Welcome to the
Brill Parish Council & Community Website
Photo by Alan Horton
Brill Parish Council exists to serve the people of Brill civil parish in Buckinghamshire. Our aim is to work with the community to make Brill a safe, productive, sustainable and happy place fo residents, workers, visitors, and future generations.
Protect Brill Common Forever
Read news from Brill Common and our Wildlife and Community Ranger’s blog (or click on images below)
Brill News and Notes
Read our October Newsletter
In this issue -
Lantern Making Workshops
Autumn’s Abundance
Parish Council Update
Your Bucks, Your Say (last chance to comment on Bucks Council budget)
Community Speedwatch (nearly there)
Buckinghamshire History Festival
Click the image above or visit the Newsletter page on this website.
Parish Council Business
Meetings
Read the draft minutes of our September meeting (the October minutes will be available soon). Our next meeting will be Tuesday November 17th. The agenda will be published nearer the time.
Members of the public are very welcome to attend our monthly meetings. Time is set aside at the start of the meeting for you to speak about items on the agenda - or any other topics of community interest.
MOD Bicester Site A proposed asylum accommodation
Cllr Jules Newman (Chair of Brill Parish Council) and Cllr Malcolm Wilson attended a recent meeting of Ludgershall Parish Council during which our MP Greg Smith addressed the situation at Site A. Representatives of Bicester Countryside and Communities CIC*, the organisation behind Wrong Plan. Wrong Site, also spoke.
The CIC’s campaign is about the proposal, the process and the suitability of the site – not the individuals who may be accommodated there. A formal legal process has now been launched to challenge the Government’s decision that the proposed Site A development does not require a full Environmental Impact Assessment. Find out more and follow the progress of this challenge on the group’s website.
Brill Parish Council will continue to keep residents appraised of any future developments.
*CIC stands for Community Interest Company.
Brill Memorial Hall
The new suspended ceiling and lights have now been fitted and the hall has reopened. Further work will be required but exactly what, when and how is yet to be decided. Read the full comprehensive historic buildings survey (pdf opens in new tab).
The following reports are in preparation and will be available on this website in due course:
Asbestos survey: to identify any asbestos so future works can be planned safely
Mechanical and electrical survey: to check heating, lighting, wiring, and plumbing
Drainage survey: a camera survey of the drains
Brill Happenings
Brill Cinema : Devil Wear Prada 2
In The Devil Wears Prada 2 to be screened by Brill Community Cinema on November 6th, we follow Andy Sachs and Miranda Priestly as they reunite two decades after the original film to save Runway from the decline of print media and a corporate takeover.
“It's all huge fun with a decidedly softer centre than the original that’s filled with one-liners, fulfilment, redemption and catharsis for all concerned.” (Daily Express)
“The Devil Wears Prada 2 is smart and funny, and there are plenty of satisfying one-liners indicating how the world has changed in 20 years.” (Daily Mail)
Brill Cinema : National Theatre Live
Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in The Misanthrope (15), a razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy to be shown by Brill Community Cinema on November 20th.
Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her.
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.
“Sandra Oh shines in a witty update of Molière’s Misanthrope.” (Sunday Times)
“Killing Eve star kills it.” (Metro)
Brill Cinema : Midwinter Break
In this acclaimed film (showing December 4th) Gerry and Stella Gilmore are an elderly, long-married couple from Northern Ireland who relocate to Scotland after living through the violence of The Troubles.
Stella (Lesley Manville) surprises Gerry (Ciarán Hinds) with a short vacation to Amsterdam, hoping for connection and a renewed sense of purpose. Beneath the surface of their mundane routines lie decades of unspoken friction, including Gerry’s secret, severe alcohol addiction, Stella's deepening religious faith versus Gerry's secularism, and grief tied to past trauma.
“Hinds and Manville skilfully convey a relationship founded on the most fragile of intertwining insecurities.” (Irish Times)
The soft, silvery seed heads of Traveller’s Joy appear in the hedgerows and Hedgehogs are in foraging overdrive.