Over the last six months the Steering Group and Town Council have made considerable progress towards delivering a Neighbourhood Plan for Uttoxeter.
The Steering Group have gathered the community’s views from questionnaires, exhibitions and key meetings with local groups and organisations, and coupled these with detailed research undertaken by their consultants BPUD Limited, to set out the key issues and concerns that have been raised by the community. This has resulted in an Emerging Policies document that will be the subject of further consultation.
The Steering Group will be holding an exhibition at the Makers Market on Saturday 25th July 2015 between 10am and 3pm to showcase the outline policies and to explain how they have converted the feedback from the community into the outline framework for the Neighbourhood Plan. There will be several opportunities to leave your feedback on the day or you can comment online (plan4uttoxter@gmail.com), or by writing to the Town Council until 31st August 2015. It is vitally important that the steering group obtain as many views as possible on the outline policies before embarking on developing a full draft of the plan for consideration.
If you cannot attend the Makers Market consultation, a short document, known as the Emerging policies Document, sets out the outline policies can be downloaded from the Town Council’s website, along with a feedback questionnaire and a FAQs sheet.
The Town council and planning consultants are currently setting up a steering group to take the Neighbourhood Plan forwards and will be consulting key groups in February. Log on to the Town Council’s website for more details.
The Uttoxeter Neighbourhood Plan launched on Wednesday 6th November. In November and December 2013 a comprehensive questionnaire was sent out to all households and businesses in the Uttoxeter neighbourhood area. The consultation period closed on Friday 13th December 2013. Results are currently being collated and these will help shape the plan as it is written in 2014. Further consultation on specific topics and to focussed groups is planned in the spring and summer 2015.