{"id":4471,"date":"2026-10-26T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhwnews.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:46:33","slug":"datchet-parish-council-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhwnews.com\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"Datchet Parish Council under investigation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Datchet Parish Council and the Clerk are under investigation on multiple fronts into the disputed governance of the Datchet Recreation Centre Charity Trust.\u00a0 The Datchet Hall lock was first changed in April 2025.\u00a0 The Councillors named <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.datchetparishcouncil.gov.uk\/_UserFiles\/Files\/Documents\/Website%20Statement%20-%20Datchet%20Parish%20Council%20Takes%20Action%20to%20Ensure%20Proper%20Governance%20of%20the%20Datchet%20Recreation%20Centre%20Charitable%20Trust.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span> were involved in the change of lock.\u00a0 In October 2026 &#8211; Datchet Parish Council Chairman David Buckley (Reform UK) should have been chairing a Council Meeting.\u00a0 Instead <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cllr Buckley was out at night with a locksmith drilling and replacing t<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">he high security Datchet Hall lock.\u00a0 Cllr Buckley also arranged for 24 hour security<\/span><\/strong><strong> to prevent the trustees from entering the Datchet Hall building.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>So what&#8217;s the problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last Datchet Parish Council election was held in 2015.\u00a0 Cllr Buckley (supported by mainly co-opted Councillors including himself) is claiming that Datchet Parish Council is the sole Trustee of the Datchet Recreation Centre Charity Trust &#8211; who own the land and buildings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So who is investigating?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The External Auditor, Thames Valley Police, the Charity Commission, the Land Registry and the Monitoring Officer are all involved.\u00a0 In addition &#8211; preparations are underway to request a Court Injunction for the DRCCT Trustees to regain access to the Datchet Hall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are there any other issues?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It looks like DPC has no lease or licence for the use of No 1 Allen Way, the DUC lease for No 2 Allen Way may be vitiate, and the Datchet Football Club lease for No 5 Allen Way has expired and not been renewed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MORE TO FOLLOW:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Datchet Parish Council and the Clerk are under investigation on multiple fronts into the disputed governance of the Datchet Recreation Centre Charity Trust.\u00a0 The Datchet Hall lock was first changed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[214,476,305,172,239,303,170,352,391,488,489],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charity-commission","tag-cllr-david-buckley","tag-datchet-football-club","tag-datchet-parish-council","tag-datchet-recreation-centre-charity-trust","tag-david-buckley","tag-drcct","tag-drcct-trustees","tag-external-auditor","tag-land-registry","tag-thames-valley-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Datchet Parish Council under investigation! 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