Woodside is a beautiful, historic and vibrant village of c70 houses situated
in Windsor Forest, between Windsor Great Park and Ascot. This website is intended to be an electronic community notice
board, a source of useful information by the residents/for the residents and will include details of Woodside's interesting
history.
The Editor of this new website is village resident, Jonathan Greenyer and he would welcome your
comments and ideas of what to include in this website, material that you think would be appropriate for Woodside
and make you want to visit the website regularly.
This is not a commercial operation, and The Editor would
welcome direct assistance with creating content.
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WHAT'S NEW ON THIS WEBSITE?
LOCAL HONEY FOR SALE
Honey from bee hives in Woodside village is now
on sale via the Duke of Edinburgh pub (price includes a charity donation to the Sebastian's Action Trust) or direct
from the honey producers at 21 Woodside Road. It is £3.50 for a 1 lb Jar.
Contact the editor
for more details and to be added to the Woodside Honey e-shot database. All those on the Honey database will be notified
when each new crop of Woodside Honey has been harvested and bottled. That's usually twice a year.
It's probably the freshest honey you can get.
Traffic Speed throughout the village and down the main
road (A332)
Concern has been communicated to me from fellow Woodside residents about the
speed of vehicles down the A332 and the danger that represents to horse riders, drivers and pedestrians; and equally
concerns about the speed of vehicles going through the village - which as you know has a National Speed limit of 60mph as
per the main road.
I have written to RBWM and have had two emailed responses already from the Traffic Safety Officer
Mr Phil Jacob who has been able to supply a great deal of relevant and useful information about the factors that influence
the choice of speed limits and what options we may have if we really wanted to change the existing speed limits (in the village)
If you would like to have copies of all the correspondance between myself (on behalf of several residents) and Mr
Jacob, please email The Editor as Mr Jacob is quite happy for all the correspondance to be freely circulated.
In
brief the official views are as follows
1) The A332 is a typical road for a National Speed
limit (60mph) "given the lack of frontages,
few junctions, Schools, public amenities etc."
2) With
regard to the National Speed Limit (60mph) being the speed limit in Woodside. "...However, the Highway Code recognises
that even with a speed limit, that does not imply that any such limit is the safe speed at which to travel even on a de-restricted
road. The choice of an appropriate and safe speed is the responsibility of the driver..."
3) Lower speed limits in Woodside can be petitioned for via the local council, but even were they
adopted...." it would be
unlikely to ever receive any form of enforcement and thereafter it would fall into disrepute with the regular users and no
benefit will have been gained"
Further correspondance is being exchanged.
They will be monitoring
speeds and traffic levels around the area over the next 6-8 weeks to provide further input to this enquiry.
