June 2022
A love of music has brought a Piccotts End couple to the altar. In the village’s first wedding for many years, Jane McClelland married Simon Lillystone at Chenies Manor in a ceremony filled with a feast of singing and dancing. Jane, who lives at 140, is a former music teacher and met Simon at a musical event in London.
May 2022
This month’s spring coffee morning was more than a gathering of residents eager to get out and enjoy the sunshine.
It was an occasion when the village showed its true colours of kindness, generosity and a hitherto unseen talent for speaking Russian!
May 2022
The village coffee morning will take place this Sunday (May 8th) and in a sign of the times, it is on the village’s new noticeboard. Well that’s if you can call a stake in the ground with a laminated poster attached to it a noticeboard! It’s a forerunner of a real noticeboard that won approval at last month’s AGM
April 2022
A street party to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee will be held in the village on Saturday June 4th. Residents gave the thumbs up to the event at last week’s AGM.
The other main topic concerned the Fairfax development plan on the other side of the Leighton Buzzard road. Opposition is being co-ordinated by Holly Cross of Piccotts End Farm. Holly outlined the current situation and you can read further details of how to support her campaign below.
April 2022
The next Village AGM will be held on Thursday 21st April at 110 Piccotts End, courtesy of Margaret Stanier, and the time 7.30pm.
April 2022
Our congratulations to Riverbank resident Sue Leach, who has become the village’s first ‘street champion.’ Public spirited Sue, has signed up to Dacorum’s ‘keep our town tidy’ campaign.
Equipped with a reach extender, hi-viz tabard, gloves and and an armful of litter bags courtesy of the council’s scheme, she has already been out on her first pick around the village.
April 2022
The village daffodils have put on a great show this year, including many planted by residents in our Daffodil Day last December. They will take a couple of years to get established but have already added to some colour to the verges. Hopefully we’ll be able…
March 2022
Residents can breathe a sigh of relief that two major development plans affecting the village could be delayed by up to 5 years. The news comes following a Dacorum planning meeting at which councillors were informed that no new developments could go ahead pending the outcome of an inquiry into the environmental impact of tourism on Ashridge forest (pictured).
January 2022
The deadline for objections to a plan for nearly 400 houses on the other side of the Leighton Buzzard Road has been extended until January 22nd.
Residents Association secretary Michael Nidd, who is encouraging residents to oppose the plan, says it would be in breach of Green Belt policy.
December 2021
It’s all change in the Old Town as the new year welcomes a flurry of new shops. From having just a few, there is now an abundance of coffee shops. There’s The Hive at the bottom, the Tea Tree up the hill, Artichoke in the middle, to the newest, Old Town Coffee…