The Aberford Area NewsLetter
Issue One – January 2002
A Happy New Year to you all.
Welcome to the first Parish Council’s Newsletter of
2002. This newsletter has a special
theme: to let you know about our first Parish Plan and to ask for your help
with the production of it.
Last year the government announced in its Rural White
Paper that it wanted to see 1,000 villages across rural England produce a
Parish Plan which would give people living in the countryside a chance to say
what they like and dislike about their community and what they would like to
see take place to improve it. The three
Parish Councils covering Aberford (Lotherton cum Aberford, Parlington with
Sturton Grange and Aberford) have recently been granted over £6,000 from the
Countryside Agency to produce our own Parish Plan. This money, combined with contributions from the Parish Councils
and an application to Leeds City Council, means that we have enough funds to
produce a first-class document, covering the whole of Aberford and its surrounding
countryside, which will enable us to plan for our future over the next 10 years
or so.
Who will do the Plan?
We will be helped by Yorkshire Planning Aid to
undertake all the necessary consultations with everyone who lives in and around
the village. Their job (Yorkshire
Planning Aid) will be to work with the school to produce a scale model of the
village which will then be set up in the village hall for everyone to come
along to and use this model as a way of indicating what they like and dislike about
Aberford, and what they want to see hear in the future, a process called
‘Planning for Real’ â*.
We will also be undertaking a comprehensive audit or
healthcheck of the three parishes which will look at all aspects of life in
Aberford. This exercise will provide
essential information for the future.
It will show exactly what Aberford is like in 2002 and help us measure
what we plane to do. For this exercise
we will be setting up four Action Groups to look at key issues under the following
themes:
For this part of the Plan we need Volunteers, please!!! If you have an interest in any of these
themes or wish to get involved in helping to produce the plan, please get touch
with us. For just a few hours of
your time you can make a real contribution to the village.
The Plan will ready in draft form by May for all to see and comment on. The final version will be completed by July 2002, and all households will receive a summary of final document.
Easy!!
1.
Firstly, please complete and return any questionnaires
which come through your letter box over the coming months and make your voice
heard.
2.
Secondly, attend any meetings that will be held to discuss
the Plan – they will be well advertised!
3.
Thirdly, if you wish to volunteer your time for any Action
Group or Groups, please contact any of the persons shown below:
|
Mr. David Gluck |
Aberford Parish Council |
Tel: 0113 281 2527 |
|
Mr. Gordon Armfield |
Lotheron cum Aberford Parish Council |
Tel: 0113 281 1157 |
|
Mrs. Wyn Holzhause |
Parlington Parish Council |
Tel: 0113 281 3489 |
Stop
Press Stop
Press Stop
Press
Mr. Mike Dando from Yorkshire
Planning Aid will be attending the next meeting of Aberford Parish Council, to
take place at 19:30 on Tuesday, January 15th at Aberford Primary
School. All are welcome to attend this
meeting to hear more about our Parish Plan.
* ‘Planning for Real’ â is a registered trade mark of The Neighbourhood
Initiatives Foundation