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Meeting of Cottesmore Neighbourhood Planning Group

Held at Gainsborogh Court, Cottesmore, on

Monday 3rd February 2014

1. Members attending :

Frank Chivers, John Docker, Chris Donovan, Ron Dane, Daphne Lees,Peter Spence, Lisa Viney, Chris Whitton, Jack Wood (Chairman).

Also attending: John Meara (Chairman of Cottesmore Parish Council)

Apologies were received for Tony McClelland, Alan Ivanoski, Tim Dixon, Steve Lt Col Lonnen

2. Decisions

1 The boundary for the neighbourhood plan will be that of Cottesmore Parish, which includes part of Kendrew Barracks.

2.  The group members are as follows ( leaders in bold ):-

Socio- economic - Ron Dane,  Elaine Huq

Communication - Lisa Viney, Fred Docker, Peter Spence

Environment and movement - Chris Donovan, Frank Chivers, Chris Whitton, Jack Wood,                              Daphne Lees

Vision - Chris Donovan  plus any co-opted member from environment.

3. Report from steering committee

Cottesmore Parish Council has provided £500 of a £1000 grant which is currently in the newly opened bank account. RCC can provide further funding when the boundary plan has been approved. Central government funding of £7000 this financial year can also be applied for when the plan has RCC approval. The amount of funding for the next financial  year is not yet certain.

Action: Ron Dane to apply for central government funding as soon as approval is granted.

Jack Wood, Ron Dane and John Meara met Steve Lt Col Lonnen to discuss the involvement of the MOD personnel in the neighbourhood plan. The accommodation at Kendrew Barracks is being expanded by about another 100 houses making their numbers far greater than the number of people in Cottesmore. The size of the barracks will impact on some aspects of village life and therefore to include it would be sensible.

Action: Jack Wood and John Meara to inform RCC that the parish boundary is the CNPG boundary, hopefully in time to get it confirmed before the end of the financial year.

4. Report from sections

Ron Dane, Socio - economic

Official statistics are available in sufficient detail to compare the parish to other areas or to other villages in Rutland and even areas within the parish meaning that the MOD can be taken out of the information when appropriate.

Chris Donovan, Vision

Vision touches on all areas and it would be very helpful if all groups had a member on all the other groups.

Lisa Viney, Communication

An eye catching flyer was shown as an example, other ideas included a questionnaire possibly as a loose insert in The Link; information stalls at village events and MOD open events e.g. MOD WWI exhibition 17th July. These events could also be used to collect emails to help spread information later on.

Environment and movement

Chris Donovan kindly agreed to be leader of this section as well as vision. The general feeling was that the two areas were interdependent and this would work well.

5. Any other business

Names of any celebrities who could be approached for publicity were requested. Peter Wheeler, the former England and Lions hooker lives in the village. Action: any others?

Ron Dane has produced a blog, CNPG14.blogspot.co.uk. Information can be posted on it now and eventually so will the consultation document.

Ron Dane brought details of a free Planning Camp on offer to 2 members at either York 23-25 March or Oxford 3-5 April, funded by Dept of communities and Local Government. Ron would like to go and anyone who is interested should contact Jack Wood immediately for further information. Action: anyone else interested.

Uppingham is at the final consultation stage for its plan which is available to view in libraries or online.

The Mercury/Times is being taken over from  the 28th March by a Peterborough paper possibly making it more difficult to get publicity for local news.

6. Next meeting

Lisa Viney kindly offered her homes the venue for the next meeting on Monday 3rd March at 7 pm.

Daphne Lees

Secretary CNPG