The ‘Neighbourhood Plan’

Up to date situation-

The last meeting of the Town Council Neighbourhood plan sub-committee was held in December 2020. I chaired that meeting and had to trawl back through a lot of documents to try and get us up to speed (I spent a lot of time on it and had 5 pages of notes prior to the meeting). Bear in mind that no one in that room had previously had any involvement in the process.

We made good progress and ended the meeting on page 35 of the document (Policy 2). I indicated at the end of the meeting that I wanted at least two more meetings in January / February to try and get the job done. Sadly, owing to the current covid circumstances, it has proved difficult to get this done and I am very disappointed. As I understand it, the Clerk of the council has been in contact with the consultants but has not been able to fix dates for the meetings.

We have given a commitment to get this matter resolved as quickly as possible. But bear in mind, again, that it may well be a completely new group of people as most of those involved previously are not standing for election on 6th May 2021.

(Phil Sawford 13.04.2021)