AVDC is set to invest £80,000 to improve and extend the CCTV scheme in Aylesbury. At a meeting of the full council last night (29 November), members opted to approve funding for three new cameras for the town centre and an additional camera...

01/12/06

Aylesbury Vale District Council has agreed to sign up to a strategy that aims to significantly increase household recycling and reduce household waste by 2025. The Waste Partnership for Buckinghamshire, which consists of Buckinghamshire County Co...

01/12/06

Aylesbury Vale District Council will be spending around £25,000 on its annual tree planting programme this winter, planting more than 160 trees across the district. The scheme, which has been part-funded by a £1 million grant from the...

01/12/06

Community and voluntary groups in Aylesbury Vale have until 8 January 2007 to apply for the next round of funding from the council’s community grants scheme. The grants scheme is the main way in which AVDC provides funding and support to th...

01/12/06

As part of its ongoing commitment to improving the environment and to maintaining its parks and open spaces, AVDC is carrying out a programme of hedge cutting throughout the district to reduce the height of hedges which have become too large to ma...

01/12/06

Pubs, bookmakers, amusement arcades and bingo halls will soon have to start getting their gambling licenses from Aylesbury Vale District Council rather than from magistrates. The full council this week formally adopted a gambling policy which est...

06/12/06

AVDC is urging residents who have access to the internet to sign up to receive their council tax bill online. Online bills can help residents manage their account better because they will be able to gain quick access to their bill, any time day o...

06/12/06

The county and district councils in Buckinghamshire have approved an agreement that will lead to improved services for the voluntary sector. A joint contract for providing support services to local voluntary and community groups has been awarded ...

06/12/06

Residents in Aylesbury Vale are looking at a district council tax increase of 4.4 per cent next year. A provisional budget was proposed by AVDC’s cabinet at a meeting this week. Under the proposals, Aylesbury Vale taxpayers living in Band D...

08/12/06

Shoppers and workers are set to benefit from new car parking charges in Aylesbury. At a meeting of AVDC’s cabinet this week, members approved a range of changes to parking charges in council-owned car parks. A new five-hour charge of &poun...

08/12/06

An innovative crime prevention tool is being promoted by the Aylesbury Vale Community Safety Partnership to ensure the district’s shoppers don’t fall prey to criminals this Christmas. Cats bells are being handed out to shoppers to att...

08/12/06

Years of tireless work raising money for local and national charities have earned an Aylesbury pensioner a special award. Harry Smith, 87, of Reynolds Drive, who is visually impaired, has been named as Aylesbury Vale District Council’s Volu...

11/12/06

Aylesbury Vale District Council has announced dates for its waste collection service over the festive period. From Monday 25 December to Saturday 13 January there will be changes to residents’ normal refuse and recycling collections. The c...

14/12/06

AVDC and Buckinghamshire County Council have joined forces to improve their customer service. The district council’s area office in Cornwall Place, Buckingham, will be relocating to a new building in the heart of the town centre, where resi...

15/12/06

Eco-conscious Buckingham residents have helped a pioneering scheme to compost their garden waste and cardboard become an instant success in the town. Around 89 per cent of householders in Buckingham currently eligible for AVDC’s green waste...

15/12/06

Talented young athletes from Aylesbury Vale have thrown, jumped and raced their way into a team that will represent Buckinghamshire at a regional athletics final next month. Twenty seven of the district’s young athletes competed alongside t...

15/12/06

A major development in Aylesbury made up of 3,000 homes has taken a step closer to becoming reality. The Berryfields Major Development, one of the first projects set to bring a total of 21,200 new homes to the area by 2026, was given the go-ahead...

15/12/06

District councils in Buckinghamshire have been given £100,000 in government funding to create a new choice based lettings scheme for people seeking social rented housing. Choice based lettings is a new way of allocating council and housing ...

20/12/06

AVDC still has places available on its Christmas and New Year holiday playschemes for young people in Aylesbury. The council’s leisure facilities team has organised the schemes in the school holidays to cater for children aged five to 13 ye...

22/12/06

Aylesbury Vale’s residents are officially amongst the most physically active in the country, according to a major nationwide survey commissioned by Sport England. The results of the Active People Survey, carried out by Ipsos MORI, show that...

22/12/06