Colchester roads named after Olympics (From Essex County Standard)
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Colchester roads named after Olympics
9:00am Sunday 15th April 2012 in News By Andrea Collitt
Myland Community Council chairman Robert Johnstone at the Severalls site
A BID to name streets on a new estate after Colchester landmarks has been snubbed in favour of an Olympic-themed list.
Roads on the former Severalls Hospital site in Colchester were due to be named in line with a local theme.
However, Myland Community Council has lost out to a list of names to commemorate London 2012.
Robert Johnstone, chairman, said: “I think it is a terrible choice.
“It has no local relevance at all. It doesn’t mean a thing to Mile End, Severalls Hospital or this part of Colchester at all.
“Colchester Council has a duty to name residential streets and the developer has an interest in these names.
“However, the community council is best-placed to come up with names because of its knowledge of the area and those who live in the area.”
Mr Johnstone thought developer Crest Nicholson, Colchester Council and the community council had agreed on a local theme.
They held a meeting where it was suggested the streets be named in relation to a prominent water tower in Mill Road.
Mr Johnstone said the Olympic theme had been suggested and ditched during that meeting.When the Government’s Homes and Communities Agency, which owns part of the site, got wind of the idea, it objected.
As a result, Colchester Council has agreed the roads will be named to commemorate this year’s London Olympics. The Homes and Communities Agency did not attend the meeting.
The first phase of the development on the former Severalls Hospital site is under construction.
Despite the Olympic-themed names, the developer is not allowed to use the Olympic brand to market the homes.
Mr Johnstone said Colchester Council had now agreed to allow the community council a greater say in naming streets on future developments in Mile End. He said: “At least there is a positive side to it.”
Comments(11)
b1gb1gman
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12:10pm Sun 15 Apr 12
we have soo many similar names like Valentines drive and balentines drive
axial drive and axial way
victoria road , chase and place and vitoria mews
one of the proposals for renaming the Northern approach was Queen Boudica Approach when we already have Boudicia way, its about time these people who name the roads think about the area and and any similarities in the town !!
6079 Smith W
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4:50pm Sun 15 Apr 12
That's not to say I really disagree with the criticisms here. Sdapeze makes an excellent point, it does seem terrible the council are not paying tribute to the victims of the tragedy he refers to.
Boris
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8:18pm Sun 15 Apr 12
They could have waited till the summer, and then named the roads after some of our Olympic and Paralympic medal winners, assuming there are some.
Or they could have used the names of some of our recent local Olympians, medal winners or not, such as Sarah Claxton.
Martin Goss
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12:09pm Mon 16 Apr 12
I have written to HCA, the Developer and also CBC to express my distaste that the Water Tower idea was rejected at the last minute, despite it being originally agreed at earlier meetings. In my opinion, HCA have sold the Phase 1 site, so they have no official business dictating what names we can use on Phase 1?
Rest assured, working with Myland Community Council, the names for Severalls Phase 2 will use the historic suggestions made by many residents across Colchester to reflect the rich history this site offers.
The olympics idea is a poor substitute for Phase 1 names in place of the Water Tower naming convention.
Goonerboy
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2:35pm Mon 16 Apr 12
Taxpayer Subsidised Way
No tickets Lane
Doping Alley
White Elephant Drive
IOC Para...site
Corporate Jolly Street
Goonerboy
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7:54pm Mon 16 Apr 12
Goonerboy wrote:Just another thought..... the words Citius, Altius and Fortius are offical IOC brand words protecte by copyright and therefore you need their permission and enivitably a charge will be made
so..... Taxpayer Subsidised Way No tickets Lane Doping Alley White Elephant Drive IOC Para...site Corporate Jolly Street
Boris
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1:53am Tue 17 Apr 12
Goonerboy wrote:Those words are ordinary Latin words, so how can they be copyrighted? If anyone's permission is needed to use them, it would surely be Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. But they are long dead, so maybe it should be the Pope, head of state of the only country which uses Latin as one of its national languages.
Goonerboy wrote:Just another thought..... the words Citius, Altius and Fortius are offical IOC brand words protecte by copyright and therefore you need their permission and enivitably a charge will be made
so..... Taxpayer Subsidised Way No tickets Lane Doping Alley White Elephant Drive IOC Para...site Corporate Jolly Street
If the IOC issues an invoice to CBC for use of these ordinary words, it should bear this in mind, and tell Lord Coe or whoever to stuff it up his r e c t u m (great language, Latin).
Sdapeze
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8:48am Tue 17 Apr 12
romantic
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12:42pm Tue 17 Apr 12
Boris
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2:18am Thu 19 Apr 12
romantic wrote:Pretty good. I suppose if London has its B a l l s Pond Road, we could have a T e s t e s Terrace.
Excellent, Boris. Love the ring of R e c t u m Road. How about F a e c e s Field or T e s t e s Terrace? Good old Latin words as well!
On the analogy of Bank Passage or Balkerne Passage, we could have R e c t u m Passage.
Scatology (Greek word), don't you just love it?
Sdapeze says...
11:47am Sun 15 Apr 12
om/cemetery.htm#seve
ralls. Shame on you CBC.