Brian
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Registered: 07/12/05
Posts: 38
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Reply with quote | #1 |
The consulatation period has now finished. The Community Vision document has been published and can be viewed here.
An Action Plan will be published in April 2009.
You can still add any comments about the Vision on this tread.
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RobR
Registered: 21/04/08
Posts: 10
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These are additional comments received after the publication of the vision document and collected at the public "open day" on 7th March.
Resolve flooding under railway bridge. Leaves need to be cleared more frequently.
Why doesn't the street cleaner go down Cokes Lane and pick up the rubbish.
Footpaths that run along the railway track behind Beechwood Close needs to be cleared of rubbish.
Perhaps we could have an "adopt a road" programme where volunteers would clean up particularly littered areas.
Replacement of defective lights need urgent attention.
We need seats for the elderly near the shops.
Clean up garbage in the fenced in area by the railway bridge and approach to station.
By all means install better lighting but must be on at all times. Too many are out now.
Extended use of new community centre will require additional car parking facilities of some sort.
Underground car park! Who would use it late at night. It will encourage vandalism.
I suggest less car parking and more cycle racks.
Introduce underground car parking.
How about the Chiltern and LT timetables being joined together in one booklet.
Introduce heavy fines for dropping litter.
Get Dr Challoners girls to take their litter away instead of dropping it all over the village green.
More education in schools about litter and its affect on the community.
At Rickmansworth the introduction of skate-boarding facilities proved the greatest disaster of all Council initiatives towards "improvement". It attracted louts from far and near who created vandalism, broke in at all hours and terrorised local shopkeepers by demanding use of their toilets, having repeatedly destroyed the skateboard park toilets.
Flooding. Drains not cleaned out enough.
Fish & Chip shop in Burtons Lane to demand that their customers don't drop their litter in Burtons Lane and the small brook opposite Burtons Way.
Ask station to clear their litter on station forecourt.
Resolve problem of litter on the British Rail side of fence under bridge/entrance to car park area.
Extend litter collection to include Cokes Lane.
Arrange community litter collection days from time to time (including Burtons Lane north).
CCTV cameras on Village Green to control vandalism.
Empty existing bins more frequently. I Passed 2 bins on the green on my way here but they were full, ie they are used but need emptying more frequently.
My concern is over the proposed new Community Centre. Applefields already have the noise of the traffic up to 1am then it quietens down to about 5am. In the summer youngsters on the Village Green can keep you awake till the early hours. The new centre will need to be surrounded by trees and hedges to deaden the noise of people leaving the centre after functions late at night.
What about the young living here. I suggest an outside roller rink in Westwood Park - Free. Entertainment in Amersham is expensive and too far. LC has nothing that is free to school children.
I would suggest that you forget about grandiose village halls etc.
So we lose car parking and toilets for an unnecessary Parish Council Office, housing and shops and at what cost?
Please do not victimise car drivers and employers who have nowhere for their employees to park. Cars are not going to go away. Get real.
No further housing is allowed to be built as the area is too built up and congested as it is.
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gill
Registered: 19/05/08
Posts: 2
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Having read the comments gathered from the public consultation day I am interested to see that several people would like to have litter collection days organised to tidy up the village.
But when just such an event was organised by Little Chalfont Evening WI, publicised with a large poster on the "notice board easel" in the Library inviting all residents to come and help, a mention in the Bucks Examiner and by an email to all Village Society members who are registered for email correspondence, I'm afraid to say that our Parish Councillor Francis Wilkinson was the only person to join us. Congratulations to him! We did however manage to collect 7 bin bags full of rubbish and we look forward to having more helpers next time.
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