Fly tipping in the south of Buckinghamshire

It may not be your favourite job but always pick up after your dog, putting the bag into the bins provided or taking it home with you! And before you walk away from a pile of poop thinking it’s biodegradeable, think again… it’s illegal; it’s a pollutant (in the same health category as oil and toxic chemicals according to the EPA); it produces disease causing bacteria – just 30g of dog poo can contain over 23 million micro-organisms that can be directly transmitted to humans, especially children; worms and other parasites thrive in it (ringworm, roundworm, salmonella, E.Coli etc); it’s a food source for rats and it’s YOUR responsibility.

Please keep our village safe for all and especially for the many children and families who use the village hall playing field for sport & recreation.

Report it – The law requires owners to clean up after their dogs in public places and dog wardens will enforce this under the Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996 with a fixed penalty of £50. Being prosecuted in court for allowing your dog to foul in a public place and failing to clean it up straight away has a maximum fine of £1000.

Contact the Wycombe District Dog Warden (service provided by SDK Environmental Ltd.) Tel: 01494 412 247

PLEASE PICK UP AFTER YOUR POOCH!!

If you’re out with your dog please take a good look around,

To ensure nobody else will find something he’s left on the ground!

Kids coming to play or those training in their football kit

Really mustn’t have to deal with, or slip in it!

We don’t want it on the grass, or on our shoe

It’s dangerous, unpleasant, and it’s down to you!

So bag it and bin it so it’s nowhere to be seen,

Let’s keep our village lovely, healthy and clean!!

It is especially important for the many children and families who use the village hall playing field for sport & recreation.
Thank you for being a responsible pet owner.

It is once again that time of year when nesting season has ended and many hedges around the village are becoming an increasing safety concern and a danger on our roads and pavements, and so we are urging you all to see if the hedge or overhanging vegetation next to your property needs cutting back now.

This is a problem that obscures road users’ views of potential dangers, causes an obstruction and effects all road users –
drivers, cyclists, horse riders and walkers –
as well as school buses and commercial vehicles that are forced to collide with
overgrown foliage and low hanging branches.

The owner or occupier of a property has a legal responsibility (Highways Act 1980) to ensure that the ‘public highway’ (defined by law as consisting of any verge, footway, carriageway, bridleway or footpath) is not obstructed by vegetation from their property. Cutting back should be done to a minimum width from the highway of 1.2m (or to your boundary which is the central growth line) and to a height of 5.2m (roads) or 2.5m (verge/path).

Please cut back overhanging vegetation now rather than wait for an official reminder! Please also check the condition of your trees and hedges and seek professional arboricultural advice if required.

Report It!!

You can report many problems such as hedges, fallen trees and branches, snow and ice problems, flooding, footpath / pavement problem, road surface, fly-tipping etc directly to Bucks County Council or to Transport for Bucks.

To report and Track a Rights of Way problem to the County Council please follow: https://www.buckscc.gov.uk/services/environment/public-rights-of-way/report-a-rights-of-way-issue/

To report a Highways issue (ie roads, footways, traffic lights and street lights) please follow: https://www.fixmystreet.buckscc.gov.uk/

If you need any assistance please contact parish.clerk@radnage.net and we will be happy to help.

Speeding
Please reduce your speed. By slowing down, you have more of an opportunity to correct your own mistakes and to react to the errors of others. Did you know that Overall Stopping Distances are DOUBLED for wet roads. Always drive to the conditions of the road and reduce your speed!

Please help us by driving slowly!
Slowing down is vital to safety, especially in protecting our most vulnerable road users like children, and enabling people to walk, cycle and ride without unnecessary risk. Our rural lanes are narrow with many bends, poor visibility and hidden junctions. Even if you know the road well, you never know what’s round the corner. The majority of driver and passenger deaths happen on rural roads, often due to drivers taking bends too fast, overtaking, or not being able to react to unexpected hazards.

RoSPA’s Top Tips:
– Check your speedometer regularly
– Know the limits and look for signs
– Speed limits are a maximum
– 20’s plenty when kids are about
– Try no higher than 3rd gear at 30mph
– Concentrate – Distracted drivers speed
– Slow down when entering any village
– Give yourself time
It may feel like you are only crawling through the village, especially if you have been driving at 50mph for while, but at 30 mph you are still covering 44 feet (about three car lengths) every second, and if you hit a pedestrian at that speed, he or she will be severely injured, and possibly killed.

Well done Radnage!!!!
The judging has now been completed for 2019 and teh results have been received ….in the Morris Cup this year Radnage scored 94 marks. The Judges were particularly impressed with the areas around the Village Hall & playground, St. Mary’s Churchyard, the various floral displays in & around the village, and the lack of litter!! We look forward to receiving our our Certificate of Merit! Well done all! We were only 4 marks away as Hedgerley won with 98 and Chearsley and Cuddington tied for Runner-Up with 97. So we were very close!

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BBKV 2019
Following the support and positive comments received last year Radnage will once again proudly be entering the Buckinghamshire Best Kept Village Competition. There is plenty of time to plan your plants, polish your signs and enjoy nurturing our wonderful village so that it looks its best. The judges will visit the special place we are fortunate enough to call home for judging between June 1^st and July 7^th. They may be lucky enough to enjoy Garden Sunday. Good luck Radnage!

BBKV 2018

Certificate of Merit!! The judging has been completed for this year and the results are in with the full Judges Comments having now been received, together with a note of how impressed the judging panel was with our village hence the high score (we scored 88 out of a possible 100) and offering a well done to all concerned. Padbury won with 93 but the judges said the standard was high and the margins tight. Special mention was made of our Church and the wildlife area, playing field, the well used and enjoyed playground, beacon, pub area, war memorial, to mention just a few! Our grateful thanks to everyone who works so hard to cherish our village and make it such a wonderful place to live. We have been awarded a Certificate of Merit to go with the award we received last year.

We offer our congratulations to Padbury who were the winners of this section and also to the runner-up Hedgerley.

Buckinghamshire Best Kept Village 2017 (archive)

Highly Commended!! The judging has been completed and the results are in! We were not successful in winning the Morris Cup this time around but we have much to celebrate and received some very encouraging comments from the judges and scored a very good 84 points out of a possible 100 enabling us to achieve a Highly Commended Certificate of Merit – so very well done Radnage! Thank you to everyone for their contribution in helping to maintain our village and making it a wonderful place in which to live.

Special mention was made of our Churchyard and it’s sensitive rural management, the well equipped and well utilised play area, our notable village Beacon, the village hall and the tidiness of the area, our village pub , bus shelters, allotment gardens, notice boards and war memorial.

We offer our congratulations to Cuddington who were the winners of this section and who also won the Sword of Excellence for best overall winner