Wap, Shop, Archway, Tricorn and more

Here's another handful of local news:

Stan to be Mayor: Stan Giles will take over from Sheila Bliss as Mayor of Randwick - not an official Council Mayor but one voted on by local folk who register with the Wap. He will step down after 12 years as chair of the Wap committee to take over the post. Good luck to him!

Photo: Great photo of Stan in Stroud Life

Whiteshill Village Shop: Whiteshill Primary School children have raised £166.00 towards the £3,000 needed to replace the burnt toilet - they produced a great picture in the playground made from pennies. The Playgroup had earlier raised £400.00 from a welly walk and local Shop volunteer Damian is hoping to encourage support from local builders to help with the rebuilding of the loo.

Photo: View of Vine Tree, Randwick from Laggers last night

Bread Street Street party: Last night more residents met in the Vine Tree to make further plans - we have at least one band sorted and a road closure has been submitted. More coming soon.

Archway revamp: A further £1.5 million is going to Archway School for a new accommodation unit for the school's Learning Support Department and Inclusion Centre, further new teaching spaces and increased music, office and admin - this all comes on top of the much needed £5 million first phase which included a new technology block, new student entrance area and biomass boiler.

Tricorn House: Stroud district councillors voted unanimously to approve a move to wrest the building from its owners - they would then sell it on to wind power market leader Dale Vince of Ecotricity. About time too - as regular blog readers will know this is something I asked for some years ago - the building has been empty for 10 years. However I don't expect the fight is over - Wellfair Property Investment Holdings Ltd say SDC's attempt to force it to sell for £1.3 million is not enough - and a fence has gone up around the former DHSS building in Cainscross Road. But as Councillor John Marjoram (Green, Trinity) said at the meeting: "People have put in offers for this building and every time the price goes up. To my mind this is the only route we can follow, if we are not bullied by the person who has put the fence round. It's a prime site." Dale Vince said to the press: "We'd like to build something special here. It would probably involve knocking down the old building but we haven't written off yet using what's here. What we would like to end up with is something special, a zero carbon building that's somewhere great for our people to work and something that looks beautiful as well."

Whiteshill Plant Sale: 17th May at the Village Shop 9am to 1pm.

Wap stalls wanted: Book your stall now for Saturday 10th May - call Steve on 752478.