Clerk’s
cornerBy Viv Robins, Clerk to The Lee Parish Council
I’m glad to report that the Parish Council is back up to its full complement with the co-option of Peter Hammond (pictured).
Many of you will already know Peter, who lives in Lee Common with his wife Linda and three daughters. His career has been spent in the computer and data communications industry, but he left it two years ago in search of a change of direction – and we hope The Lee Parish Council will provide it! If you want to get in touch with him, as with all the Parish Councillors, please contact me in the first instance on 837278 or viv.robins@tinyworld.co.uk.
The bin man cometh
This is to give you advance notice that the leader of Chiltern District Council, Cllr John Warder, will be attending the next meeting of the Parish Council on Tuesday 11th March. Before he became leader his portfolio was Waste Management, so with luck he should be able to up-date us on plans to ‘roll out’ (as they will persist in saying) the alternate weekly waste collection throughout the District. You may remember this was being piloted in a couple of places but as far as I know we don’t yet have a date when it will hit The Lee. Cllr Warder will report on this at the start of the meeting at 7:30 pm then hopefully take a few questions from the floor, so if you have a concern you want to raise do come along.
Why not share your journey
Bucks County Council has set up a website where you can register your interest in sharing a car journey to save on fuel costs and parking charges, as well as helping to reduce congestion and cut pollution. The website, www.buckscarshare.co.uk, claims nearly 212,000 members who are said to be saving on average more than £817 each per year. (In the spirit of journalistic enquiry I put in my own postcode to see how many people were currently signed up in the Lee Common area but this appeared to have the effect of freezing the whole system so I am none the wiser).
Dump at your peril
Bucks County Council, in conjunction with Chiltern District Council and others, are re-launching their campaign to clamp down on illegal dumping, which is something we know all too much about round here. They are particularly keen to encourage local reporting of illicit dumping through the Parish Councils, and to that end have sent me a load of forms which can be used to alert them not just to individual incidents but also to locations which have become fly-tipping ‘hotspots’. If anyone wants one of these forms please contact me, although the quickest way to get a response I would have thought would be to phone their special number: 0845 330 1856.