During the last month, the Steering Group has had three meetings, and we have made arrangements to meet with Jacqueline Brooks, Ellie’s replacement at SNC, and with Michael Wellock, our consultant. We have received replies from the four landowners / agents we approached following the completion of the Sites Assessment. The Housing Needs Assessment has yet to be signed off, though the content is clear to us.
We have also started the business of writing Policies that we trust will fit the unique nature of our parish. This covers several areas, including housing, biodiversity, traffic, employment, buildings of interest, design characteristics and green spaces, while Roy and Liz Friendship-Taylor are preparing a report on archaeology. We intend to start gathering evidence for the Plan, walking the villages and taking photographs of housing types and anything that characterises the parish.
The next informal meeting will take place on March 1st, which Jacqueline Brooks (SNC) will attend. The next formal meeting will take place on March 4th, when Michael Wellock, our consultant, will be in attendance. It is hoped that, following these meetings, a new draft of the Plan will be prepared and we will have a clear direction for the work to be undertaken.
We hope to engage Hackleton School in a project to enhance the Plan by getting the children to make paintings of what the parish means to them. The intention is to include pictures in the Plan itself and the final referendum exhibition. The aim of the Neighbourhood Plan is, of course, to increase the wellbeing of the community and to help create a sustainable future for our villages. Children are the future, and we would like to involve them – and their families – in what we are doing.
Roy Hawkesford
February 14th 2019
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