Wendover Parish Council HS2 update The new WPC remains committed to seeking Isn’t it time for a truly independent review of the best mitigation against HS2 and continues HS2? lobbying for what is best for Wendover. We are writing to Andrew Stephenson to push for a Peer Review of the HS2 project and we Planning Permissions - Schedule 17 need your help. We continue to work with Buckinghamshire Council officers to push back at the inadequate, A Peer Review, as was evidenced on the and in our view the non-compliant, Schedule Thames Tideway project, will bring clarity, 17 submission for the viaduct at Wendover redefine purpose and add value to big projects. Dean. It remains a surprise to us that a It is also a useful method of deflecting egg project the size of HS2 delivers information to from faces and of breaking down institutional planners of a lower quality than we or a local stubbornness. If you think that HS2 should be builder would need to produce for a small Peer Reviewed just contact the minister. email: local project. The WPC working group will also andrew.stephenson@dft.gov.uk. continue to work with our County Councillors on the compliance and enforcement issues Wendover continues to make friends in high places raised by the HS2 works. Continuing on from our ongoing work with
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Lord Berkeley we are now also engaging with Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted. The Baroness, a Liberal Democrat peer, is helping us to question the Government on HS2 and represents a welcome additional channel to continue that work. Why delays in Wendover? To the north of us some vast viaducts are already completed and to the south the tunnel boring machine is grinding away at the Chiltern chalk. The fact that major construction isn’t starting in Wendover might indicate that, as we have said all along, HS2 has complicated itself to a standstill near to us. Watch this space. Tom Walsh Chairman of the WPC HS2 Working Group
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Wendover Swimming Pool resumed public sessions in April and is also running Family Splash sessions again. Please book online before you come to the Pool, as numbers are limited. Please check our Facebook page for information and updates before you come. The Wendover Swimming Pool is easy to get to - it’s in the middle of the schools campus on Wharf Road. Our social media team posts variations to normal opening hours on our Facebook page. Want to volunteer? Email trustees@wendoverswimming.org.
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