Update January 2015

Work continues on our Parish Neighbourhood Plan; there was a meeting of the NHP Committee on 1^st December and the first of 2015 took place on 5^th January.

The committee is now back to full strength with a total of 14 volunteers from the Parish as follows: 6 representing Handcross, 4 representing Pease Pottage and 2 each from Slaugham and Warninglid.

A meeting took place in December with MSDC regarding the work that has taken place so far on the Scoping Report for the Sustainability Appraisal, and we are pleased that this stage of the Plan has been reported as positive and near to completion.

The dates for the next NHP Committee meetings, which are held at The Pavillion, Handcross at 7:30pm are 2^nd February 2015 and 2^nd March 2015.  Members of the public are always welcome to attend.

    

Debra Logan Neighbourhood Planning Committee

Sue Hance Chair, Slaugham Parish Council

Update November 2014

The latest meeting took place on 6^th November, after having to be postponed from the planned date of 3/11/14, and was attended by 11 committee members.  There were also 11 members of the public present.   A new vice chair was appointed and a 4^th member from Pease Pottage was co-opted to the committee.  Due to one member having to step down, there is now one VACANCY for a member from HANDCROSS.

Work has actively been ongoing regarding the Scoping Report for the SustainabilityAppraisal, which will soon be passed to MSDC for their input. It was discussed, and is recognised, how important it is for the Parish to ‘push on’ with the process, in order to get our NH Plan ‘made’.  Without a NH Plan in place, there is very little defence against development in the Parish, as the recent Pease Pottage Golf Range appeal has shown – the appeal has been allowed and now 95 houses are due to be built on that site.

To register for news emails regarding the Neighbourhood Plan, go to the Slaugham Parish Council Website's home page (www.slaughampc.co.uk), click on the green 'Subscriptions Services' button.
You are then presented with three options, the page will display two blue buttons and at the bottom of the page a form to enter your name and email address. Then select the appropriate blue button and on the page presented to you enter your name and email details in the form which asks for the same information as previously noted.

The date for the last meeting of 2014, which is held at The Pavillion, Handcross at 7:30pm is 1^st December.  Members of the public are always welcome to attend.

    

Debra Logan Neighbourhood Planning Committee

Sue Hance Chair, Slaugham Parish Council

Update October 2014

The NP Committee met on 29th Sept to go through an update of the work that is being carried out regarding the Sustainability Appraisal, as well as the Vision and Objectives for the Slaugham Neighbourhood Plan.  It is important that the views of the Parish lead this and so careful work has been done to ensure that the comments that were collected at the start of the previous plan have been used as the basis of the documents. 

A discussion took place regarding the exhibitions which took place on 5^th and 6^th Sept run by The Hyde regarding a proposal they brought forward to increase the size of recreation land by using land at Warren Cottage Field in Handcross.  Both dates were attended by SPC Councillors to listen to the comments.  Overall it was commented that there seemed to be a lack of ‘younger’ people giving their views.

As mentioned previously, In order to improve communication, there is now a link to the Neighbourhood Plan information from the Slaugham Parish Council website – so take a look at www.slaughampc.co.uk and follow the link.

The dates for the next 2 meetings, which are held at The Pavillion, Handcross at 7:30pm are 3^rd November and 1^st December.  Members of the public are always welcome to attend.

    

Debra Logan Neighbourhood Planning Committee

Sue Hance Chair, Slaugham Parish Council