The Waterlooville Community meeting was held at the Waterlooville Community Centre on Thursday 2 November. It was bad weather so hopes were not high for a large turnout so the organisers were stunned when 170 local residents poured through the door. This was a community meeting, led by the community, for the community to find out more about the proposed regeneration of Waterlooville Town Centre. It was totally non political. Purely information gathering to stop all the wild rumours.
Rachel Salway, the Regeneration officer for Waterlooville was stranded in Sheffield as all trains were cancelled due to the storms, but two from her team were able to give a presentation on the vision for the town as well as what had been achieved so far.
Also in attendance was Peter Harding the Managing Director of Quest who are the developers for Wellington Way. This area of Waterlooville has been going into disrepair for a few years so it was interesting to hear the proposals for bringing it back to life.
The meeting finished at 9pm with the promise that there would be another in February so the community could find out if the actions talked about had been achieved. Want to be at the next meeting? Want the notes from the last one? Then email Jackie : waterlooville.events@gmail.com enclosing your email address, and you can be kept informed.
The Waterlooville community do care about the town so we need as many people as possible to attend the next meeting on
Wednesday 21st February. 7pm at Waterlooville Community Centre.
