Monday, April 11, 2005
What next for St. Mellons
Your Councillors have won major improvements for St. Mellons. Work on the Council housing estates, completion of Hendre Lake Park and improvements to other play, park and sports areas will continue through this year.
Residents put "quality of life issues" - "stray" horses, motorbike nuisance, speeding, litter and fly-tipping - at the top of their list of priorities and we are dealing with those issues as best we can, often under difficult circumstances.
Unfortunately, progress can be slow and brings conflict with a few other residents, motorbike enthusiasts, for instance!
Your Councillors can’t prevent illegal behaviour on their own. We work with the Police, Council and other agencies through the St. Mellons Forum and other means.
Naturally there are complaints from residents when there is a problem but few residents realise we are all stronger when a united community stands alongside its Councillors. This may mean filling in petitions, writing letters and occasionally standing with placards in the rain!
St. Mellons has very few active Residents Associations or groups. Most are small and fragile, the biggest being SMAC, the group opposing the St. Mellons Link Road.
Increasingly the voice of St. Mellons needs to be heard. School closures, the Community Education Centre, horses, motorbikes and other problems are still present. If the people of St. Mellons do not work together we risk losing the hard-won gains and a return to the neglect we suffered a few years ago.
We will not win every time but success, when it occurs, is more fun shared.
Cllr. Ralph Cook
Residents put "quality of life issues" - "stray" horses, motorbike nuisance, speeding, litter and fly-tipping - at the top of their list of priorities and we are dealing with those issues as best we can, often under difficult circumstances.
Unfortunately, progress can be slow and brings conflict with a few other residents, motorbike enthusiasts, for instance!
Your Councillors can’t prevent illegal behaviour on their own. We work with the Police, Council and other agencies through the St. Mellons Forum and other means.
Naturally there are complaints from residents when there is a problem but few residents realise we are all stronger when a united community stands alongside its Councillors. This may mean filling in petitions, writing letters and occasionally standing with placards in the rain!
St. Mellons has very few active Residents Associations or groups. Most are small and fragile, the biggest being SMAC, the group opposing the St. Mellons Link Road.
Increasingly the voice of St. Mellons needs to be heard. School closures, the Community Education Centre, horses, motorbikes and other problems are still present. If the people of St. Mellons do not work together we risk losing the hard-won gains and a return to the neglect we suffered a few years ago.
We will not win every time but success, when it occurs, is more fun shared.
Cllr. Ralph Cook
