Chiltern Housing

Chiltern has got away pretty lightly with the new housing allocation I believe which some of the South East is being hit with from the ODPM. However, I heard the other day, Chalfont St Peter is actually over its allocation and has been for a few years due to the number of houses being knocked down and rebuilt with four in its place (a comment by someone rather than official document I viewed).

Formal guidelines and planning can be seen from Chiltern on the attached document. I believe Chalfont St Peter as a village is going to increase substantially in the next few years with whatever happens at Holy Cross, Newland Park (though this will be a new village outright I guess rather than remaining in the parish of chalfont st peter - not st giles oddly) and something will happen at the NSE - it just remains to see what.

At least Chalfont St Peter isn't being quite as trashed as Gerrards Cross is at the moment with the beautiful character houses being knocked down for million pound penthouse appartments.

Ill, new cds, cctv in chalfont st peter, google anything else?

Its been a manic week so far - way to much work been progressed - both web and cater for you - I think Google is in the middle of a large reshuffle of its data and looks like it will be number one in the world for most search terms which will make the rest of the summer interesting.

On the web site design side of things I've been messing around with flash for the first time - not very user friendly so far - but guess i've never used it so i'll have to see. I was ill yesterday so stayed at home and worked and managed to get through 10 hours of web work which was well needed.

Sarah is at the sports club AGM this evening - I hope it is better attended that last year when under 10 people turned up - which was pretty insulting to the people who do the hard work to maintain the building and ensure the whole thing is financially viable for the playing sections. The Tithe Barn agm is this Friday evening so I'll be popping along to that - even though I haven't much time I still have an interest in seeing how it is progressing as I like to think I contributed many hours to getting it back on its feet again - though not nearly as many as others involved.

Monday night next week is another council meeting - i've just been reading through a CCTV document that we'll be discussing - I can never work out why the CCTV in the car park isn't used more against the anti social behaviour there - anyway they are proposing to ramp that up and put it in the high street - more details next week I guess.

That reminds me, I must respond to the new NSE document I was sent a while back (I assume with most other people who corresponded at the time of the proposed land development). I have until the end of June - I've kind of thought through what I'm going to write and suggest - it is just whether I have enough time to stick it in an email and make sure it doesn't ramble too much which I'm prone to doing.

The house move is still bumping along ok - the house we are buying was being surveyed today - well hopefully - so still on course for Mid July I guess.

Listening to the new scritti polliti album at the moment - can't believe he's knocked out another one, just bought a couple of ministry of sound CD's which will should turn up sometime later this week. Bought from CD WOW - the only annoying thing about them is the amount of emails they send out and they are all crap.

Still not had a csp village guide delivered here yet - bit odd.

My achilles is still hurting each morning so still no sign of any hockey - just as my sister said. Doing the exercises each day too. Rebecca was on top form today - chatting away - her vocabulary is galloping along - brilliant to watch. James was gurgling and smiling away today as well when I got home and held him. The next 20 years are going to be so much fun with them.

BBC NEWS | Business | 'Poor deal' for internet shoppers

This is a disappointing news report. All of my customers, my company and even my competitors I know try very hard to deliver excellent customer service. I think that existing distance selling laws are already as tough as those for retail outlets but we shall see whether they further tighten them. The only thing I can read in to this is maybe they are talking about ebay sales "internet auction sites".

One problem small businesses have is that they use a third party to take and process credit cards so if an internet shopper places an order the credit card is debited straight away - so if the goods aren't in stock for another two weeks the customer is annoyed that the credit card has been debited - more of a problem I guess for new businesses who don't have a lot of stock.

Back from Ireland - Black Park Picnic weekend

Came back from a successful day in Ireland - saw an integrated ecommerce site on a third party server which was very interesting - so we'll be seeing how simple it is to do that. Might have to learn some sort of database integration but we will see. I was pretty tired though, having got up at 4am and landed back in Luton at about 8pm - just enough to miss the England game - which was apparently a blessing. I'm supposed to be at some quiz thing on Tuesday - well i'm first reserve - but as it is the England game .... I've yet to see a full one played.

Had a great weekend - on Saturday I wheeled Rebecca down to the village, went to the library (where she wanted to push her push chair in to everything) and got some new books, the butchers, a card for Gary Able's birthday (in the evening) then back home. In the afternoon we pottered down to the sports club for a beverage and to watch the cricket - very relaxing.

In the evening Sarah, Martin and I went to Gary's 40th birthday party in Aylesbury - we ended up in Waddesden initially before finding the pub eventually. Good to catch up with a few friends - though we only had about 2 hours there before having to come home. We think it is the first time Sarah and I had been out in the evening together!! Simon and Eva from next door very kindly baby sat for us.

Sunday was a very good day - we went to have a look at the house we are buying - it is even better than I remember - and then went and had a picnic in Black Park - tremendous fun - the title links in to the photos from the day - then back for a bar-b-q in the back garden - where the kids were obviously very tired indeed. Rebecca went out like a light when it was time for bed.

This week is looking manically busy again...