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Bingo Night Sat 15th

The Hughenden Valley Village Hall fund raising committee are holding a bingo Night & Ploughman’s Supper at the Village Hall on Saturday 15th September. Eyes down for a 8pm prompt start. Full details on this poster. Tickets are available from the Community Shop and from Al Bowyer (01494 562862) and Diana Gibbons (01494 563257).

Valley Wives July & August Reports

From Joan Steel. Margaret chaired the July meeting and introduced Sarah Mordount, our speaker on the “One Can Trust” a project that started in May 20011 at Saint Andrews Church in Hatters Lane,with the aim of facilitating charities by setting up food banks for people in need in the High Wycombe area. A food bag is provided containing non perishable items as a short term emergency food supply in a crisis, for a family or individual. Each bag contains a menu card and a variety of nutritious food that forms a complete meal .This is all done through the generosity of donors who give eg. dried foods eg pasta, rice or, canned foods eg meats fish, soups ,stews milk puddings fruit,also coffee ,tea etc. “Changing Lives for the Better ” is the Logo. Support is given by indiviuals,churches,schools brownies, scouts,etc and every person attending one of Sarah’s talks is asked to bring a can of food. Donations can be made directly to the food bank at the Big Yellow Storage in London road where a store cupboard is provided free by the company. Sarah was thanked warmly for coming to talk to us about this charity that is so easy to contribute to, and needs much support in these times of austerity.

In August we enjoyed a Pot Luck Supper and a time to chat!

On September 7th Janet Duneen is our speaker on “Bucks County Crafts”. All welcome..

HS2 Update

HS2 – Up-date

HS2 Action Alliance is a national campaign making the powerful case against HS2 and they want to hit their biggest milestone of the campaign so far – to have 100,000 supporters of HS2 Action Alliance. So, if you think HS2 represents the wrong choice for our country please sign up as a supporter TODAY at http://www.hs2aa.org/signup and get everyone you know who is opposed to HS2 to sign up too. It takes less than a minute and the campaign is only as strong as the people behind it.

Progress on judicial reviews

There are five separate challenges being brought against the Secretary of State for Transport’s announcement on January 10th 2012 to proceed with HS2. These comprise one case being brought by 51m (the group of Local Authorities opposed to HS2), a case being brought by Heathrow Hub Limited (a company which wishes to see a more direct high speed link to Heathrow), a case being brought by Aylesbury Vale Golf Club and two cases being brought by HS2 Action Alliance.

HS2 Action Alliance is working with its lawyers as well as the lawyers representing the other parties mentioned above and the Government’s legal team to finalise an appropriate timetable for the various cases to be heard in court. Currently it is anticipated this will be at some point in the Autumn of this year but this has not yet been finalised.

For further information about HS2, its implications and the campaign visit http://www.hs2actionalliance.org or follow them on twitter @hs2aa or facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HS2AA

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/353 This is the link to the official government e-petition for HS2 but will close on 04/08/2012, having been open for almost one year, So if you haven’t signed this please do so. If it collects 100,000 signatures HS2 will be debated in the House of Commons. So far this HS2 e-petition has collected only 26,075 signatures.

Planning Update

The following information has been supplied by the Resident’s Association Planning Sub-committee:

Hemley Hill Travellers Site
The Public Inquiry held at Wycombe District Council (WDC) on 22 May has been adjourned until
5 September because of controversy over the Proofs of Evidence, and that one of the Appellants had purchased land in Flackwell Heath which co-incidentally appears in the Baker Report on Gypsy & Traveller Sites in Bucks as a “gypsy site of significance”.

Walters Ash Travellers Site
The Judicial Review into the Hemley Hill Travellers’ Appeal that was held in the High Court was rejected on 8th May. The lawyers for the Appellant have informed WDC that they submitted Notice to Appeal on 6 June, 2 days after the 28 day deadline, but it is the discretion of the Civil Appeals Office to decide whether to accept the appeal, even though it is out of time. If the Court of Appeal refuses permission then that would leave no further avenues to pursue this matter in England but the Appellant can take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights.

Hopkins Yard
The Appeal against WDC’s refusal to grant planning permission for boundary fencing has been dismissed by the Planning Inspectorate.

Magnolia Sports & Social Club
WDC has refused planning permission for an indoor gym and outdoor fastlane pool.

Valley Wives Meeting Report – June

From Joan Steel
Kate Miller was our guest speaker on Himalayan Singing Bowls. She told us of their history in Nepal, Tibet and other Buddhist countries, and of how they have been used for hundreds of years in monasteries as both artifacts and in rituals.

Kate spoke of her many visits to Nepal and how she came to love and understand the properties of the bowls. When the bowls are gonged or stirred, they give out a beautifully haunting sound which is first of all strange, but then very relaxing. We not only heard the sound of the bowls, but felt the very strong vibrations given off when they are stirred. It is this vibrational energy that is so effective in meditation, relaxation and energy balancing. Kate explained how each bowl resonates with different energy centres in the body, chakras, and how the bowls can balanced this energy for wellbeing.

We were all able to experience how to play the bowls by gonging or stirring round the rim with a velvet covered wooden mallet, and we finished the session by participating in making our own harmonies.