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PAGE 26Steve here again with your latest update of Parish Council news and activities. You may have already heard that the Travellers at Brook End have lost their right to appeal against the decision of the Inquiry. The Inquiry decided that they should vacate the site at Brook End by 25th September. Naturally the process of the appeal against this decision has delayed things and we are awaiting MKCC%u2019s decision as to what date will apply now. For some years we have provided funds for Milton Keynes Play Association to organise a session of supervised play on the recreation park. Initially this was well attended by village children. This year less than one quarter of the children attending were from the village which, in our view, doesn%u2019t seem to represent good value for villagers%u2019 money. Because of this we have decided to suspend funding this activity for 2026. It%u2019s budget time of year for the PC and we will be working on a draft budget during November prior to finalising it in January. This has been a slightly more expensive year due to expenditure on the play park surface plus funding our new Clerk, Taj, in tandem with our current Clerk, Sheila, so they can carry out an effective handover (which is going well!).We remain concerned that the conversion of The Cock Inn into 3 houses with no parking spaces will create additional difficulties to the parking problem we already suffer from. As we all know it is increasingly difficult to drive along the High St, especially at peak times, due the number of cars parked on the road. Having up to 9 additional vehicles with no parking spaces is just going to exacerbate the problem. North Crawley Parish CouncilBulletin - December 2025