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chapman@buckinghamshire.gov.uk Katrina Wood
– Vice Chairman, Beaconsfield and Chepping Wye
Community Board
Chepping Wycombe Parish Council
The Parish is continuing with meetings online
which are working well. If anyone wants to
attend, then please let the clerk know and she
will send you joining instructions. We want to
remain as open and transparent as possible
during these difficult times and we welcome
public participation. If you are unable to attend,
you will find reports and minutes of the
meetings on our webpage.
It has been quite quiet this summer although
we have of course continued with all the usual
maintenance work. In Cock Lane cemetery the
path and driveway to the new cremation area
have been finished. This has much improved the
cemetery and allowed for more widespread
disabled access.
We are still dealing with Ash die back in
King’s Wood and there will be a considerable
number of trees being
removed over the
next few months.
In Ashley Drive
Recreation park, we
will be renewing the
surface under the
zipwire and are
investigating costs
for fencing around
the younger
children’s play area
as this has long been
an ambition but it is
proving very costly.
Whilst
mentioning Ashley
Drive, we are still
seeing a
considerable
amount of littering,
broken bottles and
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vandalism in there. Only recently the
steppingstones in the adventure play area were
all hacked to pieces and will have to be
replaced. Unfortunately, this all comes out of
public funds as it is the precept that pays for
things like this and means we may have to put
other projects on hold. Katrina Wood, Chairman
– Chepping Wycombe Parish Council
Penn Parish Council
Penn Parish Council's September meeting
marks a return to a new kind of normal. A
majority of Councillors felt it was important to
meet face to face and the opportunity to
welcome a new Councillor provided the
necessary impetus. We look forward to
welcoming Mrs Debbie Marsden, a retired GP,
who joins us to represent the Ward of Knotty
Green. Councillors were fortunate to have three
excellent candidates apply to become the new
Parish Councillor and we are grateful to all
three, who have offered to lend us their
expertise in future. Penn Parish is comprised of
nearly 3,500 people who live in five vibrant
communities and we have never felt the benefit
of belonging to a community more than over the
last six months. As the Parish's Planning
Committee re-starts its vital work considering
local planning applications, Parish Councillors
will also consider the impact of the
Government's far reaching planning reforms.
We will put that new sense of community,
kindness and the importance of local
representation at the heart of what we do. It
gives me great pleasure therefore to salute
Village Voice on its 200th Edition and to remark
on the vital role it plays helping us do this. Roy
Bentham, Chair
The Village Show
Sadly you will have heard we had to cancel the
village show, due to take place on 13th
September. The ideas we had for staging the
show on the common, were intended to be
simple, but the plans to manage the flow of
people round each gazebo to amaintain social
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