My Crudwell

04Dec
2018

Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Exhibition, 8th December, 11am-2pm

Dear Parishioners,
Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Exhibition, 8th December, 11am-2pm
The formal stage of consulting on our Neighbourhood plan (regulation 14) will run from the 8th December until the 1st February 2019.
This will be your opportunity to read and feedback on the plans and policies put forward as a result of all the information and research gathered this past year.
We would like to invite you to our Neighbourhood Plan Exhibition on the 8th December, 11am-2pm at Crudwell Village Hall.
There will be displays for each of the key areas of the plan, explaining each policy put forward and the reasoning behind it. There will also be members of the steering group available to talk through and answer any questions you may have.
We will send you a copy of the neighbourhood plan and a feedback form on the 8th December should you be unable to make the event, or wish to read and feedback in your own time. We will be running further Q&A sessions in January (dates TBC).
We hope to see you on the 8th and look forward to hearing your views.
Sian Burke-Murphy – Chair, NHP Steering Committee
Mike Credicott – Crudwell Parish Councillor

04Jul
2018

Neighbourhood Plan – Breaking News!

We are delighted to share with you that after our representations to yesterday’s Wiltshire Council Cabinet Meeting, the Ridgeway Farm Site Allocation has been removed from the Wiltshire Site Housing DPD. Whilst the final plan needs to be approved by Full Council next week, this is a really important milestone in our campaign to have our Parish’s voice heard.
The Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group and the Parish Council submitted to Wiltshire an objection on the basis that:

The is no Strategic Need for Wiltshire to allocate housing in Crudwell because supply in the Housing Market Area is good and the Wiltshire Core Strategy states that development in Large Villages should be limited to “small sites”.
Our Neighbourhood Plan is progressing extremely well and is planning to allocate a more proportionate size development within the Parish, taking into consideration local needs and local views.
The Council’s and Government’s Localism agenda is best served by allowing the Parish to determine its own future.

A lot of behind the scenes work has gone into getting to this stage. Cllr Berry has been working very hard to gain support from Cabinet members, however without the progress that has been made on the Neighbourhood Plan to date we wouldn’t be able to convince Wiltshire to allow us to determine our own destiny. Notably, one other Parish had their request turned down, because their Neighbourhood Plan wasn’t mature enough and did not contain the level of hard evidence we have been able to pull together.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been involved in the Neighbourhood Plan so far, including the Focus Group leads and members, and indeed everyone who has filled in a survey or attended a meeting – it all adds up!
The Crowdfunding was instrumental in our work so far. This enabled us to appoint a consultant who has continuously provided guidance on our representations and strategy. Thank you to all of you who donated to this.
The battle doesn’t end here. We need to continue work on the Neighbourhood Plan to ensure that we meet our end of the bargain and we will continue to work at pace to achieve this.
We are also aware that a planning application has been submitted for Ridgeway Farm for an additional 39 houses, however given that it is outside of the Settlement Boundary we are confident that it will be turned down. Once the application is published on the council website, we will be in touch regarding representations.
It’s precisely a year since we started on this journey with a meeting in the Mayfield House Hotel and the launch of our Crowdfunding initiative. Thank you for your continued support!
Yours Faithfully
Sian Burke-Murphy, Chair, Crudwell NP Steering Committee
Tristan Stevens, Vice-Chair, Crudwell NP Steering Committee
Mike Credicott, Crudwell Parish Councillor

17May
2018

Joint Exhibition Update

Many thanks to those who attended the Joint Focus Group Exhibition last Saturday – around 70 in total. We were very encouraged by the level of interest shown. There was a real buzz of enthusiasm and involvement as people sought information, exchanged views and completed surveys on a range of issues relevant to future development in our community. Once the results have been analysed, they will be used to help shape our Neighbourhood Plan. If you were unable to get to the exhibition, the information on display in the village hall, together with the text of the surveys, are available on our website.
Here are some of the key issues with which people engaged on the day:

The relative merits of proposed development sites and architectural design in keeping with our rural parish, with a preference for small-scale sustainable growth expressed
The importance of supporting and enhancing local groups, businesses and our school
The level of interest in a community shop / hub and proposals on how this might be achieved
What existing facilities might be put forward as Assets of Community Value
Issues of road safety, including the desirability of further traffic calming measures, speed signage and the provision of a footpath along the full length of Tetbury Lane
Ongoing concern about flooding and sewerage
An improved public transport network, including better links with Kemble station
The protection of green spaces, open views and natural habitats, with any new buildings restricted in height.

The focus groups are now in the process of analysing the feedback received from parishioners. These findings, together with research already undertaken, will form the basis of the recommendations they will make to the steering group and will be valuable in identifying and developing the policies which will from a central part of our Neighbourhood Plan.
IMPORTANT: If you have not yet completed any of the surveys and would like to, they are available on our website. Topics cover Environment, Development and Design, Infrastructure and Transport and Community, Identity and Leisure.
Please note: the final deadline for completed questionnaires to be submitted online is FRIDAY 18th MAY.
Mike Credicott, Crudwell Parish Councillor
Tristan Stevens, Vice-Chair, Crudwell NP Steering Group

15May
2018

Neighbourhood Plan – Joint Focus Group Exhibition, Materials Now Online!

First of all, thank you to everyone who attended the Joint Focus Group Exhibition last weekend. We were really pleased with the level of interest shown and we got some really useful feedback that we’re now busily incorporating into the Focus Group Reports.
For those who couldn’t make the event, we’ve put all of the content up online and also put the questionnaires up too, so you can still have your say! If you’ve already filled out the questionnaires in-person, then please don’t do so again.
The main Vision and Objectives are available at on the website and there is a short questionnaire at the bottom.
The following pages link to the four focus groups:

Community, Leisure and Identity
Development and Design
Environment
Infrastructure and Transport

Finally, for a consolidated list of all of the questionnaires, you can visit the consultations page which has a link to all six surveys.
I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all of those who have been working hard over the last few weeks as part of the focus groups. I think there’s about 35 individuals who have put in a lot of their free time and the Steering Group and Parish Council are very grateful. We’re making great progress and are in a really good place with regards to having the material with which to start drafting the plan.
Remember, your feedback is invaluable in helping us to identify and develop the policies, which will form a central part of our Neighbourhood Plan. Please take the time to fill out the questionnaires if you haven’t done so already.
Yours Faithfully
Tristan Stevens, Vice-Chair, Crudwell NP Steering Committee
Mike Credicott, Crudwell Parish Councillor

30Apr
2018

Hunter Page to present at Parish Council monthly meeting tomorrow evening (1st May 2018)

Dear Parishioners,
Four key representatives from Hunter Page and Edenstone will be attending the Crudwell Parish Council monthly meeting tomorrow evening (Tuesday 1st May) at 7pm in the Village Hall.
They will be presenting revised plans for the proposed phase 2 development at Ridgeway Farm, to the Parish Council.
We have been unable to publicise this until now as Hunter Page only confirmed their attendance with the Parish Council late on Friday.
Given that the Ridgeway site is a proposed allocation in what is currently an emerging Wiltshire Site Allocations Plan, and that Hunter Page have offered this site in response to our Neighbourhood Plan “Call for Sites”, it would be another opportunity for Parishioners to have a closer look at what they are proposing and to get an understanding of why they have launched this now rather than wait for the Neighbourhood Plan to make its recommendations.
Unfortunately Hunter Page are unable to attend the Neighbourhood Plan, Focus Group Exhibition this Saturday (5th) so please do go along to the Parish Council meeting tomorrow evening as well, if you can.
We hope that as many of you as possible can attend.
Best wishes
Mike Credicott, Crudwell Parish Councillor
Sian Burke-Murphy, Chair, Crudwell NP Steering Group

21Apr
2018

Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan – Joint Focus Group Exhibition

Saturday 5th May in Crudwell Village Hall from 11.30am to 2.00pm
You are invited to drop in for an update on progress with the Neighbourhood Plan and the opportunity to express your views on the impact of future development in our community.

Look at details of the sites put forward in our Call for Sites and tell us which you think are the most suitable for development.
Consider information gathered by our focus groups on design and development, infrastructure and transport, community amenities, and environmental impact.

Let us know which ideas and proposals you are in favour of. You will be invited to rank different options in order of preference.
Your feedback will be valuable in helping us to identify and develop the policies, which will form a central part of our Neighbourhood Plan. Please come along, get involved and make your voice heard. The focus groups will be reporting on all their findings around the end of this month. Look out for further information on our website!
Yours Faithfully
Mike Credicott, Crudwell Parish Councillor
Sian Burke-Murphy, Chair, Crudwell NP Steering Committee

21Apr
2018

Environmental Survey

Dear fellow Parishioners,
Your view about future development of our area is really important.
We’d be grateful if you could spend 10 minutes or so filling out this Survey which seeks your opinion on Environment related issues, by filling out the survey below.
Please submit your survey response (by clicking “Done” at the bottom of the survey), before Friday 27th April 2018.
Your input is very much appreciated. Thank you.”
Best wishes
Gabi Plews
Lead, Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Environment Focus Group
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30Mar
2018

Broadband Survey

Please spend a couple of minutes filling in this survey to help us work with ISPs to improve broadband provision in the Parish.
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14Feb
2018

Why the need to “Call for Sites”

Dear Parishioners,
We have been asked to provide some clarification regarding the need to “Call for Sites“.
You’ll already be aware that a neighbourhood plan enables the local community to make its own decisions about whether, how and where Crudwell Parish will grow, what areas should be protected, what infrastructure should be provided alongside any new development, and what any new development looks like.
One of the next steps for us is to produce our own housing needs assessment, so we can work out for ourselves how many new homes we will need in the next few years. Realistically, Crudwell Parish will probably need to provide some new housing, but the idea is that we will have better and more robust evidence to back up the number of new homes that we propose, than Wiltshire Council had in suggesting that Ridgeway Farm should be developed. Then we can make our own decisions about where any new housing should go.
The problem for us is that we are, to a certain extent, in a race against Wiltshire’s Housing Site Allocations Plan (which proposed Ridgeway Farm for housing development). We need to ensure that the neighbourhood plan is quite well progressed when Wiltshire’s Housing Site Allocations Plan is submitted for examination (which we expect to be April 2018), and even more so when the Housing Site Allocations Plan is examined (expected October 2018). This means that we need to do some tasks simultaneously, and this is why we need to ask landowners for potential development sites at the same time as working out how many new homes we need to provide for.
We will need to be open minded about where any new housing goes, so we need to provide everyone with an equal opportunity to promote their site. Then we can make a decision about the location of new housing based on robust evidence, which we must do if the neighbourhood plan is to pass all the necessary tests.
Hopefully this clarify’s things a little. Please, as always, do get in touch should you have any questions. plan@my-crudwell.org
Yours Faithfully
Mike Credicott, Crudwell Parish Councillor
Sian Burke-Murphy, Chairman, Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Steering Committee

30Jan
2018

Shaping the future of our community

Shaping the future of our community
Dear Parishioners,
Thank you to all those who completed the Comments Cards delivered to all households and businesses in Crudwell parish in November. The level of response – more than 120 cards received – was encouraging. Your comments have been recorded and will be used to identify the key topics for focus groups to be set up in the near future.
These groups will give local residents and other interested parties the opportunity to express their views about the future of Crudwell parish, addressing concerns such as the scale and sustainability of future development; local infrastructure and amenities; potential increase in traffic density; and environmental impact.
All information gathered will be important in shaping the Neighbourhood Plan for Crudwell, helping to ensure that the views expressed are truly representative of the wishes and concerns of the community as a whole. Look out for further details about the Focus Groups, which will be publicised widely in the parish, including in What’s On In Crudwell.
In line with recommendations for the production of Neighbourhood Plans, the Steering Group (working on behalf of the Parish Council) is inviting landowners to put forward sites that may have the potential for development for housing or other uses over the 5 year Plan period, or thereafter. This is known as the Call for Sites. You may also see publicity about this displayed around the parish. Proposed sites will be considered for inclusion in the Neighbourhood Plan. If you wish to put forward a site for consideration, please contact the Steering Group at plan@my-crudwell.org and we will reply with instructions on how to submit.
While acknowledging the requirement for further housing in response to local needs, it is important to ensure that any future development is sympathetic to the scale and context of our rural community. Identifying suitable sites in our Neighbourhood Plan is an important step towards achieving this goal. The next phase will include assessments of the sites as well as establishing the Parish’s level of need for housing, all of which will come together as we develop the plan and we look forward to engaging with you on this.

Yours Faithfully
Mike Credicott, Crudwell Parish Councillor
Sian Burke-Murphy, Chairman, Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Steering Committee

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