The Herbert Collins Estates Residents Association Newsletters

In April, Mrs Knight, the head teacher, wrote to the Association to tell us of the work planned for the stream and woodland in front of her school by staff from HSBC…

The AGM of the Southampton Federation of Residents’ Associations on 8th July was followed by a question and answer session on anti-social behaviour. Mr John Heyworth, a consultant in the A &…

THE AGM The annual general meeting of the Association will be on Monday 20th September in the Hardmoor Early Years Centre, Leaside Way.

Since the meeting at St George’s School in late March, the neighbourhood watch committee has been progressing the measures agreed at the time. John Caunt and Rob Currie met with council officers…

The weather forecast was a nightmare for the organisers. We were in a state of complete indecision. Throughout the morning, light rain was interspersed with tantalising dry periods and the forecast told…

The Association would like to assemble a collection of photographic images showing the estate in days gone by. This newsletter has occasionally contained a photo of early Ethelburt Avenue and Bassett Green…

A wheelie bin is not the most attractive of objects and we now have two of them. To improve the appearance of our Conservation Area wouldn’t it be better to keep them…

The session on the 4th February was devoted to strategic gaps and park-and-ride at Stoneham. Test Valley District Council objected to the removal of the gap designation at Stoneham and the bus…

Following an item in the last newsletter and a circular to Avenue residents, expressions of support from around fifty households were received for the re-establishment of the Neighbourhood Watch scheme. Twenty residents…

After a successful winter season indoors at Fleming Park, we are looking forward to playing on grass again in Ethelburt Avenue. The courts have been well maintained over the winter months and…