A view from our window

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

Dear Colleagues Another fast and furious week of activity!  Perhaps blown along by the winds we’ve been experiencing! We started the week with Cllr Des Bray and me, attending the NALC Power Shift 2025 conference and it was great to see some of our councils represented there too.  You’ll have seen the NALC’s Chair’s Update

Dear Colleagues The view from all our windows this week will have been very blustery indeed, and, nothing at all to do with new elected representatives up and down the country, proclaiming how they have the insight and skills to make things better.  We enjoyed our first Super Saturday session with new councillors last week and

Dear Colleagues Happy Friday!  Apologies for missing last week, a family emergency diverted my attention and I am still catching up.  There was a lot going on during this time at both Authorities and I’m pleased that I was still able to attend the presentation by MKCC on proposed changes to Executive Decision Call In’s

Dear Colleagues, I’m not sure how many councillors this week’s View will reach, but I hope Clerks, you will forward it to both your outgoing Council and your new Council next week.  Lorraine and I would like to extend our thanks to those councillors who are retiring.  Your contribution to our local government sector will be

Dear Colleagues Yes, two for one this week! We are happy to be coming to the end of a period of technical challenges!  Imports that will not work, BC laptops that cannot access restricted sites and personal laptops that can, but can’t access BC printers.  You name it, we’ve faced it!  All this prompts me