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Report on and Analysis of Main Street and Walnut Drive ATC Survey Conducted 09 to 15 December 2023

WINTER SOUP CAFÉ

MAIDS MORETON CONSERVATION GROUP

INVITE YOU TO MEET UP WITH FRIENDS AND ENJOY

BOWL OF HOMEMADE SOUP, TEA AND BISCUITS

EVERY FRIDAY FROM 12 – 2 PM

IN THE WARM VILLAGE HALL

JANUARY, FEBRUARY AND MARCH(not 29^th)

Sponsored by MAIDS MORETON PARISH COUNCIL

and ELMER’S CHARITY

For further information ring Pauline Kneafsey 07914794963

Scotts Lane

Do you enjoy being outside, doing something useful with a bit of company?

Please join Conservation Group members 10am - midday (or part of) on Thursdays from 22^nd February. Bring gloves and secateurs. Our aim is to continue caring for Scotts Lane. Also, accompanied children will be welcome to join in our activities during Half Term Thursday 15^th February, starting at 10am prompt.

For more information, call Lyn Robinson 01280 813014.

Notice of Poll Maids Moreton

Information on Maids Moreton Neighbourhood Plan Referendum

Maids Moreton Neighbourhood Plan Sept 2023 V11.1 Final

Maids Moreton Neighbourhood Plan Statement of Satisfaction

Maids Moreton Neighbourhood Development Plan Examiners Report

Notice of referendum on adoption of the Maids Moreton Neighbourhood Plan

We are still waiting for a response from the DWH community engagement consultant, Jonathan Walton, on a date for the promised public meeting. It will definitely not be this week, unfortunately.

Buckinghamshire Council has confirmed that the documents submitted meet the Regulation 15 requirements and the Regulation 16 public consultation started at 1100 on 23 March 2023. Because of public holidays, this will run until midnight on 11 May 2023. This link takes you to the public consultation page on the Buckinghamshire Council website:

https://yourvoicebucks.citizenspace.com/planning/maids-moreton-neighbourhood-plan

You can make comments online on that page or by downloading and completing the PDF form. The form can be also downloaded from the link below named:

Maids Moreton Neighbourhood Plan consultation 2023 – Printed survey

If you need a hard copy printed, please email our Vice Chair, Pat Hardcastle, or call on him at 5 The Pightle and he will print a copy for you.

Maids Moreton Neighbourhood Plan

Information here last updated 4 March 2023

In July and August 2022, Maids Moreton Parish Council made available a consultation draft of its

Neighbourhood Plan and invited comments from statutory consultees as well as from the wider

public. All comments received were considered and, where appropriate, changes were made to the

draft version of the Plan in response to these comments.

The Parish Council will now submit the updated Plan to Buckinghamshire Council under Regulation

15 of the legislation on neighbourhood planning. In addition to the updated version of the Plan

(Maids Moreton NP Mar 2023 V10.3) the legislation requires two other documents be submitted.

These are the Consultation Statement, which describes the consultation process undertaken, lists all

the comments received during the formal (Regulation 14) consultation and the response made as

well as the Basic Conditions Statement, which explains how the Neighbourhood Plan meets the Basic

Conditions and other legal requirements.

Copies of these three documents can be downloaded from the links at the foot of this webpage. Note

that the Neighbourhood Plan itself has been compressed to make downloading quicker and to avoid

taking up excessive disk space. All that has been changed by compression from the original document

is the resolution of images but all are still perfectly readable on screen or when printed out at normal

size.

In addition to these three documents, which meet the legal requirements (the plan of the

Neighbourhood Area is within the Plan itself) there are also an Updated Heritage Report and a

collection of Background Documents. The former gives greater detail on the built and natural

heritage of Maids Moreton while the latter, which is a rolling document, includes more detailed

information on a wide range of issues to show how and why the Plan has the form it has taken.

Copies of both of these two additional documents can also be downloaded from links at the foot of

this page together with detailed reports on four traffic surveys undertaken between 2013 and 2020.

These have been made available as the level and speed of traffic within the village is a matter of

great concern to most if not all residents.

Buckinghamshire Council is now responsible for checking that the submitted Neighbourhood Plan has

followed the proper legal process, such as the neighbourhood area being designated and the legal

requirements for consultation and publicity having been followed Once it has satisfied itself on these

matters, the Council will then publicise the Plan and arrange for an independent examination of the

plan. The six-week publicity period (Regulation 16) gives people who wish to do so an opportunity to

make representations that will be passed to the independent examiner.

Publicity under Regulation 16 should not be confused with the earlier pre-submission consultation

(Regulation 14); the two are quite different. Regulation 14 consultation, which was done last year,

allowed anyone to comment on any aspect of the plan and for modifications to be made, if

necessary. Following the Regulation 16 publicity period, any representations made will be passed to

the independent examiner. This means that they will only be considered within the remit of the

independent examination (i.e. whether the neighbourhood plan proposal meets the basic

conditions).

The examiner will issue a report to the local authority and to us as the neighbourhood planning body.

If the plan meets the basic conditions, the examiner will recommend that the plan proceed to the

referendum stage. However, they may, and usually do, recommend modifications that need to be

made to the plan in order to meet the basic conditions before it can proceed to the referendum.

If you need further information, please contact our Vice Chair, Pat Hardcastle phardcastle@maids-

moreton.co.uk who leads on this process for us.

More about the Neighbourhood Plan
Neighbourhood Plan Documents

Budget for 2023-2024

Information on the Local Heritage List in the attached flyer.

Buckinghamshire Council - Helping Hand

Get in touch–let us know if:

• you are struggling to afford food
• you cannot keep on top of your bills
• you are in debt
• you are struggling to pay for essential goods in your home

To request support from the Helping Hand team either use our online form or phone 01296 531151.

Our phone lines are open Monday to Thursday 9am to 5:30pm and Friday 9am to 5pm.

In an emergency, our out-of-hours team can be contacted on 0800 999 7677.

Buckinghamshire Council has been selected as one of 14 local authorities to participate in the national pilot to test the new National Model Design Code. The initiative aims to set out rules for new developments so guidance and policies can be created to ensure all new projects meet the requirements set out in the Design Code for the local area. It will cover the design of streets, public spaces and building as well as spaces created for water and nature.

The Council has received a £50,000 grant from the Government to develop the Design Code for Buckinghamshire. Using a brand new, innovative web portal, ‘bucks.place’, residents and communities can tell the Council what they think – both good and bad – about where they live, and other local developments in the surrounding area.

You can use your smartphone or computer to tag the location, type your thoughts and snap a relevant photo, giving us your feedback on homes, nature, infrastructure and more. But we don’t just want to hear the things people love about where they live; we want to hear about any problems people may face living in Buckinghamshire, and what they’d like to see in future too.

Your involvement will help the Council to shape the future development of Buckinghamshire, ensuring that we are creating an exciting, accessible and thriving place for everyone to live.

To find out more, visit the portal at:https://bucks.place

For information on how you can help reduce your footprint on the planet, please see the attached poster.

In light of the recent reports that have been published, one of our local residents, Kevin Robinson, has put together this information chart for the parish council.  It details what happens to the rubbish that is collected by Buckinghamshire Council.

Maids Moreton Parish Council wish to express their condolences to Her Majesty The Queen following her announcement of the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.

Further announcements will made in due course.

The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss.

Friday, 9 April 2021

Furzedown School currently have 2 Governor vacancies at their 'Outstanding' special school which provides a supportive and aspirational environment for children with complex Special Educational Needs. For more information please see the link.

.https://www.fds.org.uk/career-opportunities

We have been made aware of a road closure and diversion, see attached, in the local area between Leckhampstead and Maids Moreton. This diversion will be in place from today, 01/12/2020 to Friday 04/12/2020 between the hours of 09.30 and 15.30.

The BART Bus (Buckingham Community Bus) is a rural transport scheme for North Buckinghamshire set up in 2018.  For more information see http://www.mybart.org.uk/

The Car Park at Maids Moreton Playing Fields will be closed from December 2nd to 3rd for planned maintenance.  We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

There has been a surge in online fraud in recent times.  Please be careful when shopping online and opening emails.

For further information please go to https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/shoponlinesafely

The Autumn edition of Maids Moreton Parish Council Newsletter.

Buckinghamshire Adult Learning offers free of charge English and maths courses to residents in Buckinghamshire. As part of Buckinghamshire Council, it is our mission and purpose to make learning in these core subjects available to as many people as possible in Buckinghamshire.

https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/

There are 8 Automatic Traffic Counters in and around the village. These have been placed by Maids Moreton Parish Council to collect data on the speed and frequency of traffic around the village to feed into our Neighbourhood Plan and to compare with a similar survey completed in 2013.

Due to the adverce weather conditions the Maids Moreton Scarecrow Day has been cancelled. Watch this space for news of a new date.

Want to have your say in the finances of Buckinghamshire Council? They currently have their budget consultation taking place. Click on the link to find out more.

https://yourvoicebucks.citizenspace.com/corporate-services/budget-2021-22/

The development of the new Buckinghamshire Council has opening up many avenues in which members of the public can contribute to the running of their local area. One such avenue are Community Boards. If you are interested in being part of the local voice, please sign up here.

https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/community-and-safety/improving-your-local-community/

If you are interested in zero waste and recycling, check out the new Zero Waste Map created by buckinghamshire Council.  https://www.recycleforbuckinghamshire.co.uk/zerowastemap/

There is a new survey on the health and social care provision within Buckinghamshire which is available at

https://yourvoicebucks.citizenspace.com/icp/health-social-care-survey-2020-1/

NOTICE OF VACANCY

Maids Moreton Parish Council

Local Government Act 1972- Sections 87 and 89

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat due tothe resignation of Councillor C McCall a casual vacancy has arisen in the Office of a Parish Councillor for Maids Moreton Parish Council.

If by 22 May 2020 (within 14 days excluding Dies Non after the date of this notice) a request for an election to fill the vacancy is made in writing to:

The Returning Officer, Buckinghamshire Council, The Gateway, Gatehouse Raod, Aylesbury, Bucks HP19 8FF

by TEN electors for the Town/Parish, an election will be held to fill the vacancy, otherwise the vacancy will be filled by co-option.

Please note that if an election is requested, a poll cannot currently take place until 6 May 2021 as a result of the Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 and the Coronavirus Act 2020.

Dated: 1 May 2020

Signed:Jacky Dale-Evans

Maids Moreton Parish Clerk, Serendipity, Main Street, Maids Moreton, Buckingham, MK18 1QS.

We know the nice weather will have meant that many residents will be spending time in their gardens, enjoying the weather and on essential maintenance.

Whilst the local Household Recycling Centres are all closed, now would be an ideal time to start composting your garden waste.

Buckinghamshire Council has some good information on how to start, as well as links to other websites where you can purchase a compost bin.

For more information, please see their website, https://www.recycleforbuckinghamshire.co.uk/…/home-compost…/

Discussing continued concerns about the level of traffic flows within Maids Moreton, it was felt that traffic levels had increased compared with those recorded in December 2018. To check whether this impression was correct, a pilot sample was undertaken on 15 October 2019 at the Main St / Manor Park junction between 0800 and 0900. This indicated that traffic had increased.Consequently, more comprehensive traffic counts were undertaken at two key junctions that provide a good overview of traffic levels within the village. These two junctions are Main St / Manor Park and Mill Lane / Church St. In order to make the data as comparable as possible with that from 2018, the same recording periods, 0800 to 0900 and 1700 to 1800 were used.

To view the traffic survey click: Maids Moreton Traffic Survey – Conducted 7 November and 19 December 2019