Welcome to Oving Parish Council's website

This website is maintained for the benefit of residents and visitors alike. We would be delighted to receive your contributions including news and events which can be advertised here. Just contact our Parish Clerk.

Oving is a charming Buckinghamshire village and we are proud of our history and amenities. The Parish Council has recently completed an ambitious programme of improvement to our facilities, enhancing the village resources on our popular recreation ground.

Following many years fundraising Oving PC are now the proud owners of a beautiful Village Hall located on the recreation ground next to a state of the art children’s playground. It is a stunning building with great facilities and available for hire via www.ovingvillagehall.co.uk

Oving's football and tennis clubs thrive, and Oving hosts one of the oldest football cups in the country;  started in 1890.

Oving  is home to a 13th century church, All Saints  and a superb pub restaurant with stunning views - The Black Boy. We look forward to welcoming you to Oving, should you choose to visit our lovely village.

Best wishes
Ambrose McGinn
Chairman

STREET LIGHT NOT WORKING?  
​Please let us know and we will call our engineers.  It is helpful to know the number of the lamp and its location:  Download the numbered lamp post map.

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www.ovingvillagehall.com
​What's on at the Village Hall?
See the Village Hall website



The next PARISH COUNCIL meeting is on
 Tuesday 12th March in ​The Village Hall starting at 7.15pm.  All Parishioners are warmly welcomed.
​Agenda will be available nearer the time.

OVING SAFETY FORUM
We had a very informative and helpful Traffic forum on 3rd November led  by Ambrose McGinn Chairman of the Parish Council,  and attended by  around 20 members of the public, 3 police officers including a specialist traffic officer and we benefited from information on traffic calming supplied by Bucks County Council.
The attached document indicates the areas covered and as a result we have a number of outcomes.
We need further volunteers to resource both MVAS ( heavy lifting ) and Sentinel ( at least two people at a time who require simple training  and police sign off)
Stuart Nichols is kindly leading the use of the MVAS initially to collect data of speeds in different locations. We will also seek additional locations in the village as well as the three currently signed off by the police -  we would particularly seek a  location further west down North Marston Hill.
Darren Hydom and Nevena Holmes very kindly agreed to lead and support respectively the Sentinel  programme and will be trained by users from other villages and assisted by our clerk and the police as required.
It’s clear that we need Volunteers to assist -  many came forward at the forum but we will need more. Please drop a line to Sue Severn our clerk if you can assist to  ovingpc@clerk.com -  the more people who get involved the less effort it is for all!
We also agreed to look at chicane style ‘one way ‘ physical traffic calming approaches. This would be a significant investment potentially £25000-£30000 or more. So this will require careful feasibility study and advice. In addition the option for enhanced road signage and white lining will also be followed up.
The PC will pull together a traffic calming steering group which will coordinate these initiatives on the ground and make us as effective as possible.
Great progress but all of the above will rely on a positive response to the request for volunteers -  please do consider coming for to help.
The outcome can really improve the quality of life in our village.

WILDLIFE PROJECTS IN OVING
The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) recently approached Oving Parish Council with an offer of practical help to encourage wildlife in the village. In conjunction with Aylesbury Vale District Council, BBOWT is running the Hedgerow Havens Project to create wildlife areas in local parishes around ponds, field margins and beside hedgerows.
The approach was welcomed by the Parish Council (OPC), particularly in view of the overwhelming support expressed in the Oving and Pitchcott Community Led Plan (2016) for areas of the village to be managed specifically to enhance their wildlife value. 
Two projects were identified: 
. The creation of a wide, wildflower rich highway verge
. The restoration of the village pond. 
A report from BBOWT, on the first of these, summarised here, was discussed at the OPC meeting in September. An area on the Whitchurch to Pitchcott Road to the east of its junction with Bunshill, has been identified which can be improved for wildlife by simple management changes. BBOWT have agreed to finance the preparation work which involves cutting down the vegetation this Autumn, the removal of docks and thistles, further cutting next summer and seeding with a wide variety of specially chosen perennial wild flowers next autumn. After that a “hay cut” would be necessary after the end of July each year, when the flowers have seeded, and the hay should be removed.
OPC welcomed the report and will work with its contractors and with BBOWT to make it happen. The change might be gradual but the final effect in two to three years should be well worthwhile.  The detailed report is available on the OPC web site.
BBOWT are currently working on their advice for restoration of the pond and we hope to receive their report in time for our meeting in November. ​

OVING PATHS ACTION GROUP and Donate a gate scheme
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