Members of the Forum Steering Group met with our MP, Juliet Campbell, this week. It was a useful introductory meeting. Juliet provided us with a response from the Minister to the questions we had previously raised about Neighbourhood Planning with her (see our previous post). We are pleased that the Minister has confirmed that the Government continues to support Neighbourhood Planning, however she doesn’t say how this will be provided through advice, consultancy & grant funding without Locality (or another body) being commissioned to provide it. Whilst “the Government continues to believe that neighbourhood planning is an important part of the planning system”, ending the necessary support to achieve it, may well put an end to it. Juliet believes that funding may come forward in a different way, but as yet unknown what form that will take. Let’s hope it does, and we will keep an eye on the situation.
We will aim to publish our notes from the meeting next week, once Juliet has had the opportunity to review them.
Follow-up to the meeting with the Broxtowe Development Management Team
One of our actions from the meeting reported last week was for us to express the local community’s concerns about the junctions/traffic on the B6003. We have provided those concerns now to the Planning Team, along with some proposals for consideration. These are available for you to read here.
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