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January 2010 News from the Parish Council A Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone. At the December Parish Council meeting we set our precept at £30,000 – this means that the cost of the Parish Council to everyone in the Parish will be slightly lower than this year as the amount will be divided between more properties. The allotments are all occupied and a visit to the site shows great progress – congratulations to everyone who took this new hobby on. We are waiting to have fencing erected on the front boundary of the Pedestal Playing Field and once this has been done the next project will be to consider equipment and a hard standing area within the field Hithercroft Football Club have totally agreed to our request not to park on the pavements during matches and they are nearly always parked inside the field, with the occasional car on the far side verge. We are very grateful for this responsible attitude as it makes using the pavement much easier and safer for our residents. Bucks County Council will be installing extra bollards on the junction by Chorley Road to act as a better reminder to drivers that there is a bend that needs negotiating. It will not solve all the problems for Ness Cottage but will help. The next Parish Council meeting will take place on Thursday 14th January 2010 at 8pm in The Church Room.
Consultation on Gypsy and Traveller Sites Please find below links to complete an on line consultation with respect to gypsy and traveller sites. Wycombe District Council is giving local residents and stakeholders the chance to have their say on new sites for Gypsies and Travellers, during a public consultation that started this week. http://www.wycombe.gov.uk/council-services/planning-and-buildings/gypsy-traveller-services.aspx
High Wycombe Crime Prevention and Reduction Advisor.
December News from your Parish Council We would like to wish everyone a Peaceful and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and to thank Sir Edward and Lady Lucinda Dashwood for kindly donating the two Christmas trees. Also a big thank you to Mr Dave Swallow, The National Trust Team and Mr John Hardwick for all their hard work cutting, erecting and lighting the trees. At the November Parish Council meeting we looked at budgets and expenditure prior to setting our precept in December. Our initial discussions would indicate that we will not increase the Precept and try to keep it at the same level as the current year. We do want to develop the Pedestal Playing Field but equipment will be installed in stages and we will be encouraging the community to carry out some fund raising We have had favourable and helpful discussions with WDC Planning Department, BCC Highways and The National Trust in trying to find a solution to protect Ness Cottage from further damage caused by irresponsible drivers. We would like to remind everyone who walks the land in the parish that there are plenty of official footpaths with gates, stiles or simple field openings – please use them – we have been advised that some dog walkers are making breaks in hedges to access fields – please have more consideration for the farmers and landowners and use the official routes. At the November meeting we had a representative from West Wycombe School come to talk to us about the School’s Travel Plan. Recently there have been a large number of complaints about the appalling parking by some parents with absolutely no regard for the safety of children or for the residents of the village who regularly have their garages blocked and also use the Child Bereavement Trust Car Park. It is always the minority who spoil it for the majority. The Head Teacher is continually asking parents to be more considerate but it seems to fall on deaf ears. The Parish Council will do anything they can to support the School Travel Plan Team in ensuring the safety of the pupils and encouraging better behaviour by drivers whether parents or those speeding through our community. The next Parish Council meeting will take place on 10th December at 8pm in The Church Room. The Clerk works part time for the Parish Council, however we will always be happy to receive emails and please feel free to telephone 01494 448048 and leave a message on the answer machine. Sharon Henson
October News from your Parish Council The Parish Council has to start thinking about budgets and expenditure prior to setting our precept in December/January. The precept is the amount of the money we ask Wycombe District Council to provide and we all pay for through our Council Tax bill. We would welcome any suggestions you may have for improving our parish community. Our next meeting will on Thursday 12th November where discussions on projects will take place. If you are not able to come along you can always send an email to the Clerk. A reminder to everyone with hedges next to footways – please make sure they are cut back to your boundary to make it safer for pedestrians to walk along the pavement. All our allotments are now taken and with the concerns over the loss of our bee population we wondered if there was anyone out there who has hives and would like to place them on our allotment land. Please contact the Clerk if you think that you can help. We are currently working with Bucks County Council and Wycombe District Council to discuss solutions to the issue of cars ploughing into Ness Cottage on a regular basis. We do accept that most of the drivers who have had accidents at that site have either been drunk and/or driving at ridiculously fast speeds and to some extent whatever we do will not stop these people driving irresponsibly, we may however be able to come up with ideas to protect the cottage and it’s residents. The Christmas trees will be erected on Monday 16th November but will not be lit up until nearer Christmas. Cllr Roger Seymour and Mr John Hardwick as well as West Wycombe Estate and The National Trust all get very busy before Christmas and it is easier to cut down the trees and put them up in November. They will be lit for this year’s Festive Fair which will be on the first Wednesday in December. By the time you read this The Pedestal Playing Field will have had the hedges cut, repairs to the front fence and some of the trees tidied up. We will start looking at the play equipment and bye laws in the New Year. The next Parish Council meeting will take place on 12th November at 8pm in The Church Room. The Clerk works part time for the Parish Council, however we will always be happy to receive emails and please feel free to leave messages on the answer machine. Sharon Henson
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September News from your Parish Council We hope everyone has had a reasonable summer, holidays in England will not have been and warm and sunny as predicted but a break away from the usual routine should have refreshed and revived! For many years the Parish Council has sponsored the School Crossing Patrol by the Garden Centre as it did not originally meet the criteria for a Bucks County Council crossing. Just before the Summer Break the site was visited and re-classified they now agree that the volume of children crossing and the traffic on the road mean that it should be paid for by Bucks County Council. If the need ever arose again the Parish Council would take the same stance – the safety of everyone in our community is very important and if the Parish Council can do anything to improve safety then we will always do our best. With safety in mind, please could everyone check their hedges and boundary? If you have a hedge which borders onto a pavement or footpath, please can you ensure it is cut back to your boundary. With the heavy rain we have had this summer, all plant growth has been excessive. Pedestrians need clear footways without shrubs/tree branches etc hitting them in the face. With cars parked on some pavements it is even more important that hedges are cut back to provide enough width (1.2m) for people to use the pavement safely. The allotments are now up and running. The hedges have been cut, the land ploughed and the final piece of fencing is soon to be erected. All our tenants can now start planning for the future. The Pedestal Playing Field is now being cut regularly and Hithercroft Football Club have started their season. We will be tidying up the hedges and trees and carrying out repairs to the fence facing the Bradenham Road. The Parish Council will be re-applying for Quality Status during the Autumn as our current status has to be renewed by November. The next Parish Council meeting will take place on 10th September at 8pm in The Church Room. The Clerk works part time for the Parish Council, however we will always be happy to receive emails and please feel free to leave messages on the answering machine. Sharon Henson
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Summer News from your Parish Council We hope that you found the Annual Report enclosed in the June issue of Contact informative and even, dare I say, interesting. It shows everyone what your 7 Parish Councillors do for the community and how your money is spent. It was good to see some of our residents at the Annual Parish Meeting – thank you for spending your time with us. We have started the process of preparing the land for the new allotments along Chorley Road and over the next few months the new tenants will be able to start cultivating the land. We have also been working on the Pedestal Playing Field – a fence has been erected between the agricultural field and the play area and the grass has been cut. We have also had a tree survey produced as we need to be able to manage the trees and hedges to ensure that they are safe and are properly maintained. Our next stage will be to tidy up the boundary of the field and to get the hedges cut although this part of the work cannot take place until late September. We have received correspondence from some residents concerned that the area will attract unwanted anti –social behaviour. We went through a bad patch several years ago but it has been quiet since then and anyone can access the field at any time so we hope that their fears are unfounded. If anything does happen the Parish Council, who have been working very closely with Thames Valley Police through the Police Neighbourhood Action Group (NAG) will deal with it very swiftly. If anyone would like to join the NAG please contact the Clerk who will be able to tell you when the next meeting is. We cover the priority issues raised in surveys of our Parish the meetings are about every 6 weeks and last for a maximum of 2 hours, but are often shorter. Our NAG covers West Wycombe, Piddington, Wheeler End, Lane End, Radnage and Stokenchurch. We hope you all have a wonderful summer and we have the sun shining on us.
May News from your Parish Council The lease for the Pedestal playing Field has been signed and we now start work on the area to make it secure by repairing the fences and replacing gates and stiles. We will then need to start working on the grass and hedges. Watch this space to keep up to date with the progress we are making. The land for allotments along Chorley Road has been cleared, and although we had not budgeted for this project within this financial year we will undertake some fencing and have created the Rules and Regulations and Tenancy Agreements. Prospective tenants will be contacted and as many people as possible will be offered either a half or whole size plot. Hopefully with better weather on the horizon, please think about your neighbours when burning your garden rubbish. No one wants to have their day off with good weather, spoilt by their neighbour having a bonfire which burns all day. Make a small bonfire which will burn off quickly and not smoke all day long. Please join us for the Annual Parish Meeting which will take place on the 7th May in the Church Room at 8pm. If you would like to come along, air your views, find out what the Parish Council has achieved over the previous 12 months and find out what other organizations within the Parish our currently doing please put the date in your diary. It is not a Parish Council meeting it is a more social occasion than Parish Council meetings and we usually finish the evening with a glass of wine. We look forward to seeing you. The next Parish Council meeting will take place on 14th May at 8pm in The Church Room.
April News from your Parish Council Spring is here and we can all look forward to the warmer weather and lighter evenings. Our announcement that West Wycombe Estate and the Parish Council are going to re-create allotments within our Parish created a great deal of interest and 14 residents put their names on the list. By the time you read this the land will have been cleared and we will be marking up the plots and will have created a set of Rules and Regulations. If you put your name on the list please be patient – everything has happened very quickly from our initial discussions and we did not financially plan to have them available for this year. We will make sure that everyone is working on the land as soon as possible. The lease for the Pedestal Playing Field is now being drawn up and the first thing the Parish Council will do is obtain prices for having a fence erected between the playing field and the crop field and ensure that the Dog Fouling Regulations are applied then we will have all the trees inspected and have the hedges tidied. We will then start the process of applying for grants for play equipment. Advance notice that the Annual Parish Meeting will take place on the 7th May in the Church Room at 8pm. If you would like to come along, air your views and find out what other organizations within the Parish our currently doing please put the date in your diary. It is a more social occasion than Parish Council meetings and we usually finish the evening with a glass of wine. We look forward to seeing you. The next Parish Council meeting will take place on 12th March at 8pm in The Church Room.
March News from your Parish Council Even as I write this looking out at the snow, we look forward to Spring. With this in mind the Parish Council has had discussions with Sir Edward about re-creating allotments for our Parish. In the past there was a field along the Chorley Road which was used for allotments which gradually became unused. However there is a resurgence of interest and we have the names of several residents who would be keen to use their gardening skills on an allotment. There is also another piece of land closer to the village on the way up to the top of West Wycombe Hill where there is one allotment which would need some work to be active again and a further two which would need to be reclaimed from nature. If you would like to be considered for an allotment, which we hope we could get operational by April this year, then please contact either the undersigned or Roger Seymour (78 Chorley Road or 01494 439081). Sir Edward has undertaken to have the ground rough cleared on the Chorley Road site and the Parish Council will manage them. Our plan would be to eventually have the fence repaired and create an area where allotment holders will be able to park their cars whilst on site. We hope to sign the lease for The Pedestal Playing Field in March and we will then spend the first year repairing fences, sorting out hedges and keeping the grass cut. We would then like to encourage local people to organize fund raising events for play equipment. To create a very basic play area will cost £20,000. We will be applying for grants and the Parish Council will contribute to the cost, however there is no guarantee that we would get grant funding and to have a better play area will cost around £40,000. This therefore has to be a longer term project which we would hope to add to by community fund raising and via the Parish Council Precept. We will be sharing the land with Hithercroft Football Club for the next two years and possibly longer, but there is room for a play area as well as the football pitch. The Parish Council has been involved in discussions with other members of the community and landowners to discuss the issue of parking in the High Street. The purpose of the meeting was clarify what parking was available for residents, traders, businesses and visitors. There is no freely available extra land in the Parish, particularly in the High Street area. The Parish Council has investigated creating a lay by on highways land as you enter the village but this would cost £30,000 to create six spaces. Everyone will encourage more people to park on the road between The Pedestal and the beginning of the cottages as there are no restrictions and this would also have the effect of slowing traffic as they approach the zebra crossing. The Parish Council is also talking to Bucks County Council about Traffic Regulation Orders. Thames Valley Police Neighbourhood Action Group will be launching a competition for local schools to create posters to deter motorists from speeding through our parish. If your child is involved in this competition please encourage them to participate and use it as discussion point for road safety. The results of the competition will be announced and winners awarded their prizes in the last week of March.
February News from your Parish Council As we move into 2009 we wanted to take the opportunity to look back at what we’ve achieved in 2008 and look forward to 2009 and beyond. During 2008 we focused on small projects around the Parish rather than the bigger schemes of the previous years such as the lighting projects. So we dealt with a lot of maintenance issues like the problem of flooding outside the Swan, dangerous parking on West Wycombe Road, grasscutting and weedkilling where needed and planting the bulbs to improve the look of the entrance to the village. We’ve also been heavily involved in local plans to give communities more say about their local area. For 2009 we have decided not to undertake any major projects because we wanted to be able to reduce the amount of Council Tax that the Parish Council charges local residents during the current financial downturn. However, we are still looking to the future and one of our aspirations for the future is to create a childrens’ play area within the Parish, which we will be investigating during this year. This is a really exciting opportunity for the whole community to work together to really make a difference. Although we have some plans for the future, what we really want is to hear from the community and find out way you, the tax payers, want from your local area. We are always willing to listen to ideas no matter how big or small, sane or crazy they seem. The Parish Council meets every month in the Church Room and there is a part of the meeting specifically dedicated to public questions and suggestions. We would welcome more people coming along and finding out what we do for our community and taking the opportunity to get involved. The dates of this year’s meetings are shown below. One of the topics that we are currently discussing is that of the parking in the village. The committee that runs the Village Hall have suffered greatly in recent years with the effect that illegal parking has had on their ability to hire out the hall and have now decided to start clamping – as a commercial organisation with a privately owned carpark they have a duty to protect their business. This has again raised the issue of parking in the village. Because there is no publicly owned land in the vicinity we have struggled to think of a solution so we’re looking for any ideas as to how we could create some extra parking spaces at an acceptable distance from people’s homes. If you can think of anything, please do get in touch with us.
December News from your Parish Council A Happy Christmas and a Peaceful 2009 to everyone in our Parish from your Parish Council. We would like to thank to Sir Edward and Lady Dashwood for kindly donating the Christmas trees for the parish and to John and Hilary Hardwick, Roger Seymour and Neil Harris and his team from The National Trust for all their hard work in erecting the trees and making the lights work. Our Parish has been a guinea pig for Wycombe District Council – we have produced a plan in case we should ever have a major emergency in our community and on 24th November we put this to the test as a paper exercise at the Council Offices. In the New Year as part of this project we will be issuing information for every household in the Parish to ensure that should any of us ever need to evacuate our homes we would know what papers and practical items we would need to take with us. The next Parish Council meeting will take place on 11th December at 8pm in The Church Room.
As a Parish Council this has been the quietest time for us for many years. Obviously Government has had other things on its mind and left us alone for a whil We have attended meetings on Planning, Local Community Partnerships and the Thames Valley Police NAG. We are looking at ways of working more efficiently in order to keep our Precept request to Wycombe District Council to a minimum. We are aware that everyone will be watching their finances more closely than ever over the coming year. If you have any projects that you feel we should be looking at then please let the Clerk know. We start the budget process at our November meeting and submit our request by early January. You will be pleased to know that we have our small financial reserves in the Bank of Ireland so they are safe! We have booked a portable Speed Indicator Device and this will appear for a total of 8 weeks over the next year along our Parish roads. With autumn upon us please look at your hedges if they front pavements and cut back to your boundary line this will make life easier for all our residents when walking their children to school and for everyone walking in and out of the village. Please remember if you have Highways issues to report e.g. potholes, loose kerb stones, street lights not working etc you can ring 0845 230 2882 to report it, remember to ask for a reference number and then you can track it, you can also report it online at www.buckscc.gov.uk/hoc. You can of course always report it to the Clerk or any of your Councillors
House Painting in the High Street
Why start a painting project in October? As usual thank you for your patience and email me, nick.phillips@nationaltrust.org.uk if you require further information.
WEST WYCOMBE’S NEW YEAR’S DAY WALK
Shopping Trip To Bluewater Shopping Centre
Christmas Tree
West Wycombe Chamber Choir
Festive Fayre
New Mobile Library arrives in West Wycombe
The new mobile library is now on our route. This is a much bigger vehicle with a very light and airy feel about, it is fully equipped with satellite connections and has an increased stock of books. It visits the Garden Centre Car Park every Wednesday from 2 - 5pm and alternate Saturdays from 10am - 1.00pm. The dates for the Saturdays are as follows:
Sue Palmer celebrates her 60th Birthday
Lollipop Lady Sue Palmer celebrates her 60th Birthday
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BEAUTIFUL WEST WYCOMBE PARK ! We are very short of volunteers in all areas so if you have any Sunday or weekday afternoons to spare during June, July and August when the House is open why not join us and enjoy the sumptuous home of the Dashwoods ? Volunteers receive a Volunteer card which entitles them to free entry to all NT properties and a discount in their tea rooms; we have If you would like to have a chat to find out more and then come and look around the House and Grounds to see what wonderful surroundings you could be working in, call me, Chris Hathaway, Head Guide, on 01494 513569 or 07768 065370 or email me on christine.hathaway@nationaltrust.org.uk (top)
Le Tour du Blaireau - 12th to 17th June 2007
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News from your Parish Council Please note that our copy which appeared in last month’s issue of Contact had a printing error. We would like to re state that traditionally Parish Councils are non – political and this is how West Wycombe Parish Council works. Due to the elections, when we will not exist as a Parish Council from the last day in April until May 4th, we will have to change the date of our Annual Parish meeting. This is the more social meeting in the year when we and other groups in the community, have the opportunity to let everyone know what has been happening and where members of the public can ask questions and make suggestions, we always end this evening with light refreshments. This year we will be holding the Annual Parish Meeting on Thursday 12th April – we will start at 7pm with the April Parish Council meeting and then start the more social event at about 8pm, It was agreed at our March meeting that we will undertake to have the footway from the Piddington Parish Boundary into West Wycombe cleared. The first section from Ham Farm has been cleared by Piddington & Wheeler End Parish Council and we will continue their good work. The first section has been widened by nearly 18 inches in some places and if this can happen along its complete route it will make it safer for everyone to use especially those families who use it to walk to school. (top)
On May 3rd this year there will be Local Government elections for Parish Council and the District Council. These are held every 4 years. We have 7 Parish Councillors; one has represented the Parish for 20 years, 3 for over 10 years and 3 for shorter periods of time. We have not had any elections in recent years as only the required or a lesser number of people have stood, however we have always allowed for elections in our finances. If insufficient people stand then we advertise the vacancy and select and co-opt a Councillor from the people who have applied. Currently we have at least one Councillor in each of the major roads in the Parish and they represent a wide age range – from mother of primary school children to senior citizen. The Parish Council meets on a monthly basis and all Parish Councillors work entirely voluntarily. We do have to attend extra meetings at County and District level as well as training sessions e.g. for the past 4 years we have attended Rider on Call meetings to initially provide input for the proposed service to ensure it met the needs of our community then to promote it and report any problems and more recently to work with BCC to develop a replacement service that will still meet our resident’s needs and currently we are attending meetings to produce the document which will affect planning in this area in the future. Sometimes it can take a very long time ‘to make a difference’ – 2 years for the pelican crossing for which we contributed £20,000 towards the overall cost; 12 years for creating and saving up for our own Burial Ground; 5 years for the new lights in the High Street, jointly paid for by BCC, WDC and ourselves and as little as a year for the footway from the School to the High Street and the new lights in Chorley Road and Bradenham Road. We have an excellent working relationship with BCC and WDC and through all the projects undertaken, the training courses attended and exams taken we were awarded Quality Status in 2005 – one of only 2 Parish Councils to achieve this in Wycombe District. In the longer term this means that we will be given more opportunities to influence those things which affect the community as a whole. Our Parish runs from the white line in the middle of Chapel Lane, to the end of the houses along the Bradenham Road, to Bottom Lane at the end of Chorley Road and to Myze Farm on the Oxford Road. If you feel you would like to contribute to your community and be consulted in what the upper levels of government plan for us, then consider standing for election. Come along to a Parish Council meeting, see what happens and ask questions. The Clerk will have some sets of nomination papers after the 8th March, the election will be officially announced on 26th March and candidates have to return their nomination papers to the Electoral Services manager at WDC before noon on April 4th. If you would like to find out more about the role of a Parish Councillor, contact Sharon Henson, Clerk on clerk@westwycombe.org.uk and look on our website www.westwycombe.org.uk
Snow
On February 8th we woke up to snow, not something we get a lot of nestled in the Chiltern Valley. Schools, colleges, libraries were all closed, buses stopped running and the sensible amongst us stayed at home! (top)
This is the welcome sight of the brook flowing in Lang Meadow (the field behind the "Plant and Harvest" Garden Centre). The brook has been dry for almost three years but has gradually filled over the last 10 days. The lake and streams in West Wycombe Park are also full of water for the first time in two years.
Parish Council All the new street lighting is now complete – at last – and the finished effect is quite magical. The Parish Council would like to thank everyone in the High Street for their patience and tolerance through the installation stage – it was frustrating to say the least. We have also had ‘thank yous’ from residents of Bradenham Road for their new street lights. All the above works mean that this Parish now has every road safely lit and the major project for the coming year will be to resurface the car park and paths in the Burial Ground – after 6 years use the surface would have needed some re-dressing, but with warnings from the Health and Safety Executive that surfaces should be suitable to wheel coffins rather than have them carried, we have decided to use this opportunity to create a smoother surface for walking/wheeling. We are also putting money aside to have the gullies cleaned out an extra two or three times a year and for channels to be dug for water to flow into adjoining fields. Our rain seems to have changed in character and flooding seems to be an almost monthly recurrence. We live in a valley and we know we are more vulnerable than some other areas but we need to do something to help ourselves. If you have a drain grid outside your house, please occasionally look at it and if it is covered with debris, please clear if off. I often do this on the stretch into the village from the Pedestal it does mean that water can flow down into the drains rather than building up. If you see gullies totally full up and they need emptying let either the Clerk know or report it to Highways on Call on 0845 230 2882 or email www.buckscc.gov.uk/hoc The Precept (the amount of money requested through the Council Tax for Parish activities) has been kept at the same figure as last year i.e. £32,000. This means that if you are in Band D house you will pay £65.09 per annum towards all the work the Parish Council carries out e.g. pelican and zebra crossings, street lighting, salt bins, burial ground, pavement from the school and one of the school crossing patrols, we also support local organisations such as West Wycombe Community Association for work to the Village Hall, The Church Room for major repairs to the roof, West Wycombe Brass Band for new music and many other things. We have received several complaints about dog waste on the pavement in the High Street. We know that a smallish dog/dogs are responsible for this. As we have a good and active School Travel Plan team we have many Mums with pushchairs, toddlers and children all walking along this stretch of pavement – please clear up after your dog – it is not pleasant for pushchairs to have to be cleaned and for children to tread the mess into the school or the Village Hall. (top)
Jane Temple Presentation
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Parish Council Annual Report Hedge Cutting Burglaries Budget 2007/8 New Street Lighting Speed Review Rain (top)
Free Bus Service There will be no charge for travel between bus stops on Queen Alexandra Road, Queen Victoria Road, Crendon Street, Castle Street, Oxford Street and the new Bus Station. This trial is being run by the District Council and the County Council. During the current construction of Eden some disruption is inevitable. The new bus station is a massive improvement on the old but while the construction continues is not that easy to get to. We hope this new FREE initiative will help you get across the town centre during this time of transition.
Handy Cross Road Closures Night of Friday September 15th - Lane closures south of gyratory Day of Saturday September 16th - C100 Wycombe Road closed (Friday 2200 hrs (though probably not till midnight so as pub can function normally) to Sunday Afternoon 1700hrs) Night of Saturday September 16th - Lane closures on gyratory Day of Sunday September 17th - C100 Wycombe Road closed Night of Monday September 18th - A404 Marlow Hill (both directions) east-bound ON slip closed Night of Tuesday September 19th - A404 Marlow Hill (both directions) east-bound ON slip closed Night of Wednesday September 20th - A404 Bypass lane closures C100 Wycombe Road west-bound ON slip closed Night of Thursday September 21st - east-bound OFF slip, A4010, C100N closed Night of Friday September 22nd - west-bound OFF slip, A404 bypass S/B closed Night of Saturday September 23rd - A404 bypass closed, east-bound OFF slip lane closures Sunday September 24th - nothing Night of Monday September 25th - east-bound OFF slip closed Tuesday September 26th - C100 closed
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High Street Lighting New School Footway Problems in Cookshall Lane Operational Changes At High Heavens Duncan Cameron completes Round The World Yacht Race
Annual Report In the centre pages you will have seen photos of Cllr Mike Gerrard who died last June. On Friday 30th June, a Memorial Seat, sited by the Village Hall, was 'dedicated' by his wife Judith, sons Richard and William, granddaughter Alice and Vicki Smith as Chairman of the Parish Council.
New Lighting Update Rider On Call Update Please use the Rider on Call service. A timetable was stapled into the centre of the June issues of Contact. Use it or lose it!! (top)
June 2006 The event is free however to attend the morning presentation you do need to book your place in advance on 01844 355524, alternatively drop in during the afternoon with any artifacts appertaining to your local common. If you plan to stay all day it is recommended that you take a packed lunch. Special Charge Purple Refuse Sacks High Street Lighting "Highways On Call" (top)
Annual Parish Meeting Clerk of the Year Award comes to West Wycombe
The presentation of a plaque, swan and an engraved pen set was made by Mr Des Knowles, Chairman of The Buckinghamshire Society of Local Council Clerks. Sharon shares the Award with Pitstone Parish Council's Clerk. West Wycombe Parish Council put Sharon forward for the award because she is
an excellent clerk and is much valued by everyone she works with. She
thoroughly deserves the award and we congratulate her on her success. Sharon has been Clerk at West Wycombe for eleven years and has been the Clerk for Hambleden Parish Council, who also nominated her, for eight years, currently Sharon is also acting as Clerk for Piddington & Wheeler End Parish Council during their reorganisation. ("Role of the Parish Clerk") (top)
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