THE March 2020 LEE For The Lee, Lee Common, Hunts Green, Kings Ash and Swan Bottom From the Editor Your letters By Liz Macann Tales of the unexpected pring has sprung! Or at least it is To the Editor springing. Ah the joy of seeing A lot of the work of the Parish Council S is routine – planning applications that the many signs that herald the change of season and the feelings of need commenting on, playground optimism that come with it. equipment that needs repairing, a memorial that needs sprucing -up, a All of the huge changes that have pothole that needs reporting. occurred in the country and decisions Just occasionally, the unexpected which have been made in the halls of catches you out. In February, for power will bring us challenges, threats example, we not only had a rough and opportunities. While some things sleeper camping out in the ‘cave’ will be beyond our control, others will beneath the new children’s fort… but happen to us according to our mind a week later, unbeknownst to the set. As Epictetus said, “People are not council, someone decided to put a disturbed by things but by the view chain and padlock on the gate to the they take of them.” To move us all playground / allotments. forward, here is the spring edition of not only village news and information, but also ideas about people and places nearby that contribute to us all in one way or another. Close to home the Shop will be expanding the annual Greek event to Sales & Lengs include VE Day celebrations on the revised May Day Bank Holiday. See 64 High Street Great Missenden page 8 for details of an event not to Buckinghamshire HP16 0AN be missed. Tel: 01494 890990 Next month Jonathan Batten will be in the Editor’s seat. Please email We believe the two events are email: [email protected] material for the April edition to him unconnected… unless anyone knows www.jeremyswan.co.uk at [email protected] by otherwise. 12 th March. Colin Sully Swan Bottom 2 3 the deadline for nominations for all collectively or individually. If they so Digging a hole? th wish, candidates can deliver their own To the Editor elections will be 4:00 pm on 8 April. nomination forms. Further to my letter in last month’s Following the deadline, a complete If you have any questions or newsletter I have now had a response statement of persons nominated will queries relating to Parish Council from Transport for Bucks. be published. Elections please contact either the By way of a reminder it was a Parish Council Elections Parish Clerk at [email protected] or vicious 15cm deep pothole which To stand for election to become a Chiltern District Council at destroyed two nearside tyres on my parish councillor you must be: [email protected]. daughter’s car. The pothole is as you at least 18 years old on the day of uk or 01895 837236 or at King George turn left out of Oxford Street into your nomination and V House, King George V Road, Ballinger Road towards Chesham, just a British citizen, an eligible Amersham, HP6 5AW. past the entrance to the garages (90m Commonwealth citizen or a citizen from the corner). of any other member state of the “Thank you for your report. We European Union. have now inspected the defect and no You must also meet at least one of the planned repair is necessary at this following four qualifications: stage. Please be assured that we will You are, and will continue to be, continue to inspect in line with our registered as a local government Highway Safety Inspection Policy. elector for the parish in which you Thank you for reporting this matter wish to stand from the day of your and this report is now closed.” nomination onwards We have put in an insurance claim You have occupied as owner or with the council for the tyre damage. tenant any land or other premises I note that the council have in the parish area during the recently changed the status of this whole of the 12 months before the report to ‘Open’. day of your nomination and the Will just have to keep looking into it. day of election Phil Harrison Your main or only place of work Lee Common during the 12 months prior to the day of your nomination and the day of election has been in the The Lee Parish parish area Transport for Bucks You have lived in the parish area or We have recently been advised that within three miles of it during the the surface dressing programme, Council report whole of the 12 months before the which was carried out in By Hayley Farrelly, Clerk day of your nomination and the day Buckinghamshire in 2019, has th Council Elections: 7 May of election. experienced an unusually high he elections for the new Unitary Nomination Forms premature failure rate. Buckinghamshire Council, The These will be available from the Initial investigations show that this T Lee Parish Council (and other Parish Clerk after the Notice of is largely due to the exceptionally wet Town and Parish Councils) as well as Election has been published. If they autumn and winter we have for the Local Police and Crime experienced following the application wish, candidates can liaise with the Commissioner will all be taking place Clerk rather than having to visit the of the surface dressing treatment. th on 7 May 2020. area office. At this stage Swan Lane, The Lee The Notice of Election will be Completed nomination forms must is currently showing signs in excess of st published on 31 March. The period be delivered to the local office and can 10% premature failure of treatment or for nominations will then be open and be delivered by parish clerks surfacing used. The surface dressing 4 5 crew is a specialist contractor that only traffic behaviour, fly -tipping, I love food, all aspects of it, and in visits the county once a year during parking and gritting. my quest for something unusual for this Larks Nursery the summer. Due to the nature of the Planning (19% ) including menu, I turned to a recipe collection treatment, it can only be applied residents’ own plans and the impact inspired by The Bennet Family from e are a small setting located during the warmer, summer months. of their neighbours’ plans Pride and Prejudice and written by my in Lee Common C of E School, following a child Transport for Bucks (TfB) will HS2 (16% ) including traffic friend, Margaret, who ran a fabulous W continue to be monitor the roads and disruption, trees, access issues, tea room in Lacock, Wiltshire. initiated approach to learning based on will be carrying out regular cyclic working hours and noise. Throughout Jane Austen’s novels the individual interests. We are an integral sweeping of the carriageway as Other topics raised by residents table was an important setting, the part of the school and all of the required, until our specialist contractor ranged from Broadband and climate focus of much of the social life of the Nursery children are in one room with returns to the site in the summer to change to preserving village pubs and period and Mrs Bennet is proud that free flow to the outdoor area. This half carry out any associated remedial creating a village archive. she keeps a “very good table”. term our Nursery Manager qualified in works at their cost. You can contact me on any matter I found Welsh rarebit and Celery Forest School! We have been very Your concerns relating to the Parish Council at and Curd Cheese tarts ‘for the lucky to wrap up warm and head out [email protected]. sideboard’ which we served alongside into the beautiful countryside more We held the latest of our informal sandwiches on Mark’s homemade and more! Drop -ins in January and the attendance bread. No afternoon tea is complete For further information contact: made it well worthwhile. Over the last – without scones and, according to the Alison Williams Personal Assistant four Drop -ins the major concerns Time for Tea Bennets, ‘Sunday Scones’ contain to the Headteacher raised with the Parish Council by Lee Common CE School and Larks currants (although I use sultanas as I residents have been: find them more juicy and palatable). Nursery Roads (28% ) including the Alongside a chocolate Swiss Roll, Tel: 01494 837267 condition of the road surfaces, Email: [email protected] some homemade shortbread and marvellously old fashioned English Web: www.leecommon.org Madeleines, I made a Simpering Cake about which Margaret writes, “We J Brown Funeral Services have all met the likes of Mr Collins – 67 Woodside Road, Amersham, HP6 6AA gushing and pretentious without 01494 727474 (24 hours) KINGSHILL reason. This recipe is for a tasty everyday fruit cake that aspires to a CARS FOR ALL OCCASIONS A truly independent family funeral directors grandeur it doesn’t quite attain”. I think Mrs Bennet would have been proud of Bespoke and traditional services our good table and the guests of today Private chapels of rest CǘǙǜǤǕǢǞǣ certainly approved. Pre -paid funeral plans Off street client parking Home visits AǙǢǠǟǢǤǣ By Lorraine and Mark Stanton ark and I were honoured to LǟǞǔǟǞ be asked to host the first Tea for the Elderly in The Lee for Contact Jason Brown on: 01494 727474 M [email protected] 2020. Despite the freezing weather, nine guests arrived bringing lively 01494 868699 conversation, astute observation and Recommended by Email: [email protected] great enthusiasm to our home at Lee The Good Funeral Guide Gate Barn.