Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire

Long Wittenham School Hall 12th April 2016

59 attendees

A meeting was held at the end of February to discuss draft proposals for the Neighbourhood Plan. Since this meeting, various residents had made representations to Steering Group members making the following points:

• There was insufficient time at the first meeting to discuss proposals
• A perception that the proposals were quite advanced with little previous publicity about their development
• The proposals did not offer alternatives to the published proposals nor were different alternatives costed

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Long Wittenham villagers gave their backing for the parish council’s work on drawing up a Neighbourhood Plan (NP) that would shape the development for the next 20 years.

More than 60 people filled the main hall of the village school on April 12 to hear about the council’s progress in its negotiations with two land owners towards the NP which would include a new school and village hall on land off Didcot Road.

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Volunteers are needed to help with the development of the Neighbourhood Plan.  This is a small and limited piece of work which would involve a few hours walking around the village.  The steering committee have done an assessment of the whole village and identified all its characteristics.  We now need an independent group of people to assess how important each characteristic is to the village.  We would explain exactly what we want but essentially it would be a subjective assessment based on a loose scoring system Continue reading →