Anarchy Bridge Closure Update

From North Earlsdon Neighbourhood Association:NENA logo

Thanks to Councillor Taylor who has been able to obtain more detail about the planned bridge closure –

“I have made some enquiries and can confirm that the Council’s Structures team are resurfacing the section of bridge maintained by CCC over 2-3 consecutive night time closures later this month. The TTRO, published last week, states that the order is valid for 6 months but does not actually give the duration or start date (still to be confirmed). I think people may be confusing the validity of the order with the duration of the works. Please see attached.

Once our structures team has a confirmed date for the works, advance information signs will be erected either end of the bridge at least 7 days in advance, the diversion route will be signed via Warwick Road.

Kind regards
Rhian

Rhian Jones
Programme Manager
Coventry City Council”

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Vote: Would you pay a couple of quid to save Coventry’s Godiva Festival?

Coventry Telegraph is holding a poll about future funding for the Godiva Festival.  Some might find the results so far a little surprising…

With the council having to make deep cuts, we might have to fork out a little something to keep the city’s best weekend going

Source: Vote: Would you pay a couple of quid to save Coventry’s Godiva Festival? – Keith Perry – Coventry Telegraph

Date set for public services meeting

A date has been set for the public meeting that is mentioned in ECHO’s July cover story.  Love Earlsdon reports:

The future of Earlsdon Library: South Earlsdon Neighbours Association SENA & North Earlsdon Neighbourhood Association (NENA) have organised a public meeting to discuss how the ‘community’ will run the library and other local amenities should the council pull the plug on them in the near future due to funding cuts imposed on it by the Conservative government at Westminster.

Both associations work closely with the council on various issues so this is an ideal chance to let them know what you think and find out more about any plans they may have to ensure the library remains open.

The meeting takes place at Coventry Resource Centre for the Blind, 33 Earlsdon Avenue South, CV5 6TH on Monday 6 July at 7.30pm.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to make your views known please e-mail them to Mike the SENA Chair.

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Coventry weather: Forecasters warn of severe thunderstorms on Friday night – Coventry Telegraph

Some bad news for revellers going to the Godiva Festival at the weekend.

Heavy storms are expected between 7pm on Friday through to noon on Saturday

Source: Coventry weather: Forecasters warn of severe thunderstorms on Friday night – Coventry Telegraph

 

Neighbourhood Forums

Neighbourhood Forums are scheduled this month. They are open to all residents and give local people the chance to talk to councillors and officials about issues affecting our communities including, this time, what joining a West Midlands Combined Authority could mean. The ones covering the ECHO area are:

Whoberley 7.00pm Thursday 2 July, Whoberley Hall Primary School, Overdale Road CV5 8AJ
Earlsdon 7.00pm Thursday 16 July, Village Hotel, Dolomite Avenue CV4 9GZ
Sherbourne 7.00pm Tuesday 28 July, venue TBC
St Michael’s 6.00pm Wednesday 22 July, venue TBC

For updates see Coventry City Council.

Welcome to ECHO’s new website

July sees  ECHO reaching its 400th issue and to coincide with that momentous event, we are pleased to present a new look website.

As well as regular news updates, there is a detailed events diary with maps showing the locations of venues and a growing archive of features from past issues.  In addition, the whole site is searchable from the bar in the top right corner of the window.

We hope that you find it to be useful.