North Bucks Community Board

Chairman: Cllr Frank Mahon

Vice Chairman: Cllr Patrick Fealey

Board Manager: Andy Chapman

Email: [email protected]

The North Bucks Community Board covers the following Buckinghamshire Council Wards:

• Buckingham
• Grendon Underwood & The Claydons
• Newton Longville
• Horwood
• Winslow

View our map to check the area or parish that you live in.

View our priorities for each of the areas:

Buckingham:

• Ageing Well: To work with partners and services, including the new Integrated Neighbourhood Team, to identify the nature and extent of the main challenges and barriers to ageing well in North Bucks, with a focus on initiatives designed to reduce the incidence and severity of frailty.

Grendon Underwood & The Claydons:

• Environment: To work with partners including Bucks, Berks and Oxon Wildlife Trust on a range of initiatives designed to improve and preserve the landscape around the River Ray, and to improve residents’ use of and connection to the area by encouraging volunteering, offering skills training and work experience to young people, and identifying and promoting green social prescribing opportunities
• Ageing Well: To work with partners and services, including the new Integrated Neighbourhood Team, to identify the nature and extent of the main challenges and barriers to ageing well in North Bucks, with a focus on initiatives designed to reduce the incidence and severity of frailty
• Community cohesion: To work with partners to explore and understand the current level of community activities and opportunities to take part in local life, recognising potential needs for additional services to meet the requirements of increased populations. The aim is to ensure that the social offer meets the needs of the growing community, bringing together existing and new residents. 

Horwood:

• Community transport: As data shows that the wards of Horwood, Newton Longville and Grendon Underwood & The Claydons all fall within the top five in Bucks for the time taken to access both GP services and a town centre by public transport or walking, to work with partners for 6 months to map the current commercial and community transport services, to talk to local residents and organisations, and to assess any need for recommendations or action
• Cycling:To coordinate a pilot review of cycling-related ambitions within local wards. This will include exploring current challenges and opportunities through partnership working, promoting healthy activity and safe cycling practices, and encouraging local participation in cycling-related activities

Newton Longville:

• Community Transport: As data shows that the wards of Newton Longville, Horwood and Grendon Underwood & The Claydons all fall within the top five in Bucks for the time taken to access both GP services and a town centre by public transport or walking, to work with partners for 6 months to map the current commercial and community transport services, to talk to local residents and organisations, and to assess any need for recommendations or action
• Ageing Well: To work with partners and services, including the new Integrated Neighbourhood Team, to identify the nature and extent of the main challenges and barriers to ageing well in North Bucks, with a focus on initiatives designed to reduce the incidence and severity of frailty.

Winslow:

• Community cohesion: To work with partners to explore and understand the current level of community activities and opportunities to take part in local life, recognising potential needs for additional services to meet the requirements of increased populations resulting from new housing growth. The aim is to ensure that the social offer meets the needs of the growing community, bringing together existing and new residents

Winslow:

• Ageing Well: To work with partners and services, including the new Integrated Neighbourhood Team, to identify the nature and extent of the main challenges and barriers to ageing well in North Bucks, with a focus on initiatives designed to reduce the incidence and severity of frailty
• Cycling: To coordinate a pilot review of cycling-related ambitions within local wards. This will include exploring current challenges and opportunities, including the new train station, through partnership working, promoting healthy activity and safe cycling practices, and encouraging local participation in cycling-related activities

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• give you the opportunity to get involved with our working groups
• let you know about local consultations

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