Local Government

Sandy and his wife Rosemary  have lived in Beaconsfield for 55 years, Their 4 daughters were all educated in the Town at St Mary’s and at the High School. He was first elected to the Town Council following his submission of a paper, entitled “A Parish Appraisal”, requested of all Engish Town and Parish Councils by the then Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, in 2009.

The recommendations he made in the Appraisal were adopted by Council in 2010. and Sandy was asked to be a candidate at the May 2011 elections. His first role was as Chairman of the Open Spaces Committee, where he initiated a review which resulted in substantial upgrades to two of the Town’s Green Spaces. In the following year he was appointed Deputy Mayor, and became heavily involved in what was to become the current Town Plan.

In 2013 Sandy became Mayor, and. was privileged to represent the Town at many civic services throughout the County, and to Langres, its Twin City in France  Later that year, he became the Founding Chairman of the Association of Mayors of Buckinghamshire. He subsequently welcomed both MPs for South Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns to his meetings. Other speakers include the Leaders of the County and the Chief Executive of the Thames Valley and Buckinghamshire Local Enterprise Partnership.

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Two years later, he was asked to represent Beaconsfield on the South Bucks Association of Local Councils, of which he is now Chairman. That same year, he  was asked to become Chairman of the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Association of Local Councils. He is currently Chair of Town Council’s Committees for Community and Safety. He has also taken the Chair at Planning on several occasions, and was Chairman, too, of the 75th Anniversary of the VE-Day Celebration Committee. The photograph below shows Sandy in 2004 with the Mayors of two villages in the West Coast of Normandy, where General Eisenhower had his Headquarters within weeks of  the  D-Day landings.