Public Consultation on Bassett Road Field

Posted on By Town Clerk

Gloucestershire County Council has agreed to extend today’s Public Consultation on Bassett Road field until next week. Apologies for the late notice as this has only just been confirmed. We hope that this will assist those people who were unable to make this afternoon’s meeting and apologies to those who have already rearranged their day around this.

Therefore the Public Consultation meeting today is still on from 3pm – 6.45pm at the Westwoods Centre. However GCC will then leave the displays and opportunities for comment with us for a few days. The Tayler Room (on the right of the foyer entrance) will hold the display until the end of Tuesday 29th April.

The Westwoods will be open at the following times to accommodate this.

Friday 25th 8.30 – 4pm
Saturday 26th 10 – 2pm
Sunday 27th 10 – 2pm
Monday 28th 8.30 – 7pm
Tuesday 29th 8.30 – 7pm

Kind regards
Cat Crompton

Clerk
Northleach with Eastington Town Council

Update on the Public Consultation Meeting on 15th March

Posted on By Town Clerk

The public meeting on Saturday 15th March was well attended and people took the opportunity to comment on the site assessments that had been carried out by members of the Steering Group, Councillors and some residents on 14 areas across Town.

Cotswold District Council (CDC) had asked for feedback on four sites by the end of March. These key areas are – the Fortey House site, the field at Bassett Road, the field to the East of Nostle Road and the Ferrari garage site. These sites were identified by CDC at the beginning of the year as being the ones they want to focus on. At a Local Plan meeting in January, they issued Northleach and other town councils with a “toolkit” with which to assess these. The site assessments will be submitted to CDC this week.

The Steering Group had also decided it would be a good opportunity to assess an additional 10 sites which were previously identified as having potential for development. These are currently listed as “unsuitable” by CDC but the assessments will help to form part of the Northleach Neighbourhood Development Plan. These additional assessments will not be submitted to CDC but will be used for the NNDP in order to look at the whole Northleach picture.

In addition to commenting on the site assessments, people took the chance to comment generally on the plan and Northleach as a whole which is very helpful. We have collated the display information, site assessments and feedback comments and these are now available to view at the Westwoods Centre. You can continue to make comments on all of these assessments for the next few months and these will form part of the NDP.

Kind regards
Cat Crompton

Clerk
Northleach with Eastington Town Council

Neighbourhood Development Plan Update

Posted on By Town Clerk

Good progress is being made on the Northleach Neighbourhood Development Plan (NNDP).

CDC has confirmed in the last week that the area identified for the purposes of the plan (the whole of the Parish) has been designated.

The Steering Group approached 5 consultants to quote on assisting with the legal and professional elements that the Steering Group need support on. Three of the consultants submitted quotes and the Group agreed to go with rCOH Ltd. The Steering Group believed that they understood the brief and vision for the NNDP most fully.

A grant form to request financial support has been submitted to Neighbourhood Planning.

CDC held a Local Plan workshop in January at the Westwoods and we were able to send 4 people to it. As part of this, the steering Group was asked to review potential development sites around Northleach using a site assessment template provided. The Steering Group assisted by some volunteer residents has now completed this work. The results need to be submitted to CDC by the end of March but first the Steering Group would like to present the site assessments for feedback and further public consultation.

To gather this an open public meeting will take place on Saturday 15th March between Midday and 5pm at the Westwoods Centre. Everyone is welcome and it will be an opportunity to offer feedback and information about all of the Town’s potential development sites. If you are unable to make this date, don’t worry we still really want your feedback and the details will be available to view at the Westwoods until Friday 21st March.

Kind regards
Cat Crompton

Clerk
Northleach with Eastington Town Council

Press Release: Northleach Neighbourhood Plan gets underway

Posted on By Town Clerk

NORTHLEACH, GLOS., 30 December 2013 – Northleach with Eastington Town Council has begun the process of delivering a Neighbourhood Development Plan for the parish. An application has been made to Cotswold District Council (CDC) to designate the parish as the area within which the plan will operate.

The Town Council intends that the plan should be developed in the context of CDC’s emerging local plan for the district, addressing housing need, employment, local business and general infrastructure requirements, as well as heritage impact, to ensure that Northleach continues to thrive as a working town with a well-balanced community. The Council is already engaging the local community in meetings to begin the process of consultation about the future of the parish over the next 20 years.

In the New Year the Council will engage external consultants to assist in the preparation of a plan for consideration by the parish as a whole and with the drafting of appropriate planning policies. If the plan has the support of the parish, it will be subject to a check by CDC before it goes to an external examiner. It will then be the subject of a local referendum. If there is a majority vote in favour of the plan, it will be adopted as part of CDC’s Development Plan (which also includes relevant government policies) to assist in determining future planning applications in the parish.

The Town Council is being supported in the task by many local residents, the Northleach Residents Association, the Councillor for Northleach, and CDC. If you would like any further information, please contact one of the following:

– Town Clerk, Cat Crompton at clerk@northleach.gov.uk
– Chairman of the Town Council, Cllr Vicki Hewer on victoria.hewer@btinternet.com
– District Councillor, Chris Hancock on christopher.hancock@cotswold.gov.uk

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NOTES FOR EDITORS

Nationally –

  • 3 Neighbourhood Plans are in force
  • 5 have passed examination
  • About 10 are at the examination stage
  • Around 600 areas have been designated

What is happening in Cotswold District? Areas working towards a Neighbourhood Plan which have already sent submissions to CDC are:

  • Stow-on-the-Wold
  • Fairford
  • Tetbury and Tetbury Upton
  • Lechlade-on-Thames
  • Chipping Campden

More general information about Neighbourhood Plans
See http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/neighbourhood-planning/

Bob McNally,
Press and Media Liaison Officer,
Cotswold District Council
Tel: 01285 623120
email: press@cotswold.gov.uk

Twitter address: @BobMcNally2

Proposed Neighbourhood Area for Northleach

Posted on By Town Clerk

Please find attached the Notice of publication of proposed Neighbourhood Area for Northleach with Eastington. This is the official notification and press release from Cotswold District Council.

The 6 week consultation has now begun and will end on Thursday 16th January. Please feed your comments in directly to CDC.

Northleach with Eastington Town Council will shortly be releasing its own press release that will give further details.

kind regards,
Cat Crompton, Town Clerk

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