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Ringmer Village Plan: Consultation Phase
Ringmer
Parish Council has been awarded a grant by the Countryside Agency to develop a
Village Plan for Ringmer. This is intended to consult residents about their
community and its facilities and lead to the development of an Action Plan that
will inform higher authorities (e.g. the District & County Councils) in
their fomulation of planning and other policies affecting the village. The
process has three phases:
1.
Consultation with village organisations to ensure that all important issues are
identified.
2.
A village opinion survey of each Ringmer household.
3.
Developing, on the basis of the opinion survey, the Village Action Plan.
The
process is in some ways similar to the Village Appraisal carried out by Ringmer
Parish Council about 15 years ago, and I anticipate that we shall be asking at
least some of the same questions, to establish how the village has changed in
the intervening period. However, the Action Plan is a new element, and we (and
the Countryside Agency) hope that this will be effective in ensuring that
higher-level planning becomes more responsive to local needs and opinion.
We
are now in the first (consultation) phase of the process, which we hope to
complete within the next four weeks (so by mid-April). Below you will find a
list of the five main topic areas that we anticipate the Village Plan may
cover, together with a more detailed list of possible foci under each topic
heading for inclusion in the questionnaire. The questionnaire for the next
phase will seek to identify what proportion of village residents use each of
the services or facilities about which we inquire, plus their opinion on
various issues (mainly using a tick-the-box format).
We
whould value the advice of any Ringmer resident or person whose workplace is in
Ringmer on any aspect of the plan. In particular, do you think that there are
important areas that we have missed, or are there specific questions that you
would like to have asked in the questionnaire?
John Kay for
Ringmer Parish Council
21 March 2002
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Ringmer
Village Plan Outline
Topic Areas
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Topics to be Covered
Public facilities
Medical
Educational
Police & emergency
Library
Burial
Shops and
services
Social facilities
Village Hall, etc, Village Green
Churches
Sports clubs & facilities
Social clubs and societies
Youth clubs and organisations
Public open spaces and footpaths
Facilities for the elderly
Information facilities
Parish magazine, parish pump,
websites
2. Travel
& Transport
Road Traffic
A26/B2192/B2124
Lanes
Estate roads
Speed limits
Street lighting
Parking
Public Transport
3. Housing
development
New development
By infilling within the footprint
By expanding the village footprint
By creating new residential areas
within the parish
By building in the countryside
By converting farm buildings to
residential use
Types of development
Executive homes
Sheltered housing for the elderly
Affordable housing
Restrictions
on development
Drainage and flooding
4. Employment opportunities
In
community facilities & shops
In
residential areas e.g. nursing & care homes
In
commercial zones
In
leisure and tourism
Conversion
of redundant agricultural buildings
Roadside
developments
5. Landscape
and conservation
Areas
to be protected from development
Conservation
areas
Listed
buildings and valuable but unlisted buildings
Heritage
Development
in the countryside
Hedges,
woods and trees
Agricultural
land use
Other
landscape features
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