meetings

Meeting of Cottesmore Neighbourhood Planning Group

Held at 16 Main Street, Cottesmore, on

Monday 3rd March 2014

1. Members attending :

Frank Chivers, Tim Dixon, Chris Donovan, Ron Dane, Elaine Huq, Daphne Lees, Tony McClelland, Dawn Spence, Peter Spence, Lisa Viney, Chris Whitton, Jack Wood (Chairman).

Also attending: John Meara - Chairman of Cottesmore Parish Council

Apologies were received from John Docker

2. Matters arising from meeting on 3rd February 2014

1.     Names of local celebrities who could help with publicity are still needed

2.     Ron Dane and Chris Donovan will be attending the planning camp at York from March 23rd till 25th.

3.     The CNPG14.blogspot.co.uk is a work in progress and items are being added as they arise. It will provide a useful record of what as been done and a resource for those coming new to the neighbourhood plan.

3. Report from steering committee

1.     Ron Dane has started completing the application for government funding but all questions cannot be answered yet.

Action - all members send details of their qualifications to Ron if relevant to planning or if they could be useful to show capabilities.

2.  The RCC consultation has commenced and a notice is now on the RCC website with a finish date of 28.03.14. A copy of the notice will be placed on all the village notice boards.

Action -Tony McClelland, Jack Wood and John Meara.

5. Report from sections

Socio-economic group - Ron Dane and Elaine Huq

Forty data sets had been considered and 13 tables chosen.

A very useful presentation was given explaining the information available and the most  interesting points from the tables.

It was suggested  that details of people who live and work in the village would be useful as this could be a factor in future sustainability e.g. no commuting costs and factors and facilities encouraging this might be an important future issue.

Action - Ron Dane to circulate the tables.

Anyone knowing of people who live and work from home in the village let Ron know with names to avoid duplication.

Environment and motion

A number of areas had been discussed that are considered to be of concern to the village e.g traffic, parking, road layouts, footpaths etc.

A method of consulting the community on these areas needs to be decided. A simple base map showing the various ideas was suggested. Openstreet a website that can show old footpaths dating from 1937 was also suggested to find means to open access to the countryside.

Action - Chris Donovan to circulate the notes on the areas.

Decide areas for consultation and the method to be used

Communications

Brian Martin has offered a full page spread in the Link free of charge to publicise the Neighbourhood Plan and try to involve more people in the discussions. People can join the committee and/or onto groups considering the issues. Also suggested was that current committee members visit village groups to inform them and seek suggestions and opinions on the issues as they see them and try to increase involvement.

Action - Lisa Viney to decide which groups to visit and allocate members in pairs to contact and visit.

6. Any other business

There were no items

7. Date of next meeting, Wednesday 2nd April 2014

Daphne Lees

Secretary CNPG