Building Our Plan
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 online survey closed in mid-April 2020 – and headline analysis showed that the town wants 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 of public consultation.
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As always, we welcome your thoughts – and we’ve decided that continuing debate is going to be easiest via Facebook and Twitter.
We value your input.
Please let us know what you think.
must be evidence-based.
It’s worth checking out this elegantly-produced writing toolkit for neighbourhood planners; and an online search will direct you to neighbourhood plans at various stages of completion up and down the country.
It’s interesting to see so many different approaches – evidence, of course, that every single community in the land faces a unique set of issues.
Bengeo
Standon
Stortford
One of the challenges we face is pitching this at the right level – not too detailed yet not too vague and abstract either. And our final submission will be rigorously assessed, so all our assumptions and statements
