During July & August a small dedicated team of the NP volunteer working group, following guidance by our planning consultant, had numerous weekly meetings to produce written responses to each NP comment by Statutory or other bodies, and by Harston residents or landowners. S Cambs had a meeting with us Read more…
Harston’s Draft Neighbourhood Plan has just been produced based on comments and feedback made during earlier consultation events. We are now seeking your feedback on the policies and proposals within this draft plan. There will be a 7 week consultation ending on Tuesday 11 June. All residents should have received a Read more…
During February and March the Planning Consultant and Harston Neighbourhood Plan Working Group (NPWG) are working on finalising Harston’s Draft Neighbourhood Plan. In addition to our volunteer mapper, we gained grant funding for one day’s work by a professional mapper who will be creating many of the final maps to Read more…
A group of 18 volunteers carried out a landscape & biodiversity survey on Saturday 15 July to look at the wider landscape around the village. This was to clarify the identity of the rural landscape and setting that we wish to protect, including looking at the route that EWR might Read more…
The Neighbourhood Plan display at the Rec on 8 May Coronation Day included the January Questionnaire results as well as boards on ‘views within the village’, ‘into and out of the village’ and another on ‘green spaces’. Views that people valued were contributed by a number of people. Over 85 Read more…
There were 288 responses out of possible 757 houses = 38%. 46% of responses were from over 60s with 103 of those responses in 1-2 person households showing the village has an ageing population. There is a lower than S Cambs average percentage of households in the 20-39 age category, Read more…
During November and December the Neighbourhood Plan (NP) team has been working on aspects of the broad project plan with advice from planning consultant Rachel Hogger to collect information needed for the production of Harston’s Neighbourhood Plan. The NP team have been successful in applying for a government grant and Read more…
The NP Working Group has met this month with the leader of Foxton NP to gain an insight into how they produced their plan and what professional help they used. The group then met with Rachel Hogger, a consultant for NPs and Alison Brown, representing ACRE consultancy. As a Read more…