Residents and visitors to Southwold are being advised of road closures and parking restrictions to accommodate the OVO Energy Women’s Tour taking place in June. In order to accommodate spectators, finish area apparatus and convoy vehicles, it is necessary to have temporary road closures and suspend on street parking. For Southwold effective between midnight and 6pm on 13 June, the following roads will be closed and on-street parking suspended: North Parade; Marlborough Road (from Pier Avenue to junction of North Parade); Dunwich Road and Field Stile Road (from North Parade to Marlborough Road).
Between 1pm and 3pm, Pier Avenue will also be closed. In addition, on-street parking will also be suspended from midnight until noon on the following roads:
A1095 Halesworth Road (from the junction with Lakeside Park Drive to Pier Avenue); Pier Avenue; North Parade; Field Stile Road; Marlborough Road; North Road and Dunwich Road. Additional parking will be available at Millennium Green Car Park, with the Pier car park open in the morning.
Residents are advised to check the stage one route at www.womenstour.co.uk and plan travel accordingly.
Excerpt taken from Lowestoft Journal. Click to see full story by Anthony Carroll published on 16 May 2018.

Team Big Things are developing an exciting, new programme for a major UK Broadcaster. The idea behind the show is that they will be funding numerous public art projects around the country and want the public to nominate their own village to win the chance of creating a new landmark for their community. The unique process will see established artists working with the local people to create large pieces of public art that have specific meaning to their community, and to use public art as a way of creating a discussion about their own shared collective identity.
Team Big Things would like residents of small towns and villages to get in touch and tell them what makes their hometown so special. Does it have a rich history? Is something or someone famous associated with it? Do they have interesting traditions? Has the community fallen on hard times and is in need of reminding people about how special it really is? What is their unique story?  
The most important thing is that the town has a strong sense of community and a commitment to the project, as this is a journey they will all go on together with the goal to create a legacy piece of public art that generations will be proud of.
For further information or to nominate your community contact bigthings@banijayuk.com . A member of the team will be in touch to any applicants they wish to progress further. 

Anglian Water will be hosting a drop-in for the Southwold community on Monday 19 February 2018 between 4pm - 7pm in The Reading Room at The Swan where they will be updating residents with their findings so far and the measures they’ve put in place regarding the Southwold pong.
For further information please see recent article in The Lowestoft Journal.

Please be aware from Monday 20 November Anglianbus will operate as Konectbus. It will be business as usual but times, fares & maps will be available on www.konectbus.co.uk. 

Saturday 25 November 2017
Road closure from 2pm until 7pm
From 3pm: Stalls in High Street and music in Market Place
5pm: Father Christmas will be switching the lights on from the Town Hall balcony in Market Place
(Information supplied by Southwold Town Council)

Three guesses who came out on top? Yup it's Southwold according to an infographic produced by credit card company Marbles. You can also read an article all about it on AOL Travel. You've no excuse not to visit.

Circus Hassani Southwold 2017!
We are very sorry to announce that Circus Hassani will not be making its annual visit to Southwold Common this summer. This is not a decision we have taken lightly.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal friends who have visited us each year and to everyone who have been in touch over the last few weeks asking for this years dates.
We would also like to say a big thank you to the good people of Southwold who have been so kind and helpful to us over the last few years.
We will continue to post news and updates on our FaceBook page.
We look forward to seeing you all in 2018!
Noel & Mina