Take a look now at https://chiltonpc.org.uk/village-green-development
If you have any comments please use the dedicated page for comments https://chiltonpc.org.uk/meeting-requests
Angela McPherson, our newly re-elected Bucks County Councillor, kindly spared some time to deliver a comprehensive report on her activities over the past year.
She also explained her roles and responsibilities and how we can best seek assistance for issues such as road maintenance. Interestingly the more individual reports from members of the public on issues requiring attention, our request will rise towards the top of a very long list of County challenges
Members of the public can report issues at this site: https://www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/section/report-it
Buckinghamshire County Councillor’s Annual Report
Challenging times continue for local government with significant reductions in budgets from central government of well over 40% in last 5 years.
This impacts all services commissioned and provided by the County Council from domiciliary care for the elderly, child protection for our most vulnerable youngsters, through to home to school transport, SEN provision, libraries, roads and footpaths and much more.
Road repairs and maintenance continue to be main focus for parishes in my division which has a large network of mainly rural class C and unclassified roads. There is no getting away from the fact that many of these roads are in very poor condition and have been underfunded for many years. The Leader of BCC with other local authority leaders continue to lobby central government with some success. Authorities nationally were awarded a pothole fund but frankly it is a drop in the ocean and for the whole county is very thinly spread.
County councillors have some degree of choice locally as to which roads are resurfaced/microsurfaced (we have a choice of c. 2 roads a year) and I have tried to spread this across the twenty one villages and hamlets in my division and additionally push for improvements to the main east west road A41 which have been delivered through Kingswood. I will continue to fight hard for as much of the repairs budget as possible for our villages from the total £16m pot that covers the whole county.
HS2 and East West Rail (EWR) predominate in the north of the division. The County Council, alongside the district and parish councils and residents all played a major role in petitioning against this project but sadly Royal Assent has been granted and we are already seeing ground investigation works established around the maintenance depot area. Now it is all about mitigation and ensuring that local people have a voice and are able to hold the main contractors to account. Certainly HS2’s engagement with the communities affected has been woefully lacking to this point.
EWR whilst generally agreed to be of benefit in terms of offering better connectivity and a boost to the local economy still presents issues locally during its construction phase not least with a proposed compound in Charndon literally half a mile from HS2’s permanent infrastructure depot. Again we will be seeking the best mitigation for the villages and residents affected.
This year the County Council’s strategic planning department has been very involved in supporting the District Councils who are forming their local plans. BCC has worked in partnership producing infrastructure and sustainability plans.
At the end of last year the County Council submitted its proposals for a new Unitary Authority to the Secretary of State. ‘Modernising Local Government’ would do away with all five councils within the current county council boundary; that is BCC, AVDC, Chiltern DC, South Bucks DC and Wycombe DC. It is proposed that would all these councils would be dissolved and a new single authority formed. The proposals seek to streamline services, avoid duplication and provide significant savings, much needed in the light of the cuts handed down from the centre. We await the decision from the SoS which we hoped would be this May but may now be deferred due to the general election.
As your local councillor I have a small Community Leader’s Fund which I can use to support or kick start small community projects. I’ve been pleased to have been able to support the setting up of a youth club, defibrillators, lunch club for the elderly, local football teams and scout groups to name but a few. I’m always keen to hear about new community initiatives, and funds permitting, am happy to offer support.
It’s been a busy and challenging year but hugely enjoyable. I am proud to be your County Councillor and make every effort to keep in touch with all the villages in my division. I attend parish meetings where I can, (as there of many of them!) and hold surgeries with my district council colleagues.
I am easily contacted by email: or phone 01296 738818
County Councillor Angela Macpherson
The meeting on 15th May is in fact TWO meetings:
AGM at 7:30 pm This is a formal meeting expected to take approximately 10-15 minutes and will be followed by
Quarterly Meeting at approximately 7:45 pm
The Agendas for these meetings are available now and can be found on the Public notice board or on the Website found on the tab
Please note that the planned meeting for Tuesday 16th May HAS BEEN CHANGED TO MONDAY 15th MAY 2017 @ 19:30 Read more
A number of residents have offered free transportation for anyone who would find it difficult to get to the Polling Station at The Barn, Dorton Road on THURSDAY 4th May
If you or anyone you know requires any assistance please send an email to with the tittle FREE LIFT in the subject line
Alternatively, please call on 01844 208196
Your Parish Council has created a website to improve communications and understanding amongst the community, ensuring we all work together to make Chilton THE best placefor us to live and work together.
We have tried to include as much as possible to provide you with information and an easy medium for feedback, comments and communication.
There are many features in the website and we would encourage you to navigate through it page by page and become familiar with the location and content.
News items are vitally important and you are encouraged to feed information to us for inclusion on the site
Do you want to add something to the agenda for the next meeting? – Simply click here
This is just the start – work in progress – we hope you find the site of use and that irt will become your first port of call for any information to review or provide
Happy surfing
The Chilton quiz night to be held at The Barn on Saturday 13th May @ 7pm has tickets on sale now
8 rounds of quiz with a Fish and Chip supper included for £12
Beer & wine on sale at the beer
Prizes available for each round
We will shortly be putting you through to our new Phone Box Library
Following various fund raising events,we now have sufficient funds to start work on renovating the tired, sad and neglected phone box.
Coincidentally our works started just after the council made their first visit this year to cut the verges and clear all the weeds away ready for our painter to start work
So Saturday saw a thorough clean down followed by a primer coat, followed on Sunday with a top coat to start making the phone box look respectable again
The replacement glass and signage for the top of the box is on order and this followed by a bit more work will leave the box ready t recevie some shelving for us to create our very own Chilton library.
Following on the shirt tails of other villages, we are going to invite residents to donate spare books to our small library in the hope that this will create a useful benefit to all
Depending on the remaining funds after this work we are hoping to landscape around the box and even provide a bench – we might have to extend to a bit more fundraising but this is a great start
So many thanks to all those who have contributed over the past couple of years
It was with great sadness we learnt of the death of David Beard in the last few days. David was born and bred in Chilton and lived in The Old Forge for many years before moving away in the seventies to Lancashire.
He recently made contact with the village again via Chilton News and received many comments and contacts, sharing stories and memories of his friends and family in Chilton
David was hugely enthusiastic about this new website and very kindly provided a link to his online library of photographs from Chilton – all he asked was a simple printed credit alongside his photos. We are therefore enormously proud and privileged to be able to share these with you via this site – simply click here to view his photos
We have also shared these photos with those of Alison Clayton on our GALLERY page, providing a wonderful collection of views past and present in the village David loved
Following an enquiry to Transport for Buckinghamshire we were advised of the following:
Urban grass cutting is four times over the season, this is around a six week turn round.
The grass verges were cut on Monday 24th April, so we should see them cut again around week commencing 5th June – please keep us informed if the grass is getting too long
