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WelcomeWelcome to this website developed by Ackley Parish Council on behalf of our community. The Ackley Parish Council website is provided in order to provide factual and informative content relating to the Parish Council and the village community. Additionally it is intended to be used as a method of communication with the village and anyone who is associated with its local issues or has an interest in it. Latest News
We have now had a site meeting with Transport for Buckingham and progress is being made following agreement of the proposed locations of the signs. This follows the Parish Council receiving confirmation of the funding from Buckinghamshire County Council for a Vehicle Activated Signs at each end of the village on the A413. This has come from the 2010/2011 budget and has been approved at the Local Area Forum meeting. Many of you will know that the Parish Council have been working with various partner agencies to address traffic speed on the A413 for many years. Watch this space for more updates - we anticipate installation during the summer period. New Patio for Akeley Village Hall 25Jun2010
A newly-constructed patio was opened at Akeley Village Hall on Wednesday. Financed by a grant of £5,000 from Aylesbury Vale Community Chest, a Grassroots Grant (funded by the Office of the Third Sector) of £4,000 from the Buckinghamshire Community Foundation, and £2,000 raised by the hall’s management committee over the past three years, the 1600 sq.ft. patio was officially declared open in front of an audience of villagers by Roger Lowe and Beverley Trevitt representing the two grant providers. Andy Sayer, Chairman of the village hall’s management committee, said: “This was a feature that the committee had always hoped to provide for the new hall. We didn’t have the money to do it when the hall was built in 2006, so we’re delighted to have been able to proceed with the project this spring following receipt of the grants.” The patio was built by N & J Hannah from Dadford to the committee’s design and is already proving to be a popular resource among users of both the village hall and the surrounding recreation field. Andy Sayer went on to add: “I would like to thank the committee – Tim Earle for his hard work in securing the funding, Sherri Holland our Secretary, and Andy Waide – along with our Treasurer, Alan Taylor, and Caretaker, Ann Ramshaw, for the success and smooth running of the hall.” Salted 31Mar2010
The Parish Council successfully bid for funding from Buckinghamshire County Council for an additional salt bin. this has now been installed at the junction of Leckhampstead Road and Church Hill. Feel free to use the salt for treating icy paths and roads in the village. Hopefully we wont get any more snow for a while though (by the way, ours in green in colour!).
Fitness Equipment 31Mar2010 Owing to a lack of support from the village, the project to look at Outdoor Exercise Equipment to be located on the recreational Field near the Village Hall has been cancelled Pot holes 01Feb2010 Pot holes start off small and soon get bigger. If you notice any pot holes in the roads within the village, please take a moment to note its exact location such as outside number 99 Elm Street, Akeley. Then please help us all by contacting Highways-On-Call and reporting it on 0845 230 2882. Alternatively: To send an email to Highways on Call regarding pot holes with a copy to Ellen please click here.. Highways on call have an agreed service level and must respond within specific time frames once a report is logged. It would therefore be useful if villagers could copy Ellen the Parish Clerk (Elliesayer@aol.com) on any emails so the Parish Council can monitor appropriate responses from the relevant council services that have the responsibility for this kind of maintenance. On the buses..... 29Nov2009
Buckingham County Council state they need to reduce the cost of the subsidy they give to buses for rural communities including Akeley. The service for Akeley is now the number 151 still going to Buckingham at similar times. There is however NO Saturday service. Crime down in Akeley 01Aug009 The 6 months ending 30th June showed a decrease from 10 to 2 crimes in Akeley. As I write this its raining but please don't forget to shut your windows at night and when you go out through the summer months so we keep the crime low or possibly even zero. Details can be found here for the statistics
Community
First Responders are volunteers that are trained by the ambulance
service to answer certain types of medical emergencies in their local
communities while the ambulance is on its way. Because the volunteers
operate in their neighbourhoods there is every possibility they will
arrive before the ambulance and these seconds and minutes can make
all the difference. Sudden
Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is the UK’s single biggest killer. Every
minute that passes after someone has suffered SCA the chance of a
successful resuscitation reduces by about 10%. When
the ambulance service receives a call in an area where there is a
volunteer available and if the call suitable for a volunteer to
attend, they will firstly mobilise an ambulance and then call the
responder to ask them to attend. The
volunteers give as much time as they want to the project and we are
currently looking for volunteers in Akeley and surrounding villages. If
you would to help in this literally life saving project please e-mail
cfr@scas.nhs.uk for an
information pack or ring 0800 587 0207 or visit the website at www.southcentralambulance.nhs.uk New name - same number 23May009 The Highways On Call team at Buckinghamshire County Council are now part of Transport for Buckinghamshire. Contact details remain the same and hopefully the new structure and organisation will improve the service. Click on the logo to go to their website.
Rural Affordable Housing - update 31Jan2009 Following various Parish Council meetings, work is progressing by Jean Fox to establish the viability of each of the possible sites. which have been visited by Jean Fox and reviewed by a AVDC planning officer. The Parish council will be publishing further details when these research activities have been concluded. Following the survey result, the Parish Council has agreed to proceed to the next stage. More details will appear on the website. A summary of the survey results can be found on the Affordable Housing page on this website by clicking here
War Memorial 29Dec2008 A document that records the restoration work and re-dedication service is now available here on this website. NOTE: this is a large document with many photographs in it and sized at over 70Mb.It may take a while to download. Please click here to download a copy of it.
Neighbourhood and policing moves 04Nov2008
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