Our latest Steering Group Meeting was held on the 24th of June and minutes will be posted after they are approved at the next meeting.
The meeting discussed the Clerk’s recommendation that we formalise the status of the team working on the neighbourhood plan. To do this we need to be a Committee working to the Parish Council. This would give the group the authority for independent decision making, and budget management, whereas technically Steering Groups can only advise a Parish Council. The Clerk is to present recommendations on the appropriate organisational steps needed.
To start this process off the Chair and Deputy for the Committee were proposed and seconded.
Chair: Cllr Roy Hawkesford
Deputy: Maz Woolley
The remainder of the meeting considered a set of questions from our Consultant. It was decided that these need to be worked on at our next working party meeting on the 5th July. Some of the points were discussed and sources of inspiration, like the SNC Design Guide, identified.
Carol Lloyd handed over a set of marked up maps with historical information on them so that they can be scanned and passed to Michael, our Consultant.
Maz Woolley showed that all the data from the walks has been input into individual spreadsheets for Hackleton, Horton, and Piddington. A set of analysis has then been done. This information backs up the Characteristics work that Roy Hawkesford has been doing. The next step is to decide what information, and in what format needs to be gathered from these sheets to illustrate Roy’s work. Again a matter for a working party meeting.
Work on views, protected settings and village separation all need to be updated and passed to the consultant again.
We are still aiming at a completion of the initial draft plan and initiation of consultations over the summer months.
Next Meeting
Our next formal steering group meeting is on Monday 15th July at Hackleton Village Hall . Time to be announced.
