Category Archives: Conservation

HS2 Across the Chilterns – 8th Update (Online Presentation & Discussion) 13 July at 10:30 am until 12:00 pm

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We are pleased to invite you to the 8th in a series of updates, showing the impact as construction of the HS2 high speed railway line continues across the Chilterns.

Construction will soon be completed along certain sections of the route across the Colne Valley Regional Park and the Chilterns.  The Colne Valley Viaduct will be finished later this year as will the Chiltern Tunnel. The five tunnel shafts will all be complete early in 2025.

Beyond the north tunnel portal near Great Missenden, construction is nowhere near complete with much more disruption to come.  Construction of the Wendover Dean and Small Dean viaducts is now well underway.  Construction of the Wendover ‘green’ tunnel has been delayed for various reasons but is also now underway.

Using a mixture of maps, pictures, visualisations and, most importantly aerial photographs. The update will show the impact at a number of locations across the Colne Valley Regional Park as well as the Chilterns.

The talk will last for about 60 minutes with plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Keith Hoffmeister has been photographing the route ever since the plans were first revealed in 2010.  He covered the whole route from Euston to Birmingham and published a DVD in 2012 as part of the stop HS2 campaign.  He was also instrumental in establishing the HS2 Photo Diary which appears on our website.

Hughenden Parish Council – Open Spaces – Little Burnham Meadow

From Cllr Stan Jones.

On Thursday July 11th, from 10am to 1pm, the Parish Council are sponsoring a Community Ragwort Pulling event at Little Burnham Meadow, next to the allotments above Hughenden Valley Village Hall.  The event will be led by the Chiltern Rangers and their Green Thursdays volunteer group. There will be other conservation tasks available around the meadow and spinney for those who don’t fancy pulling ragwort all day. If you’d like to join us, please bring good rubber gloves, as the ragwort is strongly alkaline. If you have your own specialised ragwort fork, please bring it along.

The objective is to make the grass that is cut later in the summer usable for livestock. This, in turn, means we can remove the cuttings, which promotes greater diversity of wildflowers and insects in the meadow.

This is part of our broader plan to promote greater sustainability and biodiversity on the land the Parish Council owns or manages. Please join us whether for an hour or the full session. Please meet John Moorby in the Village Hall Car Park at 10am and he will lead you to the Meadow. We’ve had great turnouts at recent events at Cockpit Hole, in Great Kingshill, and we’d love to see members of the local community join us on July 11th. This will make an immediate positive difference to one of our most ecologically valuable locations.

Your Input is Requested, Please!

The full proposals for the future management of  Little Burnham Field in Hughenden Valley, Cockshoot Wood in Four Ashes and Vincent’s Meadow in Naphill have now been published.
Implementation of these proposals will require the cooperation of local residents and therefore it is important that the proposals are fully understood and that any comments are communicated to the Parish Council as soon as possible by emailing feedback@hughenden-pc.gov.uk
Links to the three proposals can be found on our website at
https://www.hughenden-pc.gov.uk/open-spaces-plans/

Philip Truppin
Locum Clerk
Hughenden Parish Council
February 2024

Your Conservation Group

The Hughenden Valley Conservation group need two new volunteers to help us maintain and improve our wonderful Chalk Bank situated adjacent to the village hall.

We meet once a week on a Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock and work until 4 pm when it’s time for tea and cake!

It’s a free outdoor gym taking in breath taking views and the best fresh air in Britain.

Absolutely no experience necessary, we supply all that’s necessary, you bring your willingness to cut/slash/burn/crop/hedge lay/ and nurture all types of flora and fauna.

If you have any interest at all or any questions please ring Bev on 07793546580

Happy conservating

Bev.

National Trust Hughenden – Nestbox Making Workshop

Join us on National Nestbox Week to make and decorate a bird or bat box for your home or garden.

We’ll have all the kits ready for you to assemble with the help of our brilliant woodwork volunteers, you just need to hammer and screw the pieces together and decorate – subtle is best, but a few pencil drawings and extra wood pieces wouldn’t hurt.

You’ll have a choice between bat boxes and three different types of bird boxes to appeal to a range of birds/bats.

This workshop is suitable for older children and adults alike, but please bear in mind all children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

Times

February 2023

DateTime/s
1410:30 – 12:0013:00 – 14:30
1610:30 – 12:0013:00 – 14:30

Prices

Ticket typeTicket category
per kit£15.00

The basics

Booking details: Call 0344 249 1895 Please note this is only pre-bookable as we only have a limited supply of kits.

Suitability: Children over 10 years old.

Meet at the Studybase – next to the Estate Office.

What to bring and wear: Wear warm layers and bring waterproofs, this event will be partially outdoors.

Accessibility: There are 3 stairs to access the Studybase courtyard, then another flight down in to the Studybase (which isn’t essential). Please let us know if you have any other requirements and we’ll do our best to help.

Contact info: Hughenden 01494755573 hughenden@nationaltrust.org.uk

All details are here.

Questionnaire Survey Reminder– The Discovery & Exploration Phase for the new Local Plan for Buckinghamshire

This is to remind you about the chance to take part in an important survey about the future of Buckinghamshire. It’s a questionnaire survey for the new Local Plan for Buckinghamshire. We want to hear your views about living and working in Buckinghamshire, what problems and issues you may face, and what your needs are in the future. We want to know what matters most to you. Thank you if you have already responded to the survey.

You can fill out the survey questionnaire online on Your Voice Bucks: https://yourvoicebucks.citizenspace.com/planning/local-plan-2021

There are other ways to comment. A pdf of the questionnaire survey is available on the website: https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/local-plan-for-bucks. This can be downloaded and then emailed or posted to the Planning Policy Team.

The email address is
planningpolicyteam.bc@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

The postal address is Planning Policy Team, Buckinghamshire Council, Queen Victoria Road, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 1BB

You can take part until midnight on Friday 11 February 2022.

Planning application 22/05000FUL

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The residents of Warrendene Road are shocked and dismayed to learn that the owner of Country Supplies, has just submitted a Full planning application under Ref: 22/05000/FUL to create a new access road into the Oakleaf Farm site, with associated highways realignment, from Bryants Bottom Road that will allow up to 12 HGVs to park as well the creation of a car park for up to 34 cars and light goods vehicles on the “Mushroom” field adjacent to the site that lies in the Green Belt and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty where there is a presumption against any new development unless there are very special/exceptional circumstances. The huge increase in the number of parking spaces and increase in full-time staff illustrates the company’s desire for expansion on the site.

A meeting was held in the the Village Hall on Sunday 23rd Jan.

The planning documents can be seen at https://publicaccess.wycombe.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/search.do?action=simple&searchType=Application using reference 22/05000FUL.

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Hazlemere Climate Action

Taken from a Facebook article by Hazlemere Climate Action.

Do you have DIY skills you can share?

We’re starting a Repair Cafe in Hazlemere on Saturday 23rd October 10 till 12pm and we’re looking for volunteers with all kinds of skills and expertise to contribute. Can you help someone to fix for instance broken electrical items? A bicycle? A chair with a wonky leg? Mend a broken zip? Repair an old teddy bear?

If you’re interested and would like to know more we’d love to hear from you. Please contact get in touch with me through Facebook or email lauren_brodie@hotmail.com

If you’d like to read more about Repair Cafes take a look here: https://www.repaircafe.org/en/

Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre – survey of King George V field on Saturday 14th August.

In order to help the Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre and the Village Hall Management Committee better understand the wild insects which call this area home the Bucks Invertebrate Group have very kindly agreed to help us by carrying out an informal survey of King George V field on Saturday 14th August.

More details of the survey