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Summary of Strategic Village Improvements in the Neighbourhood Plan

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Summary of Strategic Village Improvements in the Neighbourhood Plan

As well as policies the Neighbourhood Plan sets out a number of Strategic Village Improvements (SVIs). These are not formal prescriptive policies but will be used as a guide as to how any Community Infrastructure Levy and other funding would be used for the benefit of the community. And it’s up to the Parish Council to deliver these objectives over the next 20 or so years.

It’s definitely worth taking a look at the SVIs in the Neighbourhood Plan document and give us any feedback or comments you may have for our vision for Lytchett Matravers.

In case you missed the details of the SVIs, here’s a summary of what SVIs are in the Plan:

  1. Uses of the village car park and relocation of village sport activities
  2. Encouragement of commercial, community and public buildings along the High Street
  3. CIL monies to be used on projects identified in the Neighbourhood Plan
  4. Expansion to the library
  5. Expansion to the village hall
  6. Resistance to any development within the greenbelt
  7. Preservation of the distinct character of the village
  8. Resistance to housing development
  9. Resistance to the development of the road networking within the village
  10. Establishment of ‘quiet road’ zones
  11. Establishment of 20mph ‘home zones’
  12. Provision of suitable bus routes to and from the village
  13. Establishment of a ‘safe route to school’
  14. Establishment of safe walking and cycling to Lytchett Minster school
  15. Improvements to the footpath networks around the village
  16. Management of the British Legion as a community asset

If there’s anything there that you feel strongly about make sure you feed it back to the Neighbourhood Plan group before Sunday 19th.

 

Only one more chance to discuss the Plan with a member of the LMNP Group

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Only one more chance to discuss the Plan with a member of the LMNP Group

Tomorrow’s Neighbourhood Plan session at 10:00 in the library is the last chance residents of Lytchett Matravers will have to discuss the Plan with a member of the Neighbourhood Plan Group.

So, if you’ve got something you’d like to feedback or if you’ve got questions about the Plan, make sure you make it to the library Thursday 10:00. And don’t forget the deadline for feedback is this Sunday (19th)!

In the meantime, don’t forget you can download the plan right from this website and respond via the website too.

We look forward to reading all your responses.

 

Safeguarding our Assets

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Safeguarding our Assets

In preparation of the Neighbourhood Plan a detailed survey was taken of all the assets in the village. A full list can be found in Appendix E of the Neighbourhood Plan, but these include assets like the village pubs, the shops in the High Street as well as obvious assets like the school and library.

The plan recognises that over time new assets may need to be added to this list or, when appropriate, removed. The Parish Council have the task of monitoring the identified assets for this purpose.

The first policy of the plan is intended to prevent new development harming those assets:

Policy 1: Proposals that harm the identified Communal Assets, Greens Spaces and / or Green Assets identified in this plan will not be supported. Developers should seek to maximise the opportunities for infrastructure improvements identified in this plan and implement any site specific mitigation prior to occupation.

If you have any strong views about this particular policy, don’t forget you only have until the 19th of July to feed those views back to the Neighbourhood Plan Group.

Interest is picking up – make sure you have your say

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Interest is picking up – make sure you have your say

The Plan team have been pleased to meet those who have come along to our sessions in the library to talk about the Neighbourhood Plan.

We had several visitors on Monday and it feels like the interest is picking up – so come and join the rush and meet a member of the Plan team at the library. It’s a chance for you to ask questions and find out more about the Neighbourhood Plan.

Don’t forget the consultation ends in just over two weeks but we still have some open sessions in the library before then (next one is on Saturday):

Saturday July 4th 10 a.m. to 12 a.m.
Tuesday July 7th 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday July 10th 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday July 14th 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday July 16th 10 a.m. to 12 a.m.