The website is being revamped to make it simpler and easier to follow, including a timeline to show how things are progressing. This has a new feedback form. There will be a stall at the Regatta to share the recommended…
Pop-up at Open Gardens weekend
Wivenhoe Open Gardens weekend is on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 May. This is a good opportunity to drop in on us at the POP-UP for the neighbourhood plan in the Jubilee garden (KGV near the Scout Hall) to Get…
Developer’s challenge seen off
Congratulations to Winslow! All the hard work residents and Council put into the creation of their neighbourhood plan paid off when the Courts found it indeed has the planning power it was meant to have. Read about it on this…
Neighbourhood Plan pop-ups
If you were at the Moving Image film on Tuesday 31 March, you will have experienced the first Pop-up from the Neighbourhood Plan C&CE group! Expect there to be more around the town. There’s also an additional email address to…
From the Communication & Community Engagement Group
Latest from the C&CE group The Group is discussing the risks to the Neighbourhood Plan Perceived lack of transparency Perception that the plan is ‘always the same people’ Need to maintain engagement of residents And proposing ways of Promoting transparency…
Vision and Objectives
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…
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.
Plans, plans, plans…
Colchester Borough Council is preparing a new Local Plan and, if various social media are anything to go by, there is a deal of confusion between that and the Wivenhoe Neighbourhood Plan, so a few words about the difference. This…
Lurching from LURD to LUZ
2015 will see a new phase of work on the WNP – and we seem to have caught the bug of planning-speak with yet more acronyms appearing! Hard to avoid when full titles are such a mouthful. LURD was the…
Rabbiting on
The Rabbit, SU newspaper for the University of Essex, featured an article on the Wivenhoe Neighbourhood Plan in its latest issue. We would add: at www.voxup.co.uk/WivenhoeNP Essex students can realise that chance to shape local community mentioned in the article’s…