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Forum Digest 4th April 2021

Happy Easter everyone. This is just a short update so as not to take up too much of your valuable leisure time this long bank holiday weekend, even if the weather isn’t forecast to be as good as it might … Continue reading

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Focus Group Community Development: Modular Housing

Our recent Focus Group meeting involved the group participating in questions set by our Modular Build expert Yann. They covered a whole range topics based on our Neighbourhood Plan site and housing ideas including: housing types, affordable housing, care and … Continue reading

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Forum Digest 21st March 2021

Neighbourhood Plan Progress Update The second stage of the Strategic Enviromnmental Asssessment (SEA) process is well underway – this is the Scoping Report. The Steering Group (SG) can expect to see a draft of this from AECOM in early April … Continue reading

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Green Energy posts follow up 6th March 2021

Following our latest Green Energy post we have been asked for more details on how to start the process, potential firms to use and costs that maybe incurred. So to be clear we are not the experts on these matters … Continue reading

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Biodiversity Gain Presentation

The UK Government has announced new English developments will be required to demonstrate a 10% increase in biodiversity on or near development sites. In other words, developers must improve wildlife habitats. What does this mean for the developments taking place … Continue reading

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Government Green Initiatives (Renewable Heat Incentive)

As part of our Community Development Focus Group, “green initiatives” are one of the many areas the group is working on. We are aware that the Government is currently running two initiatives and one is receiving bad press whilst the … Continue reading

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Chetwynd: Neighbourhood Forum Focus Groups

Introducing the Chetwynd Neighbourhood Forum Focus Groups Continue reading

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Forum Digest: 27th February 2021

Neighbourhood Plan Progress Update  In the last Digest a couple of weeks ago I provided a summary of where we were with the Neighbourhood Plan, so I thought it would be useful to bring everyone up to date with where … Continue reading

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Chairmans Notes: February 13th 2021

Hi everyone, I do hope this message finds you all safe and well in these continuing different times.As far as the forum is concerned we have been very busy establishing the focus groups and holding various internal and stakeholder meetings. … Continue reading

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Forum Digest: 13th February 2021

From David, SG Vice Chair:-Neighbourhood Plan Progress UpdateYou will remember that the Neighbourhood Plan was submitted to Broxtowe in mid-June 2020 and that we were waiting for a response from them as to when it would move to the next … Continue reading

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