The County Council has published a handy new guide to local services. All residents should be receiving a copy by post, and you can also view in on the website via the link below:
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/assets/content/bcc/docs/about_your_council/a-z-directory.pdf
Claydon House
Claydon House Gardens
Sunday 23 September 2012
Dementia Awareness Week
Winslow Library: Buckingham and Winslow Dementia Awareness Week - Coffee Morning
Wednesday 26 September 2012
10am - 1pm
Winslow Centre,
Park Road , Winslow, MK18 3DN
Come along and enjoy a free cup of coffee while chatting to representatives from local services including:
- Bucks Alzheimers Society
- PCSO
- Adults & Family Wellbeing
Suitable for: Adults
Cost: Free
No booking required, just turn up on the day
All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Hearing loop available.
Wheelchair access.
Parking nearby.
Hearing loop available.
Wheelchair access.
Parking nearby.
For more information please call 0845 2303232 or email: lib-wis@buckscc.gov.uk
Wednesday 5 September 2012
Information Fair on Services for Older People
AVDC have arranged an information fair on services for older people.
It will be on Thursday 20th Sept from 2pm – 3pm in the village hall in Steeple Claydon.
All sorts of organisations will send staff along who will be there to answer questions and provide information about the many ways older people can be supported.
All are welcome and free cakes and drinks will be available.
Do please share this information with anyone who may be interested in attending
It will be on Thursday 20th Sept from 2pm – 3pm in the village hall in Steeple Claydon.
All sorts of organisations will send staff along who will be there to answer questions and provide information about the many ways older people can be supported.
All are welcome and free cakes and drinks will be available.
Do please share this information with anyone who may be interested in attending
Have you got your new bins yet ?
It seems as if most households in the Claydons have received their new bins.
The following information for those who are still waiting has been circulated by AVDC:
Our contractors have been working hard to get the new bins to households in time for the start of the new recycling and waste collection service, but some areas are still waiting.
Deliveries have been slightly delayed in some areas, and the council apologises if you have not had your new bins yet, but is hopeful that the vast majority of households should have them in time for their first collection this week.
If you don't have your new bins by now, please:
Put your food waste in your green waste bin, as normal
If your first collection is for waste, the service is as normal, though your collection day may have changed.
If your first collection this week is for recycling, please put your recycling materials in open carrier bags, and leave for collection. If the carrier bags are closed, we won't be able to collect them as we can't see what's in them. Alternatively, you can
Collect a supply of AVDC blue recycling bags from our Customer Service Centres in Aylesbury, Winslow (Library) and the Buckingham Centre, who will have stocks that residents can use in the interim should their bins not arrive in time.
The new service starts on Tuesday 4th Sept. Households will have received a letter from AVDC explaining about the new recycling and waste collection service. The letter confirms what collection day households will have and what materials will be collected when.
The key features of the new collection service are:
• Collections will take place during Tuesday to Friday, so for some the usual collection day may change.
• Households will receive a new ‘all-in-one’ recycling bin for all paper, glass, cardboard, plastics, cartons, cans and tins, mixed together, you don’t have to separate them. Recycling collections will continue to be made every fortnight.
• Households will get a new small outdoor food waste bin and a kitchen caddy. The food waste bin will be collected every week.
• All other waste will go in the existing green waste bin. This will be collected every two weeks, alternating with the blue lidded recycling bin.
Councillor Sir Beville Stanier, Cabinet Member for Environment and Health, said: “Changing the waste and recycling services for the entire district is a mammoth undertaking and we want to firstly thank residents for their patience over the past few weeks. There have been minor issues along the way, such as some residents experiencing a few delays with bin deliveries, which we would obviously like to have avoided. If you have not received your new recycling and food waste bins yet, please accept our apologies and be assured that we will deliver your bins as soon as possible.”
If you haven't received your bins yet, please check to see if your neighbours have theirs first. If they have, and you haven't, please contact us by email to newbins@aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk with your name address, postcode and a daytime phone number.
The following information for those who are still waiting has been circulated by AVDC:
Our contractors have been working hard to get the new bins to households in time for the start of the new recycling and waste collection service, but some areas are still waiting.
Deliveries have been slightly delayed in some areas, and the council apologises if you have not had your new bins yet, but is hopeful that the vast majority of households should have them in time for their first collection this week.
If you don't have your new bins by now, please:
Put your food waste in your green waste bin, as normal
If your first collection is for waste, the service is as normal, though your collection day may have changed.
If your first collection this week is for recycling, please put your recycling materials in open carrier bags, and leave for collection. If the carrier bags are closed, we won't be able to collect them as we can't see what's in them. Alternatively, you can
Collect a supply of AVDC blue recycling bags from our Customer Service Centres in Aylesbury, Winslow (Library) and the Buckingham Centre, who will have stocks that residents can use in the interim should their bins not arrive in time.
The new service starts on Tuesday 4th Sept. Households will have received a letter from AVDC explaining about the new recycling and waste collection service. The letter confirms what collection day households will have and what materials will be collected when.
The key features of the new collection service are:
• Collections will take place during Tuesday to Friday, so for some the usual collection day may change.
• Households will receive a new ‘all-in-one’ recycling bin for all paper, glass, cardboard, plastics, cartons, cans and tins, mixed together, you don’t have to separate them. Recycling collections will continue to be made every fortnight.
• Households will get a new small outdoor food waste bin and a kitchen caddy. The food waste bin will be collected every week.
• All other waste will go in the existing green waste bin. This will be collected every two weeks, alternating with the blue lidded recycling bin.
Councillor Sir Beville Stanier, Cabinet Member for Environment and Health, said: “Changing the waste and recycling services for the entire district is a mammoth undertaking and we want to firstly thank residents for their patience over the past few weeks. There have been minor issues along the way, such as some residents experiencing a few delays with bin deliveries, which we would obviously like to have avoided. If you have not received your new recycling and food waste bins yet, please accept our apologies and be assured that we will deliver your bins as soon as possible.”
If you haven't received your bins yet, please check to see if your neighbours have theirs first. If they have, and you haven't, please contact us by email to newbins@aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk with your name address, postcode and a daytime phone number.
Chips with everything
I hope that you will all have received your new recycling bins with the blue lids.
There has been some concern about the electronic chip in each bin, and the following
information has been circulated by AVDC:
Statement by:
Councillor Sir Beville Stanier, Cabinet Member for Environment and Health
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in recycling bins
Each large blue-lidded recycling bin that the council provides to residents contains a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag, fitted at the point of manufacture. These are not bugging or tracking devices, but simply an electronic reference number identifying each bin.
Incorporating the RFID tags is a measure designed to provide the council with flexibility to introduce new recycling reward initiatives in the future. For example, residents living in the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead are already trialling an incentive scheme, with RFID tags used to help monitor the amount of recycling they put out for collection. The keenest recycling households are rewarded with vouchers for high-street retailers, such as M&S.
If we decided to offer such a scheme and our recycling bins did not contain RFID tags, then fitting the tags retroactively would be logistically challenging and would also cost much more financially. Purchasing them fitted at the point of manufacture, therefore, is more cost effective in the long run.
All the RFID tags can do is provide a reference number for each bin. The purpose of this is to provide each of our bins with a unique identity, a bit like a bar code, sticker or painting a reference number onto each bin. If the tags were ever used (and currently they are not) the tag itself would not be able to monitor the type or weight of rubbish being thrown away. All it would do is allow a vehicle fitted with a receiver device to identify which bin is being emptied into the vehicle at that time.
There are many misleading reports that seem to lead people to believe that the tags have mystical powers when, in reality, they really are no different to the identification chips people put in their cat or dog, or if the council had simply painted an identification number onto the side of the bin.
There has been some concern about the electronic chip in each bin, and the following
information has been circulated by AVDC:
Statement by:
Councillor Sir Beville Stanier, Cabinet Member for Environment and Health
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in recycling bins
Each large blue-lidded recycling bin that the council provides to residents contains a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag, fitted at the point of manufacture. These are not bugging or tracking devices, but simply an electronic reference number identifying each bin.
Incorporating the RFID tags is a measure designed to provide the council with flexibility to introduce new recycling reward initiatives in the future. For example, residents living in the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead are already trialling an incentive scheme, with RFID tags used to help monitor the amount of recycling they put out for collection. The keenest recycling households are rewarded with vouchers for high-street retailers, such as M&S.
If we decided to offer such a scheme and our recycling bins did not contain RFID tags, then fitting the tags retroactively would be logistically challenging and would also cost much more financially. Purchasing them fitted at the point of manufacture, therefore, is more cost effective in the long run.
All the RFID tags can do is provide a reference number for each bin. The purpose of this is to provide each of our bins with a unique identity, a bit like a bar code, sticker or painting a reference number onto each bin. If the tags were ever used (and currently they are not) the tag itself would not be able to monitor the type or weight of rubbish being thrown away. All it would do is allow a vehicle fitted with a receiver device to identify which bin is being emptied into the vehicle at that time.
There are many misleading reports that seem to lead people to believe that the tags have mystical powers when, in reality, they really are no different to the identification chips people put in their cat or dog, or if the council had simply painted an identification number onto the side of the bin.
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