News

• Further investment boost for Chesham town centre regeneration

  Buckinghamshire Council has announced a £130,000 investment package to introduce a sustainable drainage system in Chesham town centre to improve surface water runoff and tackle flooding in The Broadway – one of the town’s busiest pedestrian areas.

  06 October 2025
  

• Change in service provider for Community Equipment Services

  The current provider of essential equipment such as wheelchairs and hoists, technology-enabled care like personal alarms, and continence products, is changing.

  03 October 2025
  

• Weekly roadworks update

  As part of Buckinghamshire Council’s £120 million investment in roads across the county over the next four years, work will be taking place next week at the following locations through Buckinghamshire Highways’ Strategic Highway Maintenance Programme.

  03 October 2025
  

• Celebrating the power of social connections as we get older

  Buckinghamshire Council has staged an event today (Thursday 2 October) to celebrate the role older people have in making their community a better place to live, work and age. It’s in recognition of the United Nations International Day of Older People

  02 October 2025
  

• Free Home Upgrades to Cut Energy Bills and Stay Warm This Winter

  Buckinghamshire residents who live in privately owned homes, including private rental properties, that have low energy performance EPC ratings can apply for free energy-saving upgrades that will help them cut energy bills and stay warm this winter.

  02 October 2025
  

• Green light given for 250-acre nature reserve in Aylesbury

  Buckinghamshire Council has approved plans for a new, 250-acre nature reserve in Aylesbury, just east of the town’s award-winning, nature-rich Kingsbrook development

  30 September 2025
  

• Annual Fostering Awards celebrate dedicated Bucks foster carers

  Buckinghamshire Council’s foster carers play a vital role within the community, caring for the over 500 children in our care. Last Friday evening, we held the annual Fostering Awards, celebrating their remarkable work and honouring foster carers

  30 September 2025
  

• Buckinghamshire Council adopts new Health and Wellbeing Strategy

  Earlier today (23 September), Buckinghamshire Council formally adopted the new Buckinghamshire Health and Wellbeing Strategy, which builds on the previous 2022–25 Happier, Healthier Lives Strategy.

  23 September 2025
  

• Improving the quality of life for autistic people in Buckinghamshire

  Buckinghamshire Council has today (Tuesday 23 September) signed off a new partnership plan to improve the quality of life for all autistic people in the county.

  23 September 2025
  

• Household Recycling Centres switch to winter opening hours from 1 October

  From Wednesday 1 October, all 10 of Buckinghamshire’s Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) will move to winter opening hours of 9am to 4pm daily.

  22 September 2025