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The main reason for completing this Parish Plan is to enable the Parish Council to assess what is important to the people who live within the Parish. Using the information obtained from the questionnaires as well as from the many and varied meetings held throughout the Parish, the Parish Council has agreed on an ACTION PLAN which it will endeavour to follow over the next few years, addressing as many as possible of the issues considered important by the parishioners.
Environment & Housing:- • The Parish Council’s overriding aim is to continue to ensure vigilance in following Environmental Guidelines by lobbying and co-operating with other organisations, e.g. Bucks County Council, Wycombe District Council, CPRE, Chiltern Society, Chilterns Conservation Board, Local MPs and Government Departments. • Prepare a Village Design Statement for each of the villages for use as Supplementary Planning Guidance for any future development within the Parish. • Continue to monitor, report and oppose attempts to sell parcels of agricultural land for speculative purposes, particularly in the Green Belt and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. • Continue to be vigilant in consideration of planning applications, offering local knowledge and views to the decision-making authorities (Wycombe District Council), taking into account the environmental guidelines contained within this document.
Crime:- • Improve communication between the Parish Council, Police and residents. • Reduce incidence of ‘avoidable’ house burglaries and vehicle crime by better communication of prevention measures. • Neighbourhood Watch Schemes to be further encouraged and supported. • Actively pursue the provision of a Special Constable/Warden for the Parish. • Investigate the provision of CCTV cameras, either fixed or mobile, to deter vandalism and related crimes.
Travel & Transport:- • Lobby Bucks County Council and the bus companies to improve bus services, especially at nights and weekends. • Investigate the provision of communal transport to cinemas & other popular venues. • Consider how feeder transport can link into existing train and coach services. • Investigate other methods to save car journeys. • Improve cycle ways in the Parish, especially the A4128 in Hughenden Valley and on into Prestwood and Naphill, to encourage more use of cycles. • Continue to expand and encourage Walk to School projects. • Continue to lobby Bucks County Council to provide crossing/s on Valley Road, Hughenden Valley. • Continue to pursue completion of footpath to Garden of Rest on Four Ashes Road. • Lobby Bucks County Council to provide refuges in the centre of the highway, where appropriate. • Continue to push for ‘gates’ at entrances to villages as ‘psychological calming’. • Encourage local residents’ groups to make greater use of the Speed Indicating Device (SID) available from Bucks County Council, to heighten awareness of excessive speeding. • Monitor the proposed new speed limits through the villages to assess their success. • Identify the potential consequences of new housing development in Aylesbury Vale and Milton Keynes on traffic volumes and flow through the Parish. • Establish any future change to the road and travel infrastructure.
Youth:- • Encourage all local communities to develop youth amenities. • Investigate the provision of a Youth Council to contribute to the life of the Parish.
Local Facilities:- • Continue to support the village hall committees, residents associations and other organisations within the Parish. • Continue to supply financial support to maintain and improve the playgrounds within the Parish. • Support local shops, post offices and other local amenities to ensure their retention and provision of service to the Parish. • The Parish Council’s overriding principle is to continue to maintain and improve the Parish and, in doing so, enhance the life and well-being of those living within its boundaries.
Benjamin Disraeli had a motto, which Coningsby Disraeli (the first Chairman of the Parish Council) had engraved on the dining room chimney at Hughenden Manor. It reads - Forti Nihil Difficile - ‘To the brave nothing is difficult’.
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