Artisan Feasts and Treats

Issue No. 43 Winter 2016 Northby NorthEast News from your Parish Council www.great-linford.gov.uk

Artisan feasts and treats

contacts GLPC Parish Councillors, the wards they represent and their contact details. winter2016 By Linda Inoki Conniburrow FRAGRANT Maureen Windridge 01908 606613 [email protected] 2 Vacancies FEASTS AND TREATS Downhead Park & Willen Park North Michael Dean 07756 500875 comment [email protected] he first food festival at Great Linford Manor Park in Wherever possible Turan uses local products, and this is the same Vacancy 50 years young! September was a great success, attracting around three philosophy that inspires his new neighbour, Alissa Pemberton, Downs Barn T thousand people. As well as discovering all sorts of local food, founder of Forest and Folk Botanicals. In 2017 I will share a major celebration with Milton Keynes from falafels to fudge, it was a chance to meet the producers too. The shop is gently perfumed with lavender, geranium, cinnamon Janet Maclean 01908 606613 - I too will be 50 years young. Both of us have gone through The festival was a labour of love organised by three local people: and all sorts of natural ingredients that capture the power of plants. [email protected] a lot of challenges but, even if I say so myself, we are not Vacancy Hazel Roberts, an award-winning jam-maker, cider-maker Alissa started Forest and Folk because she was interested in small looking too bad for 50! Laurence Conisbee and Turan Turan, a retired fireman who just scale production, and, as she puts it, “tracing products from seed to Giffard Park & Blakelands I am a relative newcomer, having arrived in MK in 1993. However as Parish loves playing with smoke! bottle, and creating more of a community around the process”. Tony Bedford 01908 606613 Manager I have enjoyed meeting many people who were ‘pioneers’, and either [email protected] After tasting samples at the festival I had to know more, so on a Like Turan, she was grateful for the support of the MK Arts Centre, came here to make a new life or were actually instrumental in creating the new misty morning I knocked on Turan’s door, in the 18th C pavilion in which, with its workshops in the courtyard, creates a very different Keith Panes 07921 240447 city. [email protected] Manor Park, and entered the fragrant world of wood-smoke. atmosphere to the average High Street. With the help of friends, Some were also ‘natives’, who as village children had to meet the cattle at and interested customers, Alissa has rescued a neglected garden Peter Widdowson 01908 617078 Turan opened Coldsmoking here two years ago, but his love of [email protected] next to the alms-houses and planted it with herbs. “The soil is the station in Newport Pagnell and walk them over to Haversham. Some cooking began as a child. “When we went on family holidays it very good as it’s been tended for centuries. It’s full of wildlife, and Great Linford were born on farms where now there is a Tesco or international company was quite normal for a ten-year old to prepare artichokes or to we’ve found lots of clay pipes and even an old brooch,” says Alissa, Ian Foskett 01908 606613 HQ. Interestingly, not everyone regrets it. Some of those people have told me bone lamb for koftas,” he says. “But I only got into smoking a showing me round the garden. [email protected] how their life was enriched by the new garden city with its ambitious outlook few years ago because my father, who is Turkish, kept moaning Patricia Lawar 07958 575050 and influx of new people. How the new-found prosperity, choice and diversity that he couldn’t find any decent smoked salmon!” It seems that That’s one of the brought a different dimension to their lives; how families who had been in one [email protected] most mass-produced ‘smoked’ foods are drenched with synthetic pleasant things about Coldsmoking offer gift certificates Cecil Macaulay 01908 231027 place for centuries ventured outside the old boundaries. flavours but Turan experimented with natural products, built his supporting local and courses in sausage making, [email protected] Change can be exciting, uncomfortable or both! Yet it is constant and MK is a own smoker and quickly realised lots of other people wanted to artisans. Everything food smoking and charcuterie from Charles Omole 07958 507073 great place to live for people who still try to make every change a change for taste the real thing too. has a story; whether £65, plus books, woodchips etc [email protected] it’s bacon from local www.coldsmoking.co.uk the better. He has now published two cookery books, trains professional chefs farms, or rosehip Neath Hill and runs popular courses in how to produce healthy, delicious Whether you are five or fifty, memories are important and we would love to syrup from the Forest and Folk Botanicals sell David Stabler 01908 672599 smoked fish, meat, cheese and vegetables in Great Linford. The hear from you about special memories of your time in Milton Keynes. To get hedgerows of Milton natural soap, floral vinegar, raw [email protected] kitchen is warm, spotless and has lovely views over the park. you started, please see the back page which features a few photos from the Keynes. And it’s a chocolate, honey, dried herbs Vacancy archives. “One of our most popular courses is sausage-making,” says story which artisans and spices, shampoo, household cleaners and more. To reduce Pennyland & Bolbeck Park Turan, showing me some home-made salami hanging in a special like this are writing waste you can also bring your 2 Vacancies refrigerator. Opening another fridge, he pulls out the cured leg carefully, and together, own containers and buy in small of a rare breed pig, complete with trotter, which is slowly turning with customers Redhouse Park Eirwen Tagg quantities. www.forestandfolk.co.uk into prosciutto. and friends. Allan Calverley 07720 467334 [email protected] Parish Manager 17 Dec, 1.00 - 3.00, Forest & Folk Christmas shopping event, with Willen Park South BELOW: Alissa Pemberton, Forest and Folk Botanicals. CENTRE: Sweet Wooden Spoon Bakery. MK Arts Sam Crooks 07803 036656 treats by Hazel Roberts, Jam Moo Kow. RIGHT: Turan Turan, Coldsmoking Centre courtyard, off Parklands, [email protected] Great Linford, MK14 5DZ

Jam Moo Kow produces jams and chutneys, including Plum and Cinnamon and Golden Raspberry. Find on Facebook or email www.great-linford.gov.uk [email protected] Parish Manager North by NorthEast Virtual Orchard, based in Eirwen Tagg [email protected] Editor: Linda Inoki Wolverton, produces cider and apple brandy from local apples and Parish Council Office honey. virtualorchard.co.uk Great Linford House, 1 St Leger Court, Front Cover: Great Linford MK14 5HA Tel: 01908 606613 Courtesy of Coldsmoking

2 NorthbyNorthEast WINTER WINTER NorthbyNorthEast 3 community news community news

ilton Keynes might be a pioneer in recycling but a lot of people are still GREEN BIN TIPS: M putting food waste into black sacks WHY Use paper bin liners or bio-degradable when it really belongs somewhere else. According liners costing around £1 per month. CITIZENS: to MK Council, only 25% of food waste goes into green bins. The rest goes into black sacks, meaning Use the small grey caddy, supplied FEED they are full of leftover meat, fish, bones, pizzas by MK Council, in your kitchen, line it with suitable paper, and so on. No wonder bin-day is a bonanza for lend us your and wrap the food waste with our local magpies and crows! To them, the left- newspaper before putting it overs smell like carrion, their natural food source, in the green bin. THE which is why they attack black bags as soon as they Hose out your green bins to keep ears – and eyes! appear on bin-day. them fresh, or use a local Nobody likes this yucky mess scattered along the company who will clean your bins road, but the solution is easy. Use your green bin for around £3.50 a month, he parish continues to suffer from are many dog bins around the parish, which upset when he finds needles and other CROWS eliminating bacteria and smells. instead. It’s not only for grass cuttings and vegetable antisocial behaviour and we need GLPC has installed, and we also pay to have rubbish lying about which endangers our peelings: it happily swallows up old sausages and Remember, tea bags, coffee T to gather more information on the them emptied every Thursday evening. Poo children and wildlife. mouldy cheese too! grounds, bread and pastries, when fish, dairy, meat, bones and miscreants in order to reduce it. Please, bags can be purchased cheaply at the parish In all of these cases the Parish Ranger either without putting yourselves at risk, let the office and, if dog-walkers prefer, they can Another big advantage of recycling your food waste is fruit and vegetable parings deals with the problem on the spot or parish office know of any information you put them in the black refuse sacks which that it helps to reduce global warming. When food waste can all go in your hungry arranges for remedial action. But he needs have about these incidents so we can nip MK Council collects every week. your goes into black bags, then landfill, it rots and produces green bin! your help. If more good citizens report these more problems in the bud. methane; an extremely damaging greenhouse gas. Another key concern is about people incidents and help us to identify the culprits A particular ‘hotspot’ concerns a spate who dump or smash glass bottles in the we will be able to bear down on antisocial And it saves money too. Councils are penalised for sending too much rubbish to landfill green sites so the more we recycle the more (in theory) we save on our Council tax. of vandalism at the Marsh Drive sports playparks. This is a real danger to children behaviour. pavilion. This unacceptable behaviour so if you see a group of people hanging So why don’t more people use the green bins? distresses users, costs money to replace about having a drinking session please pick So please keep your eyes and ears broken fittings, and could even lead to a fire up the phone. open and together let’s keep the bin is “Perhaps it’s the ‘yuck’ factor”, says Councillor David Stabler, “but if you put torn up since the vandals use the pavilion to smoke parish a GLPC – a “Great Locality newspaper or shredded paper in the bottom of the green bin it absorbs some of the gunk. Similarly, people who decide to take drugs in too. and Proud Community!”. And it’s much better to turn it into compost for gardens and fields, rather than send it to where children play, or in wooded areas, hungry? landfill where it costs the earth.” Dog-fouling is another problem, yet people often leave dangerous material for innocent Telephone GLPC on 01908 606613. who let their dogs foul the paths and green people to stumble upon. Simon, our Parish spaces often respond to a friendly reminder Ranger, spends a lot of time dealing with ABOVE: Broken doors and fences, photos by that it is easy to change their ways. There litter in general but he gets particularly Simon Bates Watch out neighbour!

are the services that your MKC councillors can be delivered without proper funding. Today, it might be a stolen bike. Tomorrow, achieve this through greater vigilance, have chosen to deliver using a combination If GLPC were to take over some of these it might be the contents of your car, broken reporting suspicious incidents to the of Government funding and local Council Tax. services, such as maintaining the open into by thieves hanging about and quietly Co-ordinator and the Police, and sharing spaces, play parks or community facilities, The Government is reducing the amount of intercepting the signal from your remote timely and appropriate information on it would mean a substantial increase to PAY money it gives to local councils and is also control key. Crime may be changing, but if Facebook, where we have our own group the parish precept (that part of the council restricting the rate at which council taxes can neighbours keep an eye out for suspicious (RHP NHW). Helping each other, and tax that the parish levies off households). or take be increased. As a growing city, with a high behaviour they can really make a difference occasionally getting together to discuss birth rate and more elderly people needing In the coming months, the Parish Council to daily life. issues, also helps to build friendships and a care, Milton Keynes faces steeply increasing has to set a budget for the next financial strong community spirit,” says Sandy. demands. The result is that MKC has to year as well as preparing for subsequent Neighbourhood Watch had its origins in it away? consider cutting back the non-statutory years. We wish to do this based on an 1960’s America, with the first UK group As a still-growing development Redhouse services that it currently delivers. understanding of the views of you, our starting up in Cheshire in 1982. Now, it Park needs more Street Co-ordinators. The By Councillor Neighbourhood Watch group is a voluntary MKC has suggested that parish councils parishioners. covers the whole of Britain and one of Peter Widdowson organisation, with free membership, and take over responsibility for some services. There are no firm proposals from MKC as the newest schemes in this parish is, not residents can contribute as much or as little There are some difficult choices heading However parish council budgets are very yet, but we expect more to be revealed as surprisingly, on the newest estate! time as they wish. our way about what kind of local services small compared to that of the borough MKC prepares its budget. We also expect Redhouse Park is a large community and we want to maintain as a community, who council and parish employees do not have that a useful discussion will be possible Sandy Henry, one of the earliest residents “With your help we can do even more, and Co-ordinator, Sandy Henry via 01908 will manage them, and how much we are the range or depth of expertise that MKC with residents at the Annual Parish to move in, is keen for more people to join make our group bigger, safer and friendlier,” 614797 or a.henry913@btinternet. all prepared to pay. Some of the services can muster. Although piecemeal legislation, meeting next May. We hope to inform you in the local Neighbourhood Watch Group. says Sandy. com. Alternatively you can email that Milton Keynes Council (MKC) delivers enacted over the last century, gives parish of progress in the next issue of North by If you would like to help, or wish MKCommunity.WatchCoordinator@ are legal (or statutory) requirements while councils “powers” to provide a wide range NorthEast. Please be ready to let us know “All residents are welcome. Our members’ for more information, please thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk others are optional (non-statutory). These of services the reality is that none of these your views at the Annual meeting. aim is to make our community a safer place in which to live, by helping to reduce phone or email the Redhouse Park crime as well as the fear of crime. We Neighbourhood Watch Area ABOVE: Photo by Heather Cecil

4 NorthbyNorthEast WINTER WINTER NorthbyNorthEast 5 planning matters planning matters

THE SHAPE Housing sites OF espite all the talk about expanding Council’s difficulty in identifying enough and Linford Lakes Milton Keynes beyond its current land to fill its existing target of some 1,750 MK TO D boundaries, lots of people read dwellings a year. about plans for this new “daughter On closer inspection, the proposal for settlement” with surprise verging on Countryside at risk 20,000 new homes with a population of disbelief. Yet it is true. Gallagher Estates, perhaps 40,000 or more could create serious COME which describes itself as “one of the largest difficulties on the local road network. Two strategic land companies in the UK”, is of the key roads across the Ouse Valley feed proposing this large settlement on the By Councillor David Stabler onto Wolverton Road in order to link up he saga of MK Council’s search for extra housing sites has MK, the gap continues to widen. MKC has to keep finding more edge of our parish. The company is not with the city’s grid road system. taken another turn. They have rejected all three sites in or sites and accepting applications they might otherwise refuse, if a house builder but a “master developer” next to this parish from the Site Allocations Plan including they believe there is a risk they will lose at an expensive appeal. which, after winning planning permission One comes down the very narrow road T land at The Walnuts in Redhouse Park, Land off Little Linford This puts local communities, both urban and rural, at risk from and negotiating Section 106 contributions and bridges on Little Linford Lane and Lane, and Land at Linford Lakes, off Wolverton Road. The lakes opportunistic development,” says Councillor David Stabler, “A mini Milton Keynes towards new roads, schools and so on, across the M1; all of which would have to area was rejected because it is an area of open countryside, prone GLPC’s lead on planning matters. then sells on the value-added land to the be massively improved to cope with the to heavy flooding, and rich in wildlife. with up to 20,000 actual builders. extra traffic. The developer has proposed GLPC’s objections cite conflict with many MKC planning policies, building a second central link, across the However, this has not stopped Templeview Developments from and refer to the guiding principles that GLPC adopted in March new homes, schools This ‘mini Milton Keynes’ involves a wide Great Ouse floodplain, and onto the submitting an outline planning application to build houses on 2014 for the previous Barratt Homes development on the same massive chunk of land on the north ridge Wolverton Road near the Black Horse pub. the 60-hectare site. The proposed development consists of two site, including: and shops could of the Great Ouse valley. It runs from Little separate parcels of land; a residential area of 12.5 hectares for 250 Linford, through Haversham and reaches Whilst nothing is certain, it is very probable New developments should not adversely impact on Great engulf villages and two and three storey dwellings, including 62 available for social • as far as Castlethorpe. Although it might be that the additional traffic struggling to Linford Parish residents. rent. The balance of the land would be given to the Parks Trust as well away from your home, that does not get into and out of Milton Keynes from countryside to the an extension to the Ouse Valley Park. • New developments should take account of effects on current mean it will not have a far-reaching impact. Wolverton Road would overload V10 infrastructure and services and should not pose unacceptable north of the city” Brickhill Street, V8 Marlborough Street and Although the site lies within the Parish of Haversham and Little Ward Councillors appear divided. One strain on existing roads, schools, shops, doctor’s surgeries etc. V7 Saxon Street. This is something GLPC Linford, it is on the northern boundary of this Parish. Since Councillor for the affected areas has vowed GLPC should oppose piecemeal, opportunistic development. Citizen, 4th August 2016. will have to respond to using the guiding building here has a potential impact on GLPC residents and is, in • to fight Gallagher to preserve the peaceful principles the Parish Council has adopted our view, contrary to adopted planning policies, GLPC has filed • GLPC should oppose any proposals that do not take account nature of the villages and countryside. for the Linford Lakes proposals, if the comprehensive objections. of the impact on the whole of Milton Keynes. Whilst another, who does not represent ‘mini-MK’ plans are taken further. New developments should be consistent with MK Planning the area, has welcomed the plan with open For their part, Templeview has filed a lengthy report arguing that, • Strategy. arms, saying it would address the housing if MKC was minded to refuse planning permission, the current shortage. In part, this is created by MK Photos courtesy of Haversham-cum-Little Linford gap between its annual housing targets and numbers actually A lot of Redhouse Park residents have also filed objections as has delivered means it would lose at a subsequent appeal. They argue Welcome Break. All the information, reports, and public comments that, “The development proposal is being progressed at a time can be viewed on MKC’s planning website by searching for when Milton Keynes Council cannot demonstrate a deliverable application reference 16/02270. five year land supply and there is a need to identify additional housing land to address past rates of under delivery and meet Where next? future needs.” The process for adopting the draft Site Allocations Plan may not The draft Site Allocation Plan (SAP) plan has identified 21 sites be completed for another year. After eight weeks’ consultation it allocated for residential use, providing sites for some 1,100 will be submitted to the Secretary of State before going to a public dwellings. Although the current 5 year deficit in land supply is inquiry. Meanwhile, MKC is under pressure to determine all only 479 dwellings this fluctuates; if developers delay building planning applications without undue delay. It looks as if the story homes, for example, the gap widens. of Linford Lakes has more chapters to unfold. “In other words, until MKC has adopted its SAP, and until developers have incentives to get on and build more of the 28,000 homes they already have planning permission for throughout ABOVE: Oystercatchers at Linford Lakes, photo by Tony Bedford

6 NorthbyNorthEast WINTER WINTER NorthbyNorthEast 7 feature local art

TO THE GYOSEI ART TRAIL MANOR REBORN ready for more?

mong all the wonderful parks While researching the history of the park, more paths, seating, a children’s play The Gyosei Art Trail got of Milton Keynes only one has the Parks Trust discovered that it may area and improve the layout of the car off to a great start with an historic ties to the 18th century have been designed by Richard Woods, a parking areas so they function better. The A Coming across a beautiful landscape garden movement. This is Great contemporary of ‘Capability’ Brown, in HLF grant will enable us to work-up the opening ceremony under frog bench, with no Linford Manor Park, and fortunately the the mid-18th century. Many of the park’s plans and consult on our ideas so we can clear blue skies in July. explanation of why it’s there, is a bit Parks Trust has been successful in its bid features such as the ponds, the wilderness listen to what local people think about the weird. Having said all that, the sculptures to win funds from the Heritage Lottery and the twin pavilion buildings framing park and how it should be restored and “It’s fantastic that people are coming from are brilliant and very fitting in the canal Fund (HLF) to develop restoration plans the Manor are typical of the landscape improved.” all over Milton Keynes to enjoy the trail, and, environment. Merryl J for this much-loved park. The award, of garden movement of that time, giving as expected, the Frog bench has become a After carrying out the project £321,000, will be used over the next 18 the park a special historic character that favourite spot for selfies,” says Ian Michie, chair Thanks for inviting me to do the flag development work the Parks Trust will months to undertake specialist surveys of is unique in Milton Keynes’ extensive of the MK Public Arts Trust, which has actively waving at last Sunday’s event. A submit its Stage 2 application to the HLF the park’s heritage features. These include network of parks. supported the project from start to finish. genuine treat and honour. You are to in 2018 for full funding for the restoration the 18th Century “mirror” ponds and the be congratulated on a great addition to Phil Bowsher, the Parks Trust’s Head of works. If that bid is successful, it is hoped Sadly, however, the frog doesn’t have a area to the north of the Manor House the arts scene in MK. Bob Hill (former Landscape Strategy, says, “Our aim is to the HLF will provide £3.1 million for the name, so why not join our ‘Name the Frog’ which was designed as a wilderness Commercial Director, MKDC) restore Great Linford Manor Park in a project to be implemented between 2018 competition and send us your ideas? garden. The funding also enables the Trust way that is sensitive to its history and its and 2022. The murals are lovely, and the frog great to draw up plans to restore these features Lots of people are now asking GLPC if there location in the heart of Great Linford. The craftsmanship. Have yet to detect the and improve the park’s entrance points, will be any more. The short answer is – we park has a very special character which If you have any questions about the spider. Corinna S pathways, signage and interpretation hope so! we want to conserve and enhance whilst project please contact Phil Bowsher panels. Also, the Trust will be able to carry The former push-chair which is now a also making it easier and more enjoyable at the Parks Trust on 01908 255394 or The Parish Council’s project board has already out more consultations about the park, marvellous dragon fly is first class. Roger L to visit. As well as restoring the ponds and email [email protected] started work on phase two, which is to extend run more activities and develop more carrying out more planting, representative the trail northwards into other communities I have just spent a very pleasant afternoon opportunities for volunteers to become of its historic design, we want to provide and also southwards to link up with the exploring the Art Trail on a bicycle along involved in its care and maintenance. wonderful collection of existing sculptures in with four friends. Stuart F Central Milton Keynes. A bonus is that we still The Mosaic is stunning - brilliant have many good ideas originally suggested by attention to detail. Steve U The Canal & River Trust looks Activities may include: local residents, including: after 2,000 miles of canals and Join the • Regularly walking a stretch of the A “flowering sculpture” created rivers across England & Wales • canal and being the public face of from bulbs which include hundreds of wildlife the Canal & River Trust conservation areas and five World • A bird box sculpture TOWPATH • Recording mooring sightings and Heritage sites. uploading data online • A permanent plinth, so that artists can Volunteer Towpath Rangers are exhibit their work temporarily, adding an Supporting the contracts team to If you are, or know of, a local artist who the friendly guardians of our local • TEAM! monitor frequency and quality of element of change to the trail might be interested in helping to develop waterways, happy to chat to grass and tree cutting More seating - with backboards painted any of these ideas please do get in touch. By Jacqui Flint anyone who uses the towpaths; • by local artists Or if you or your business might like to get boaters, walkers, cyclists or anglers. • Carrying out simple environmental and wildlife surveys More artworks on poles (like the metal involved or help sponsor further work please We are currently looking for • dragonfly, which sits atop a recycled contact GLPC. Volunteer Towpath Rangers in • Surveying and maintaining signage lamp-post!) Milton Keynes. You don’t need • Graffiti removal and litter-picking To help you discover the Trail, look any specialist knowledge; just • Working alongside staff, representing • Sculptures made from old canal hardware for the Gyosei Art Trail booklet on our flexibility, enthusiasm and the the Canal & River Trust at community • A Torii gate – an important symbol and website: http://great-linford.gov.uk/ patience to talk to all the people and towpath events feature of the Japanese landscape and a wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gyosei-Art- who will want to talk to you! fitting entrance to the trail itself. Trail-Booklet-7-32233.pdf If you would like to find out more, please visit our website www. canalrivertrust.org.uk or email [email protected] FROM TOP: Frog bench, photo by David Stabler. Owl mosaic, canalside bench, guest of honour Bob Hill at the opening ceremony, photos by Tony Bedford

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We welcome your views. FENCED OUT IN the pavilion and multi-use Linford Manor and later Fortunately, three of Neighbourhood Plan and National Citizen Service award Please send your letters to: DOWNS BARN games area on a 15-year lease worked with horses. He Christopher’s brothers, Lance create accessible facilities for all organised a Harry Potter- from MKC last December, married Louisa Temple, from Corporal Albert Sapwell, members of the community to themed fundraising event POST As reported in the last issue, and have allegedly spent Rivetts Yard in the same village, Private Ernest Sapwell and enjoy. These will: for their chosen charity Ride Parish Council Offices Downs Barn residents were £10,000 building the fence. In in 1909. Sergeant Walter Sapwell, all • Allow wider use of the High. This was held at Ping Great Linford House shocked to wake up and find a Citizen article, CleanSlate returned safely from the war. Square, where Peartree Pond Horses played a vital role area for recreation, leisure, 1 St Leger Court a 6ft high fence going up said, “The purpose of the fence provided a lovely backdrop to in the First World War, and Next time you are walking community uses and sports Great Linford around one of the playing is to protect the pitch from the the day’s events, and raised after volunteering to join through Great Linford Manor • Improve facilities for existing MK14 5HA fields last May, some months constant vandalism, overuse a massive £700. Allan Taylor, Park, why not call into St users including the higher after CleanSlate Football and dog fouling we have who owns the local centre, EMAIL Andrew’s Church? Inside is a standards needed as sports Club had leased the site from experienced there. We have also donated £100 bringing the War Memorial, with a Roll of groups progress through the parish.manager@ MK Council. The fence had healthy ambitions to improve total to £800. Ride High gives Honour beneath, which lists leagues thanks to all the residents in great-linford.gov.uk been built without planning the facility to allow our many disadvantaged children a fresh the names of one hundred this area for their patience permission and several teams to progress, but this is • Link to other nearby view of the world by giving local men who served in the and flexibility. Sometimes the residents met MKC Ward not possible unless the pitch leisure areas to develop a them the chance to ride or First World War. The parchment flow of evening visitors to Councillor Peter McDonald to can be properly maintained continuous and appealing work with ponies and horses. was restored after GLPC “Christmas Street” tests the complain about the intrusion. and protected.” recreational area Helen Dixon from the charity awarded a grant towards the nerves as people are trying to Together, they agreed to • Create more viable wildlife thanked the young volunteers George Newall, who lives remembrance project, which get into or out of their homes. knock on doors to canvas areas. nearby, says, “Our children includes an illustrated booklet, wider opinion. 90% of people MK Council Highways have grown up playing football Army manoeuvres in Wolverton “St Andrew’s Remembers”, a Early ideas were tested at the (representing 181 out of about department and the Police in Downs Barn and in 26 years courtesy of Living Archives copy of which is kept in the Family Fun Day in July, and 250 neighbours) thought the reviewed the situation last there has never been a problem reference library in CMK. again for six weeks this autumn. fence should come down. 10% year, and attended throughout with vandalism or dog fouling. the Army Veterinary Corps, At the time of writing, there are said they were not affected and If you are a relative of December to ensure there were We were very upset when we in 1915, Christopher served some clear preferences and the only one person thought the Christopher Sapwell, the no problems. MKC provided were shut out without any in the wretched conditions responses are being carefully fence should stay. CWGC would like to invite roadway advice to ensure that consultation. It doesn’t look like of the Somme. According considered to help produce the you to attend the installation of the lights turn-on was as safe The Ward Councillor then Milton Keynes any more with to The National Roll of the initial Master Plan. his headstone at some future as possible. chaired a meeting between our green areas fenced off.” Great War “He did excellent date. Please email the CWGC We want to gather as much work attending to sick and The organisers and the Parish residents and MKC officers feedback as possible so if you MK Council has now representative via: mo.russell@ Council would be glad to where, although admitting wounded horses. Later in 1916 Young fundraisers confirmed that constructing the cwgc.org. can’t attend the open evening that the fence was in breach he was invalided to England hear from anyone who would fence was illegal and that it will on 7th December please look at of the lease, officers wanted to with pleurisy and was finally MARSH DRIVE like to help with monitoring be removed. the plan on the website and in and Mr Taylor, saying, “The find a compromise. Councillor discharged as medically unfit traffic flow and parking for this MASTER PLAN the office during December and young people from NCS did a McDonald said, “If MKC just for further service on 14 June year’s event, which runs from War horse veteran By Andrew Morphet, send us your views. fantastic job!” Mr Taylor says persuades them to put up a 1916. He was awarded the 3 - 31 December; training will remembered Project Manager he is keen to encourage such different fence that does not 1914-15 Star and the General Christmas Street be provided. Also we have received ideas from residents charitable events, and is willing require planning permission A young man who tended Service and Victory Medals.” Improvement ideas for the Marsh Drive facility are making By Eirwen Tagg about sharing driveways to to donate £100 towards the then we are sending a signal wounded horses during the Christopher died of TB aged progress and we hope lots Since 2004 the residents of help alleviate parked cars on set-up costs, subject to certain that any organisation that has Great War will finally have just 30 on 16 August 1918. of residents will come to the Summer Hayes in Great the roads. If you have any ideas conditions. Please contact an MKC lease on green spaces a headstone erected in his According to The Bucks parish office on Wednesday Linford have raised £45,750 for or would like to help please the Parish Office if you are can enclose them. This has memory thanks to volunteers Standard newspaper of the 7th December to see the initial Willen Hospice. Last year alone contact the Parish Manager via interested. huge implications, not just in from St Andrews Church, day, “The mortal remains of Master Plan. Our consultants, their Christmas Light display parish.manager@great-linford. my Ward, but across Milton in Great Linford, and the Christopher Lorton Sapwell Nortoft Planning, will be on raised nearly £9,000! gov.uk. Keynes.” Commonwealth War Graves [were] conveyed to the church hand to answer questions from Commission (CWGC). on a gun carriage, the coffin was The pleasure that these CleanSlate FC is a semi- 5.00 – 8.00 pm, with a formal HARRY POTTER IN covered by the Union Jack, and volunteers give to all the professional club which offers Christopher Lorton Sapwell presentation at 7.00 pm. GREAT LINFORD children and adults who visit free football to disadvantaged was born in Great Linford was attended by twelve Royal Engineers from the Newport this bit of Wonderland is plain youngsters. They took over in 1888. One of ten children, The aim is to build on In just two weeks a group of Pagnell Wireless Depot.” feedback gathered for the to see. But we should also give young people taking part in the Part of fence in Downs Barn the Down Barn sports-fields, he was a house boy at Great

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Milton Keynes 50 YEARS YOUNG In January 1967 a loaf of bread cost a anniversary, and if you have any good ideas shilling (5p), mini-skirts were all the rage about how the parish could celebrate this and the Monkees topped the hit parade milestone please get in touch. with “I’m a believer”. By coincidence, a young group of city-builders also believed the near-impossible: that they could build TOP TO BOTTOM: Be there or be square. And don’t forget your flares! The Point was CMK’s first leisure a new city for 250,000 people in a few destination and Britain’s first American-style multi- decades. The architects of MK, led by the screen cinema. It had a grand piano in the lobby Milton Keynes Development Corporation, and a snazzy nightclub on the top floor. Photo had a remarkable vision of a highly courtesy Living Archive. connected, flexible and democratic “City of Even the bus station was beautiful. Photo courtesy Trees”. As the grid roads, houses and linear of lead architect, Derek Yeadon. Crown Copyright. parks were laid out, in this rural corner of Relaxing by the fountain in Queen’s Court. The Buckinghamshire, people from all over the Shopping Building was designed as MK’s high street, world started to believe in it too. By 1991 with big name stores as well as butchers, bakers, an over 100,000 incomers had made this indoor market and pubs. Does anyone remember The City Duck? Innovative housing in Conniburrow. their home, as well as many international Look how small the trees are! Images courtesy City companies, from Minolta to Mercedes. Discovery Centre. Crown Copyright. Please send us your own memories of Milton Keynes as it celebrates its 50th

Local events to look out for Blakelands, meet 10 May at play park, Wedgwood Avenue Ranger Tidy Up Days focus on a different estate each month, always held on a Wednesday, TLC Days are for areas of the Join Simon, our friendly 10.30am to 12.30pm: parish that need a little tender Great Linford loving care. Parish Ranger, for a 11 Jan They will be held at the end neighbourly Tidy Up day. Downs Barn, meet 8 Feb of each month on different outside local shop on We supply equipment and cups days of the week between the Boulevard of tea! Just wear suitable clothes. 10.30am-12.30pm. Neath Hill, meet at Events are held on a different 8 March the local centre estate each month and are always Redhouse Park, meet at on a Wednesday 10.30 – 12.30. 12 April pond on Hambledines All event details can be found on our website www.great-linford.gov.uk

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