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Magazine Spring 2018 Buckhurst Hill Parish Council Magazine Spring 2 01 8 News and views from around Buckhurst Hill A PLANNING VIEW which fall outside our remit, including, but not limited to, drainage systems, landscaping, hazardous materials and ground contamination, as will matters relating to local, strategic, regional and national planning policies, risk of flooding, effect of Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas and Archaeology. The Highways department will also have an input over vehicular ingress & egress and traffic management matters. Once an application is approved there is further scrutiny throughout the construction process by the Building Control department at the District Council who enforce Building Regulations or other non-planning laws e.g. disabled persons access, structural stability, drainage, fire precautions etc. As a local councillor, one of my seats is with • Smell pollution (food-related the Parish Council Planning & Environment activities/businesses) Committee. I thought it would be useful to • Light pollution demystify what factors are taken into • Adequacy of parking account when we are considering a planning • Intrusion into the Open Countryside/ application (and equally what are not). Green Belt First and foremost, it’s worth saying that • Loss of important trees/ the Parish is not the final decision maker for Nature conservation planning applications. Irrespective of the way • Whilst moral objections, eg to uses such we vote on an application, we are the first (and as amusement arcades and betting highly important) rung, so to speak, on the offices are not usually part of our remit, ladder (excuse the construction-related pun). we will consider local residents’ and It’s worth pointing out there are many As a broad stroke here’s what we, at the occupier’s views in this respect misconceptions of what is not of material Parish, have to consider when a planning consideration and these include: application is presented to us: Once we have voted on a scheme, the • Effect on property values • General design, visual appearance, application will be passed to either a • Breach of restrictive covenant and materials Planning Officer at District Council if non- • Loss of trade to a competitor • Layout and density of buildings contentious or a Planning Sub Committee • The level of profit a developer might make • Loss of daylight or sunlight to which is often referred to as “Plan South” and • Personal circumstances of the applicant neighbours consists of a number of District Councillors. – a not uncommon comment might be • Overshadowing/loss of outlook At the district level, there will be further that an extension/outhouse is being (but not loss of view) interrogation of the design plus all the proposed for the benefit of an ageing • Overlooking/loss of privacy matters we have considered but also to those family member. Planning considerations (cont’d bottom of p.3 ) SEE INSIDE Tell us where in Buckhurst Hill the aerial photograph Council Information Pages 1-6, 11 is at the top of the page and win an Easter Egg Community Information Pages 7, 10 [email protected] Halls for Hire Page 4 Dates for Your Diary Pages 8-9 Closing date Friday 6 April 2018 Useful Numbers Page 7 The views expressed in BHPC magazine are not necessarily those of Buckhurst Hill Parish Council and the inclusion of advertisements does not constitute an endorsement by the council of any products or services. ©Buckhurst Hill Parish Council, 2018 2 BHPC Magazine Council News spring 2018 spring 2018 Council News BHPC Magazine 3 It is a little disappointing to have to start my would agree that speeding traffic is both FROM THE CHAIRMAN that each of the sites was non-compliant positive and full of praise. report with the unhappy news that Val prolific on our local roads and is having a (cont’d from previous page ) with the Town and Country Planning Last December’s Christmas on Queens Evans, our long serving Deputy Clerk , will detrimental impact on Buckhurst Hill. The Regulations 2012 and also failed the Road event was yet another resounding soon be leaving us to concentrate more on Parish Council has been working very hard speeding cars. We very much appreciate the soundness test with regards to their success. Literally hundreds of families her voluntary work and time with her behind the scenes with other agencies, such volunteers who have stepped forward so far selection. We will have to wait and see if turned up to witness the switching on of husband, Brian. Val has been with the Parish as Essex Police and Essex County Council, to to join our SpeedWatch team but can never there are any amendments resulting from the Christmas lights and to enjoy all the Council since 2010 and twice stepped-up to address this problem. One measure that will have too many volunteers. So if you can our comments and those of many others. festivities taking place. I would like to take serve as Acting Clerk, following the no doubt help greatly and be a very visible spare a few hours on a regular basis, why Notwithstanding, we will continue to press this opportunity to thank both the departure of the then Clerks to pastures new. example is our participation in the not volunteer to be part of our SpeedWatch our opposition to these three selected sites Buckhurst Hill Residents Society and the Val has been a great stalwart of the Parish SpeedWatch scheme. I am delighted to be team. If you would like more information in Buckhurst Hill. Buckhurst Hill Village Forum, our partners Office Team throughout and a great support able to inform you that teams of volunteers contact us on 020-8498-9933 or email to If you have been in the neighbourhood in staging this event, for all their efforts in to Councillors, past and present. Whilst, we will soon be taking to our streets as part of [email protected]. of Beech Lane and the High Road recently helping to make the event such a triumph. will all miss her undoubted wisdom and that project locally. We hope that the impact Just prior to last Christmas, Epping you will no doubt have noticed the extensive To finish on another positive note, I am From the wicked laugh, we do wish her every of this scheme will soon be felt and will Forest District Council published their re-landscaping work that has taken place on delighted to report that for the sixth year happiness and best wishes for the future. prove to be a valuable asset in tackling Local Plan (Submission Version 2017) for the open space known as Stacey Gardens . running the Parish Council has been able Chairman On a much more positive note. Everyone (cont’d top of next page ) a period of six weeks. Along with other The area, which had been maintained by the to freeze the Precept . Councillors recently Parish and Town Councils we were invited District Council on behalf of the Parish unanimously agreed to do this meaning that to make comments on the document prior Council, had become significantly the Parish Council’s share of a Band D day of interviews along with our office staff to it being submitted to the Secretary of overgrown and a regular source of complaint Council Tax Bill remains unchanged at £68.89. State for independent inspection. Our full by residents. Consequently, Councillors took Finally, may I take this opportunity, on Year of a response can be found on our website the decision to renovate the whole area and behalf of the whole Parish Council, to wish www.buckhursthillpc.gov.uk but in essence make something of a feature of the space. all residents a Happy Easter and look we continued to make the point that each The first stage of the renovation work was forward to writing to you again in our Councillor! of the three proposed development sites in completed just after Christmas and more Summer edition. Dear Resident, Buckhurst Hill had significant problems improvement work is planned for later this It has been a while since I have written to associated with them. We also pointed-out year. Feedback so far has been nothing but Cllr. Neville Wright you. Other than the meetings I have attended at the Parish I have had a very busy Council Chairman: Cllr Mr Neville Wright Council Vice Chairman: Cllr Mr Bobby Nagpal past year and wanted to share some of the events I have been involved with. Just before FINANCE & ESTABLISHMENT COMMITTEE ACCOMMODATION COMMITTEE RECREATION & COMMUNITY COMMITTEE Remembrance Day, I was contacted by a Cllr Mr B Nagpal (Chairman) Cllr Mrs S Patel (Chairman) Cllr Mrs J Share-Bernia (Chairman) resident who asked if we can organise a large Cllr Mr S Clark (Vice Chairman) Cllr Mr N Wright (Vice Chairman) Cllr Miss G Reynolds (Vice Chairman) poppy to be put up in Buckhurst hill. With Cllr Mr S Neville Cllr Mr B Nagpal Cllr Mrs J Forker-Clark the help of another resident who is also Church. It was a really lovely evening, day of interviews along with our office staff Cllr Mrs S Patel Cllr Miss G Reynolds Cllr Mr B Nagpal involved with running a fantastic gardening complete with mince pies and mulled wine for a new RFO/Deputy Clerk. While it was Cllr Miss G Reynolds Cllr Mrs J Share-Bernia Cllr Mr S Neville club at BHCPS, I organised large poppies to served by Kevin and Val our Parish Clerk going to be a challenge to replace Val we were Cllr Mrs J Share-Bernia Cllr Mr K Williamson Cllr Mr K Williamson be put up at the memorial locations like the and Deputy Clerk.
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