THE September 2017 LEE For The Lee, Lee Common, Hunts Green, Kings Ash and Swan Bottom From the Editor Superfast BB: By Peter Archer fter the Newsletter’s summer arriving slowly break in August it will come as By Colin Sully and Simon Morris, A no surprise to find that we have The Lee Parish Council a bumper issue for September. This month we have a centre spread in colour, recalling the Flower Show and the Fête which are always summer highlights of life in The Lee. Last month’s Cryptic-Lee puzzle drew many responses from our readers, including Jacqui Burnett, Trish Swain, Simon Moule, Trevor Pearce, David Peace, John Ford, Carol Addison and others... the July mysteries have been well and truly solved. Turn to the letters on page 2 and to this month’s challenge on page 26 to find all the answers. For many years Trish Swain has been a valuable member of the Editorial Team, however she and Jon have now moved ou may have noticed some from The Lee and she has decided to step road-works over the summer down from the team. In recent years she Y in Ballinger. Surprise, has organised the monthly distribution of surprise, it appears to be the start of Sales & Lettings the Newsletter to all our homes. From all Superfast Broadband arriving for 64 High Street Great Missenden of us a very big ‘thank you’ and best customers of the Lee Common wishes for your move... we are pleased telephone exchange! Buckinghamshire HP16 0AN however to see that she continues to be a Improvements in actual service are Tel: 01494 890990 contributor of articles to the Newsletter. still some months away and this work Next month’s editor is Colin Sully. is in any case only part of the overall email: [email protected] Please send material to him by email to solution, but Openreach has now www.jeremyswan.co.uk [email protected] or installed ducting to the site of what hard copy to Fairleigh, Swan Bottom by will become a new Fibre broadband 12 th September. hub in Ballinger. They have also run 2 3 another duct across the road to a suitable Cryptic-Lee (July 2017) ago (presumably to support the brick/ mains electricity supply, thereby To the Editor clay mining/firing on Kiln Hill) enabling Fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) Since my mother (Joan Worsfold Here’s a current photo of the back for Ballinger residents connected to the from Park Cottage) and I read about of Firgrove Cottage. Cromar Lee Common exchange. my father’s map in the July Simon Moule Once the Lee Common exchange Kiln Hill has been through its upgrade (now Newsletter, we have been racking our Carpets Ltd scheduled for 2017/18), the new brains about the meaning of A.A.D. cabinet has been installed and Fibre and the three horseshoes. We has been fed through and connected, obviously knew at the time my father then that should deliver Superfast made the map but have forgotten CARPETS , V INYL AND Broadband to all of Lee Common, since. Mum thought that there had WOOD F LOORING Ballinger and The Lee green areas, been a pub near the plantation and so during the first half of 2018. it was to prove. SUPPLIED AND F ITTED Not all good news! Anyway, if there’s anything I Getting suitable power to a cabinet don’t already know about the village I is one of the problems in introducing usually ask Trevor Pearce, so I did at the flower show. He and Linda told FTTC in rural areas (as well as 9-11 S TATION A PPROACH justifying the overall expense for a me that A.A.D. stands for Anti- GREAT M ISSENDEN dispersed community). These problems Aircraft Detection. Opposite the are yet to be solved for the 100 or so Swain’s house at Swan Bottom there Macmillan 01494 862125 premises served by the cabinet at the top is still, I believe, some evidence of a of Red Lion Hill (basically everyone on shelter for the searchlight used or near Chesham Lane from Kings Ash in WWII. That would make sense coffee morning all the way through Swan Bottom to seeing as the headquarters for the By Trish Swain Chartridge). A solution for these Home Guard was at Kingswood mid-morning cup of tea or customers has still to be proposed… and House led by Sir Bernard Docker. coffee is always welcome, the financed! More on this next month. There was indeed a pub near the A more so if it is enjoyed with plantation. It was called the Three friends, and, even better, if you’re part Horseshoes and is now Firgrove Cottage, of the World’s Biggest Coffee Your letters where the Glanfields used to live. Morning, raising funds for Macmillan To the Editor If you haven’t already been Cancer Relief! Our family would like to express our informed of this information I hope all Pippa Hart and Trish Swain thanks for all in The Lee community this has been of interest. cordially invite you to join them at and elsewhere who attended and Carol Addison Furzefield Farm, Furzefield Lane, Lee supported our coffee morning in aid of Lee Common Gate, HP16 9NR, at any time between funds for treatment for Freyja, our 9:00 am and 12:00 noon on Friday 29 th cousin and niece, who is suffering To the Editor: September. from a rare form of cancer. I think the Three Horseshoes relate to You will be especially welcome if The total raised stands at just under you are new to the village... and feel £2,300 and we are very grateful for a pub which used to be on the site of people’s kindness and generosity. Firgrove Cottage on Kiln Hill. free to bring a friend as well. Charlotte, Emma, Robert, When we bought the house from There will be cards, preserves and Penny and David Burgess John Glanfield, he mentioned that cakes for sale, as well as a raffle. So The Lee there had been a pub there many years please join us for a cuppa..... 4 5 and low overhanging branches before Oxford Street traffic The site contains sections on: * the AONB Review Group The Lee Parish they become a nuisance. We thank you The Parish Council has given much * Colne Valley Regional Park in anticipation for helping to keep this consideration to this matter over recent * Schedule 17 Consent approvals parish a lovely place for all. years and, following more recent Council news * CoPA Consents on Noisy Works Drop-in parish surgeries discussions with the school, we are By Liz van Hullen, Parish Clerk * Community / Business Funding circulating with this Newsletter a We held the last of our pilot * HS2 Contacts. Hedge maintenance Drop-in surgeries on Saturday 1 st consultation document. The proposal to he warm, wet weather we have The website can be found at July at the Parish Hall. It became be considered is whether white-lining enjoyed over the summer www.councilshs2information.org. clear from all the sessions that we the edges of sections of Oxford Street doesn’t come without a penalty. Residents should note however that T ran that the issues of most in the vicinity of Princes Lane and Lee Our hedges are sprouting like mad and by the time the detailed designs for HS2 Common School is an appropriate way it seems a good time to remind all our importance to our residents include: get to formal Schedule 17 planning of improving the parking and vehicle parishioners of their hedge-cutting • Road surfaces application stage, there will in fact be overcrowding problems. responsibilities. • HS2 little opportunity to change them. The A single white line would be Whatever the size of your plot and • Broadband Parish Council will be looking for painted along sections of Oxford whether it borders a roadside, a • School buses opportunities to engage with the recently Street, next to the bus stop, the fire pavement or a rural public footpath, • Planning applications announced main contractors (see pages 8 responsibility lies with the owner to • Fly-tipping hydrant, on the bend and opposite the and 9) on local design elements over the keep it cut back. • Preserving the local pubs junction with Princes Lane, in order to next 12 months. Please keep an eye on your hedges • A village archive. remind drivers of the Highway Code’s For all Parish Council matters with consideration for walkers and road Going forward we will hold two or restrictions. The exact sections to be please contact the Clerk at users alike. Cut back annual growth three of these useful events each year, white-lined would be determined by [email protected] dates to be published in due course. Bucks CC following this consultation. We look forward to the opportunity to Responses to the consultation discuss issues with you. should be sent to The Clerk by the cut-off date of 30 th September. There Playground maintenance will also be an opportunity to KINGSHILL We are delighted to now have a comment in person at the Parish CARS FOR ALL OCCASIONS core group of volunteers who tackle Council meeting on 12 th September. some of the more urgent jobs needed to keep the children’s play area in full HS2 planning information Chiltern and South Bucks District working order. It is not too late to join Everything you’d wish a country CHILTERNS Councils have put together a website of - if you can spare half a day every pub to be; great beer, cosy current local HS2 planning information.