The Residents AGM was held on 18th May in St. John's Church Hall. Some 50 or so Officers and Members attended to hear reports from the Chairman, Treasurer and Officers.

Over the year there had not been many contentious events in Broadstone, but there was still some uncertainty about the entertainment licence for the Stepping Stones.

There had also been much activity regarding the access to Delph Woods from the end of Portmere Close. Currently the most active area was in development planning, where we have lodged objections to four recent proposals, where we feel too much is being crammed into the site. If any resident feels that a planning application close to them is inappropriate, please let us know.

During AOB, the question of noise pollution from aircraft and helicopters was raised. The Executive Committee agreed to take up this matter, and have invited Geoff Berryman, Head of Bournemouth Air Traffic Control to come to the next meeting on 22nd June, to discuss the matter. If you have any views on this subject, please do let the Executive know.

As there were no further nominations for Officers, the list submitted by the Committee was elected unopposed. Les from the Combi Shop provided a tasty assortment of cheeses , to go with the wine at the interval, and after that the meeting adopted the revised set of Rules, which had not been fully revised for many years.

We were entertained by Peter Pawlowski, head of Poole Consumer Protection Services, who gave a talk entitled "What Shall We Do With Our Waste". Poole is currently developing a waste Strategy against a background where the Government is pushing hard to get less landfill disposal and more composting and recycling - 50% by 2015! - but doing little to generate a real demand for re-cycled goods and materials. Meanwhile Europe is saying incineration is the way to go, but in the UK this route meets very strong opposition on the grounds of polluting gases and the production of highly toxic chemicals, such as dioxins.

The Association is still working on the expanded Broadstone History, and thanks to this Website is now in touch with Raye Kayler-Thomson, nee Griffin. She has researched her family back to the very early 1800s, and both Griffin and Sharland are well known names in early Broadstone days. I wonder what they would have made of today's world??

Dudley Hull

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