8:53am Friday 12th March 2010
RE: Last week’s letter claiming many residents had never heard of the old Hazlemere Residents’ Association which has now disbanded.
HAZLEMERE has surely benefited by having a single parish council to look after its affairs, rather than being divided into three parishes. The excellent community centre and library are both well used.
And Hazlemere might have suffered a huge road built between Inkerman and Hughenden.
These and many other projects were the result of pressure by the Residents’ Association (HRA). However, by 2008 the Association lacked support – not through lack of publicity, but apathy.
Did not M Simpson and family (Letters, March 5) never read the parish magazine delivered two or three times a year to almost every house in Hazlemere, visit the fete where the HRA had a big stall and advertised in the fete programmes, look at any local notice boards, or visit the library?
And anyone living in Hazlemere for 50 years will have had invites not only to public meetings, but also to Know Your Hazlemere exhibitions held in both Manor and Park schools. For many years all senior citizens received gifts at Christmas.
As with all major projects affecting Hazlemere, the HRA would have held public meetings – the proposed running track at Sir William Ramsay being no exception.
Pam Ailward, Orchard Drive, Hazlemere.
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