meetings

Meeting of Cottesmore Neighbourhood Planning Group

 in the Sports and Social Club,

Monday 27th October 2014 at 7pm

Members attending:

Frank Chivers, Linda King, Terry King, Lisa Viney, Tony McClelland, John Meara, Jack Wood, Elaine Huq, Tim Dixon, Chris Donovan, Robert Tregay, Dawn Spence, Peter Spence, Daphne Lees

1.         Apologies for absence were received from Sophie Jamieson, Ron Dane and Sharon Baker.

2.  There were no matter arising from the previous notes.

3.  Exhibition evening Friday October 31st and discussion morning Saturday November  1st..

Friday

TD and CW have produced the presentation boards and copies were circulated. The original overview of neighbourhood planning has been reused and 8 more sheets have been written based on sections in the discussion document. These are now ready at the printers.

The display boards from the last consultation will be reused. RD will be contacted to check where they are stored. If upstairs Pat Hart now holds the key. TD and CW will put up the boards, which can stay up overnight as the village Hall has been booked for 3pm on Friday for 24 hours.

EH suggested that post-it notes would be useful for residents to add comments to the boards or on the relevant sheets on the table. Several members offered to bring some.

Name and address sheets are to be completed again and JW will provide these.

Most members of the committee volunteered to attend. .Friday and

Saturday.

Talks will start at 10.30 and will last 5 - 10 minutes each.

Environment and Character - RT

Energy - Ron Dane will be asked to speak on this section

Transport and Road safety - CD

Housing - CD first 4 sections and RT the remainder

Economy - Ron will be asked if he will do this

Community - FC

Some chairs will need to be arranged in a loose circle with others available if needed.

 EH has arranged for the WI to kindly provide refreshment again.

4. Current situation regarding housing planning applications

TK informed us that the Local Plan has now been adopted  by RCC. Under the Site Allocations and Development Plan document of the plan there is no housing requirement for Cottesmore before 2026. Rutland has 5 years plus a further 20% supply of land ready for development, conforming to national government requirements. The Cottesmore NP must conform to the local plan.

Currently there are 2 housing planning applications before the council and these will be decided on the current local plan. In any future review if Cottesmore has to have house building the areas we designate in the NP will be taken into account. So what is proposed now should not affect current applications.

TK will arrange a copy of the local plan to be provided for the group.

Developers may come to the meeting and not necessarily identify themselves.  We need to be clear that areas allocated on the Cottesmore NP are not for development now, if ever.

It was agreed that the current version of the plan was very good and that RD had done a really good job of producing it and everyone wished to express their thanks to him.

5 Next version of the plan

The next version of the plan needs to be more robust in order to stop development on public open spaces. It will need to show clearly why there are key sectors of the village that should not be developed

RT suggested the factors to be taken into account and strengthened could be

Constraints including the environment

Access - near to school and shops

Sustainable

Deliverable - no ancient remains or sites of special interest etc.

The language could be more precise in planning terms. However it should remain clear to non- planners, which may not be easy. TK said the planning officer was looking at the plan and is willing to put it into planning terms. It was noted that plan inspectors have said it does not require the precise language of other planning documents so it is for us to decide.

6 EU law

SB has provided details of the EU laws that the plan will have to comply with.

a is a sustainability appraisal that the RCC will do the bulk of the work on

b is an appropriate assessment for  any impact on European special sites.

7 Any other business

The Journal of Local Planning. is paid for by the Parish Council who wished to know if it was of value and should we continue to receive it. It was felt that the articles were useful particularly as neighbourhood plans are reaching appeals and we would like the parish council to continue to fund it .JM

10 Date of next meeting is Monday 5th January 2015 in the Sports and Social Club at 7pm

FC will book the date with the social club.