Housing Survey: The You Tube Diaries

During summer we will be preparing a housing survey to get a good understanding of people's needs.

One of the factors we'll be considering is the work done by the Development Trust in 2007 on affordable housing: the work and some of the issues were presented on video which can be found here on youtube.

They are an interesting snapshot of the problems faced at that time - problems which remain much the same now!

Business Survey

One of the important issues raised during the first phase of consultation was the question of supporting business and the need for more - and a greater variety of - employment.

We are therefore carrying out a survey of businesses to try to establish what issues they have in the area to identify where planning and development policies could help and what infrastructure or other needs they have. And also what works well.

Each of the businesses in the three villages has or will be given a survey, which can also be completed on line. We are issuing the following press release to explain a bit more; we will be writing separately to owners of holiday homes which are let to establish their views.

March 2014

CALLING ALL LOCAL BUSINESSES

The North Northumberland Coastal Area Neighbourhood Plan Steering Committee has been working hard to engage with local businesses.  As part of its activities to produce the Neighbourhood Plan, a Business Needs Survey was recently distributed amongst organisations in the three villages of Bamburgh, Beadnell and Seahouses. 

The survey seeks to determine what the positive aspects of the local area are for businesses, as well as find out what negative aspects are perceived.  It also seeks views on the changing nature of businesses and aspirations for future business needs.  Collecting this information will help to develop policies in the plan which balance the needs of the business community as well as local residents, with sustainability underpinning everything that the plan will seek to achieve.

We are keen to reach all areas of the business community and are now calling on all businesses who may not have received a Business Needs Survey to assist us in providing their views.  To facilitate this more copies of the survey have been made available at the Seahouses Resource Centre, Main Street, Seahouses.  Please call in to the Resource Centre and pick up a copy so that you too can help to shape the local area to meet the needs of your business for the future.