Please Give REAL LOCALISM a chance!

 Please fill in this Neighbourhood Planning petition if you care
about  the future of REAL LOCALISM and the Malmesbury Neighbourhood  Plan!

Click this link and sign the petition:  http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/GIVE_LOCALISM_A_CHANCE/?kMYJIbb

The governmernt recently withdrew permission to build 180 houses within our neighbourhood area.

Click this link for full details:  http://simonkillane.mycouncillor.org.uk/house-building-plans/5346-2/

Communities Minister Don Foster today has announced a £9.5million, 2-year fund to support people in hundreds of areas across the country in creating neighbourhood plans to shape development in their area, such as the location of new housing and businesses. Groups of residents seeking to create a neighbourhood plan will be able to bid for up to £7,000 each to contribute to the costs of preparing their proposal. 
Don recently visited Malmesbury School to view the work that we are doing with our neighbourhood plan.  CLICK ME for more details about the grant scheme

Upper Eden Says ‘Yes’

Last night (7 March), in Brough Memorial Hall in Cumbria, the returning officer for Eden District Council announced the result of the first ever referendum to be held on a neighbourhood plan. Voters in Upper Eden had said yes to their neighbourhood plan with 90 per cent voting in favour. Turnout was 33.7 per cent.   Read the DCLG news letter below for more details.

CLICK ME for previous editions of this newsletter

CLICK ME to read the submissions of the Neighbourhood Steering Group and partners to the Gleeson Appeal to build 180 houses at West Filands'

An update about progress and future our plans We are keen to make sure that you know want we are up to and that you have a strong input into our proposals. We have made amazing progress so far but we still have lots to do to get our plan approved to go to a local neighbourhood referendum.
CLICK ME to read a summary of what we have achieved and where we need to go.
THE APPEAL CHALLENGE

The steering group made every effort to defend the right of our community to have a real say about future development.  We strongly argued that the Gleeson proposal should be rejected and that our neighbourhood planning process should decide where new housing should go.  We will find out the result some time in April of this year

CLICK ME to find out what was this appeal all about?


The appeal closing statements made by the barrister acting on behalf of Wiltshire Council and the baristor acting on behalf of Gleeson.

Our progress as presented at the appeal hearing.

We are keen to make sure that you are fully informed about progress with our neighbourhood planning documents. For the first time you get to scrutinise our work in advance of any final decision making. We are keen to give all residents in our neighbourhood the opportunity to help shape our plan before we go to consultation and referendum. We have also included supporting evidence documents. These documents will help explain the logic behind our proposals.  We will make sure to update the page and add any more supporting documents as soon as the drafts are approved by the steering group. We need your views to make sure that there is a broad consensus about the proposals in the plan.
CLICK ME view the draft plan and supporting evidence