February 2012 Archives
WILDLIFE could be given a boost if planning permission is granted for a retirement complex in Chalfont St Peter.
Developer Audley Retirement has promised to create a wildlife area, a wildflower meadow, an orchard and three interlinked ponds if it gets permission to build on land near the Epilepsy Society's site in Chesham Lane.
PEOPLE in Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St Giles can see the plans for a new 264-home housing development.
Today (Thursday) Comer Homes are holding a public consultation showing their plans to build 264 new homes at the Newland Park site in Gorelands Lane, which links the two villages.
THREE new office blocks in Chalfont St Peter are set for completion during the next few months.
Buildings at the Chiltern Park development are currently under construction and Barwood Developments, who are behind the project, estimate that all the buildings will be finished and occupied by different companies by July, with the first building set for completion by the end of March.
SINGERS who fancy taking part in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in June should head along to Gerrards Cross on Monday (February 27).
VILLAGERS gathered for a frantic race across the green in Chalfont St Giles.
The annual pancake race, in which competitors run to and fro while flipping pancakes, took place on Tuesday.
TRIBUTES have been paid to a student who died in a road accident Friday evening.
Hussein Shamshudin, who was 17 and from Chesham, was involved in an accident in Longbottom Lane, Seer Green at around 9.25pm on Friday.
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy has died following a car accident in Seer Green.
The incident happened on Friday evening at 9.15pm when a grey Citroen C4 containing four teenage boys and one teenage girl lost control on Longbottom Lane travelling towards the A355 and collided with a tree.
A PENSIONER from Chalfont St Giles has decided to spend his retirement helping out the poor thousands of miles away.
Robert Hewitt, 68, of Narcot Lane, will be heading out to Uganda next week to help work on community projects in the impoverished country.
A PLANNED new secondary school in Chalfont St Peter would ease the pressure on existing schools in the area which are full up with pupils, according to campaigners.
New housing developments will swell the village population by 1,500 in the next few years, sparking fears of a ticking timebomb set to hit local schools.
VILLAGERS are preparing for a legal battle over plans to build hundreds of new homes in Chalfont St Peter.
The parish council will be taking the plans to judicial review after Chiltern District Council gave outline planning permission to build 198 new houses - 35 per cent of which will be affordable homes - a 75-bed care home and a playing field on the site of the former Holy Cross School.
AN ANIMAL rescue centre with two three-legged dogs is appealing for readers to come forward and offer a loving home to the disabled pooches.
Over the past month, the Chilterns Dog Rescue Society has taken on two dogs who have lost legs, and hope that someone will come forward to offer the animals somewhere to live.
WHEN red kites were facing extinction, wildlife experts painstakingly re-introduced them to the Buckinghamshire countryside in a hugely successful project.
But as the spectacular birds of prey once again soar across our skies one expert fears the conservation project has become a little too successful.
ARE you between the ages of 30 and 60 and never had the chance to learn to swim? Well, now is your chance.
PLANS for a large new retirement community in Chalfont St Peter have been submitted to Chiltern District Council.
Audley Retirement announced the plans last year for 82 new retirement properties to be built on land previously owned by the Epilepsy Society in Chesham Lane.
HEROIC volunteers who came to the rescue of drivers stranded in the snow and who helped children get to school have been praised by grateful villagers.
On Saturday night, when 10cm of snow fell in Buckinghamshire, drivers at Tatling End on the A413 became stuck and faced having to abandon their vehicles
THE latest school league tables have shown that grammar schools have once again come out on top in Bucks.
Results in GCSEs and A-levels range from being exceptional and among the best in the country to below the national average, according to new figures released by the Department for Education.
PAVEMENTS in South Bucks are about to take a pounding when a mother of three starts her training for the London Marathon in order to raise cash for charity.
Lesley Saunders, 47, of Little Chalfont will be pulling on her running shoes to raise £3,000 for the Epilepsy Society in the gruelling race, which takes place in April.
FOR most school children, having a chat with the Muppets is something that only happens in a dream.
However, for Lucy Harrison, an 11-year-old pupil at St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Chalfont St Peter it became a reality last week, when she interviewed Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.
DAVID Cameron has paid tribute to the work done by the Epilepsy Society in Chalfont St Peter.
The Prime Minister, whose son Ivan suffered from cerebral palsy and epilepsy and died at the age of six, spoke at a reception at 10 Downing Street to mark the charity's 120th birthday celebrations.
A GROUP of burglars have been given prison sentences for a series of shop thefts in Chalfont St Peter, Stoke Poges and Farnham Common.
The gang of five were sentenced at Aylesbury Crown Court on Friday, January 27 after pleading guilty to offences following a series of 15 burglaries where nearly £90,000 worth of cigarettes were stolen from different shops.
A POPULAR nightclub in Chalfont St Peter has been saved from demolition after a bid to knock it down was rejected by Chiltern District Council.
Last year, an application was made to bulldoze Winkers Nightclub in Chalfont St Peter and replace it with flats or housing.
A YOUTH club is celebrating after being given permission to build a new sports club in the village.
Chalfont St Giles Youth Club, which is run by volunteer Suizan Jefferson, applied to Chiltern District Council to build the new sports hall and have now been given the go ahead.