Hi

Yes, I am helping to organise the party on Hurstbourne Road! But only the 'lower' end i.e. the section between Vancouver Road and Woolstone Road (numbers 71/66 to 92/95, plus the corner houses). Sorry for those on the other end of Hurstbourne road, but its the first time we've done it and we felt it would just be too much to take on to do the whole road. Apart from anything else, the application form requires you to get every resident to agree and sign a form and there's 40+ properties on this end of the road alone....!! That's before the rest of the party gets organised....

However if the 'upper' end of Hurstbourne Road (the section between Vancouver and Stanstead) would like to organise a street party too that would be fantastic! We can join the parties together.

For info - so far the Council have agreed in principle to the road closure, so we are now working on the application. Everyone in this section of the street should have had a leaflet from us by now, and if you haven't we'll be round in the next few days to accost you!

We very much hope it will be a communal event - we've no ideas at the moment of what the event will entail, it's really up to the residents what they want, but we'll be arranging a meeting soon to throw some ideas around.

Anyway so far everyone seems very pleased about it!

Jane