Coronavirus update
- There has been a slight reduction in the number of new Covid cases locally in the seven days to Wednesday. In the Wycombe area, which includes Tylers Green and Hazlemere, there were 117; in the South Bucks area (Beaconsfield) 90 and in the Chiltern area, (Amersham including Penn) 81. There has been one Covid related death reported in the three areas in the same period.
- One of the Argos stores earmarked for closure by Sainsbury’s yesterday is the store in Wycombe Retail Park, off the London Road opposite Cock Lane. The store has not reopened since the first lockdown in March.
- Beaconsfield and High Wycombe libraries are two of the five major libraries in Buckinghamshire that will reopen next Tuesday, 10 November. Visitors will be able to use computers, return books and collect pre-ordered books, but no browsing will be allowed. Hazlemere Library will remain closed until early December.
- Holy Trinity, Penn and St Margaret’s, Tylers Green are open for private prayer each day between 9am and 2pm throughout the lockdown. Although there will be a short Remembrance Sunday commemoration around the Penn war memorial on Sunday there will be no similar ceremony at St Margaret’s. An act of remembrance will follow the usual Sunday online service.
- The Old Queen’s Head in Penn gave a novel temporary farewell to its customers on its Facebook page yesterday, on the theme of theTwelve Days of Christmas…
On the 31st day of October, our Prime Minister gave to us the Lockdown 2.0 announcement after….
12 (at least) changes/adaptations to our business
11 customers (and more) forgetting to bring face masks
10pm curfew in place
9 tables removed
8 sanitiser points
7 one way system signs
6 people only
5 day weeks
4 months reopen
3 tier system
2 metre rules
..and use of one track and trace app!
Local news
Garage objection – Penn Parish Council is objecting to plans to convert Winter’s garage in Church Road, Penn into a private house because they say it will mean the loss of an employment site.
School may face enforcement action – Councillors are being recommended to refuse Holmer Green Senior School permission to keep an air dome it has erected over its tennis courts to help accommodate students during the pandemic. Planning officers say the dome negatively impacts neighbouring properties and the character of the area. They are recommending enforcement action be taken to force the school to take down the dome.
Local funding – The new Beaconsfield and Chepping Wye Community Board has given three grants to local organisations:
- £1,145 to the Penn and Tylers Green Residents’ Society for materials and equipment for a new all-weather path in Common Wood
- £675 for a new project to raise awareness and support for people living with dementia and their carers. Match funded by Chepping Wycombe Parish Council
- £575.50 to the One Can Trust towards the cost of equipment for the provision of fresh food for those in the area struggling in the pandemic.
Council dealings – Figures to be presented to Buckinghamshire Council next week show that the council expects to earn £5.7m selling land at Ashwells, Tylers Green for residential development. They also show that the construction of the new Penn Road cemetery near Hazlemere Crossroads, which is nearing completion, has a budget of £1,679,000.
This blog is being updated daily during the current lockdown. You can contact me at peter@pennandtylersgreen.com