Council Reports The annoying thing about each of these deletions, is that ECC were statutory consultees to each of the planning applications. As ECC are the Highways Authority, if they had wished to protect and enhance these footpaths, they could have objected to them at the time (on highways grounds). Instead they did nothing, and continued to do nothing for about eighteen years, and then deleted them. Sigh! On a far brighter note, the annual Boxing Day Walk went ahead as planned at the end of last year. There were not as many people as usual, due to quite obvious and understandable health concerns, but a gallant handful, including Eve the dog, set off – and most of them completed the walk! Time to start thinking about the LSW, ‘Last Saturday Walks’, which will be on Saturday 26th February and 26th March. Always meeting at 10am on the last Saturday of the month. I hope to meet up with you then for a shorter stroll and a natter! Robert Johnstone Myland Access Group Myland gets more defibs The 4th defib purchased by Myland Community Council has been sited at the new Co-op store on Chesterwell, which brings the first batch to a close. The other defibrillators were placed at Bergholt Road garage, Queen Boudica primary school and Camulos Academy. Plans are on-going to site the next one at Myland Primary school, on the Raven Way fencing, which will support the bungalows in Raven Way, Defoe Crescent south end and the Mill Rd Recreation ground, as well as the areas of Tranter Drive and Cambie Crescent, but we need to do some extra electrical work to get this in place. The old Rugby Club building on Mill Road is being demolished to make way for a new purpose-built Community Centre, so the defibrillator that was sited on that building has been collected by the Community First Responders, who organised that fitting. They are looking to relocate it somewhere else in the local area. I am open to suggestions of new places to fit new defibrillators to and I am happy to speak to anyone with ideas for suggested locations. Please email me at pauline.bacon@ mylandcommunitycouncil.gov.uk with suitable sites. We want Myland to be the safest place in Colchester if you have a cardiac arrest. We know the hospital is nearby, but you have to 11
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