Covid alert – Penn and Tylers Green Football Club has postponed two games in its senior men’s section this weekend after one of the players was taken ill with suspected coronavirus.
Remembrance arrangements – Penn’s Remembrance Sunday service will take place entirely outside on 8 November so that attendees can socially distance. It will begin at 10.50am and last 20 minutes. There will be no usual British Legion service in the church during the afternoon. At St Margaret’s, Tylers Green an Act of Remembrance will take place after the 10am service.
Crime increase – Reported crime in the Chalfont area, which includes Penn, rose to a record number in August according to figures on the Police.UK website. In all 130 crimes were reported compared to 121 in July. In the Chepping Wye area, which includes Tylers Green and Hazlemere, 121 crimes were reported in August, a slight drop on July’s record figure of 133. In both areas, violence and anti-social behaviour accounted for half of reported crime.
Trees diseased – More ash trees are to be felled in the village following increasing attacks of Ash Dieback disease. They include one in the woodland at the rear of Tylers Green First School and another at the Old Bell House in Church Road, Tylers Green. Last week permission was sought to fell similarly diseased trees outside Tylers Green Middle School and Penn Lodge, in Church Road, Penn. A number of ash trees have been infected in Kings Wood, Common Wood and Penn Wood. Three Mountain Ash trees in the woodland behind the first school are also to be felled because of decay.
Some better news however: the ash trees outside Tylers Green Village Hall have been checked and are showing no sign of the disease. And an inspection of the other trees in the woodland behind the first school found that two young elm trees were not showing signs of Dutch Elm Disease.
Phone mast – The mobile phone companies have applied to erect a 22.5 metre phone mast with three antennas and two dish antennas at Penn Street Farm to improve reception and improve broadband speeds in the Penn Street and Winchmore Hill area.
Fatal accident – Coroner Crispin Butler ruled that Lee Wilson, 32, of Curzon Avenue, Hazlemere died in an “utterly tragic accident” when he was hit by two cars near the junction of Gravelly Way and Amersham Road last September. Mr Wilson’s inquest heard that he was wearing dark clothes as he crossed the unlit road just before midnight and there was nothing the drivers could have done to avoid him.
Respect for Apryl – Mourners stood in silence and mauve balloons lined the funeral procession of 16 year old Apryl Scorer on Monday. The cortege made a special diversion from her home in Hazlemere to pass Sir William Ramsay School and Manor Farm Community School in Rose Avenue, where she attended. Apryl died suddenly on holiday in France in August. An inquest will be held.
Rubbish collection – Thirty volunteers picked up 40 bags of rubbish from Penn and Tylers Green during a litter pick event at the end of September.
Playground improvements – Tylers Green First School playground is being resurfaced over the half term break.