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Issue No. 51 Summer 2019 Northby NorthEast News from your Parish Council www.great-linford.gov.uk FLY-TIPPERS – organised by Great Linford Parish Council We’ve got eyes on you Summer 2019 ofFun Something to do Every Day! Your pull-out and keep Great Linford Parish Council Summer of Fun guide is inside! see our website... www.great-linford.gov.uk SPRING NorthbyNorthEast 5 BLAKELANDS | BOLBECK PARK | CONNIBURROW | DOWNHEAD PARK DOWNS BARN | GIFFARD PARK | GREAT LINFORD | NEATH HILL PENNYLAND | REDHOUSE PARK | TONGWELL | WILLEN PARK feature contacts GLPC Parish Councillors, the wards they represent and their contact details. summer2019 Keeping in touch is a All Councillor email addresses: [email protected] Conniburrow Alifa Chowdhury 01908 606613 TWO-WAY THING Brent Johnston 01908 785346 Jimmy Zamek 07920 760345 comment ‘Everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have’ Downhead Park & By our new Chair - Tony Bedford Willen Park North esidents often complain that they Good communication replaces fear On Monday 13th May we held the Annual Parish Council didn’t know about a particular and misunderstanding with correct Trevor Heale (Vice Chair) 01908 606613 HOW TO Meeting which marks the start of the new Parish year and Milton Keynes Council (MKC) information, which is good for everyone. Vacancy R where positions within the Council are confirmed. consultation, road closure or planning We want to be part of the solution, not CONTACT US: application. the problem, and by working together, the Downs Barn Parish Councillors (like Milton Keynes Councillors) are required to stand for re-election every four years - sadly there are often too few applicants to fill all Then, when things have happened and it future will be a more settled one. Nellie Hyacinthe 01908 606613 the positions and Councillors can be returned uncontested. This year however is too late to make their opinions count, Keep reading NorthbyNorthEast, check Vacancy two wards within Great Linford Parish (Giffard Park & Blakelands and Great they can get very upset. out the noticeboards where you live, and Linford) were contested and elections for seven seats were held alongside the go online for the very latest news. Giffard Park & Blakelands Some people expect MKC or Great main Council elections. The election process naturally creates an enhanced Linford Parish Council (GLPC) to give a We communicate using all of the available Tony Bedford (Chair) 01908 606613 level of engagement with the local community and poses questions to points polite knock on their door to share news platforms so that there really is no reason Lawrence Morgan 01908 606613 that maybe we sometimes take for granted. which might directly affect them. for you to say ‘But nobody told me’. Peter Widdowson 01908 606613 By phone: As a result of election feedback, you can therefore expect to see But with more than 8,500 homes in the Most complaints are ‘No one told us improvements in our website and communications to clarify important 01908 606613 Great Linford Parish, there simply aren’t enough hours about that planning application!’. questions such as What does our Parish Council do? Who are our Parish in the day to contact every individual When MKC receives a planning Ian Foskett 01908 606613 Councillors and what do they stand for? How can the Parish Council help me? resident about the numerous local events, In person: Stewart Olney 01908 606613 application they (not GLPC) begin a 21- consultations and planning issues that Great Linford House, Charles Omole 01908 606613 Despite some wards being contested, we still have a few seats that need to day consultation with different groups. take place very year. 1 St Leger Court, Marc Whelan 07966 489489 be filled in Downs Barn, Pennyland and Bolbeck Park and Willen Park North The application must be publicised by: and South; so if you think you might want to be involved in the Parish Council GLPC does its very best to communicate Great Linford, MK14 5HA l a notice displayed for not less than Neath Hill please see our website and FB pages for details of how you could be co-opted. with more than 20,000 residents who live in the Parish: 21 days, on or near land to which the By email: Martin Burgess 01908 606613 The coming year will be focused on strengthening our working relationship application relates l this newsletter is delivered three times [email protected] David Stabler 01908 672599 with our partners in the community and delivering the facilities and services l a year to every home or by serving the notice on any that you need. We look forward to working with the CAB, Youth Information adjoining occupier Find us online: Service and others to provide support for when problems arise and working l we post details of events and meetings Pennyland & Bolbeck Park l or publishing a notice in a local with other parishes to provide some of the environmental care and services on notice boards in every area www.great-linford.gov.uk 2 Vacancies newspaper. that Milton Keynes Council can no longer afford. l our up-to-date website and Facebook Redhouse Park page carry the latest updates GLPC has 28 days to respond to Facebook: I am honoured to have again been elected Chair and look forward to working planning applications and the monthly Allan Calverley 07720 467334 with my fellow Councillors, the Parish Staff and of course you - our residents l we send out a regular e-newsletter Search for Council meetings (held on a Monday or greatlinfordparishcouncil - to help achieve the aims and objectives we all aspire to for this great part of l our office is also open five days a Wednesday) consider current applications. Willen Park South the City. week, and manned by proficient, The agenda is available online, or on a Vacancy Tony Bedford knowledgeable staff. You can contact public noticeboard three days before the them in person, by phone or email. Chair, Great Linford Parish Council meeting. Residents may attend and speak Essentially though, communication is a on any listed matter. two-way thing. We do our best to keep an open, clear dialogue with parishioners – www.great-linford.gov.uk but we need you to talk with us too. Parish Manager North by NorthEast Eirwen Tagg [email protected] Editor: Sammy Jones Parish Council Office Front Cover: Great Linford House, 1 St Leger Court, Conniburrow’s Little Library Great Linford MK14 5HA Tel: 01908 606613 Photo by Sammy Jones 2 NorthbyNorthEast SUMMER SUMMER NorthbyNorthEast 3 community news organised by Great Linford Parish Council FLY-TIPPERS – We’ve got eyes on you Summer t blights the landscape and costs Great Linford Parish Council Cameras can be covert, but CSC doesn’t work that way. (GLPC) a large amount of money annually to clear; Litter and ofFun Justin said: “We follow strict guidelines to ensure what we do is fair I fly-tipping is a real issue across the country, and this parish has and reasonable. We always put up cameras as a last resort and never its own share of persistent offenders. 2019 leave them longer than is necessary.” The enforcement officer and rangers regularly respond to the With CSC operating in our area, the future looks much cleaner for problem, but they have their work cut out, and quite often other residents, and will prove cost effective for GLPC who are faced with residents refuse to comment on those responsible, for fear of the difficulty of stretching the budget further every year. repercussions. But now GLPC has employed a new tool in the battle against littering – cameras. Fly-tipping and the nuisance of litter eats into funds, and is preventable if people act Milton Keynes-based company Crimewave “...fly-tipping is a criminal responsibly. Something to do Security Consultancy (CSC) are ready to catch offenders on camera. The firm has been using offence punishable by a “We make a real difference,” Justin promises, the devices since 2002, with brilliant results; fine of up to £50,000 or “Traditionally it has been really expensive The camera doesn’t lie and those caught 12 months imprisonment.” to buy cameras and then manage them as dumping waste are brought to book. well as collecting the evidence. We don’t Every Day! sell cameras – we loan them as part of any CSC Managing Director Justin Hammond agreement, so there is no capital cost and you immediately begin to previously worked as a police officer in Milton Keynes. When he see the results. left the Thames Valley force, he began working with Whitbread and Costa Coffee to support their internal loss prevention, and today his “We will identify, prosecute and prevent these types of offences company’s services are in demand more than ever. from happening in the Great Linford Parish,” he promised. The Parks Trust are among those who regularly use CSC. “We have While those responsible for dumping their waste clearly don’t been working with The Parks Trust for a number of years where respect their neighbourhood, they really should respect the law. Fly- this approach has been highly successful in preventing, detecting tipping is a criminal offence punishable by a fine of up to £50,000 or and convicting those responsible for fly-tipping,” he said. “Once we 12 months imprisonment. have been alerted to a fly-tipping issue we review the footage from Surely a trip to the Community Recycling Centre makes more the cameras and gather evidence. We present the footage in official sense? formats like statements and exhibits, and pass on to the police or the local council for prosecution.” Community Recycling Centres can be found at: New Bradwell Newport Road, MK13 OAH ...................