Plan Details

I would like to thank everyone who attended our open sessions in September and I would like to thank even more the tremendous feedback that we received as a result of those open meetings. We received 110 questionnaires on the displays that we put together for the meetings in September. I would also like to thank the 50 people who responded to the late submission questionnaire and I once again apologise for the extra inconvenience.

We have also received feedback from other organisations, such as the County Council on highways matters and the District Council on the historic environment. This can have a bearing on what is or isn’t included in the Draft Neighbourhood Plan. In particular, where the responses raise significant issues such as highway safety or possible harm to a Listed Building. In some cases it means further checks need to be undertaken, and we are talking to the landowners about having their help with these extra tasks.

We are now working on the production of the first draft of the Neighbourhood Plan. We will be including relevant aspects from the Village Design Statement in the Plan, as well as showing the local green spaces that are valued by the community, and possible LandSites for housing where no issues have been flagged up that would rule out development. Some suggested housing LandSites may not be included, after discussion and agreement with the proposers, in the draft of the Neighbourhood Plan, because significant issues have been raised that would mean we cannot be sure there is a workable solution that local people would support.