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Councillors are set to ask residents in an area of Beaconsfield their thoughts on having a new playground installed after agreeing to take forward a number of proposals made by Vision for Beaconsfield (V4B).

Beaconsfield town council’s open spaces committee met last week to discuss six of volunteer group V4B’s recommendations to improve green spaces and agreed to put all of them forward to become part of the town plan, including a new playground in the north of the town.

Chesterton Green, which is believed to be owned by L&Q Housing, has been suggested as a potential location for a new children’s play park, but councillors insisted that residents must be asked their thoughts before they continue with the plans.  

Cllr Philip Bastiman, chair of the open spaces committee, said L&Q Housing will be approached to see if they are willing to consider using part of the green for a park as use of the council’s own land would ‘challenging.’

He said: “The issue really is where to put it because our land is challenging. We have the town hall green but I don’t think that would be appropriate, or One Tree Meadow but it is quite out of the way.

“Chesterton Green has been suggested but we have to ask L&Q Housing if they would be willing to allow it.”

However, residents must also be fully on board with the idea if the council is to continue with the plan.

Cllr Bastiman said: “Before we do anything else we have to consult residents. Our approach has always been to consult residents first and if residents don’t want something we won’t put it in place.

“We have to then consult local residents to see if they are happy to have a playground in the area and then talk about fundraising to raise some money.”

The town council has recently funded “fantastic” playground facilities in Malthouse Square and helped “pull together” another in Holtspur Park and Cllr Bastiman said money would need to be raised to fund the new playground.

He said: “We don’t have much money in the town council budget after the previous two playgrounds, but it is a nice idea to have some sort of playground in the north of the town. If residents are happy with it, we will talk about funding.”

Other recommendations that were approved by the committee and will be taken forward include the potential for a community orchard, enhancing and developing open spaces and getting rid of litter as well as planting wild flowers and bulbs.

A total of 64 recommendations were made by V4B, which were handed to the town council in July last year, with the view to creating a town plan to improve Beaconsfield.

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