A new page has been added to the website giving details and contact information for The Lee’s representatives on Buckinghamshire Council and in Parliament. It also includes the latest news on the Boundary Commission reviews of the Buckinghamshire wards and the Parliamentary constituency. Full details at Representation – The Lee
HS2 Ltd’s Main Works Contractor (MWC) in the area (EKFB) has produced a December Newsletter, summarising their current work and that planned for the early part of 2022. You will find the newsletter at HS2 Newsletter. Note that it covers the surface works between Great Missenden and Stoke Mandeville, but does not cover the work …
We have recently been sent aerial photographs of HS2 works in the local area. WARNING: they may be both interesting and depressing! The views are:- South over Jenkins Wood towards the North Portal of the Chiltern tunnel – showing the beginning of the excavation of the portal cutting (centre right) and the area running from …
It is perhaps worth noting that very little of what we see at the moment, in terms of HS2 activity in The Lee, will be there in the final design. For example, we can see: a temporary crossing on Leather Lane to be used as an internal access road during construction temporary mounds of top-soil, …
As part of the construction of the Little Missenden vent shaft, HS2 plan to close the A413 in both directions at Little Missenden, from 9:00 pm Friday 18th June to 5:00 am Monday 21st June 2021.A diversion for ‘long-distance’ traffic is being put in place via the A404/A4010 through Hazlemere, High Wycombe and Princes Risborough. ‘Local traffic’ …
HS2: Full closure of the A413 at Little Missenden 18th – 21st June 2021 Read More »
The Agenda for the next meeting of the Parish Council is available here. The meeting is being held online again using Zoom and members of the public are welcome to attend. If you would like to attend for part or the whole of the meeting you will first have to register your intention to join …
The Lee Parish Council Meeting 11th May 2021: online at 7:30 pm Read More »
Buckinghamshire Council Press Release – 16th March 2021 Buckinghamshire Council has refused to approve lorry route applications for HS2 Ltd due to a lack of relevant information and the Council’s concerns about the impact of increased large construction vehicles (HGVs) movements on the A413/A355 corridor from north of Wendover to the M40 at Beaconsfield. Despite …
Buckinghamshire Council refuses HS2 lorry route applications Read More »
The number of planning applications made within the parish each month, the frequency of parish council meetings and the deadlines for providing comments to the planning authority, require The Lee Parish Council to deal with applications through an email-based procedure. That procedure was reviewed at the start of 2021 and revised procedures agreed at the …
Parish Council procedures for handling planning applications in the parish Read More »
Gt Missenden and The Lee Parish Council representatives met with HS2 Main Works Contactors (EKFB) this morning to discuss the proposed removal of trees adjacent to and near Leather Lane. Similar meetings were held, by EKFB, with the Chiltern Conservation Board, Buckinghamshire Council and our local MP’s office. All of the meetings arose from the …
In October 2020 The Lee Parish Council, along with other local parishes, was invited to review the latest edition of the HS2 ‘Local Traffic Management Plan’ for the area. To our alarm, it appeared to show significant increases in the volume of traffic on the A413 (and A355) compared to what we had been led …
