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 November Newsletter
In this issue -
Brill remembers - poppies in the village and online
Brill firefighters are recruiting
What lies beneath…
Parish Council update
Don’t make life easy for burglars!
Click the image above or visit the Newsletter page on this website.
Lest we forget
Walking in their footsteps
A message from Cllr James Tuffley -
Forty-seven men from Brill and nearby hamlets died in the First and Second World Wars. As you walk around the village you will notice that large poppies commemorating them as individuals have been placed on the lampposts.
Please take a moment to read about the men that answered the call in both World Wars and think about them and their loved ones left behind.
They made the ultimate sacrifice in the pursuit of peace.
We will remember them.
The information on the street poppies was taken from the Brill Warm Memorial booklet (out of print) and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. The poppies were purchased from the Royal British Legion shop and printed by Malcolm Sargeant of Freedom Creative Graphics in Dinton. The project was supported financially by Brill Parish Council.
We also remember Brill’s fallen on a special page on this website where we invite residents near and far to add their own comments, memories and stories of loved ones. We’d particularly like to add photographs so please email Hannah (who manages the website) if you can help.
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. (CIC stands for Community Interest Company.)
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.
Update: A public meeting was held on October 30th in Brill Memorial Hall during which Greg Smith MP and representatives of Wrong Plan. Wrong Site answered questions from Brill residents and other attendees. Please visit the Wrong Plan. Wrong Site website to follow developments and donate, if you so wish.
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.