Welcome to the Aspley Heath Parish Council website.

WELCOME TO ASPLEY HEATH

Parish Council Meeting - Wednesday 25th June 2025

Woburn Sands Town Council offices, to the side of the Memorial Hall, High Street, Woburn Sands.

This meeting starts at 8pm.

Residents welcome!

Agenda available here.

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

This has now been completed and submitted to Central Bedfordshire Council for its final review. If you would like a copy of the Neighbourhood Plan documents including a wonderful history of the Heath please contact the Clerk.

Sandy Lane (BOAT) Closure

Please note a new temporary closure had been made to Sandy Lane (BOAT) which links with Church Road at the entrance to the woods.

This is an experimental scheme so no public consultation is required prior to putting the restriction in, instead we will monitor the effectiveness of the restriction and take comments on it whilst it is in force. If you wish to make any comments, they should be submitted in writing to the Highways Consultation inbox as explained in the public notice within 6 months of the order coming into force (by 27th September 2025), at which point if there are any objections we will then take the scheme to a further Traffic Management Meeting to consider if the Experimental Order should remain.

Please report any anti-social behaviour to the police. You can ring 101 to report this unless it is an emergency when you should ring 999.

The Public Notice can be viewed here.

The map for the closure can be seen here.

ANNUAL GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN 2024/25

The following documents are available to view below:

Notice of the period for the exercise of public rights (23rd June to 1st August) is available here

Annual Internal Audit Report

The bank reconciliation can be found here.

The external auditors are:

Mazars LLP

Limited Assurance Team

The Corner

Bank Chambers

26 Mosley Street

Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1DF

Tel: +44 (0)191 383 6348
local.councils@mazars.co.uk
www.mazars.co.uk

WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY

We have been working towards making our website accessible to all. We regularly assess our website.

If you have any problems accessing any part of our website please contact the Clerk who will endeavour to correct the issues: clerk@aspleyheath.org.uk

PARISH PRIORITIES UPDATE

Latest Updates on Aspley Heath Priorities

ASPLEY WOODS

The Parish Council is meeting with the Bedford Estate, Greensand Trust and Central Beds Council to discuss various issues within the woods. We are aware of the increased usage and the problems this is causing. If you have any concerns please contact the Clerk.

CAR PARK SURFACE

The car park surface and the surrounding area at the top of Church Road has now been repaired by Central Beds Council. We are now awaiting CBC to install the log posts to mark out the parking bays.

HARDWICK ROAD

We are in communication with MK Council to inform them of the increasing problems with traffic, speeding and parking. Residents concerns over safety is paramount. MK Council have said they will re-paint the yellow lines.

SPEEDING AND PARKING THROUGHOUT THE PARISH

This has been an increasingly worsening issue throughout the parish.

With the present lock down matters have been exacerbated. With no other forms of social or leisure outlets people have been coming to the woods en mass.

Hopefully once lockdown is lifted the number of visitors will be somewhat diluted.

But with MK expanding and more people realising how lovely it is to walk in our woods, numbers will increase and we need to think of ways to make this safer and more tenable for local residents and visitors.

We have a new Speedwatch team and

Lynn Roberts is the new co ordinator.

The speeding and parking survey has been completed and a copy of the results can be found here:

Parking and Traffic Survey Results

We will continue to press for action on all these matters.
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