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Winter 2013.Indd 1 12/4/2013 6:51:34 PM the Chesham Society The Chesham Society Volume 136 Winter 2013 Established 1957 Society scoops award! The Chesham Society is ‘thrilled’ after picking In this issue up a prestigious award. Page 2 Editor’s letter The Chesham Society was one of HS2 - Are we there yet? seven out of more than 200 eligible groups to pick up an award at Civic Page 3 Voice’s Civic Day Awards at its CoreChesham annual general meeting, in Liverpool, Public consultation (continued) in October. Page 4 The groups got the award for helping HS2 continued to inspire and promote civic pride. Chairman’s Report More than 200 groups held events Page 5 across the country to mark Civic Members’ meeting report Letter from Bernard Meldrum Day on June 22, including The Chesham Society. Page 6 Notes from our friends - Members of the Chesham Society Chesham in Bloom dressed up as characters from Alice in Wonderland, because the Mad Page 7 Hatter was rumoured to be based Dates for your diary Membership form on Cheshamite Roger Crabbe, and had a presence at the BURYFields Page 8 festival, as well as in the high street, promoting Civic Day and the society. Cala Homes planning application The Chesham Society was chosen as a winner because of its work in launching a new Contact details image of the society following a re-branding exercise. Chairman Tony Molesworth said: “It’s a really great honour. I’m both thrilled and surprised that the Chesham Society was selected for the award which recognises Public the work the society has undertaken to launch a new image of the society following a re-branding exercise. Our aim is to make the Chesham Society a campaigning force consultation to promote the wellbeing of Chesham and its inhabitants and generate a sense of civic Site options for pride by putting Chesham first.” Gypsy, Travellers and Civic Voice president Griff Rhys Jones said: “I congratulate the Chesham Society. The Travelling Showpeople strength of the civic society movement is the diversity of groups that are involved. CHILTERN District Council is The thing that pulls them all together is simply people caring about where they live. working on a Delivery Development I congratulate Chesham and hope that other communities across the country can take Plan Document (DDPD) that will inspiration from them.” build upon the strategic policies contained within the adopted Core Tony thanked programme and events committee member Emily Culverhouse and her Strategy. team for all their work on Civic Day in the town centre and at BURYFields. The DDPD will contain detailed Emily added: “Because it’s an award for rebranding the society a huge vote of thanks development management goes to Richard Brock who designed our new look.” Camilla Goodman Continued on page 3 Putting Cheshamwww.cheshamsociety.org.uk first www.facebook.com/cheshamsociety @cheshamsociety winter 2013.indd 1 12/4/2013 6:51:34 PM The Chesham Society Editor’s letter HELLO and welcome to the Winter 2013 edition of Focus. We have had a pretty successful We have plenty for you to read about in this edition, three months since the last edition including an update on national and local HS2 issues, our of Focus. response to the public consultation on potential gypsy, As you will have read, the Chesham traveller and travelling showpeople sites in Chesham and Society brought home a prestigious its surrounding villages, a few words from our chairman award from the Civic Society Tony Molesworth, more information on our Members’ AGM in October. Let’s hope there are more awards for Meeting, some news from Chesham in Bloom about the society in 2014. A big thank you must go to Emily its successful year and we hear from member Bernard Culverhouse, Tony Molesworth and Richard Brock for all Meldrum who recently moved away from the town. the hard work they put in for us to win the award. Thank you for taking the time to read this edition of Focus We also held a successful Members’ Meeting in September. and as ever thank you for supporting the Chesham Society. We changed the format this year and we had a panel of We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New local councillors and representatives from organisations Year and we will of course continue to put Chesham first for members to question. Thank you to the members in 2014. who came along as well as our guest panellists. Camilla Goodman HS2 – Are we there yet? NO, not quite – but after losing all the A ‘paving bill’ is currently before the economic arguments, House of Lords. It will allow Government HS2 is now the ‘North- to spend as much as it wants on any high South Railway’, and it speed rail project. is all about capacity. The consultation on compensation But all the same, it must go as fast for property owners has been rerun, as possible – otherwise it is back to following a successful legal challenge to the drawing board. the last one. The campaign against is continuing locally and nationally and in many Local Issues different directions. Here are a few The Community Forum ‘engagement’ highlights. process has now finished, without any significant progress towards mitigating the impact of construction National Developments or operation in the AONB. Traffic management was not The Supreme Court decision and the deposition of the discussed at any Forum meeting and the Forums ended, Hybrid Bill are both expected by the end of November, as they began, in an atmosphere of distrust and animosity after we go to print. The court decision has the potential towards HS2. to cause delay and some embarrassment, but is unlikely to BCC held a meeting on November 5 to discuss petitioning halt the project immediately. the Hybrid Bill Committee and to present the latest version The Hybrid Bill is accompanied by the final Environmental of its mitigation ‘Blueprint’. Topics which concern Chesham Statement, but more importantly petitions requesting and the AONB are: changes to the implementation of the project, but not its cancellation, may be presented to the Hybrid Bill The Full Chilterns Tunnel Committee. This will be the main focus of attention over This is the proposal to continue the Chilterns Tunnel to the far the next few months, as we decide who will present which side of the hill beyond Wendover. This faces difficulties because topics. Continued on page 4 2 Putting Chesham first winter 2013.indd 2 12/4/2013 6:51:35 PM Focus Winter 2013 CoreChesham revitalisation for the community takes shape VOLUNTEERS are revitalising Chesham’s high street by forming a group to encourage community involvement, called CoreChesham. CoreChesham is comprised of Chesham people who want to promote the town and vibrancy of the (L-R) high street with footfall. Merrin Molesworth, Colette Littley, CoreChesham has a temporary home in 15A East Street, David MacBean, Martin Parkes and Emily Culverhouse courtesy of Liz and Ray Payne who have made it available rent-free for six months, which will host a number of Continued from page 1 exciting community projects, starting with a media hub for Internet Broadcasting and a Radio Station (IRS) comprising site allocations and land use designations. As part of this programmes by local enthusiasts, available on demand. there was a public consultation in September on site options for Gypsy, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople The broadcasting will propagate news, views, information, culture and events. It will be run primarily by volunteers Two new sites in the green belt were identified for connecting with other media organisations serving consideration, one on farm land adjacent to houses on Chesham offering education, enabling the community to use the south side of Lye Green Road and the second a small parcel of vacant land off Rushmore Lane, Ashley Green. the IRS and advertising. Anyone with a mobile phone will be a reporter. It will grow to include internet TV and later The Chesham Society responded and said it was not in should evolve into a social enterprise. favour of either site being used, in particular the one in Lye Green Road. The group has been working with contributors on some pilot broadcasts. The actual number of pitches needed in the immediate Another function of CoreChesham will be to encourage Chesham area should be more closely defined and then options for locations on brown field sites within the built new business start-ups by renting office space (hot-desking) area of Chesham should be identified and considered. and/or a pop-up shop in the premises. Desks and cupboards are ready and there is interest in renting desk space. Whilst not part of this consultation, it was noted that the Springfield Road Industrial Site is part of an earlier CoreChesham will also act as a contact point for voluntary consultation. It is difficult to understand how these two groups such as The Chesham Society, Shed@ThePark and consultations can be considered in isolation when the volunteers. aim is to determine the long term requirement for extra It is the brainchild of Better Chesham’s Martin Parkes who sites within or close to Chesham. said: “Finance will initially be sparse but eventually we hope It is now understood that Springfield Road may have to make it self-funding from sales, sponsorship, advertising already been deemed unsuitable due to lack of access. space and events.” The requirements have been determined by a consultancy Martin is keen for all groups to support the project including firm. Whilst the number of pitches is quite low for the three levels of council, ChAP, schools, voluntary Chiltern, there is a steady increased requirement over groups, hobby groups, sports organisations and residents’ the period to 2023.
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