Cornwood and Lutton Parish - Our Parish Plan
We are currently setting up our first full Parish Plan, but we need you help.
A parish plan can do the following for our community. It will create a plan that can be used to secure funding for future projects, support or object to future developments and retain control withing the parish.
What Parish Plans can achieve;
- enable communities to engage meaningfully with the local planning process
- make known those issues that affect your community
- identify and prioritise Key Issues with your community
- produce an Action Plan to promote the changes that communities want to see at local, district and county levels
- are useful in influencing the maintenance and creation of community services and facilities such as;
- identifying new uses for the Village Hall or other community buildings
- encouraging the setting up of a parent and baby clinic
- feeding into district and county strategies, through Local Strategic Partnerships
- are useful in Influencing the planning system by;
- identifying local needs for affordable housing or community facilities
- producing a design statement for new development
- identifying which open spaces are needed and valued for community use
- giving a local dimension to broader planning policies
- working with the planning process to deliver sustainable development
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are useful in identifying and planning action that the local community can undertake itself, such as;
- providing a community transport scheme
- carrying out environmental improvements
- creating a new play area and place for young people to meet
The steps are as follows.
1) Identify the questions to be asked. This has to come from the community. These questions will be broken down into the following areas.
Housing and Housing Need, Road and Traffic, Enviroment,Tourism and Leisure, Education, Transport, Employment, The Future, Youth
PLEASE HELP US BY POSTING YOU QUESTIONS BY CLICKING ON THE OPTIONS ABOVE
2) Form a committee to manage an control the process. This committee is to made up from people involved in the various groups withing the parish. Their role is to hel p formulate the questionaire and over see the process. Would you like to be part of that committee, If so Click Here.
3) Distribute the Survey/Questionaire. Ensure it is sent to every household, and then collect them back in after a period of time of 2 weeks.
4) Summarise and distribute the results, probaly through the parish magasine.
This whole process can take from 6 months to 12 months to complete.
For more information on Parish Plans please select one of the options below.
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