Public Consultation on Bassett Road Field

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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

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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

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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

Leader’s End of Year Update – December 2013

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Please find below an end of year update from the Leader of Cotswold District Council:

Leader’s End of Year Update – December 2013

The time has flown since my last update and, as usual, a lot has happened in a relatively short space of time.

Budget Consultation 2014-15
We are currently consulting the public on the Council’s draft budget for 2014/15 against the backdrop of our Medium Term Financial Strategy up to 2017/18. Please encourage people to comment by filling in this survey now. The closing date is 10 January 2014 so that comments can be taken into account before the Council meets in February to agree the budget.
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Proposed Neighbourhood Area for Northleach

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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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Fortey House – affordable housing consultation

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Dear All,

Hopefully you will have received a leaflet over the last few weeks from Bromford Housing the owners of Fortey House, a former older-person housing scheme in Northleach. The site is set to be transformed into 24, two and three bedroom homes available to local people by affordable housing provider Bromford.

Plans for the new development will be on show at a special ‘drop in’ consultation event in the Cotswold Hall anytime between 3pm and 7pm on the 17th July, with local residents and those interested in the homes being urged to attend to share their views on the proposals.

Representatives from Bromford’s development and housing teams will be on hand to provide advice and answer questions on how to apply for the homes, how Bromford’s unique ‘Deal’ works, and any impact construction may have on local residents.

Bromford project manager Sarah Walker, who will be managing the development of the site, acknowledges that the Fortey House has hit a number of barriers in the past but hopes with community support, much needed affordable housing can be created in the Cotswold’s. She said: “Bromford would like to take this opportunity to apologise to those who live near Fortey House for the delays in redevelopment. Unfortunately, the loss of funding and various other issues prevented us from pushing the scheme forward as quickly as we wanted. “However, I’m pleased to say we’re now investing heavily in bringing affordable homes to Northleach and have organised this event to share plans with the local community, and those interested in moving into these homes.

The consultation event will take place on Wednesday 17th July in the Cotswold Hall, West End, Northleach GL54 3HE (opposite the Wheatsheaf Hotel), feel free to drop by anytime between 3pm and 7pm.

If you are unable to attend the event you can find out more at www.gloshomeseeker.co.uk or by calling The Housing Advice Centre at Cotswold District Council on 01285 623300 for advice on eligibility and registration.

Kind regards,
Cat Crompton

Clerk
Northleach with Eastington Town Council