The Liberal Democrat councillors Darren Fower and Julia Davidson are opposed to the Conservative-led city council's plan to cut the 406 bus service. Darren questioned the council leader about the impact on residents without cars or mobility, but received no answer. Darren has spoken to residents who are also opposed to the cuts. Julia reminded residents to secure their homes with doors and windows locked to prevent theft over the summer.

1. FOCUS News from Lib Dem councillors
Julia Davidson & Darren Fower
Tories plan to scrap 406 bus
The Tory-controlled city council is planning to cut the local link 406 bus
service! Your Liberal Democrat City Councillors are opposed to the plans.
At the latest full council meeting at the Town Hall, Liberal Democrats challenged
the leader of the city council over the narrow-minded plan. Your local Werrington
and Gunthorpe councillor Darren Fower stood up and asked the leader what
residents who live in and around Coniston Road, for example, who do not have a
car and are perhaps not mobile enough to walk any great distance, will now do
when they wish to get to the Werrington Centre?
The leader of the city council failed to even answer the question!
Darren, who recently talked with several residents at Gunthorpe Community
Centre about the planned bus cuts, told us:
“I’ve spoken with people directly on the doorstep, on the phone and at
a couple of events about the plans to cut the 406 service.
“The problem is that these short sighted ideas are
dreamt up by wealthy Tories at the Town Hall who
do not even use local buses!”
Darren recorded some of the residents’
views on his camera and you can watch
them on his dedicated YouTube
channel – just search on
YouTube for ‘Darren
Fower’.
Summer
problems
Local Liberal Democrat
city councillor Julia
Davidson (above)
would like to remind
everyone to make sure
that if you are in your
garden taking
advantage of summer
weather, remember
that opportunist
thieves are around.
Please ensure your
doors are locked and
window locks are in
use. If doors and
windows are left open,
thieves will get in.
Before term ended
Julia reported the ice
cream vendor parked
on double yellow lines
on Amberley Slope
near the school. She
says: “We all have to
make a living but he
was parked illegally
and dangerously,
putting children at
risk.”
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Issue number 77
SOUTH WERRINGTON & NORTH GUNTHORPE
RESIDENTS’ NEWSLETTER
New
bus shelters
Local Liberal Democrat councillor
Darren Fower has been informed by officers at the
Town Hall that a brand new wooden bus shelter is
to be installed on The Green, opposite Lewes
Gardens, and a shelter will be introduced to the
stop on Coniston Road near Campbell Drive.
The installations are a result of work done by Darren,
who has held meetings with council officers, spoken with
local residents and campaigned for the new stops.
Darren said: “Bus users deserve to be treated in a way
that helps make their use of the service comfortable and
protects them from the elements.
“I’m glad that the new shelters will be installed this
year ahead of the winter months. If anyone knows of any
other bus stop in this area that needs a shelter please
get in contact with FOCUS.”
Lib Dem councillors Julia
Davidson and Darren Fower
want more bus shelters.

2. New signs go up
Following a request from local Lib
Dem councillor Darren Fower, the
city council has replaced the ‘no
cycling’ sign at the entrance to the
footpath leading from Church
Street, opposite the church,
through to the recreational area.
Darren said: “The signs were worn
and the colours had completely faded,
which made them rather pointless! So I
got in contact with the city council,
spoke with the relevant officers and
now the matter has been resolved.”
Ullswater Avenue surface
Local residents recently attended one of the ‘ward
surgeries’ run by local Lib Dem councillors Darren
Fower and Julia Davidson (see details at foot of
page) to ask when Ullswater Avenue would be
resurfaced.
Keen to get the matter addressed Darren formally raised
the issue at the latest full council meeting at the Town
Hall. He asked the ‘cabinet member for Environment
Capital and Neighbourhoods’ (the rather grand title of the
Tory councillor in charge of roads paths):
“Please can the cabinet member let me know why the
footpath along Ullswater Avenue has not been resurfaced
since the 1960’s, resulting in elderly pedestrians and
users of mobility vehicles having to use the road due to
the uncertain and uneven manner of the footpath? When
can local taxpayers expect to see resurfacing work
done along this stretch of road?”
The good news is that the cabinet member said the
work would be included in the works programme next
year!
Darren is now working on getting the Tory-controlled
city council to resurface Eskdale Close.
Darren said: “I’m keen to see work done at Eskdale
as it has already been left too long. It is now worn and
torn, with road markings in some places barely legible.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
 Local Lib Dem councillor Julia Davidson is
trying to get action take to stop residents
parking on grass verges in Fulbridge Road.
 There has been a spate of car thefts in areas
of Werrington. Julia says: “Please be vigilant
and ensure your car is locked.”
 Allotment holders have raised concerns with
Julia and councillor Darren Fower about the
future of the allotments on Fulbridge Road.
The councillors are looking into this and will
pass on news as soon as they receive it.
FOCUS deliverers required!
Local Lib Dem councillors Darren Fower and
Julia Davidson need some help – from you!
They need you to help deliver FOCUS in the
street where you live.
If you can afford half an hour every month or
so then please contact one of the councillors
– their phone numbers and email addresses
are at the foot of this page.
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CONTACT FOCUS
By phone: Text or call local Liberal Democrat councillors:
Darren Fower – 0796 184 91 10 Julia Davidson – 0750 653 66 27
By post: Town Hall, Bridge St, Peterborough PE1 1HG
By e-mail: SWNG_FOCUS@peterboroughlibdems.org.uk.
Via Facebook: Search for ‘SWNG FOCUS’
Or visit the councillors’ ward ‘surgery':
6:00 to 7:00 pm, first Friday every month
Community Centre, Church Street
6:00 to 7:00 pm, third Friday every month
Brookside Methodist Church, Gunthorpe Road
This faded ‘no
cycling’ sign in
Church Street has
been replaced.