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Dear Colleagues We’ve had a steady week here in BMKALC and we are seeing a slowing down in the inbox.  Our training programme for this year is now complete.  However, it’s also a time for lots of meetings including the SLCC Bucks branch AGM and lunch, dashing around to catch up with people we have […]

Well as the first frost has bitten hard, I think I can now legitimately say, 33 sleeps till Christmas!  In our governance terms probably only one more full council meeting, your Christmas lights are probably up with light up ceremonies looming large.   Don’t forget in the midst of all the excitement to get your council

Dear Colleagues Are you wading ready?  I was hoping to get a last cut of the grass now all the leaves seem to have fallen, but it’s a little damp out there!  Still no need, yet, to break out the heavy coats and gloves. We are hurtling through November and still running at full pace. 

Dear Colleagues, You may have noticed it’s been a little breezy!  With our trees still carrying a lot of leaves this can make them top heavy and more inclined to damage.  Given a recent case where a council was found liable for extensive damages following a H&S prosecution, you need to make sure that you

CLERKS, PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ALL COUNCILLORS. Sadly, a rather dreich end to the week, with the promise of wind and rain to come.  Still, we are racing through October, and these things are to be expected, is it too early to be starting a sleeps counter?  Certainly, worth pointing out that you may only have

Dear Colleagues Please join me in welcoming Jess!  Jess is joining us as the critical third leg in our small team,  as we all know, tables with three legs don’t wobble, and Lorraine and I are both excited to have her on board.  Jess is already active in our sector, working with a busy parish

Dear Colleagues, Firstly, a huge thank you to Great Linford Parish Council for hosting this year’s AGM meeting.  Becky Walsh was as always inspirational, informative and entertaining, kicking off the evening recognising the challenges and providing a sense of proportionality to all that we do.  The business part of the meeting was brisk and draft minutes

Dear Councillors and Clerks For this week I wanted to highlight the changes we need to mindful of relating to the new Assertion 10 that every councillor will be voting on next year.  It may not have really have alerted you to the changes you need to be making now, you only have a few

Dear Colleagues, Obviously as schools disgorged tired teachers and hyper children, the sun took a break and the clouds gathered!  It was always thus, but today the sunshine returns and with it the round up of the weeks adventures! We started off with the BC in-person Clerks forum in Wycombe then Aylesbury, with presentations from

Dear Colleagues The week started with consideration of the sustained impact on communities of National Strategic Infrastructure projects.  Certainly our members have faced significant impact from HS2, East West Rail, new jail applications, airport expansion, large scale solar farms, battery hubs water treatment and water transport schemes, to name a few.  For some of our