Winton Forum

 

Councillor Notes

Messages from your ward councillors about the issues they are dealing with.


Anson Westbrook

We, your local ward Councillors, would like to give our respects to Anson Westbrook and for the tireless work he did for Winton over the many years that he lived here. The time and work he spent as a resident, as a Councillor for Winton East and his time as Chairman of the Winton Forum was of great benefit to the local community and without him, the progress made to bring us the Winton Carnival and change the way Houses of Multiple Occupation are dealt with in Bournemouth would be setback significantly.

I’m sure he would be greatly proud of the work being done to ensure all residents in Winton are community driven and involved with solving any problems facing us.

Councillors Theo Stratton, Johann Edwards and Anniina Davie


25 Linwood Road

There will be a meeting of the Council's Planning Board on Monday the 19th of March 2012 at 4pm in the Town Hall, to discuss the current planning application for 25 Linwood Road, about its conversion into a 8 bedsit property. Myself and a deputation of local residents shall be speaking out against this proposed application and urge for as many residents as possible to attend the meeting to show support for this permission to be refused. There were a total of 22 separate letters of objection sent to the Council about this property application.

As I’ve previously stated, if this application were to be granted, it would be highly detrimental to both the town, to Winton and the surrounding roads and Winton Rec. The Member of Parliament Conor Burns also believes that this property (owned by Dave Wells) should not be granted planning permission and the more residents we can muster to show that this is not wanted, then the greater chance we have of stopping this permission being granted.

Regards

Councillor Theo Stratton


Planning permissions - Linwood and Sedgley Roads

Planning permission has been submitted for no. 25 Linwood Road and no. 26 Sedgley Road. The application for 25 Linwood Road is for the conversion of the property into 8 flats, I have received numerous objections from local residents and as such have called for this decision to be sent before the Council’s planning board at a meeting yet to be decided.

Number 25 has the potential to be lovely property next to Winton Rec and for the past decade it has been home to violence, drug abuse and more. We cannot allow for this to continue, something that if this planning permission is granted will happen. For those reasons, and to protect the peace of Winton, I shall be speaking against this proposed change and ask that, when the date is announced, as many local residents attend the meeting as possible to truly show that this is not wanted for Winton.

No. 26 Sedgley Road has applied for permission to be converted to an House of multiple occupancy. Given the past history of granting of HMO’s in Winton and the recent introduction of the Council's article 4 directive, I have also called this in for review by the Planning board.

To be clear, I shall be fighting against both these applications being granted and hope that in doing so we can continue to solve the problems that have affected Winton during the past.

Any support will be welcome and I shall be arranging a meet up with local residents and representatives from Dave Wells properties to fully discuss the issue of 25 Linwood Road. I shall post the date and time of the meeting on the forum message board and hope to have local residents attend.

Regards

Councillor Theo Stratton