January 2009 Archives

Would-be home owners have been left fearing for the future after developers had to stop work because of financial pressures.
The Rural Housing Trust is now planning to hand over the scheme to another housing trust.
In a letter to people who expressed an interest in properties on the Garden Field site on Bowstride Lane, the company said that the current economic climate has left the trustees and its subsidiary, RHT Developments Ltd, "with no alternative but to decide to wind down our operations."

The new manager of the Co-operative in Chalfont St Giles was given a surprise on Tuesday when he and his staff were asked to report for work in their pyjamas.
Haydn Scarlett, 24, took up his new role at the store on Saturday, January 24, only to discover that Tuesday was not so much 'dress down' day as 'undress day'.
Mr Scarlett and his team took part in a 'wake-up call' sounded by the Royal National Institute of the Deaf (RNID), which is the national Co-op's charity of the year for 2009.

The development of new housing association stock could be at risk because the building has 'bats in its belfry'.
Church Farm House in Townfield Lane, Chalfont St Giles, which is owned by Paradigm Housing, has been given conditional consent by Chiltern District Council for its demolition and re-development as 26 flats.

The next coffee morning organised by the Chalfont St Giles Twinning Association will now be held on Saturday, January 31, a week earlier than originally planned.
The coffee morning will be held in The Reading Room from 10am - 11.30am and all are welcome. Changing market conditions mean that the association is no longer collecting aluminium foil at its coffee mornings.

Youngsters in Chalfont St Giles were treated to a trip around the village library this week.
Children at the Chalfont St Giles Infant and Nursery School visited the library and were shown around before being read a story in a bid to encourage them to use the facility more.
The annual trip is designed as a way of teaching children that reading can be fun and is something that can be done outside school as well as in it.

This is a list of the latest planning applications registered at Chiltern District Council.
Representations should be made either in writing to the Head of Planning Services, Chiltern District Council, King George V Road, Amersham, Bucks, HP6 5AW or by e-mail to planning@chiltern.gov.uk. If you use e-mail would you also include your postal address.

The Friends of Chalfont St Giles Community Library (Literary Group) present Eleanor Merchant talking about her translation of the 16th century "A Handbook on Good Manners for Children" on Thursday February, 5 at 7.30 for 8pm in the Garden Centre, School Lane, Chalfont St Giles.
Tickets £3.50 available from the Community Library.

A Chalfont St Giles parish councillor who admits to being "well past retirement age" has just returned from a three-week trek across the jungles and mountains of Rwanda in search of gorillas.
Austrian-born Karoline Lamb of Bottrells Lane could not persuade any friends to join her. Instead, she planned her own itinerary and joined an organised tour to the gorillas' habitat, near the border with Congo.

Pupils from Chalfont St Giles nursery and infant school had their lessons 'al fresco' at a special Forest School.
The school has been by the Chiltern Open Air Museum (COAM) and the Hawk and Owl Trust and pupils got the chance to visit on Tuesday.
COAM education officer Melissa Maynard said the Forest School is now in its fifth year and currently runs weekly classes for the Chalfont St Giles infant school pupils.

A series of dangerous 'near misses' have prompted Chalfont St Giles parish council to campaign for the the entrance and exits of a car park to be swapped.
The parish council feels that if the entrance and exit of Blizzards Yard car park were swapped, vehicle access and visibility can be improved.
It is particularly concerned that lorries using the car park to make deliveries to the Co-Op and library pose a danger to other drivers and pedestrians.