This is where we’ve archived some of the raw materials from which we first began building our draft Neighbourhood Plan.

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Our first online survey closed in mid-April 2020 – and headline analysis showed that the town wanted us to focus on leisure, culture and commerce.

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The challenge was to take the views expressed in response to our questionnaire… and synthesise these into workable policies.

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At all times, we needed to concentrate our efforts on issues that can eventually be enshrined in enforceable planning guidelines.

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At a meeting on 8 September 2020 we reviewed draft policies under the six headings outlined below - and these were boiled these down into five new categories.

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In January 2021 we appointed Alison Eardley and Chris Bowden to help take our draft plan into a second round of public consultation.

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In April 2021, they created a "skeleton draft" of the plan. As the term suggests, this was a very rough outline document, showing the possible scope of our ideal submission: where we’d made good progress, the proposals were presented in almost complete form; but other areas were far sketchier.

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We decided not to publish this document in full but instead to issue a shorter Progress Report, which you can access here.

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Throughout this process we welcomed input which we encouraged via regular posts on Facebook and Twitter.

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