Buckinghamshire Council News Report from Councillors
Buckinghamshire had street wardens or volunteers who have Residents can still contact the three continued to help those within the shielding group by going out and doing their shopping, collecting medicines, and chatting to those in social isolation. The generosity of all those that put in the time and effort is utterly amazing. We have supported requests from local groups and charities by applying to the Councillor Covid-19 Crisis fund and all the applications were successful.
The new authority has now been running for about seven months and we hope that residents have found the public services provision to be virtually unaffected by the new arrangements. Of course, the task of converting a County Council and four District Councils into a single Unitary Authority is always going to be a challenge particularly at the same time as dealing with Dealing with the spectre of HS2 is an onthe extraordinarily difficult circumstances going everyday challenge. We work with the surrounding COVID 19. Wendover HS2 Mitigation Group and have There are some important changes in been instrumental in setting up a HS2 working the way that the new authority provides group with one councillor from every affected services to parishes. The main differences ward. Along with council officers and HS2, are the way that planning applications are they will focus on, and bring to the attention called into planning committees and the of HS2, the concerns and impact that this establishment of community boards. These project will have on our communities; and community boards are intended to provide will consider and put forward requests for a forum for local issues and the link to your mitigation. We have been told that the first boards is through your Parish Council and of HS2’s Schedule 17 applications in the Buckinghamshire Council Councillors. As Wendover and Stoke Mandeville area are your representatives we continue to strive expected soon. Its main focus will be the to ensure that housing development is Wendover Dean Viaduct and associated fair to our community and that our roads works. Once these applications have been and infrastructure are able to support our dealt with there will be further stages in the housing allocations. The new authority has process, such as “bringing into use”. You can declared that environmental issues should be certain that, as your Buckinghamshire be given a very high priority. The need for Councillors, we will be making sure that the this is recognised globally and we need to do Council and its officers do as much as they all that we can to ensure that we protect the lawfully can to defend Wendover, Halton environment for the generations following and Stoke Mandeville and achieve the best us. We are lucky to live in a lovely county and mitigation they can from HS2. we should endeavour to keep it that way. These are all areas that affect our community Following the recent lockdowns, we would on a daily basis, and it is our job as your like to say thank you for all the wonderful Councillors to make sure that your voices work that has been done by the local are heard and that Council decisions that are volunteer groups. Our three parishes all made are for our collective benefit.
of us in the usual way via email: peter. strachan@buckinghamshire.gov.uk steve. bowles@buckinghamshire.gov.uk richard. newcombe@buckinghamshire.gov.uk. The Council website has further contact details and we welcome your calls and correspondence. Cllr Steve Bowles, Cllr Richard Newcombe & Cllr Peter Strachan
Wendover Community Board
Our priorities Each year we will look at what matters to our local area the most, using data and local intelligence to help us determine the priorities our board will focus on. Some of this information can be found in the Wendover Local Profile (PDF document). We will involve residents, partners, local groups and organisations in understanding what the local issues and priorities are. Priorities for 2020/21: • Support our local community to recover from COVID-19 • Focus on the Health and Wellbeing of our local residents • Support our adults, vulnerable residents, and children to live their best lives • Work towards sufficient Transport, Highways and Infrastructure for the area • Ensure that the area is a safe environment for local residents These priorities will help us determine where we take action and allocate funding to improve the local area. If you're interested in getting involved, please contact localities@ buckinghamshire.gov.uk or visit our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/WendoverCommunity-Board-106980914566051/
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