Your comments

Here you can see a selection of your comments, ideas and pictures – made at activities and events, in person on your doorstep, or in our questionnaire. Confidentiality: we will not print your name or address

A few of the many comments from the Ideas Exhibition

Improvements to streets and open spaces:

• Good to have a mixed market (under Westway), with a bit of food and goods, not just posh food
• I don’t agree with a market and fixed stalls etc under the Westway, there’s too much pollution there for food
• If you put in a building (under Westway) make it for local people. It needs to be needed. Workshops e.g. short courses/adult education
• They have taken away lots of  benches (Westbourne Green Open Space), the elderly need somewhere to sit
• Leave the two open spaces. People need room to stroll, meet and just be!
• I like the idea of a ‘pocket park’ (on Bourne Terrace), but how can you mix parking and children playing?
• Shared road space (on Bourne Terrace) is not sensible, not safe with old people, school kids
• We’d like hanging baskets in Westbourne Terrace Road
• You need to avoid making areas where children can group, pinch points
• Canal entrances (at Harrow Road bridge) need improving, so that’s a good idea
• Why not put a café where ‘the pit’ is (beside Oldbury House). I’d use it.
• There’s always loads of people outside the fish and chip shop. Good idea to have space to eat and hang out without cars running close by
• I like the idea of residents gardens (Lapworth Court, Atherstone Court, Dartington House) with separate areas for children to play... they would be overlooked from their homes

Homes and community facilities:

• Moving the community centre is ok because nothing happens there
• I don’t like the plan to move the community centre and nursery as I will overlook them, I like the green space
• I Would like to see a real community centre hub that can support community services and activities like ‘open age’
• They just want to commercialise the area, it doesn’t need developing
• It’s good to try and provide more homes, if you focus on Harrow Road
• In principle I support the development of flats and can see there is a need for them
• You have to prioritise social housing
• Will there be car parking facilities for the increase in population?
• No more people… its unfair to impose further over-crowding
• Look after the community shops, they’re good for the basics.
• We need a post office!
• We need a better mix of shops.
• A café at the entrance to Westbourne Green is an ok idea
• New housing should be a similar height as the existing ones
• I love being in the low-rise as every entrance has only 8 flats, so you can communicate with your neighbours. Don’t change that.
• I’m not happy about losing garages. There’s a waiting list, and they’re not kept repaired.

Places that could be better:

• Football Pitch in Brindley needs a fence and improvements. Some kids being picked on and don’t feel secure
• Brindley Estate has lost its play area; there’s loads of dog poo and some anti-social behaviour
• Fence in the hard area in the park, by Edward Wilson, so kids can play on it without balls hitting little ones in the playground
• Basket Ball courts are too enclosed - not overlooked and are unsafe
• Cycle route along the canal is dangerous. It runs out and isn’t properly marked, so pedestrians and cyclists get confused
• Put cameras along Bourne Terrace
• Shop fronts along the Harrow Road (Westbourne end) look shabby and run down – these need improvement.  The range of products sold along the stretch also needs to better cater for all tastes.
• The area needs a good size supermarket or general store.  It could also host a post office and bank inside for convenience (people suffered from the loss of the local post office a few years ago).

General comments:

• Housing Office needs to be more local. It’s too far away
• Warwick Community Centre very important for community activities and meetings
• We need more girls clubs, with sports activities for girls between 11-16, to encourage a more healthy lifestyle
• Let children play football in the middle of Westbourne Green Open Space
• We need somewhere for 2-8 yr olds to play
• Not enough playgrounds
• Improve the shops
• Don’t touch the park and green spaces!
• Keep Warwick Community Centre open
• No building on the green spaces
• I think that there should be more green area
• Vagrancy, opposite Westminster Academy. Local children don’t like
• Size of living space is important (people need more space to live in)
• No loss of open space