Facilities and Amenities
The Neighbourhood Plan can look into the need to protect local facilities and whether or not more local facilities are needed.
Important buildings and services can be protected from inappropriate change in use by designating them as assets of community value. Also, if community facilities are not available locally, the Plan can make a case for their introduction and look at how these new facilities can be funded.
Heritage
The Neighbourhood Plan can help preserve and enhance the built environment. There are 12 buildings in the Parish listed for special architectural or historic interest.
Through the Neighbourhood Plan it is possible to produce what is known as a ‘Local List’ of buildings that are important to the local community for a range of reasons – the first terrace building; a famous person used to live there; something important happened there or the building is important for its architectural significance.
The 12 Statutorily Listed buildings are:
Business and Employment
The Neighbourhood Plan will look at the employment needs across the Parish and whether more employment opportunities should be made available. It will also look at existing provision.
- Is business development needed to meet existing or future needs?
- How can we support existing businesses to thrive and survive?
- Where might new businesses be based?
- What about Homeworking?
- Are broadband speeds and mobile signals sufficient?
Highways and Access
The Neighbourhood Plan will look at issues of access to the Parish and consider policies that improve the current situation.
The Plan will formulate our views on:
- Public transport
- Congestion
- Car parking
- Footpaths, bridleways and cycle paths
- The road infrastructure