all areas, if you are able to volunteer to occasionally help us. Please click on Contact Us or ring/text 07504 852044 (after 5.30 pm please). Please note this is a new number for distribution enquiries if you are interested in volunteering to help deliver YOUR Community Magazine. Thank you.
Quedgeley News is now on Facebook! Our new page which aims to share all that is good and great about Quedgeley. Please become a fan and tell us your news, views and what is going on so that we can share it immediately with others that are interested.
February 2012
Bidder Chosen for Javelin Park
Urbaser Balfour Beatty is celebrating after it was named Preferred Bidder by Gloucestershire County Council for its 25 year contract to design, build and operate an energy-from-waste facility at Javelin Park, Haresfield near Junction 12 of the M5.
Urbaser Project Director, Javier Peiro, commented on the announcement, "We are absolutely thrilled to have been selected as preferred bidder by Gloucestershire County Council. Our proposed energy-from-waste facility will ensure any waste left over after recycling and composting is used to increase Gloucestershire's renewable energy production by over 50%." He continued, "We wish to particularly thank all of the local residents who attended the two public exhibitions as part of our pre-planning consultation and those that have commented on our proposal to date. We have taken into account all feedback received and we will continue to work closely with the community to ensure our facility protects the environment and delivers real local benefits."
The energy-from-waste facility at Javelin Park will divert over 91% of Gloucestershire's residual municipal waste from landfill and generate an estimated 116,000MW hours of electricity annually - sufficient to power more than 25,000 homes. Diversion of residual waste, i.e. that waste which is left over after reuse, recycling and composting, through the energy-from-waste facility will prevent the equivalent annual greenhouse gas emissions of nearly one million cars.
A special feature of Urbaser Balfour Beatty's proposal is the on-site recycling of the bottom ash to produce a sustainable aggregate replacement. Throughout the life of the contract Urbaser Balfour Beatty also expects to recycle enough metals from the waste to build the equivalent of over 6,000 Javelin jet fighter planes.
The facility has been designed to be sympathetic to the characteristics and local history of the area. An education and visitor centre will provide a meeting and event space for the local community which will provide a valuable resource for Gloucestershire to promote waste minimisation and recycling. The wildlife and amenity area will encourage a range of species to the site with ponds, woodland and gardens.
If all goes to plan, planning permission will be submitted soon and if successful construction will start in 2013. During construction around 300 jobs will be created for local people and once the facility is up and running by the end of 2015 around 40 people will be employed there.
However, The Liberal Democrat group on the County Council has lodged a legal challenge under Gloucestershire county council's constitution. The legal challenge known as a ‘call-in' will halt the incinerator project until the councillors on the overview and scrutiny management committee can meet to review the process that led to the cabinet decision to progress the waste incinerator project.
Read this months quedgeley news in full...