Kingsway Villagers

Hi,

There have been a number of comments regarding HGV traffic going to Asda and having spoken to the Council, I can confirm Asda delivery lorries lorries are not allowed to enter or leave Kingsway using the A38 traffic lights, as the planning consent directs them to enter via Waterwells. Also they should not be parking on Newhaven Road for other than a short period while the loading yard gates are opened.

The Council have asked that any instances of lorries using the wrong route or parking on Newhaven Road, especially parking on the verge, should be reported to [email protected], with times, registration numbers and preferably photographs.

Regards,
Joe
Chair KRA

 
On 21st and 22nd December 2013, the Residents Association - in conjunction with Asda and Tesco Express, arranged for four charity carol singing events to take place in Kingsway, to raise money for Gloucester Royal Hospital’s Children’s Ward… (more info’).

Asda also offered to add gifts collected as a part of their Give A Gift campaign to the donation.

Tesco Express also sold raffle tickets to shoppers to bolster donations, as well as donating the prizes and giving away sweets and mince pies over the weekend.

We were lucky enough to get several sponsors to donate towards the fund: Miller Homes, Guinness Hermitage Housing Group, Oxbode Housing (GreenSquare Group), Asda (Quedgeley) and Tesco Express (Kingsway).

Numerous local children joined the choir, along with various members of the KRA.

Richard Graham MP, Cllr: Fred Wood and Conservative candidate Dave Norman also took part in the event.

L to R: Cllr: Fred Wood, Santa, Vicky (Tesco Express manager)

The total raised (£811.30 plus the gifts from Asda), was presented to Hospital Play Specialists Liz Cubbins and Louise Danter, at the hospital, on Wednesday 22^nd January:

L to R: Liz Cubbins, Lois, Michelle(KRA), Joanne, George, Gill (KRA), Louise Danter, Dawn Brockbank (Asda)

Jo Harvey (Lead Nurse / Modern Matron for Paediatric Inpatients and Outpatient Department at GRH Children’s Ward) said:

“On behalf of the Directorate of Children’s Services, and especially all the children on the Paediatric Unit at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, we would like to thank you for taking the time to visit us and for your extremely generous cheque for £811.30.

I understand that your Association raised this money by organising carol singing events around Gloucester prior to Christmas. This is a fantastic sum of money for you to have raised and I am sure that you must all have worked extremely hard organising these events. I would, therefore, be grateful if you could pass on our thanks to all those members who participated.

Once again, thank you so much for thinking of the babies and children who spend time with us – it was very kind of you.”

Steve Brooks (KRA) said:

“Kingsway Residents Association’ would like to take this opportunity toward thanking all those who took part in the event - along with those within our community who made donations for such a worthy cause - raising £811.30, and gifts for the children of: Gloucester Royal Hospital’s Foundation Trust Children’s Ward.”

You can see more pictures from the event in our Kingsway Carols – 2013 Gallery.

It’s that time of year again…

2013 has been another eventful year for Kingsway. The link road to Naas Lane is finally open, adoptions have started in earnest, Asda have built a new local supermarket and we have a second local primary school.

2014 is likely to be another very busy year, with many new projects due to begin soon including the second shopping area, a place of worship, community centre, sports facilities and more.

Once again the Kingsway Residents Association has organised several local events and will continue with the same during 2014.

On behalf of the Residents Association committee, my wife, my family and myself, I’d like to wish all our residents (neighbours) and local friends a…

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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Clive

I recently uploaded minutes for our committee meeting of 13th November (here), where we discussed recent correspondance received, plans for a Christmas carol singing event (see this post), the AGM, and the (sudden) resignation of our last Treasurer,

Also I added the minutes for our 2013 AGM (here), where the new committee were agreed, the Reachout! scheme was reviewed, the past year’s events and activities were discussed and the KRA’s finances were detailed, as well as the current status of local adoptions.

Christmas Carols from Kingsway Village

Sung by the children of Kingsway to raise money for GRH Childrens Ward.

December 21st & 22nd: 12pm to 2pm

At Asda & Tesco - Kingsway Village

Come along - and see Santa too!

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Contact Gill White (Kingsway Residents Association) on 07868-983441 for details, or if you would like your child(ren) to join the choir(s). (With 2 venues and 2 days, there will be plenty of apportunity for children to take part in at least one performance).

Practice at Waterwells School on Wednesday 18th December at 3:30-4:00pm.
(Please check back nearer the date incase the times are adjusted).

During the KRA Committee Meeting of 29th October 2013 we were given the latest copy of the “Plans for the future of Kingsway and details on the adoption plan”.

The document was pretty big (5mb) so I said I would “look at the possibility of reducing the documents in size and uploading to the Blog”.

Because of the nature of the document that is not really possible, so I’ve enlisted the help of those helpful folks at Mediafire and uploaded it there for those who wish to view it.

Kingsway Development Plan
Warning: Large File Size (5MB) - See instructions below:

1. Click the link (Opens in new window) - Or: Right-Click and choose “Open in new tab”.
2. Choose “Download” from the mediafire options.
3. Choose “Open” or “Save” from your browser options.

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This copy of the plan will be updated periodically, so I’ve added a link to it from our Kingsway Developers page.