We are in favour of having the seat on the corner of Avon and Bidford Road REMOVED. It acts as a magnet attracting youths from the area to congregate. They kick a football on the road junction regardless of the traffic. They trample over boarders to retrieve their ball. They leave cans, bottles takeaway wrappings around the seat area. The noise they make is disturbing. we moved into the area for Health reasons , this is not helping at all

Subsequent to reading a recent article on the future of the public benches on Edward Ave. and Avon Rd.
Myself and my wife have lived in the town for over twenty years and are daily walkers within it.
The benches in both locations are an asset to the town and freely enjoyed by the elderly, parents with young children and as a meeting place for our teenage boys and girls.
I suspect it is patronage by the last group mentioned that is giving some cause for concern.
The young people I have observed sit with their friends and enjoy a bag of chips or a can of coke and like all high spirited young people laugh and joke heartily.
I have never seen this become anything more sinister than that and if there is evidence to the contrary then the issue is for our local police to deal with.
There is no way the benches should be removed the whole community suffers if they do.
This would be akin to removing all the childrens' play equipment from say Franklin Park in the event of rowdy behaviour by some in its vicinity.
I hope my comments will be taken into account.

SHOULD THE SEATS AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS BE RETAINED OR REMOVED?

* Corner of Avon/Bidford Road
* Turnbull Drive Shops

Street Seats have traditionally been provided by the Town Council to offer our less mobile local residents a place rest on the way to the shops etc. Seats also offer people a place to meet up for a chat and watch the world go by. From time to time we get requests for seats to be removed because of rowdy or anti social behaviour etc.
WE WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR VIEWS ABOUT THE SEATS AT THE ABOVE LOCATIONS?
Please forward your comments to Ian Laughton, Braunstone Town Council, Civic Centre,Kingsway, Braunstone Town, Leicester LE3 2PP before 3rd September 2009

Congrats to Cllr David Widdowson as deputy mayor, we wish him all and his family all the best for this years term. He truly is a community spirited CLLR

Regarding the recent enquiry from 'John'. If you e mail me using 'Feedback' form in the left hand column I will provide you with an answer.

This is a report IN HER OWN Words of details of an incident that occurred on Wednesday 11th of Feb.

Please note and pass on to your contacts and friends. This message was received by one of our

Local NW members and I thank him sincerely for this information. This is what N.W. is all about.

Message begins: - “This is what happened to me last Wednesday.

I got into my car in Sainsbury's car park and before I had a chance to put my key in the iginition there was a tap on the window of the front passenger door. Immediately the door was opened and a man started talking very rapidly to me in broken English. My first reaction was to lean across my handbag as this man was leaning into my car. He was trying to find out where the hospital was, so naturally I tried to point him in the right direction. He then thrust a large road atlas into the car and was trying to get me to point out where the hospital was on the map. He also had a woman with him and kept speaking to her in their own language as they didn't appear to understand what I was trying to say.

After a couple of minutes or so, they left me saying something about getting a taxi.

I went home and mentioned this to Steve telling him I hadn't liked the fact that they had actually opened my car door, and that of course most people would tap on a window and wait for it to be wound down. At this time I just thought it was a case of them not knowing that you don't invade someone's space like that.

An hour and a half after I had arrived home I went to get something out of my purse, only to find that my debit card and credit card were not in the purse.

I immediately rang my bank to stop the cards and was lucky, although they had attempted to take over £5000 they didn't use the correct PIN number. So I haven't lost any money at all which is good, but now I have the inconvenience of having no cards until the middle of next week.

The man had presumably removed my purse from my handbag, under the cover of the road atlas, passed it to his accomplice, who took the cards, returned the purse to the man, who then got it back into my bag. I saw none of this happen, it was all very quick. I was just trying to help them with directions, which was difficult because of the language barrier. They were very plausible. I hadn't even noticed them near my car when I got in it.

This all took place at Sainsbury's at Fosse Park just after 7 last night, I was in a busy area of the car park, near the main entrance, with plenty of people around. They have no CCTV watching the car park.

I phoned the police and they told me this and similar incidents have become quite common. So please watch out and pass this on to as many people as you can. These criminals also work with other people inside the shops who watch you entering your PIN number into the chip & PIN machine.”

16.02.09 Latest Update from our member.

Further to my last email reference the lady who has had her cards stolen, she has now found out that they have taken £500.00 out of her account, despite the bank saying that they did not get into her account. So when she paid for her shopping by card, another accomplice must have been watching and passed her pin details to the other two.

I've been reading the News Pages - Nobody seems very bothered about thousands of new houses being built on our doorstep !

Thank you very much for this wonderful website. I will recommend this website to my friends also i wish you success in the future!

I think they should put soundproof fencing along the service roads to help give residents some peace

Doesn't the Beeches pub look somewhat better now they have cleared up that awful waste - they have fenced some of it in, but at least it can not be seen and its harder for the kids to play with. There is still work to be done there, cant see why they find it so hard to clean their carpark up every morning whilst the pub is closed, it wouldn't take 10 minutes if they did it daily, and who knows they might get some more customers in, oh well.

We enjoyed the Fete on Mossdale Park is someone going to organise a similar event next year ?

good luck to councilor dave widdowson, in his position as deputy mayor

I think that the council have made exactly the right decision concerning the dog orders in Braunstone Town.
Dogs should definitely not be allowed in children's play areas and I certainly would never let me dog go into one. I am also glad that you have reconsidered banning dogs on the sports pitches. My husband has been walking his dogs there for many years longer than kids have been playing sports there!

I also agree with the plastic bottles and litter comments made by other people. Perhaps we should consider banning kids and parents from these fields if they dont know how to tidy up after themselves?

I am very relieved to hear that common sense has prevailed in relation to the proposed dog restrictions in the parish.
I have lived near Mossdale Meadows for over 50years and I have always walked my dogs in the fields there (for more than half a decade!).

The real problem as I see it is broken glass, litter, and burnt and abandoned cars - perhaps this bigger issue can now be addressed to stop this blight on our lovely community?

I am an international croquette sports player. Dig up the footie pitches and and lay some first rate croquette (not croquette potato rolls) lawns for me to practice for the 2012 Londinium games. I know i can win gold foil medals with more practice. Failing that I could always act as an anti dog fouling patrol with my mallet and hoops.

Congratulations to Sharleen Thurman becoming Mayor of Braunstone Town.
Her friends and family here in Adelaide, South Australia wish her all the best for the coming year in this role.
We will use the Council website to keep up to date on the Mayors engagements.

I wonder if someone could help, I am trying to trace the history if this town going back to 1941. i was born here and was informed i was born in a big house or hall where women was sent to have their child for safety. My mother was married at the time, and i believe the hall or house was called "Big burrow hall " i believe or something similar.
if anyone recalls this i would love to have some info.....

Thank you in advance
older-woman (Caroline)

I'm fairly new to Braunstone having lived in London for the past 23 years. Since I've lived here I have been impressed with the courteous manner of the staff at the civic centre and the helpful attitude of all who work there. Also I would like to thank the councilors for the sterling work they do in trying to keep all of us happy. From what I have observed so far our councilors seem to be for the people and involved at grass roots. Many thanks

I think that the Youth council should buckle there ideas up and think about making a youth centre and what the town councillors have promised us they said that we will put a football pitch on mos dales meadows and the youth council will soon do a London trip well you could of told us the people that it is aimed at. I thought you cared about youths well if you do then the youth council are not doing much and we are very disappointed!!!!!

Granting planning permission for a Tesco Express will signal the end of any small independent shops in the vicinity.Who wants a country with no individuality where every community has the same shops that all look the same,sell the same stuff,how boring and next to an old pub which looks to have a history and character.