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Neighbourhood Development Plan – Time to vote

THE FINAL STEP

The journey to formal approval for the Somerford Keynes and Shorncote Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) is almost complete. The final step is for the community to vote in the upcoming referendum. So it’s time to update you on how we finally got to this point and what you need to do.

The NDP is the only way in which local community views can directly inform new planning policies. Is that important? It would certainly appear so, because the NDP is playing an important part in a planning application on which local opinion is being expressed very strongly.

THE STORY SO FAR

The last NDP News reported that the NDP had been submitted to Cotswold District Council, our local planning authority, whose endorsement is needed for it to progress. A further public consultation followed and the NDP was sent to an Independent Examiner for comment. This consultation period ended on 24 January 2020 and that’s the last you may have heard of the NDP.

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New Parish Website

You may notice that our website has changed.

The address is the same, but we have built a new, redesign site.

Peter Watkins, who built and ran the original website as decided to retire. A big thank-you for all Peter’s work over the years.

Jon Lunn and Mike McKeown have kindly agreed to take over the site and have built a new site with more features and content and reduced hosting costs. Some of the benefits of the new site include:

  • Dynamic content including news, notices and blogs
  • Dynamic resizing means the site works mobile and tablet, as well as PC
  • Photo galleries
  • Local directory
  • Content search
  • Easier to manage, which means people from groups such as the parish council, village lake, village hall, church and history group can manage their own content
  • Uses modern web technology, that allows a nicer design, meets government guidelines on accessibility and improves security, including using HTTPS, which is encrypted

The History Group has already created a nice new village timeline.

If you would like to post content please contact either Jon Lunn or Mike McKeown. We are open to adding additional groups and can create pages and blogs when needed.

Please note that public information, such as Parish Council minutes, continue to be available on the new site. The only personal information the site stores is contacts for groups and societies, and any incidental mentions, such as in meeting minutes. The site does not store general parish resident details.

 

Neighbourhood Development Plan Consultations

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN CONSULTATION

The plan has been accepted by CDC and a final statutory consultation was open from 4 December 2019 until 24 January 2020, and has now been examined by an Inspector appointed by CDC. The latest information is on the CDC site hereThe plan documents are available on this site  and on the CDC site The Statutory Notice is here

Earlier Public Consultations were held in the Village Hall on Thursday 28 March 2019 7.30-9.00, Friday 29th March 2019 7.30-9.30, Saturday 30th March 2019 10-2pm

The Consultation is now closed

Earlier  Consultations

The statutory NDP pre-submission consultation period ended on Friday 29 July 2016. We are grateful to all those who completed the questionnaire and/or responded via email. All comments will now be considered by the NDP Team who will determine what amendments should be made to the Draft Plan, which must then be submitted to a full meeting of the Parish Council. Once approved the Plan will be forwarded to CDC as the planning authority, who then assume responsibility for the next stages

Fresh Pizza Delivery

We have a new community service in our village hall car park. Every other week Priory Pizza from Tetbury will be selling pizzas from their pizza van. The first visit will be on Wednesday 28th October, between, 5-8 pm

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