After the hard work of eight working groups over many months, the draft Vision and Objectives document has now gone on line. The Steering Group has taken great care to make the Objectives reflect the views of Wivenhoe residents as…
process
Meeting Wednesday 4 March
The next meeting of the Steering Group will be held on Wednesday 4 March, 7.30 pm, in the Council chamber of Wivenhoe Town Council offices, 77 High Street. Meetings are open to the public. The agenda is available.
Success with grant application
The Steering Group has been awarded a Direct Support grant to help with the production of the neighbourhood plan. The assistance will be given by Rachel Hogger, Planning Aid England advisor (East of England) who will be involved with the…
From the horse’s mouth
Planning Aid England has produced a series of video shorts to help understand the making of a Plan and taking it to conclusion. Nigel McGurk, an experienced independent neighbourhoodplan examiner, talks viewers through the examination process in 8 videos that…
Share the Vision
We’re nearing the end of the survey analysis work. Publication of a 12-page Digest will follow in May. In the meantime the steering group has turned to recruiting residents to one of the eight small working groups that will start…
Furiously paddling
The Steering Group, with the help of community and university volunteers, is slowly getting on top of the mass of data provided by residents in response to the various consultations that have been held. It may have looked as if…
Recruiting
The Steering Group is recruiting people for the next step in the process. Ruth writes: Spec for Analysis working group: A group (5 or 6 people) is needed to work on the analysis of the survey results on a short…
Questionnaire
A working group has been busy designing a questionnaire that focuses more narrowly on the concerns that were expressed through initial consultation with the community. The group has been meeting for two-and-a-half hours on a weekly basis, towels round their…
Designated Area
WTC’s application to approve a Designated Neighbourhood Area was the first official step in the NP process. The application was made to the planning authority for Wivenhoe which is of course CBC. The application was submitted in May 2013 and…
What’s been happening?
On the basis of all the information that has come in through the preliminary consultation excercises, a sub-group of the steering group is now designing a more focused questionnaire. This is in line with the successive steps through the process…