Police officers reported that three arrests had been made as a result of a report of suspicious activity made by a local resident on 25th April. The vehicle concerned was stopped later in the day. Two car number plates had been stolen in Wilstone recently, and the police advice is to fix number plates with special security bolts which can be bought at car accessory shops.
Exploratory digging to find the lost drains of the Long Marston recreation ground has produced a result, reported Cllr. Mike Tomlinson. Sadly no Saxon hoard or Viking pirate treasure was uncovered by the excavator, but broken drain pipes were revealed, so that’s something at least. The drain does exist, but it’s lost the facility to flow. A contractor will be engaged to replace the length which drains the bottom end of the playing field, and connect it once more to the good bit which was examined in the first exploration.
Cllr. Jill Finlan said that fly tipping is a serious problem in this area, with Astrope Lane being particularly vulnerable because it is so isolated. Many villagers walk their dogs in the vicinity of Astrope Lane, and she urged them to be on the alert for suspicious activity, particularly vans stopped in the lane. Details of vehicles seen fly tipping should be reported to the police. The problem is costing council tax payers a lot of money. Recently eight tons of fly-tipped rubble had to be removed from Tring Road, Wilstone, by Dacorum Borough Council.
The deliberate damage to the BMX track at Long Marston (reported in the May edition) is to be repaired. Local resident David Jenkinson has offered to make the repairs free of charge. Councillors were grateful for his offer and agreed that the BMX track was a well used facility which now fitted well into the recreation ground.
ATTEMPTS by the Parish Council to get the highways authorities interested in a traffic calming scheme for Cheddington Lane, Long Marston, have met with official indifference. Apparently there are no recorded accidents or injuries for that stretch of road, though all at the meeting agreed that speeding traffic is a real danger in the narrow lane, and several cases of ‘near misses’ were quoted. Police officers at the meeting agreed that it was difficult to get evidence of speeding there because the lane is so narrow there was no room to set up the camera van. But the officers agreed to book the portable ‘speed gun’ and have a go. Other suggestions that will be followed up are an automated traffic survey, which also records the speed of vehicles, and a flashing ‘slow down’ sign. Councillors were annoyed by the unhelpful highways authorities and agreed to ask the local MP, David Gauke, to help them get a sensible response.
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