PARISH PLAN UPDATE 08
HELP
FROM THE RURAL COMMUNITIES COUNCIL
The
7th Steering Group meeting was in the Methodist Church Hall at 7pm
on Tuesday 24th September.
This
was the first opportunity for Gill Porter, a Development Coordinator from the
Rural Communities Council (RCC) to attend a full meeting of the Steering Group.
Gill has acted in an advisory capacity behind the scenes up to now, but the RCC
has a significant role to play in assisting with Parish Plans, particularly on
questionnaire preparation, collation and production, as well as other novel
means of discovering local opinions on issues. Further support was again on
hand from Corrie Davies of Shropshire Council’s Community Action Team.
Gill
took time to explain some of the services that RCC could bring to the themed
individual working groups and offered her experienced advice as to the
progression of the many current and proposed working group activities,
including any costs which might be associated for some of RCC’s support
mechanisms.
Expenditure
against the budget so far, remains low.
No
additional significant information was available on the outline Planning application
13/01221/OUT for proposed housing and commercial units between Holyhead Rd and
Tedsmore Rd. Opportunities remain for people to inform the Planning Authority of
any concerns on the revised scheme via the Shropshire Council Planning website.
The
Plan’s blogsite - : wfparishplan.blogspot.co.uk
remains available
for ongoing information about the Plan’s progress.
The
Terms of reference for the working groups generally had been completed and each
of the groups took time to describe and discuss their activities and how they could
best be completed.
- The Clubs and Society’s group had already commenced their questions to local leisure & social groups and were scheduling in others.
- Considerable work had been done in identifying well over 100 local businesses and preparations were discussed for promoting the ways the Plan Group could glean information from them to assist them in their development. Some relevant flyers/posters are to be prepared, recognising that many of them will not receive ‘Round and About’.
- Several meetings had been scheduled in for local adjacent Parishes to determine any joint working which could be of value.
- Relevant organisations for the local environment were identified for liaison on any current or developing matters of local importance.
- Many relevant questions had been identified for local people on matters of public and private transportation, as well as recognising local service providers.
Further
information about the plan is available from Steve Haworth on 610126. We are
still keen to know of any local small businesses, to help promote their work.
