Happy New Year from your Eastover Councillors!

We hope that 2018 has started well for all of our residents in Eastover – we’ve certainly been busy! 20MPH Outside Our Schools Your councillors Chelsea Chadwick, Dave Loveridge and Tony Heywood are working hard on ensuring that a 20MPH sign is finally put outside our schools. The CIM bid has successfully passed the first…

Luxury Eastover Hotel – An Update

Back in 2015, work started on the luxury hotel in the centre of Bridgwater and in the heart of the Eastover area. You can read our post about it for some background info. The hotel will be the first four-star hotel in the area, and after a visit to the site earlier this week, we…

Update on The Drove surfacing works

As you may be aware, EDF Energy are currently working on resurfacing The Drove, which started on Monday 22nd May and is expected to last eight nights. Residents along from Bristol Road and Kimberley Terrace have been affected this week as inadequate signage resulted in masses of cars coming along the street, unaware of where the closure…

It’s a Labour Hat Trick for Eastover!!

Thanks to the voters of Eastover we managed to stop the Tory juggernaut dead in it’s tracks and elected all three local Labour Councillors for Town, District and County. At the count on Thursday night all candidates received an endorsement from the community they vowed to represent and the results went like this. The Eastover…

Labour Candidate gets result for local resident

Riverside Close resident, Mark Painter moved in to his new home eight years ago. Five years ago he enquired about a high speed broadband connection, but discovered it wasn’t available in Riverside Close. Since then, he has been waiting for this to happen. Mark says, “Anyone who has tried to get an answer from Openreach…

Towns ‘Twenty’s Plenty’ Campaign steps up a Gear

Last Month Bridgwater Town Council voted to back the long suffering residents of Polden Street and Wellington Road in Eastover in their campaign to get 20MPH speed limits on their school approach roads by supporting a policy of ‘20’s Plenty’ on all Bridgwater school neighbourhoods. Town,District and County Councillor Dave Loveridge (Lab,Eastover) brought the matter…

Eastover Elections set for May 4th

  Eastover will have the chance to vote for 3 Councillors on Thursday May 4th. There will be an election for Town, District and County Councils, so there will be 3 ballot papers. You can vote for only one candidate on each and the choices are below. SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL BRIDGWATER NORTH AND CENTRAL BARNES,…

Introducing Tony Heywood

On May 4th Eastover residents will have the chance to elect a new Town Councillor. Labour’s candidate is TONY HEYWOOD. Tony lives in the centre of Bridgwater with his family. Raised in a close working class family, Tony has always held to Labour values of fairness, equality of opportunity, investment in public services and in…

Introducing Chelsea Chadwick

On May 4th the people of Eastover will be voting for a Town, District and a County Councillor. Labour’s candidate for Sedgemoor District Council is CHELSEA CHADWICK. Chelsea Chadwick is a young Bridgwater mother who lives locally with her husband and their two children. Recently elected as Women’s Officer for the Bridgwater Branch Labour Party…

Make it a Labour Hat Trick on May 4th

On Thursday May 4th Eastover will have the chance to vote for 3 councillors -Town, District and County. For County your Labour candidate is Dave Loveridge, for District it’s Chelsea Chadwick and for Town it’s Tony Heywood. To make sure Eastover and Bridgwater have the strongest possible voice please make sure Labour members are returned…