2025
Important Event – Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Design Code
Important Event; Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Design Code
As you are probably aware Crudwell Parish Council are currently engaged in a formal review of the Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan. This is necessary to ensure that any housing development in the village prior to 2038 is at a scale, design and affordability which meets local needs.
As part of this work the Parish Council and Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group has commissioned a required Crudwell Design Code to update the current Design Guide in our 2021 Neighbourhood Plan. The architectural consultants toured the parish with us during February in order to help develop the code and have now delivered a first draft.
The clue is in the title; a Design Guide gives guidance whereas a Design Code gives specific instruction to developers of new housing and to extensions of existing properties. The code will help to ensure that any development is in keeping with and complimentary to our village street scene and heritage.
We have promised to keep you informed at all stages of the Plans development and in order to do this we are inviting you to an exhibition of features of the draft Design Code in Crudwell Village Hall from 3pm to 7pm on Tuesday the 22nd of April. Members of the Steering Group and the architectural consultants will be there to answer your questions, and you will be invited to give your written or verbal feedback. The draft Design Code will also subsequently be available on our website for review and comment.
We do hope to see you on the 22nd April.
Solar Farm – Crudwell. Access works and further information
Update on works to the solar Farm
Work has been completed for access to the site from the A429 just beyond the end of the runway at Cotswold Airport. Tree planting and flooding measures (swales) have been completed to deuce the impact on Kemble Wick. From mid May, for 8 weeks, pile driving for support posts will take place, Kemble Wick, Quelfurlong and Chelworth mainly affected by any noise and vibration. Work will start at 7am in the morning to 6pm at night during weekdays and also Saturday mornings.
Panels will be fitted July to November and the site should be generating electricity before the end of this year.
A Community fund would generate an income for Crudwell as approximately 30% of the panels are in the Parish.
Aura Power have no control of the delivery routes for the materials so expect extra lorry movements through Crudwell. Deliveries, will be out of rush hour between 9am and 3pm
Footpaths will be unaffected but may have to be temporarily diverted during the construction phase for safety reasons.
For more detailed information – here is the contact
What’s On In Crudwell
Dear all,
April edition of What’s On, click here WOIC0425
Thanks to the Editor and all involved.
Dont forget Crudwell Muck In 2025 on Sunday 30th March, meet at Village Hall
From 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon
What’s On In Crudwell – March 2025
Dear all, March edition of What’s On, click here WOIC March 2025
Thanks to the editor and all involved in distribution.
Many thanks
Crudwell Parish Council
Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan; Important Information
Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan; Important Information
The information below is available on a pdf which includes a QR code here Neighbourhood Plan Bulletin
The Government recently published new planning guidelines with a compulsory target to deliver 1.5 million homes. This means that the number of new homes to be built in Wiltshire has been increased by 80%. This has a direct impact on the number of new homes that must be built in Crudwell by 2038 from 11 to 39. This is in addition to the 25 homes to be built in Tuners Lane and other existing commitments.
The Neighbourhood Plan “made” in 2021 protects us from any development in Crudwell until 2026 and we are currently undertaking a formal Review of that plan to give us extended protection until 2031/2.
If we do not complete this new plan, Crudwell will be exposed to speculative planning applications for sites, which could be much larger than we require or could sustain, as can be seen springing up in Malmesbury and Tetbury and many other towns and villages. The new plan will ensure that our protection is extended and limited to the 39 homes required of us on sites chosen in consultation with the community.
As part of this process, we held a new call for sites, and since the new targets were announced, have had renewed Steering Group discussions with the two landowners who responded with offers of sites considered to be viable by 2038. (Three landowners responded with one likely to be excluded as it is remote from the village and very small.)
Fresh discussions focussed on demonstrating the suitability and deliverability of housing on the sites to meet the parish’s requirement for new homes by 2038 have taken place. We have confirmed that two sites could potentially meet the requirement of 39, these are designated as Site A (Carpenters Yard) and B (Chapel Way), with Site A potentially providing up to 15 homes and Site B providing 25 homes.
We are fully conscious of the issues of increased traffic and flood risk and are convinced that completion of the new plan, including allocation of the two sites, will prevent us from exposure to excessive, unsustainable developments that will fully compromise the character of the Parish. This new plan ensures that Crudwell will remain rural and pleasant, while delivering on the mandatory allocation.
We are committed to consulting with the community at all stages of the Neighbourhood Plan’s development. So in light of new nationwide house-building targets, we would welcome your feedback on these latest proposals ahead of formal consultation processes later in the year.
We would welcome your comments, please complete the comments form online at:
https://form.jotform.com/250464278207357
Or fill in a paper copy (link at top of the post Neighbourhood Plan Bulletin, print and complete) and leave at the Post Office, The Wheatsheaf Inn, The Potting Shed or Pettifers Hotel.
Roy F Hamilton Lambley; Chairman, Crudwell Parish Council
Murcottt Farm Shop
Dear Residents
There are plans for a farm shop in Crudwell, to be open by April 2025.
Please see attached for further details from the Murcott Farm shop team.
Link – click here Murcott Farm Shop
What’s On in Crudwell February 2025
Great news all,
The Parish Council is pleased to announce that WOIC is back! You can access the January 2025 Edition here What’s On In Crudwell Feb 20225
We are extremely grateful to our previous editor; Heather Kerboul, our new editor Katie Hawkins and our distribution lead, Charlotte Bullock for helping us to make this possible.
Information for landowners re riparian rights
Information for landowners re riparian rights
The latest document from the Environment Agency (July 2024) is available here which has lots of detail on latest recommendations on best course of action for riparian owners to take on their stretches of watercourse. In particular, from page 19 onwards “How can I take care of my watercourse?” has lots of do’s and don’ts.
Cllr. Roy F Hamilton-Lambley
Click below:-
Environment Agency 2024_Your_watercourse_rights_and_roles
What’s On In Crudwell January 2025
Great news all,
The Parish Council is pleased to announce that WOIC is back! You can access the January 2025 Edition here What’s On In Crudwell Jan 25.
We are extremely grateful to our previous editor; Heather Kerboul, our new editor Katie Hawkins and our distribution lead, Charlotte Bullock for helping us to make this possible.