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Latest news regarding the Neighbourhood Plan

Dear All

Just to keep you up to date with what's going on following the meeting with the planning consultant Ian Poole last week about drawing up a Neighbourhood Plan for Chevington..

We had a Parish Council agm immediately after and agreed: 
To designate the Chevington parish boundary as the area for the Plan
That I should put together a Neighbourhood Plan working party of interested people from within the village
The Parish Clerk Frances Betts should look into how we apply for grants to cover the cost of the plan.
To take on Ian Poole as our consultant, subject to us being able to cover his costs with grant money.
That the Council is the body ultimately responsible for the plan, but the working party will do the actual work to create it.
I have taken on Gill Coleman from Grange Mill as a co-chair of the working party. Her email is gillianlcolman@gmail.com  and she is on the Our Community Spirit Whatsapp group. As we will be working closely on this I think it would be a good idea to send emails to us both together. 

Some of you who were at Wednesday's meeting have already expressed an interest in joining the working party. We see it being split into five groups. People can take on small or large roles in each group. It's up to them. They don't have to have any special experience or knowledge, just enthusiasm, an open mind and a commitment to the village.  The subjects covered by the five groups will be:
Housing and the built environment
Service, the local economy and businesses
The natural environment
Transport and Highways
Community engagement of the Plan and communications
Each group will choose one person to represent it on the Working Party Core Group (I can't think of a better name for it - suggestions please). This core group will meet roughly once a month and will get guidance from Ian Poole as to what information needs to be gathered. 

We would like to have names for the working party in place by the end of the month and have our first full meeting next month. Some of you have already expressed an interest. 
Do let us know if you want to take part. It's not a full time commitment, you really can take on as much or as little responsibility as you want. 
We want the whole exercise to be fun and interesting. For instance the plan has to have photographs and illustrations, so we might have a competition to get the best village pictures. Or how about organising some drone pictures of Chevington? We think we may have some of our meetings in the pub or during the summer outside in people's gardens. We are probably going to design a new village website to host the Plan. We need to consult people in the village and get their opinions. And of course we need lots of ideas from people about the village's future, what we value most about the place and what we want to keep and what we want to change.

If you want more information on neighbourhood plans, there is the government website which is pretty good:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/neighbourhood-planning--2
This website is run by Locality which helps people put plans together:
https://neighbourhoodplanning.org/
And this is the West Suffolk neighbourhood plan site which gives you links to the neighbourhood plans which have been completed and which are under way at the moment. That will give you an idea of what they end up looking like:
https://www.westsuffolk.gov.uk/planning/Planning_Policies/neighbourhood-planning/neighbourhood-planning-in-hargrave.cfm

If you know of anyone who might be interested in taking part, please forward them this email, and ask them to get in touch.

Best wishes

Cllr Jamie Robertson

Chevington is in the top 200 villages in Suffolk with how it tackles speeding vehicles driving through it according to Tim Passmore, Suffolk's Police and Crime Commissioner. Your Parish Council are very keen to reduce the speed of all vehicles entering and leaving the village. They are busy working towards creating a Community Speed Watch Team and would be very pleased if you stepped forward to volunteer to help. Making the roads safer makes everyone safer. If interested contact The Clerk.