Inham Nook Allotments (the only allotments in our Neighbourhood Area) will be open Saturday 16th September 1pm to 5pm for tea cake and a tour of the site.
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Inham Nook Allotments – Open Day
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Toton and Chilwell Meadows CAT Meeting
A Community Action Team (CAT) meeting will be held next Wednesday 26th July at 7pm in Coronation Hall, Toton – see meeting notice below:-
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If you aren’t aware, CAT meetings are organised by your local ward councillors, and it is an opportunity to discuss and raise any issues you may have affecting the ward in question. They are open to all residents living in each ward. See here for more information.
The Neighbourhood Forum, as you know, can only represent the community on planning and development matters within the Forum Area. So CAT meetings provide residents with the opportunity to discuss other issues affecting them with, and make suggestions to, their local representatives at ward level.
Another Reminder – Design Codes – Request for Comments
Another reminder asking for comments on the Design Codes, Masterplans and supporting documents by the 30th June 2023 and thanks to those of you who have already commented
Over the past six years the Community of Chilwell West and Toton & Chilwell Meadows, through its Neighbourhood Forum, have been writing the Neighbourhood Plan which is in its final stages. The Neighbourhood Plan is an important part of the Planning Process for Developments in the Area but only covers those things which are quantifiable, measurable and enforceable. So towards the end, Consultants were commissioned to create Design Codes. Design Codes provide guidance to developers on the more qualitative aspects of Developments, things that the Planning Process can’t enforce but which the Community would like to see (things like the uses for existing buildings, energy and water efficiency in excess of building regulations, etc.).
The documents have been created by the Consultants for the Community. The MOD/DIO, EMDevCo and Broxtowe Borough Council have had no inputs to them.
Design Guides will influence Developers at an early stage, showing them what the Community would like, want and expect so that the Development when planned is more likely to be meet with the Community’s approval.
If there are things within these documents that you (as individuals or groups) want to comment on (good or bad), now is your chance. If you don’t comment, then your views won’t be heard at this early stage. There’s no such thing as a “wrong comment”. The Design Codes are not “set in concrete”, they will change as circumstances change. All comments will be retained and, as later, more detailed, versions of the Design Codes are created, all comments will be taken into account.
An end commenting date has been set, not because comments will not be accepted thereafter but because without an end date the process will drift and lose focus.
Make your comments NOW to influence Developments at an early stage.
The comments received so far and the responses given are included in the above page.
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Local Updates
Stapleford Town Council
Stapleford Town Council has announced a pre-submission (Regulation 14) consultation on its Neighbourhood Plan – see here with a closing date of 30th June. There are also a number of Consultation Events being held.
If you are interested in what one of our neighbouring areas are proposing please do take a look.
Let’s Talk Broxtowe
Broxtowe Borough Council has this week announced a series of Roadshows to speak to Senior Council Officers and newly elected Councillors face-to-face, at one of the following events:-
- Kimberley – Thursday 8 June, 6pm – 8pm at Rumbletums Café
- Beeston – Tuesday 13 June, 6pm – 8pm at Beeston Council Offices
- Brinsley – Wednesday 21 June, 10am – 12pm at Brinsley Village Hall
- Chilwell – Tuesday 27 June, 2pm – 4pm at Chilwell Memorial Institute
- Eastwood – Thursday 29 June, 2pm – 4pm at Eastwood Town Council
- Stapleford – Friday 30 June, 10am – 12pm at Stapleford Young People’s Centre
So if you would like to take the opportunity to meet your local councillors, then please do go along and of course mention the work of the Forum. Members of the Steering Group will be going to some of these too. However, if you are unable to attend then there is an online Survey available.
As always please do feel free to ask any questions you may have on this week’s latest bulletin or anything else via the Contact Us page, and we’ll do our best to answer them via the Questions and Answers page.
East Midlands Development Company – Latest Prospectus
The East Midlands Development Company have a vision for the three major development sites across the East Midlands. The see the Toton & Chetwynd development as “The Home of Next Generation Living and Working”. Go to their home page to take a closer look at their latest prospectus.
Design Codes follow on: Heritage Asset Study
Chetwynd Barracks still contains a rich collection of Heritage buildings. The WWI Memorial for those civilians who lost their lives in the explosion in July 1918 (134 died, 250 injured) when the original site was National Shell Filling Factory No6 is today Grade 2 listed and is in a prominent position at the head of the memorial gardens. There are other buildings that are also original and date to the original site designed by Lord Chetwynd. They are: Building 157 (the former shell filled store), that you can see from Swiney way; Building 137 (the former infirmary); Building 125 (the former drawing offices, now command building); Building 101 (Woodside House, officers mess); Building 102 (Williams Barracks, the former press house) that is the prominent building up on the hill.
We would like to see where possible, these building preserved and given new leases of life that would benefit our community. As such we went through these buildings with the KEFA team and came up with our preferred options to be considered. As such KEFA went further and drew up potential plans to help us realise our ambitions, if feasible. The odd one out in this respect is Building 157. This is a 9 acre building. As such we have offered a series of options, with the “nuclear option” of taking it down, that we currently think would be the DIO’s option, in which case we have suggested a possible housing outcome as you will see.
As ever feel free to comment on these ideas or offer other solutions on the link attached and we will respond where we can and so all have access to the comments made.
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Design Codes follow on: Health Centre Study
This was an important asset that we needed to ensure would be included in the emerging development. As such we worked once more with KEFA on this subject informing them of our views and helping with our local knowledge of our area. KEFA took the lead and had meetings with the relevant medical authorities that helped shape this study and ensured it carried the correct gravitas, that we are very please to present to you as part of our series of studies that go to support our Design Codes and our Master Plan.
You will see in the study that it is very in depth, both in comparing other practices in the area and highlighting the fact that a health centre is essential and its location identified within the Chetwynd site fully supported.
As ever please feel free to comment on the attached link and we will endeavor to feedback accordingly. The information will remain live on this link, so all can peruse at your leisure.
