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Services Secondary School provision: Local children are in the
catchment area for Wheatley Park School or Lord William’s
There are a range of services in Ickford, including a School in Thame, both across the county border in
successful and oversubscribed primary school and a Oxfordshire. As Ickford parish is in Buckinghamshire which
shop/ village post office bought by a consortium of still maintains the grammar school system, children of the
villagers in 2001 and run as a business by a leaseholder. village are eligible to take the 11 plus exam and attend one
There is also a pub, the Rising Sun. of the three Grammar schools in Aylesbury.
There is an area of allotments in the village, all of Early Years and Childcare Services: There is a Pre-
which are in use. The social and pastoral infrastructure school adjoining the Primary school which also runs a
includes a church, which has a kitchen and facilities Breakfast Club and an After School Club for children at
enabling it to be used for functions and to provide a the school.
weekly play session for parents with pre-school children,
a large village hall built by volunteers in 1950, and a
small assortment of clubs and societies. There is also a Box 9 Key Housing and Service Issues
recreation ground on land donated to the village in 1981
by a local builder. This consists of a football pitch and • Affordability of housing is a key issue within
an area of play equipment for small and older children, Ickford in view of the aging demographic with a
including a zip wire, largely paid for by a fund raising median age is 49 compared with 39 in the UK as
initiative in the village. This is now maintained by the a whole.
Parish Council. There is also a Sports pavilion built by • Demand for all types of housing, but particularly
villagers in 1996 for Ickford football team. The team homes for first buy, downsizing and smaller family
no longer uses the pitch and the pavilion is currently homes.
being converted into a small meeting space. • All new development to be small and in keeping
with the character of the village
• All new development is resilient to climate change
Education and Skills
and flooding.
Primary Education: Ickford Combined School is an • Community views have indicated that growth of
academy school for children aged 4 – 11 with a catchment up to 15 dwellings is supported by local people.
area of Ickford, Worminghall and Shabbington.

Ickford need social housing

Description Total

Total households in West Aylesbury Vale sub group which currently live in
Ickford settlement. 1 3

Total households in West Aylesbury Vale sub group with a local
connection to Ickford settlement. 2 23

of which currently live in Ickford settlement. 3 2

Total number of affordable homes in the Ickford Settlement. 4 32

1. Housing Register data correct as at 16/08/2018
2. Statements of local connection are made by applicants,
however, these have not been verified
3. Not all households currently living in Ickford will necessarily
wish to be rehoused in the village
4. Affordable Homes data correct as at 01/04/2016
VISION FOR ICKFORD – NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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