Hughenden Valley Residents Association

News items

Note that this listing is for information, HVRA are not necessarily involved in each event shown here.

  • HVRA Executive Committee Minutes March 2011

    Here are the minutes of the March 2011 HVRA Executive Committee meeting.

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  • Community Impact Bucks Open Meeting re Community Car Schemes Tuesday 29th March

    Community Impact Bucks are holding an open meeting on setting up community car schemes at Lacey Green & Loosley Row Millenium Hall on Tuesday 29th March at 6pm. Full details on this poster.

  • Police Alert re Metal Thefts

    Thames Valley Police have issued a warning about scrap metal thefts in the area.

  • Rural Affordable Housing Scheme Dropped

    At their meeting last night, Hughenden Parish Council dropped their plan to build Rural Affordable Housing on Green Belt and AONB land in Warrendene Road, Hughenden Valley. The Council’s press release says:

    “Hughenden Parish Council has now received the results of the Parish-wide Housing Needs Survey that was commissioned from Community Impact Bucks. This was a robust consultation exercise carried out to establish whether there is a need for rural affordable housing in the Parish, and to find out the views of local residents. The results show:-
    a) There is some need for rural affordable homes in Hughenden Parish
    b) Rural affordable housing in principle is supported by just under 50% of respondents
    c) 80% of respondents are against any development in the GB/AONB
    In summary, there is sufficient need to justify a small development but this idea cannot be pursued furthe because there is not enough support within the community for it to be possible to use the Rural Exception Site scheme.
    The Council passed the following motion at its meeting on 8th March 2011:- The Parish Council accepts the results of the Housing Needs Survey carried out at its request by Community Impact Bucks, and their recommendations. This consultation process shows that, while some need for affordable housing has been established, there is insufficient community support for a small development using Green Belt/AONB land. This Parish Council will not, therefore, proceed further with a Rural Exception Site scheme. The Parish Council recognizes the strength of opposition to any use of green belt/AONB land. Just over 900 survey forms were returned (27% of households) and these show that some 80% of residents responding were opposed to even a small development.
    Hughenden Parish Council has a responsibility to try to serve all its residents. It is for this reason that it went through the lengthy consultation process currently required for the use of a Rural Exception Site Scheme. The Council considers the outcome of the consultation exercise to be a reflection of feelings in the Parish, expressed through a democratic consultation process. Parish Councillors (who are non political elected volunteers) have a genuine desire to try to serve those village residents who are not home owners. It is unfortunate that this has led some residents to try to undermine confidence in the Council itself. Now that a decision has been made, the Council trusts that relationships with local residents can be rebuilt.”

    Hughenden Parish Council website

  • Next Police ‘Have Your Say’ 23rd March

    The next neighbourhood policing Have Your Say will be at the Hughenden Parish Council offices in Great Kingshill from 10.45 to 12noon on Wednesday 23rd March.

  • Neighbourhood Action Group Update

    The Hughenden Neighbourhood Action Group have sent their February Meeting Minutes and March Newsletter.

  • HAGA Programme 2011

    Daphne Hicks has sent the Hughenden Allotment and Garden Association (HAGA) 2011 Programme. She says “New members are always welcome and you don’t need to live in Hughenden to be eligible to join. Just come along to one of our meetings, held on the last Friday of the month at Hughenden Valley village hall. The annual fee is only £2 and membership even allows you 10% discount at Hildreths on certain gardening goods!”

  • HS2 Consultation Launched

    Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Transport, launched the HS2 consultation today with a speech in Birmingham. The consultation runs until Friday 29th July 2011 and full details are on the Department for Transport HS2 Consultation website. An overview of the process is also given in this HS2 Ltd Newsletter also published today.

    Part of the process is a series of ‘roadshows’ along the length of the route, the venues and dates for which are on the consultation website. There is one in Great Missenden on Thursday 12th May, and two in Wendover on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th May.

    Protest umbrella group HS2 Action Alliance have issued a statement saying “HS2 Ltd/DfT have launched the HS2 consultation today. We are reviewing the released documents, but currently believe the set to be incomplete, and will advise shortly. We suggest that you do not respond immediately to the questions posed but await the outcome of our reviews.” The Stop HS2 website also has news and reaction to the launch of the consultation.

  • HS2 Consultation Launch Today?

    The Bucks Free Press and others are reporting that the Government is to launch the HS2 Consultation on Monday 28th February in Birmingham. Yet there is nothing about it on the Department for Transport website or the HS2 Ltd website. Anti-HS2 organisation StopHS2 thinks there is dirty business afoot.