CDC Local Plan/NT Masterplan – we have just a few days left to provide feedback to CDC

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Cotswold District Local Plan Update Consultation Executive Summary and Consultation Instructions and Questions

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See page 26 for Policy EN18 and Page 3 for feedback instructions.

Views on the Local Plan can be given on the Council’s digital engagement site until 7 April. Visit CDC Local Plan Policy EN18 feedback  and click the ‘Take the survey’ button.

 

CDC has listed a number of criteria for public comment as part of the Local Plan consultation and are listed below. CDC is keen to hear our views on the criteria below. It may be straightforward to copy the text below and write in your thoughts item by item.

Criteria for public comment (by 7 April)

What do you think of these? Are additional criteria required? This is your opportunity to influence things.

A National Trust Masterplan for Sherborne Estate should include:

  1. Comprise a vision and objectives;
  2. Describe and assess the landscape, ecological, historic environment, and other significant assets of the Estate;
  3. Maximise opportunities for sustainable travel to and through the Estate, ensuring maximum inclusive access to nature and the countryside and to the historic environment;
  4. Demonstrate how increased recreational access can be achieved without compromising the environmental characteristics of the Estate and adversely affecting the local community;
  5. Set out an interpretation and education framework for the Estate, including potential outreach proposals;
  6. Ensure that the character of the parkland setting and the wider AONB are enhanced;
  7. Set out proposals for the retention of existing and the creation of new habitats that will deliver strategic scale nature recovery;
  8. Explore opportunities for the generation of renewable energy within the Estate;
  9. Describe how farming enterprises will benefit from the Masterplan and continue to operate within the Estate;
  10. Include a phasing programme for the construction, reuse or demolition of existing redundant buildings, new buildings, and infrastructure within the site;
  11. Explore opportunities for small scale rural affordable housing or low-cost housing to support those employed by the Estate to support the management of the Estate; and
  12. Describe how the local community and relevant stakeholders have influenced the masterplan and how they can continue to be involved in shaping the Estate.

 

Please feel free to share your thoughts with the PC via cdclocalplan@sherborneparish.org. Any representations received will be included within the PC’s ongoing lobbying activity.

You may also wish to contact the relevant District Council representatives:

Please copy any representations you make to the District Council to cdclocalplan@sherborneparish.org.