Postponed: Ruyton-XI-Towns Place Plan sessions with residents and businesses
Two sessions due to take place tonight (Tuesday 22 January 2013) at 5.30pm-6:30pm for businesses, organisations and agencies, and 7pm-8.30pm for residents, in conjunction with Annual Place Plan updates have both been postponed. They have been postponed due to weather over the weekend and the forecast in the area. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, but the safety of local residents and attendees is paramount.
Steps are being taken to reorganise the above sessions for Tuesday 29 January 2013, to be held at St John the Baptist Primary School in Ruyton-XI-Towns. The times of the sessions will remain the same, with a 5.30pm session for businesses, organisation and agencies, and a second session commencing at 7pm for residents, as in original letters.
Place Plans were introduced in Shropshire in 2011 as a way of identifying the infrastructure priorities of local communities, and how these could be delivered. There are 18 Place Plan areas in Shropshire, each focussed around a market town and their surrounding rural parishes. As part of Shropshire Council’s commitment to annually review the content of the Place Plans, we are now asking all parish and town councils to respond to existing details within the place plan, to help us ensure that the infrastructure priorities currently identified for communities within the Place Plans are correct and appropriate.
This annual review process offers each council the opportunity to look again at their local priorities and to refresh them if necessary. The infrastructure priorities currently identified within the Place Plans come from a number of sources such as parish and town plans, Local Joint Committees, and responses to previous consultations. For copies of the current Place Plans please visit our website at http://shropshire.gov.uk/planning.nsf and follow the link to ‘Planning Policy’ and then ‘Shropshire Place Plans’.
Since last year’s Place Plan review, Shropshire Council has implemented the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). The CIL is money paid by developers of new residential development that helps pay for new infrastructure. The vast majority of CIL monies will be spent on local infrastructure priorities identified through the Place Plans. With this in mind, it is increasingly important that the Place Plans embody an accurate representation of your local infrastructure needs to ensure CIL monies are spent on the most appropriate projects. For more information on the CIL please visit our website at http://shropshire.gov.uk/planning.nsf and follow the link to ‘Planning Policy’ and then to ‘Community Infrastructure Levy’.
CIL monies will be available to those Councils who have opted to accept new development through the local planning process when that development happens. However, it remains very important we receive up to date information from all parish and town councils and their local communities regardless of whether further residential development is being planned or not. In doing this, the Place Plans will become a ‘one stop shop’ for identifying the infrastructure priorities of every community and indicate how these may be delivered, which could be through other sources of funding. This will also ensure Shropshire Council and other organisations target services in a locally responsive manner. By identifying the infrastructure needs of settlements not identified for further development, the decision of these areas to remain as ‘countryside’ in planning terms is not being challenged.
These sessions will build on the evidence gathered through the Parish Plan undertaken in 2008, the Toolkit Event and the World Café undertaken in 2011. It is obviously important that we gauge a broad representative of community needs and aspirations and it continues to be important that annual updates to the Place Plans from the area are supported and evidenced by the community.
This annual review will help ensure Shropshire Council understands the priorities of your local communities. We therefore greatly encourage you to attend the relevant session above on 29 January.
If you would like to take part, please get in touch by 1pm on Monday 28 January by ringing Corrie Davies on 01691 677306 or emailing corrie.davies@shropshire.gov.uk.
