• Did you witness a fatal collision in Gerrards Cross yesterday?

  By Beaconsfield People at 12:54 on 21/04/13

  

  Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses after a fatal collision in Gerrards Cross yesterday. Police were called at 5.20pm, to reports of a collision between a black Mitsubishi FTO and a silver VW Golf on the A413 Amersham Road, just south of the underpass for the M25. The driver of the VW Golf, an 89 year old man from Amersham, was released from the car by the Fire Service, but died at the scene. The rear passenger, an...

• Beaconsfield gets its first cycle path

  By Beaconsfield People at 14:08 on 08/04/13

  

  Beaconsfield Cycle Paths Action Group have been successful in getting the first stage of a proposed network of cycle paths around Beaconsfield off the ground. With support  from Adrian Busby, Leader of South Bucks District Council and County Councillor for Beaconsfield, and Peter Hardy, Cabinet Minister for Transport for BCC, and with invaluable help from Sustrans BCP has been able to get a very muddy path from Knotty Green Road...

• M40 closed between Loudwater and Beaconsfield

  By Beaconsfield People at 12:06 on 21/03/13

  

  The M40 was briefly closed in both directions after a car overturned on the London bound carriageway. Everything is now runing as normal Northbound but the Southern side is stillclosed although expected to open again shortly. If you are heading into Beaconsfield from the Oxford direction expect delays to yoir journey for some time. 

• Beaconsfield Benefits from HS2 Ruling

  By Beaconsfield People at 12:06 on 18/03/13

  

  Beaconsfield is not likely to become embroiled in the HS2 programme following last week's High Court  decision that backed the Department of Transport in nine out of ten challenges brought against them by campaigners. There was a danger that if the legal challenges had been successful then the Department of Transport would have had to look at upgrading existing routes to Birmingham rather than building new routes afresh and that...

• Danger of Local Flooding Around Beaconsfield

  By Beaconsfield People at 13:56 on 29/01/13

  

  After the sudden thawing of a week's worth of snow and subsequent heavy rain Beaconsfield and the surrounding villages have once again been subject to the localised flooding that hit the area before Christmas. Beaconsfield has no river to speak of and being a hill town is immune from the type of flooding that afflicts towns like Shrewsbury every few years when the River Severn bursts it banks.  As well as being a hill town though,...

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