NORTH WEST CHILTERNS LOCAL AREA FORUM

DATE: 7 December 2011

TIME: 7.00 pm Lower Hall, Baptist Church, LOCATION: 42 Bell Street, Princes Risborough HP27 0AD

AGENDA

Item Time Page No

1 Apologies for Absence / Changes in Membership 7.00 Welcome and introductions by the Chairman

2 Declarations of Interest To declare any personal or prejudicial interests

3 Local Priorities Funding Reports for discussion and 7.05 1 - 2 Decision Presented by Madeleine Howe

4 Any other Urgent LAF Business 7.20

5 Date of Next and Future Meetings The nest meeting of the LAF will be held on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at Village Hall, Chinnor Road, Bledlow, Princes Risborough, HP27 9QF

Dates of future meetings: 23 May 19 September 14 November

LOCAL PRIORITIES WORKSHOP

6 Introduction 7.30 Introduction by Madeleine Howe

7 Session 1 7.40 3 - 4 Round table discussions and ranking of priorities

8 Input and Reporting back of Results from Session 1 8.10 Led by Madeleine Howe

9 Section 2 8.20 Round table discussions to identify solutions led by Richard Pushman.

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10 Plenary Session 8.50 A chance to share some group outcomes/next steps, led by Madeleine Howe

ITEMS FOR INFORMATION

11 TfB Update 5 - 10 Report from the Head of Transport for Buckinghamshire

Members

Richard Pushman, Buckinghamshire County Council Carl Etholen, Buckinghamshire County Council Paul Rogerson, Buckinghamshire County Council Bill Bendyshe-Brown, Council David Carroll, Wycombe District Council John Gibbs, Wycombe District Council Gary Hall, Wycombe District Council Alan Turner, Wycombe District Council Marcus Angell, Wycombe District Council Dory Morgan, Wycombe District Council Mel Foster, Wycombe District Council Audrey Jones, Wycombe District Council Steve Lacey, Wycombe District Council Bob Uglow, Bledlow-cum- Parish Council Ken Hale, Bradenham Parish Council Simon Fowler, Parish Council Peter Tilbury, Ellesborough Parish Council David Williams, Gt and Lt Kimble Parish Council Julia Northway, GT and Lt Kimble Parish Council Cathryn Davies, Parish Council John Sherlock, Lacey Green Parish Council George O'Neill, -cum- Parish Council Graham Walters, Longwick-cum-Ilmer Parish Council Lin Smith, Hughenden Parish Council Brian Swain, Hughendeh Parish Council Phil Conran, Hughenden Parish Council Ian Hollenden, Parish Council Simon Appleby, Great and Little Hampden Parish Council Adrian Rolfe, Princes Risborough Town Council Dennis Green, Princes Risborough Town Council

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Agencies : Buckinghamshire County Council, Wycombe District Council, Bledlow-cum Saunderton Parish Council, Bradenham Parish Council, Ellesborough Parish Council, Great and Little Hampden Parish Council, Great and Little Kimble Parish Council, Hughenden Parish Council, Lacey Green Parish Council, Longwick-cum-Ilmer Parish Council, Princes Risborough Town Council, , Bucks Fire and Rescue, Buckinghamshire PCT, Voluntary Sector representatives

Agenda Item 3 Buckinghamshire County Council Visit www.buckscc.gov.uk/democracy for councillor information and email alerts for local meetings

North West Chilterns Local Area Forum

Title: Local Priorities Budget

th Date: 7 December 2011

Author: Rebecca Carley Locality Services Manager 01296 383287 [email protected]

Contact officer: Madeleine Howe 01494 475378 [email protected]

Electoral divisions affected: Greater Hughenden Icknield and Bledlow The Risboroughs

Summary

1. This report relates to priorities agreed by the Local Area Forum (LAF) within its Local Area Plan. This report outlines the funding requirements from the LAF’s Local Priorities budget to enable a project to be implemented.

2. The suggested projects for consideration for potential funding is:

Contribution to mobile Vehicle Activated Sign scheme for Hughenden Parish £5,000

Recommendation

3. The LAF is recommended to approve funding for the potential scheme relating to the implementation of a mobile Vehicle Activated Sign scheme as outlined below.

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4. North West Chilterns LAF has a Local priorities devolved budget of £20,000 for 2011/12 to be used for local priorities agreed as part of its Local Area Plan.

5. This budget can be used to support local community priorities and the well-being of the area identified by the Local Area Forum (LAF) through its local area planning process.

6. The budget must be spent on expenditure relating to this financial year

7. Speeding traffic is a long-standing priority for the LAF.

8. Hughenden Parish Council with the support of Cllr Richard Pushman are requesting a contribution of £5,000 towards the implementation of a mobile VAS scheme similar to that being trialled in Ellesborough parish and dependent upon the results from that trial.

9. The sites for the units would be agreed through discussions both with BCC and Thames Valley Police to ensure they would be positioned where they could make the most impact in reducing speeding. The Parish Council also intend to allocate some funding of their own and to enter into discussions with Parish neighbours to enable ‘joined up thinking’ on the placing of the units as well as helping to drive down the unit costs.

Summary of eligible and recommended proposals

10. That funding of £5,000 is allocated to Hughenden Parish Council for the purchase of mobile VAS equipment dependent upon the results from the Ellesborough trial.

Resource Implications

11. The LAF has a remaining Local Priorities Budget of £16,000 for the financial year 2011/12 which is currently uncommitted and therefore available for appropriate projects.

Local Priorities Budget 2011/12 £16,000 fixed VAS unit (proposed) £ 7,800 Hughenden PC mobile VAS (proposed) £ 5,000 Total remaining £ 3,200

Report ends

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NORTH WEST CHILTERNS LOCAL AREA PLANNING REFRESH

NW Chilterns Ranking–please What are the specific issues/concerns you have? local area priorities and other number your top 10 Why have you chosen this as one of your ten suggestions (if you have other issues in order priority areas? Please be specific (eg. Anti-social ideas, please add these in the (including your own behaviour: There is regular graffiti in XXX area). spaces provided) ideas)

Affordable housing - especially for local people who wish to stay in the area and encourage new residents who will in turn support the local economy Public transport in rural areas We would like to see the Community Bus service Public/rural transport (both at least continued and if possible extended. availability and suitability of (Longwick-cum-Ilmer) routeing) Help to reduce car use. (Hughenden) Traffic management focusing Continued speeding along may parish roads. particularly on speeding (Longwick-cum-Ilmer)

Top priority as identified by Hughenden NAG.

Town planning / Inappropriate To protect rural communities (Hughenden) developments A very large part of NWC is in the Green Belt, and a significant part of that is AONB, both of which command a protective stance, and presumption against development. The new laws would make a mockery of these criteria, (PR Town Council)

Levels of Crime / Lack of police Because the NWC rural area has a very low crime status, it has resulted in there being NO police presence in the Risborough area over a weekend at all. (PR Town Council) Anti-social behaviour Problem within Hughenden parish.

Youth activities / provision Support for the Scouts, Cubs and Beavers needed; the groups in the village are struggling to keep going or have had to stop. There are no other alternatives for young people. (Longwick- cum-Ilmer)

May help to reduce anti-social behaviour (Hughenden)

Sports and leisure activities

3 Local Access to Services e.g. libraries, health

Support for older people Growing need

4 Agenda Item 11 Buckinghamshire County Council Visit www.buckscc.gov.uk/democracy for councillor information and email alerts for local meetings

North West Chilterns Local Area Forum

Title: Update report from Transport for Buckinghamshire

Date: 7 December 2011

Author: Jim Stevens

Contact officer: Si Khan Transport Localities Team Leader Wycombe & South Bucks District Electoral divisions affected: Greater Hughenden The Risboroughs

Summary

1. From 2010 this standard report will be issued to each Local Area Forum (LAF) / Local Community Partnership (LCP) from Transport for Buckinghamshire.

2. It will aim to provide a comprehensive update on current and relevant Transportation issues which are tailored to each individual LAF / LCP.

3. Standard topics to be covered will be:

- Dates of when Local Community Gangs will visit parishes - Major issues likely to affect parishes within the LAF / LCP - Update on ongoing local issues - Policy Development - Any other information

4. In addition, it will cover any emerging issues which could or will affect Local Area Forum / Local Community Partnership areas.

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Area Maintenance

Community and Road Fixer Gangs Community Gang Dates are week commencing:-

5thnd December 2011 2 January 2012

Roadrd Fixerth Dates are week commencing:- 23 & 30 January 2012

The above programmes are dependant upon the weather conditions, as in the previous two winters, these works have been suspended and the resources diverted onto potholing operations.

A full list of when work will be taking place is available on: http://www.transportforbucks.net/Roadworks-Centre.aspx

Winter As the winter season approaches, salt bins and heaps have been replenished during October, salting equipment has been checked and calibrated, and salt stocks brought up to operational levels, approx 10,500 tonnes across the county. The number of potholes has been reducing over the last few months following the reasonably dry weather, however the number of defects is likely to increase from now through the winter months. Any problems should be addressed to your local area technician or Contact Centre. via: 0845 230 2882 or through our website at: http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/transport/ea_report_problem.page

We’re Working On It (Design & Construction/Area Maintenance)

As part of the We're Working On It capital works programme County Councillors have identified their Top 5 priority sites as have your Local Area Technicians.

Transport for Buckinghamshire’s engineers have then been out to visit and assess each site to confirm both the extent of the works required as well as the most appropriate carriageway treatment, with the intention of extending the life of the road by at least 7 years.

The following explains the various types of treatment available. Surfacing: Replacement of the existing road surface Slurry Seal : A form of surfacing that smoothes out minor imperfections and gives a clean road finish Plane & Patch : This involves planing out sections of road and replacing with a new surface Surface Dressing : Spraying the road with hot bitumen and then covering with stone chippings

Please note that the treatments noted above are weather dependant and whilst we have provided an anticipated start date these may change.

The table below shows the current list of streets, sections of which are expected to receive one of the treatments (noted above), over the next two years.

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Carriageway Works – North West Chilterns LAF Street Name Town Treatment Type Anticipated Start Date Bryants Bottom Lane Bryants Bottom Slurry Seal Complete* Valley Road Hughenden Surfacing Complete Main Road Slurry Seal Proposed 2012-2013 Missenden Road Surfacing Proposed 2012-2013 (A4128) Copes Road Great Kingshill Plane & Patch Complete Cockpit Road Great Kingshill Plane & Patch Complete Heath End Road Great Kingshill Plane & Patch Complete New Road Surface Dressing Proposed 2012-2013 Road Cadsden Surface Dressing Proposed 2012-2013 Chinnor Road Surface Dressing Proposed 2012-2013 Honor End Lane & & Little Slurry Seal Proposed 2012-2013 Glade Road Hampden Haw Lane Bledlow Ridge Surfacing Proposed 2012-2013 Wigans Lane Bledlow Ridge Surface Dressing Proposed 2012-2013 Ellesborough Road Plane & Patch Complete Rignall Road Little Hampden Plane & Patch Complete Wendover Road Butlers Cross Plane & Patch Complete Bottom Road Plane & Patch Complete Bradenham Road Bradenham Surface Dressing Complete Lower Icknield Way Surface Dressing Complete Kop Hill Princes Risborough Surfacing Complete Duke Street/Church Princes Risborough Surfacing Proposed 2012-2013 Street Summerleys Road Princes Risborough Slurry Seal Proposed 2012-2013 Clifford Road Princes Risborough Surfacing Complete Stratton Road Princes Risborough Slurry Seal Proposed 2012-2013 Shortborough Princes Risborough Slurry Seal Complete** Avenue Lane Askett Surface Dressing Proposed 2012-2013

* Surfacing and lining complete. Awaiting iron works. ** Surfacing completed. Awaiting lining and Iron Work

Traffic Management

Nothing to report

Road Safety

Community Speedwatch To raise awareness of Community Speedwatch across Buckinghamshire, the road safety team is planning a programme to work with local communities to deliver the scheme, as vehicles being driven too fast are a major factor in preventing people from enjoying the environment they have chosen to live in.

The idea is to liaise with local communities and attend locations on set days and times and run community speedwatch in your area.

The road safety team will have a set of speedwatch equipment for use free of charge to

7 work in partnership with community volunteers, e.g. a member of the road safety team will operate the equipment with a member of the local community at a location known for a speeding problem. Using local knowledge will allow community speedwatch to be used most efficiently in a pro-active manner.

If you are interested in working with the road safety team to run speedwatch in your local community please contact Nigel Spencer by e-mail [email protected]

For more information about Community Speedwatch visit: http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/transport/speedwatch.page

Local Safety Schemes - None

Road Safety Team services to the local community:

SAGE – Safer driving with Age; for motorists over 65 years of age who would like a confidence boost. Our team of qualified instructors offer an hour’s assessment.

Be a Better Biker – assessment days for motorcyclists. Just bought a bike or advancing to a more powerful engine? Our team of instructors will help you make the most of biking.

Get in Gear young driver’s course – theory workshops and on the road training. Essential advanced motoring skills for newly qualified drivers.

Business Driver Assessments – 2 hour on the road assessments for employees who drive vans, minibuses or cars for work. Includes a DVLA licence check and full report.

Winter Driving Workshops – Get together a group of friends or employees to host your own in house workshop and vehicle safety check or register your interest to attend one of our evening workshops in November.

The five courses, above, are heavily subsidised and are provided at various locations around the county. Individual driver training is provided from any location within Bucks. For further details please contact 01296 382450 or [email protected]

Passenger Transport

The 2011 editions of the "Guide to bus services" are now available. There are two editions this year: North Buckinghamshire and South Buckinghamshire containing full details of all bus services in the County.

These are available from Council Offices, Libraries and many other outlets, or from the Passenger Transport team (call 0845 230 2882). Books are free for Buckinghamshire residents.

Development Control

Nothing to Report

8 Asset - Street Lighting SWITCHING OFF STREET LIGHTS TO SAVE ENERGY TRIAL END:

Decisions on the future of 37 of the Switch Off Sites were submitted for public consultation on 17/10/2011. Transport for Bucks welcome all feedback associated with these sites and request that comments are submitted via the following link: http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/sites/bcc/about_your_council/Have_your_say.page

For the remaining sites Transport for Buckinghamshire has been, and is continuing to conduct, thorough investigations of the associated site data and customer feedback.

From these investigations, recommendations are being developed to provide what actions would be best for each of the sites progressing into the future.

These recommendations will be reviewed by the Cabinet Member prior to a supplementary consultation which is anticipated to commence from early in the New Year.

In addition to this it has been decided to switch back on the following five sites:

A413 Road (from Kingsway RAB to Rail Bridge) A40 A413 Wendover Bypass @ Road Roundabout A413 Wendover Bypass @ South Street Roundabout A421 Radclive Roundabout

These switch-ons are intended to be conducted in a phased approach, whereby as many of the street lights will be reactivated as soon as possible, where deemed safe to do so. A follow-up visit to rectify any outages and / or further repair works that maybe necessary will be conducted as soon as practicable.

More information about the trial, including two interim reports, can be viewed at: http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/transport/streetlights_energy.page

Delegated Budget 2011/12 – Update

Location Scheme Progress Pipers Lane, Hughenden Install new Footpath will be delivered in footpath February half term 2012 Wellington Avenue, Dropped Kerb Location has been confirmed. Work Princes Risborough is planned for January 2012 C77 Missenden Road, Safety Currently out to formal consultation Ellesborough Improvements Woodbank/Little Lane, Grit Bins x 5 Completed Lacey Green Slad Lane, Highwood Bottom, Speen 3 locations to be confirmed Various locations in Grit Bins x 10 Completed Princes Risborough, Cadesden, Whiteleaf and Monks Risborough

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