Almost 400 help planning blueprint for future
ALMOST 400 residents have just given their comments to Paignton Neighbourhood Forum to help the volunteers which is producing the new-style Neighbourhood Plan.
This completes the second of three stages the volunteers have been working towards in their own time for over a year.
When finalised, the Neighbourhood Plan and the council's new Local Plan will be the blueprint used to make future decisions on all planning applications in Paignton over the next 20 years.
Among the proposals supported were encouraging the Picture House back into life as a tourist attraction, greater use of the steam railway attraction as a tourist gateway, encourage more use of the wide pavements for outdoor cafés, encourage sympathetic improvement of the walkway canopies and explore the options for pedestrianisation.
Business Cards From Only £10.95 Delivered www.myprint-247.co.uk
View detailsOur heavyweight cards have FREE UV silk coating, FREE next day delivery & VAT included. Choose from 1000's of pre-designed templates or upload your own artwork. Orders dispatched within 24hrs.
Terms: Visit our site for more products: Business Cards, Compliment Slips, Letterheads, Leaflets, Postcards, Posters & much more. All items are free next day delivery. www.myprint-247.co.uk
Contact: 01858 468192
Valid until: Friday, May 31 2013
Other aims supported by respondents include to make more of the tourism and retail offer, improve points of arrival and connectivity, protect the local identity and ensure there is balanced development.
David Watts, chairman of the Paignton Neighbourhood Plan Forum, said: "This is a truly magnificent response from our community that really does matter. We understand it has been a much larger response than given to the draft Local Plan and will help both plans to get it right."
The results came from a six-week consultation carried out by the forum before Christmas.
Questionnaires with plans were used to get community views on the aims and draft proposals so far identified for key areas in Paignton.
Mr Watts added: "We are all new to this way of producing a statutory plan, which is all about achieving a community led approach that gives a much more inclusive opportunity for our community to influence how we want Paignton to meet future needs.
"The next stage involves putting the proposals together for all other parts of Paignton which we are aiming to complete in draft by the spring."
Comments
by spindleshanks
Thursday, February 07 2013, 9:21AM
“Of the 298 who responded to the Torquay Neighbourhood Plan questionnaires, only 8% were below the age of 45. The complete lack of engagement in the future of Torbay by the younger generation is something that needs to be urgently addressed by Torbay Council starting dare I say it, with the live streaming of council meetings on Torbay Council's website. At least young parents could sit and watch democracy in action whilst feeding the kids. http://tinyurl.com/7ylfvsn”