The Steering Group has been active since the launch event
and has:
• held
conversations with local people and businesses to establish the main issues to
be tackled; compared the changes in the census results of 2001 and 2011 to try and predict
future trends; looked at other parts of the country with similar challenges to
see what policies they have developed.
The Group is working closely with the County Council, who
are providing technical and practical support to help us develop the plan. The County Council is currently preparing a
new Local Plan for Northumberland and we are working to ensure that the Local
Plan will support the things that are important to us such as:
• development
is in an acceptable style; that we have a proper balance of second and holiday
homes; and that we can encourage
business.
We have developed a questionnaire survey to collect
evidence required to support the policies and proposals likely to form part of
the Neighbourhood Plan. We would like
to invite you to attend a consultation event and to complete the questionnaire
survey which will be delivered to all houses in the parishes. The questionnaire
survey will include questions about the following matters:
Your views on the vision and
objectives for the Plan, a housing needs survey and a survey for second home
owners.
We are launching this on Tuesday 14 October at 7pm at the Seahouses
Sports and Community Centre:
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To tell you what we’ve done so far and answer
questions;
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To explain the survey;
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To hear the experience of the Alnwick and
Denwick group, who are about 2 years ahead of us.
The availability of social housing is important in this area. We are
therefore also arranging a drop in at the Methodist
Church Hall on Wednesday 22 October, from 3pm to 6pm to explain how
Homefinder, the County’s housing allocation system works.
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