Comments on: Have Your Say http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/ Watermead Village, Aylesbury Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:43:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Nigel Clowe http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-152 Nigel Clowe Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:32:39 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-152 We live at 4 Stork Close on Watermead and do not receive a copy of the "Village View" magazine. Obviously we would like to receive it and if there is a requirement for extra distributors of said mag, then I would like to volunteer! Thank you, Nigel. We live at 4 Stork Close on Watermead and do not receive a copy of the “Village View” magazine. Obviously we would like to receive it and if there is a requirement for extra distributors of said mag, then I would like to volunteer!

Thank you,

Nigel.

]]> By: daniel http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-161 daniel Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:15:41 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-161 Thanks for the new football area at cleveland i am 13 i go down there with my friends and just to say thanks for the effort you put into it to make it for us and all of the other kids Daniel 18 puffin way Thanks for the new football area at cleveland i am 13 i go down there with my friends and just to say thanks for the effort you put into it to make it for us and all of the other kids

Daniel
18 puffin way

]]> By: Graham http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-170 Graham Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:53:43 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-170 Hi, I may be moving to Watermead very soon. I see from the Environment Agency website that the flood plain for the River Thame runs very close to residential areas of Watermead. This year has certainly been as good a test as any with the heavy rainfall, but have any residential properites on Watermead been ever been affected by environmental flooding? In particular I am intersted in the area to the south of the Watermead entrance road off the A413 and the west of Turnstone Way. Does this flood, but more importantly , has it ever been a risk to properties? Regards Graham Hi,

I may be moving to Watermead very soon. I see from the Environment Agency website that the flood plain for the River Thame runs very close to residential areas of Watermead.

This year has certainly been as good a test as any with the heavy rainfall, but have any residential properites on Watermead been ever been affected by environmental flooding?

In particular I am intersted in the area to the south of the Watermead entrance road off the A413 and the west of Turnstone Way. Does this flood, but more importantly , has it ever been a risk to properties?

Regards
Graham

]]> By: Administrator http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-171 Administrator Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:32:45 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-171 To the best of my knowledge no homes on Watermead have ever been flooded. To the best of my knowledge no homes on Watermead have ever been flooded.

]]> By: Graham http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-172 Graham Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:59:09 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-172 Thanks. I found this very recent article which backs that up too: http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/ontheagenda/Stormy-subject--.3078123.jp "However, Mr Dalby believes that Watermead is also a good example of how you can build houses in flood risk areas as long as you take adequate flood protection measures. He said: "The lakes were built on Watermead as a flood prevention measure. The fact that the area did not flood during the heavy rains in the last few weeks shows that flood prevention works."" Thanks.

I found this very recent article which backs that up too:

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/ontheagenda/Stormy-subject–.3078123.jp

“However, Mr Dalby believes that Watermead is also a good example of how you can build houses in flood risk areas as long as you take adequate flood protection measures.

He said: “The lakes were built on Watermead as a flood prevention measure. The fact that the area did not flood during the heavy rains in the last few weeks shows that flood prevention works.”"

]]> By: steve garrett http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-192 steve garrett Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:08:52 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-192 we had the pleasure of living on osprey walk for a while ,prior to returning to australia, and recall one period of flooding that came very close to the threshholds of a few homes near the lakeside;has any newer measures been put into place to reduce the flood risk, or was that simply a very high water level? i recall the guy at no.6 osprey running around with sandbags , and he did offer to lend a boat for rescue purposes....and of course the fishes were closer to our front door! but that was the highest level i saw in the years we lived there, apparently last summer there was a lot of rain, did the same flood occur? we had the pleasure of living on osprey walk for a while ,prior to returning to australia, and recall one period of flooding that came very close to the threshholds of a few homes near the lakeside;has any newer measures been put into place to reduce the flood risk, or was that simply a very high water level? i recall the guy at no.6 osprey running around with sandbags , and he did offer to lend a boat for rescue purposes….and of course the fishes were closer to our front door! but that was the highest level i saw in the years we lived there, apparently last summer there was a lot of rain, did the same flood occur?

]]> By: lynsey edlin http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-194 lynsey edlin Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:25:33 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-194 Can i ask a BIG please to the men who ride motorbikes up and down ayleswater to PLEASE slow down , as a resident of ayleswater,it is so annoying to hear them every day accelerate outside my house to about 60 miles per hr,there is alot of animals and children on this road and its and accident waiting to happen!! Can i ask a BIG please to the men who ride motorbikes up and down ayleswater to PLEASE slow down , as a resident of ayleswater,it is so annoying to hear them every day accelerate outside my house to about 60 miles per hr,there is alot of animals and children on this road and its and accident waiting to happen!!

]]> By: Michelle Bradford http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-207 Michelle Bradford Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:07:48 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-207 Would someone please be able to update the Village Hall section of this website as the timetable currently shown is very out of date! Thanks. Would someone please be able to update the Village Hall section of this website as the timetable currently shown is very out of date!
Thanks.

]]> By: shaun http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-209 shaun Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:12:56 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-209 high,i have recently moved to the area and i no i will be more than happy here.... i currently live in one of the flats in whinchat,please could you tell me who is responsible for the lighting outside each entrance hall,from what i can see only half of them are currently working high,i have recently moved to the area and i no i will be more than happy here….
i currently live in one of the flats in whinchat,please could you tell me who is responsible for the lighting outside each entrance hall,from what i can see only half of them are currently working

]]> By: Dave Kearley http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-215 Dave Kearley Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:33:54 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-215 I would like to know how many Watermead residents are aware of the impending 10 thousand houses that are being proposed for the large farmers fields alongside the Watermead etates. I have visited the proposals at Bierton town hall and there appears to be every kind of consideration except local community opinion. There are to be 2 schools and businesses as well as main roads planned. I personally like the piece and quiet that Watermead offers and i am sure many other residents do to. I will oppose this development at every opportunity. I would like to know how many Watermead residents are aware of the impending 10 thousand houses that are being proposed for the large farmers fields alongside the Watermead etates. I have visited the proposals at Bierton town hall and there appears to be every kind of consideration except local community opinion. There are to be 2 schools and businesses as well as main roads planned. I personally like the piece and quiet that Watermead offers and i am sure many other residents do to. I will oppose this development at every opportunity.

]]> By: Tony Papps http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-216 Tony Papps Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:32:49 +0000 http://www.watermead.co.uk/2007/07/09/have-your-say/#comment-216 Posted by Tony Papps, 11 Water Lily 1030 15/11/2008 DIRECTION OF HOUSING GROWTH AT AYLESBURY How many residents of Watermead have received this 26 page consultation on the three options? I was not aware of it until a couple of days ago, yet the District Council have set a deadline of 12 December for the questionnaires to be returned. I can find no postings on this site by the Parish Council regarding one of the options, which is to build right up to the border on the east side of Watermead. If this proposal is approved we shall be surrounded on all sides and Watermead will be swallowed up into the middle of a massive housing estate. Our community will be totally disrupted and probably suffer from extensive flooding if the present irrigation channel on the eastern side is removed! This proposal needs to be rejected before it even comes to the discussion table. There are 2 other options mentioned, of which I would suggest that the combined East and Southern Growth is the best solution if more houses have to be built in Aylesbury. Who is going to buy them anyway, the new development at Buckingham Park is already having difficulties in selling the properties? Posted by Tony Papps, 11 Water Lily 1030 15/11/2008

DIRECTION OF HOUSING GROWTH AT AYLESBURY

How many residents of Watermead have received this 26 page consultation on the three options? I was not aware of it until a couple of days ago, yet the District Council have set a deadline of 12 December for the questionnaires to be returned.

I can find no postings on this site by the Parish Council regarding one of the options, which is to build right up to the border on the east side of Watermead.

If this proposal is approved we shall be surrounded on all sides and Watermead will be swallowed up into the middle of a massive housing estate. Our community will be totally disrupted and probably suffer from extensive flooding if the present irrigation channel on the eastern side is removed!

This proposal needs to be rejected before it even comes to the discussion table. There are 2 other options mentioned, of which I would suggest that the combined East and Southern Growth is the best solution if more houses have to be built in Aylesbury.

Who is going to buy them anyway, the new development at Buckingham Park is already having difficulties in selling the properties?

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