Buckinghamshire Council is asking residents to give their views on a new Vehicle Removal Policy, which sets out the circumstances the Council will remove parked vehicles that contravene on-street parking restrictions – or whose owners persistently avoid paying parking charges and parking penalty charge notices – and take them to a secure vehicle storage facility.
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Covid – rapid testing centres for workers or volunteers
Bucks Council – New guidance to enhance biological diversity
Buckinghamshire Council is going further in its commitment to preserve and improve Buckinghamshire’s environment. The Council is working with partners to tackle climate change and its causes; reducing the county’s carbon footprint and delivering environmental net gain.
As part of this commitment, the council has drafted guidance to ensure developers increase biological diversity on their development sites.
Biological diversity, otherwise known as biodiversity is the richness and variety of plant and animal species within habitats, including previously developed land, fields, hedgerows and rivers.
Humans need a diversity of species for food production, climate change adaptation, flood regulation, crop pollination and enhancing human mental and physical well-being.
Using the guidance, developers will need to calculate the biodiversity on the existing site, and design their scheme to ensure there is a greater diversity on the site once completed.
A public consultation on this draft guidance runs from 19 February until 19 March 2021.
Responses can be made using the consultation portal, which can be accessed through ‘Your Voice Bucks’, in writing, or by email, before 23:59pm on 19 March 2021.
The web address for this consultation is: https://yourvoicebucks.citizenspace.com/
Or directly: https://aylesburyvaledc.oc2.uk/
The email address for this consultation is: planningpolicyteam.bc@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
The postal address is:
Planning Policy, Biodiversity Accounting, King George V House, King George V Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire. HP6 5AW
New joined-up legal orders for Buckinghamshire’s roads
There is a legal order, known as a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO), behind every speed limit, double yellow line, council owned car park, parking bay, one way system and anything else that controls traffic or pedestrians. Over the last year, all the legal orders from the former county council and district councils have been merged into one new system, which goes live from the 19 February. This can be found at www.buckinghamshiretraffweb.uk and is now one single point of contact for residents.
Bucks Council – covid update
Despite the vaccine roll-out, the number of cases remains very high, & the emergence of variants add another twist to this tale. We are urged in this latest letter from the Leader of the Council to still follow all gudielines.
Bucks Council – Covid update
Residents urged to correctly recycle small electrical devices and batteries in order to prevent fires
Covid scamms
Around the UK, there are reports of dangerous, fake NHS text messages circulating, telling people that they’re eligible to apply for the COVID-19 vaccine. The link takes you to an extremely convincing fake NHS website that asks for personal details including bank/card details.
Buckinghamshire Council’s Trading Standards team are also receiving information that cold calls regarding the vaccine are taking place, where scammers are asking people to pay for the vaccine over the phone.
Most of these vaccine scams are targeting elderly residents who receive a cold call to advise that their vaccination would be carried out in their home, and that the caller requires their name, address and also financial details to pay for the vaccine.
Have your say on Chiltern area car parks Public Spaces Protection Order
There is currently a Public Spaces Protection Order in place at 21 council-controlled car parks in the Chiltern area – and Buckinghamshire Council is now inviting residents, businesses and anyone with an interest to let us know if it should be extended.
A Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) is a legal power which allows councils to deal with a specific nuisance or problem in a defined area. These are problems that negatively affect the quality of life for local people. The order imposes conditions on the use of that area and these conditions apply to everybody.
The Consultation is open until 21 February. Full details are here.
Hughenden Valley Residents Association 