Over our last two meetings we have been discussing a ‘Vision Statement’ for Tilehurst, which we will shortly be circulating for public feedback. A ‘Vision Statement’ describes what we want the neighbourhood to be like at the end of the plan period. From ourneighbourhoodplanning.org.uk… “Your neighbourhood plan’s vision should be...
The next meeting of the Steering Group will be on Wednesday 15th February at 7.30pm in the Cornwell Centre, Home Croft, off Clements Mead, RG31 5WJ (please note change from usual venue). We will be progressing work on our “Vision for Tilehurst” as discussed at the previous meeting. Please come...
The next meeting of the Steering Group will be on Wednesday 18th January at 7.30pm in the Cornwell Centre, Home Croft, off Clements Mead, RG31 5WJ (please note change from usual venue). Members of the steering group have been asked to look through the comments we received at our community...
All of us here at the Neighbourhood Plan team hope you had a relaxing and happy festive season. All our best wishes for 2017! The steering group had its last regular monthly meeting of 2016 shortly before Christmas. Our meeting notes are a little delayed by the holidays, and as...
Time has flown past since our October meeting, but we continue to make good progress. The minutes of the October meeting are available here. Full minutes of the November meeting will be published in December but, meanwhile, here is a quick summary. We have started to identify potential sites, and...
The next meeting of the Steering Group will be on Wednesday 16th November at 7.30pm in the Calcot Centre, RG31 4XD. We will be reviewing the project plan and the budget, discussing proposals for our photographic competition, and assessing progress of the working groups. The current prioritised working groups are:...
The case study of Woodcote, a village of some 1000 homes in the Chilterns AONB, shows how a successful neighbourhood plan can affect housing development. In April 2014 over 90% in Woodcote voted ‘yes’ to a neighbourhood plan that included over 70 new homes – a major turnaround to the...
The Steering group held its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday 19th October. The full meeting notes will be available online once agreed at the November meeting, but here’s a brief summary to let you know what we’ve been doing, and give you an idea of what’s coming next. In the...
The next meeting of the Steering Group will be on Wednesday 19th October at 7.30pm in the Calcot Centre, RG31 4XD. At our last meeting we reviewed progress and timescale for the plan and assigned topics to working groups. The working groups are Business & Economy Education Health Transport, Infrastructure...
Your feedback has been collated as part of the evidence documents on our website and is available to download here. To give you a flavour of the feedback we received, we have created some word clouds. The illustration above shows the words most often used in response to the question...
Alongside a pledge to deliver one million new homes and to double the housing budget to £20 billion, the government recently published the first draft of the Neighbourhood Planning Bill. It will have its second reading on 10th October 2016. The Bill intends to speed up and strengthen the neighbourhood...
We will be reporting over the next few weeks on the issues raised during our drop-in days held in April this year. Today we are looking at transport and parking. PUBLIC TRANSPORT • Overall there were no negative comments and the feeling is that the current (bus) transport links to/from...
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