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This just in from the Wivenhoe Society:

“On Saturday there was a public meeting at the William Loveless Hall organised by the University. Unfortunately the publicity for the meeting was virtually non-existent, and a very small number of people attended.”

The meeting was indeed incredibly poorly advertised. I only found out about it the night before, and then only threw the good fortune of *wine tasting* (yeah, right…) with the very lovely Mayor Brian Sinclair.

“The purpose of the meeting was to inform the public (particularly Wivenhoe residents) about the University’s Knowledge Gateway project, and in particular, to give details of the potential inconvenience when the new road junction onto Clingoe Hill is built next year.

The roadworks are likely to take place in March / April 2011 and will cause some disruption for about 5-6 weeks. They will be constructing a traffic-light controlled junction with slip roads from Clingoe Hill to enable cars to enter and exit the north campus (to access the research park).

Since the meeting was not adequately advertised, the University will be arranging another meeting in the New Year, and have undertaken to give much more notice, so we will let you know when we are informed.”

Birding commitments (blimey) kept me away from the Loveless Hall. It seems that I wasn’t alone. Although I’m not a user of Clingoe Hill, the consensus from my conversations with folk around Wivenhoe is that the traffic situation can’t get any worse.

Can it…?

Here’s hoping the University provide better forward planning for any future Knowledge Gateway meetings locally.

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