Not surprisingly I suppose, the interest shown in April’s questionnaire relating to “Heritage Assets and Green Spaces” has once more generated a significant positive response and I, together with those responsible for creating the document, would like to express our thanks for to everyone who took the trouble to respond.
Firstly I would like to thank everyone who took part in the “Traffic and Parking review” in March.
For those of you who completed the questionnaire in the Newsletter, your responses have been uploaded and combined with the responses submitted on the website. The analysis of overall returns will be taken forward to the public meeting later in the year as a part of the draft Cubert Neighbourhood Development Plan.
In January I referred to the six priorities identified in last year’s NDP survey and to the fact that the members of the Steering Group have formed sub-groups to assess the potential within each subject area.
The assessments have progressed over the past couple of months. The hope is to put the findings into the public domain incrementally, via this Newsletter, the Cubert NDP Facebook page and the Cubert NDP website. The objective is to inform, generate interest and seek comments.
As we move into 2021 it is natural for people to look back, assess what has gone and look hopefully forward to what may be coming down the track.
Clearly there is a universal hope that things will get better on all sorts of levels, not least with regard to Covid-19. I think what has been clearly evident throughout the pandemic is the willingness of individual members of communities to provide help and support for each other.
A review of the “stakeholder” responses served to confirm the priorities identified from the initial residents survey. Effectively, the six priorities remain; priorities for new housing, future business development in the parish, traffic control and car parking, provision of sports and leisure facilities, protecting our heritage assets and green spaces and safe guarding our school facilities and potential expansion needs.
The Steering Group meeting in October had sight of the final draft of the Local Landscape Character Assessment. It was a comprehensive piece of work involving a lot of time and effort by several of the Group aided by some extra volunteers.
The Steering Group meeting in October had sight of the final draft of the Local Landscape Character Assessment. It was a comprehensive piece of work involving a lot of time and effort by several of the Group aided by some extra volunteers.
The document will form part of the final draft development plan which in turn will, of course, be circulated for consideration and consultation in due course.
The 31st October saw the cut-off date for the “Stakeholder” consultation process. The results will combined with initial survey results and thereby help inform the direction that the Steering Group should progress.
As always, if you want to put forward your ideas, please use one of the contact options shown below or email me directly at chair.cubertndp@btinternet.com
During August and September, the Landscape Survey and Character Assessment has continued. The parish was divided into ten sections, accessible via public rights of way but as can be imagined, it proved to be an involved and time consuming exercise.
Being the first opportunity, as Chairman of the Cubert NDP Steering Group, to publish an update on the work of the group; I feel it is incumbent upon me to thank Gareth Rowe for the work he has done to date in managing to get the group up and running despite all the inhibiting consequences of Covid 19.
Covid 19 restrictions continue to be eased and we now have non-essential shops open and with plans in place to relax the two-metre social distancing which should allow pubs and restaurants to reopen (subject to a raft of new control measures) from July 4th.
