Neighbourhood Plan update to BwLPC March 14th 2021
1 Funding and expenditure
We have calculated our total cost to finish the plan will be about £15,000.
2021/22
Income Expenditure
Locality £5,651 Consulting – £3063
Broadland DC £6,000
BwLPC £2,500
Total £14,151 – £3063
2022/23
We calculate our costs to finish the plan will be £12,112
We will carry forward £8,500 into 2022/23.
The funding gap is currently £3612.
We hope there will be a new round of Locality funding. We would be eligible to apply for £6937.
If there is no funding we shall need to:
- not spend our consultancy contingency and
- ask the Parish Council for a further £1800.
The financial risk has increased by £800 because our consultant was unable to complete as much work as we had hoped and Locality funding has had to be returned.
2 Where we are
We have updated our Vision and Objectives. The following is our latest draft:
| Theme 1: Limited and sustainable growth |
| Obj 1: New homes will be focused inside the Buxton settlement boundary |
| Theme 2: Local Housing Need |
| Obj 2: To encourage affordable housing for local people where it delivers high standards of residential amenity. |
| Theme 3: Protecting and Strengthening Parish Character |
| Obj 3. All new development will be in keeping with the distinctive character and identity of each of the four villages |
| Obj.4. The quiet and countryside feel of our communities will be preserved |
| Obj. 5. To recognise and value all our heritage assets and conserve or enhance them accordingly. |
| Theme 4: Conserving and enhancing our green spaces and waterways |
| Obj. 6 Protect and enhance the natural environment including the quality of the River Bure |
| Obj. 7 Protect and enhance our valued wetlands, water meadow landscape and open green spaces |
| Theme 5: Development and Environmental Sustainability |
| Obj. 8 Development in the parish to meet high environmental sustainability standards, utilising opportunities to minimise waste generation and minimise our contribution towards global warming. |
| Obj. 9 New development to help parish residents reduce their carbon footprint through design, layout and by being appropriately located |
| Obj. 10 Reduce adverse impacts of flood events from all sources of flooding (fluvial, surface water) and improve drainage infrastructure in the parish |
| Theme 6: Encouraging Sustainable Movement |
| Obj. 11 Protect and enhance the existing network of rural routes for non-motorised users |
| Obj. 12 Our village streets will be easy to navigate and feel like places for people rather than routes for cars. |
| Obj. 13 Address (as far as is within the scope of our NP) existing issues relating to movement (via all modes) of people in, around and through the settlement. |
| Theme 7: Sustainable Local Economy & Community Facilities |
| Obj. 14 Support the local economy and businesses and help them thrive whilst protecting residential amenity and encouraging them to be more environmentally sustainable. |
| Obj. 15 Sustain, support and seek improvements in provision of community facilities and benefits |
3 NEXT STEPS
- We are actively looking at how to preserve important green space. We’re developing a register and will propose using various tools such as settlement gap/s, designation of green spaces and protected views. We envisage developing different levels of protection but putting down markers to help councils protect our green spaces from inappropriate proposals.
- We need to publish an updated draft of the plan.
- Engagement – we want to consult with people over housing need, what green spaces should receive a degree of formal protection and which non-listed heritage assets need recognition as important to the parish.
- Our consultant will continue to work on our draft plan, concentrating on evidence gathering, technical components and preparing the Regulation 14 pre-submission draft. This is a formal draft we sent out to interested bodies and the public before proceeding to finalisation, submission and scrutiny by a planning inspector, followed by public referendum.