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Our website continues to gain new supporters. Our Blog has become increasingly popular since September, and today we have a regular world wide audience of over 4,000 visitors a month, which is double the number of visitors to our site since July. We would just like to say thank you to all of our visitors for regularly dropping in for updates & for all of your kind comments.

Limmen Gardens. The closing date for objections for the ASRA’s (Leicester Housing Association) planning application to build 16 new social houses on Stonebridge Park  is Friday 16th October. It is therefore important that if you are unhappy about any aspect of the proposals to send in your letter today or Thursday at the latest.

While WATES are continuing to install the external wall cladding around the Stonebridge Park Estate, construction company Lovell Partnerships have done very little work to finish off resurfacing the new Dennett Road, and have instead been concentrating their efforts to complete the new flats being built in Magson Close. These flats are shown in the above photograph. A new video update of our estate will be added shortly.

The Closure of the Robin Hood Chase Co-op. During the course of Tuesday I have been assisting Caroline Lowbridge, a BBC journalist, who is covering this news item for the BBC News website. This story has gained the highest number of hits on our own website ever since it was published.

This is also a tragedy for the people who work at the Chase Co-op as there will be 8 redundancies. Co-op Managers had offered their employees alternative work at other Co-op’s in the City, including Sherwood & West Bridgeford. However, they were offered these positions but the employees have told “they had to keep the same working hours as they had at the Chase Co-op store”. The additional travel expenses have meant that this was simply not an option for them. It is such a shame that the Co-op management could not have done more to help their own staff on this sad occasion.

The Chase Co-op will close down at 2pm on Saturday 17th November, after being open, and a part of the St Ann’s community for the last 40 years.

By Richard Pearson.