The Neighbourhood Plan is being prepared by a small group of unpaid volunteers. Not surprisingly, there will be costs incurred as we progress along the path to completion, hopefully by the spring of next year. These costs will include, for example, utilising professional support to undertake and evaluate community surveys,...
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...
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 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...
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...
Over 100 visitors participated in our two drop-in days, leaving us with plenty of food for thought. We are now analysing their comments and ideas to build a picture of the themes that will be most important in the Neighbourhood Plan. This was only an initial step – we will...
Saturday 16th April 2016: Calcot Centre, RG31 4XD: 11.00am – 4.00pm Saturday 23rd April 2016: Cornwell Centre, RG31 5JW 11.00am – 4.00pm The NeighbOURhood plan is your chance to influence development in Tilehurst. We are holding two drop-in days to give everyone the chance to participate in the Neighbourhood Plan...
Tilehurst Parish Council announced its intention to create a neighbourhood plan late last year, and following a lengthy consultation West Berkshire Council has now approved the area to be covered by the Tilehurst Parish Council Neighbourhood Plan. Neighbourhood plans enable local people to have a say in the shape of...
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