Wye with Hinxhill Parish Council

A group of eight Church of England churches in the Diocese of Canterbury and Deanery of West Bridge

Boughton Aluph: All Saints and St Christopher's Brook: St Mary's Elmsted: St James the Great Hastingleigh: St Mary the Virgin Hinxhill: St Mary's Petham: All Saints Waltham: St Bartholomew's and Wye: St Gregory & St Martin's

Normal office hours Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 09.00 - 16.00

Contact: The Office Manager

Wye Surgery is an established doctor's practice with a purpose-built surgery, with a wide range of clinics, medical support and dispensing services. Wye Surgery serves a patient catchment area of around 125 square miles.

Click on the link for Wye Surgery's extensive list of medical and health-related web links.

NOTE: New phone number from April 2016 has replaced both previous numbers

The National Rural Crime Network is working to see greater recognition and understanding of the problems and impact of crime in rural areas so more can be done to keep people safer. Funded by the Home Office, the National Rural Crime Network (NRCN) looks at innovative ways to reduce crime in rural areas, provides information and support for rural communities, and shares best practice.

The impacts of rural crime are many and varied, and the Network believes that the scale, cost, social impact and other effects of crime in rural areas are underestimated, under-reported and not fully understood. Consequently, the Network is concerned with all crime and anti-social behaviour occurring in rural areas and recognises that the challenges and solutions are often different to those in cities and urban areas.

Rural crime includes problems typically associated with the countryside such as wildlife and heritage crime, farm equipment and animal thefts. However, there have been very substantial increases in fraud and other scams, with criminals deliberately targeting isolated, vulnerable people.

Neighbourhood Plan for Boughton Aluph, Eastwell and Goat Lees

Our Plan: Our Future

Draft vision for discussion

A creative group of mixed communities which are safe and foster wellbeing and opportunities for all through sustainable, eco-efficient, high tech future use of land and development whilst preserving the proportions and strengths of existing settlement patterns and landscapes through the careful interweaving of the historic and the new.

Future developments in the parish should:

• Preserve the separate identities of the settlements in the parish within definite boundaries ensuring that each has its own sense of place whilst fostering a shared community spirit throughout the whole parish.
• Be proportionate and sustainable providing facilities which are commensurate with the local population and which do not overburden the stretched local infrastructure, including roads.
• Conserve and enhance the rural setting of the parish and protect the green spaces and valued landscapes that are of particular significance and/or demonstrably special to the local community. Prevent the unrestricted sprawl of built up areas into these valuable green spaces.
• Support high quality design which is consistent with best practice and which will contribute to the wellbeing of all residents through the creation of attractive, accessible and safe places in which to live, work and visit.
• Safeguard the character and identity of local surroundings whilst not stifling innovation, originality or initiative.
• Contribute to a balanced community which is not purely residential by attracting quality business development in the parish which offers aspirational learning and employment opportunities for the whole community.
• Provide all residents with the essential connectivity for working, learning, leisure and engaging with public services online through a high quality communications infrastructure.
• Promote healthy, inclusive communities that facilitate social interaction between different members of the community. Provide essential, easy to maintain and conveniently located play and recreational facilities for all.
• Conserve and enhance the historic environment including local historic assets. Encourage sustainable tourism.