PARISH PLAN UPDATE 12
THE
QUESTIONNAIRES ARE HERE ! – AND AT http://bit.ly/1fxq6Te
The
Parish Plan Steering Group has now had its 14th meeting.
The
household questionnaires, which are delivered to you with this edition of
‘Round and About West Felton,’ were on show for the members. Each will now be
folded and inserted into your magazines for delivery to every household in the
parish. The questionnaires are the main focus for findings from the Parish Plan
and represent the well over 100 hours of volunteer time that has gone into this
process so far.
THIS
IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU to have a real say in the future of this wonderful
parish of ours. There are questions on housing-development, jobs, transport,
infrastructure, local services and facilities, the environment, energy
conservation, general parish life, what things you want protecting for the
future and what you think the parish should spend future funding on.
There
is also a chance for you to WIN ONE OF 3 MONEY PRIZES; £50, £30 and £20 in the
random draw for returned, completed questionnaires. Details are contained
within the enclosed questionnaire.
If
you prefer, you and other adults in your family can complete the questionnaire
on line at http://bit.ly/1fxq6Te . If you
do, please follow the instructions on line and remember to insert the code from
the front of your delivered questionnaire (top right corner) into the box at
the bottom of the last page, before you submit your return. This is to validate
each return.
PLEASE
TAKE THE TIME TO COMPLETE A QUESTIONNAIRE. Your and you family’s views really
do matter and can form a lasting legacy towards the future progress of our
parish. You can either complete just one questionnaire on behalf of everyone
who lives at your address, or each adult or young people no longer in full time
education can complete one each by completing the on-line version.
The
validity of the plan is increased by the more people who return their views.
We
have already gained the views of children from our school and are also working
with local schools and colleges to find the opinions of our 11-17 year olds.
For them, there are activity vouchers being made available, via their
schools/colleges for their exclusive, completed questionnaires which will pay
for or subsidise a range of possible leisure activities available within West
Felton, such as Paddle Club, Karting, Skateboarding, Paint-balling,
Laser-quest, Sky-dive and maybe others.
In
the meantime we are still collecting opinions from local businesses about how
their development might be helped along.
All
of the results of tour volunteers’ efforts and your opinions will be put
together into a report, which, once completed, will be distributed to all
parish households and made available on line.
The
environmental group has been able to access a digital mapping system, through
Shropshire Council, which will allow us to pinpoint and label, places of
historic, social or environmental interest within West Felton Parish and make
this available to view and update via a website. It is hoped to include a copy
on the final Parish Plan report.
On
other matters, people will be aware now that the controversial plan to develop
land north of Tedsmore Road by the playing field has been approved for outline
planning permission. A complaint about the way the Planning Committee’s
decision was made have been lodged with Shropshire Council by the Parish Plan
Steering Group. We await the result of their considerations, due on 21st
March this year.
Recently,
2 other large developments have been put forward for outline planning
permission. One, application, 14/00133/OUT, is for 25 houses, opposite Dovaston
Court (west of Holyhead Road). The other, 14/00734/OUT is for 32 houses behind
Dovaston Court, to the north and east and where the ponies currently graze.
The
Group also discussed the implications of a plan to expand the building waste
facilities at Rednal. This is application 14/00647/FUL, with the plan to bring
in additional building waste in trucks from Oswestry and Shrewsbury along the
route from Queens Head to Rednal between 7am and 6pm Mondays to Saturdays.
There
is still the chance to include any evidence regarding loss or potential loss
resulting from the potential pylon lines joining the proposed mid Wales wind
farms to Lower Frankton, using the following e mail address:
midwalesconnection@shropshire.gov.uk
Our
Parish Plan blogsite is:- wfparishplan.blogspot.co.uk for those old photographs and ongoing
information about the Plan’s progress.
Steve
Haworth can be contacted about any aspects of ongoing Parish Plan work on
610126.
