YOUNGSTERS in Gerrards Cross and Chalfont St Peter are to learn how to be show jumpers of the future when a new pony riding centre opens.

The Gerrards Cross Pony Academy, which opens on February 1, is aimed at children aged between five and 16 and is set to give young people the chance to learn to ride a pony, handle it, take care of it and understand it.

CALLS have been made for hundreds of new homes to be built in South Bucks every year to drive down property prices and attract first time buyers to the area.

The Home Builders Federation (HBF) this week claim that in the last five years, the building of new houses in areas such as Denham, Gerrards Cross and Beaconsfield has fallen by 38 per cent. It says 360 homes a year need to be built to meet demand.

THE coming together of two schools in Chalfont St Giles was marked with a special visit from Cheryl Gillan MP.

Mrs Gillan went along to the village last week to talk to pupils at Chalfont St Giles Infant and Junior Schools.

A NEW secondary school could be built in Chalfont St Peter to boost the number of school places in south Bucks.

Plans are being drawn up for a 'free school', which would be government, rather than county council, funded. A planning application is set to be made next week.

IF YOU go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise.

It will not be picnicking teddy bears you're likely to stumble across in Chalfont St Peter, but wild pigs.

LETTERS of support and objection have flooded into Chiltern District Council (CDC) as they consider whether to approve an application to demolish Winkers nightclub and replace it with flats.

The application was made to CDC in November last year by Provenance Homes, and if approved would see the long-standing Chalfont St Peter nightclub knocked down to make way for a building with 12 flats and parking.

YOUNGSTERS at a school in Chalfont St Peter have raised thousands of pounds for children in Uganda following a series of charity events.

Throughout the autumn term, students at the Chalfonts Community College in Narcot Lane managed to raise a total of £3,341 to help send vulnerable children in Uganda to a residential camp.

CHALFONT St Peter parish council has launched a challenge over a government decision to approve a controversial planning scheme, which would allow 200 homes to be built in the village.

In November last year, the government's planning inspector gave the green light to a Chiltern District Council policy which would let the unpopular scheme go ahead.

A WOMAN from Chalfont St Peter is starting a campaign to clean up an area of woodland popular with dog walkers.

Jackie Wilkinson, 48, of Leachcroft, often walks her dogs in the woods near to Welders Lane.

A VOLUNTEER run library in Chalfont St Giles is celebrating its fifth year with plans to extend the building.

The village's Community Library, which opened in January 2007, has proved to be a success over the years and was used as an example of how to run community libraries by Bucks County Council last year when the authority pulled its funding of other libraries across the county.