| Date: |
Activity |
Notes |
| Mar 08 |
Sustainability Appraisal - has the requirement for SA's been
removed. |
Response received from Duncan who is part of the VDS team
working on a Design Statement for Dover: "The Government's
White Paper Planning for a Sustainable Future (May
2007) proposed to remove the blanket requirement for SPDs to
have an SA unless they involved impacts not covered in the
parent Development Plan Document (DPD). Up until the
publication of the White Paper in May2007, Dover D.C. had been
citing the requirement for an SA as an obstacle to accepting
and adopting our proposed VDS as an SPD. At this time I had
been in correspondence for some 7 months with Emer Costello
and subsequently with Marcus Howard at HMG DCLG about this
issue and I was assured that the Government was determined to
remove this recently erected supposed barrier to rural
communities producing a VDS (as encouraged by HMG since 1996).
I understand the requirement was amended accordingly in the
ensuing Bill."
|
| Jan 08 |
Presentation to Parish Council about Parish Plan and Design
Statement |
Cllr Jan Holben gave an
informal presentation to the parish council about a Parish Plan
and Design Statement - what it is and how we can start to create one. A
timeline was suggested which indicated an 18 month project - see
timeline on Schedule page.
In the Planning Reform Bill of 27/11/07 The Government
intends to remove the need for a sustainability appraisal to be
undertaken on SPDs |
| Dec 07 |
VDS Workshop |
3 people attended the VDS
workshop in Dec 07 (Cllr Jan Holben, parish clerk Glenis
Baker and Sandgate resident Rosemary Saunders). |
| Sept 07 |
Parish Plan Workshop |
Cllr Jan Holben attended a
Parish Plan Workshop as a Parish Plan can be combined with a VDS
nicely.. |
| 01.04.07 |
May Elections 07 |
We have a new Parish Council
Admin - which includes 2 members of the Sandgate Society
committee. There is great determination for the 2 organisations
to work together on this piece of work. |
| 29.06.06 |
What now? |
Letters to Michael Howard and
government ministers have failed to throw any light on the
requirement for a Sustainability Appraisal. See note above
for Jan 08 regarding the removal of the requirement to produce a SA. |
| 30.10.05 |
Letter sent to Michael
Howard |
The Sandgate Society has
written to Michael Howard to ask him to raise with the
government the need for clarity around VDS's and where they
stand in the new Local Development Framework (LDF) scheme. With the introduction of
LDF's analysis has highlighted the
possibility that VDSs and other community led
initiatives adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance
(SPG) could lose this status. LDFs will be
replacing Local Plans in the nearish future. The main
sticking point is that, for SPG to be carried over
into the new LDF system as a newly named Supplementary Planning
Document (SPD), a Sustainability Appraisal
(SA) will need to be undertaken. Unfortunately the new
legislation failed to acknowledge that some SPGs are
community led and it is accepted that a community groups
cannot produce a SA.
|
| 26.09.05 |
Sandgate Society agree to
take on the VDS as one of their projects |
There has been much
discussion about the rights and wrongs of Sandgate Society taking
on the VDS. One view is that because it is a village wide
initiative that if the Society led on it - it might lead people to
believe it is only pertinent to Society members. Another view is
that as one of the Sandgate Society objectives is to enhance and
safeguard our architectural heritage that a VDS has much synergy.
However, what everybody agrees on is that it needs to be done |
| 14.09.04 |
Presentation to the Parish Council |
Liz & Nigel gave a short
presentation about how they worked towards a VDS being accepted as
supplementary planning guidelines. They told us how the many
benefits have shaped there Parish into something they are very
proud of. they advised that a VDS is not about stopping changes
happening, but about keeping any new developments in character
with the area. It was explained that it is a document that all the
community can be involved with, and once adopted by the District
council it is an extremely useful tool for any future planning
issues. **June 05. The SPC have since declined to take this
forward themselves - however they have pledged to nominate a Cllr
to be part of the project. |
| 06.12.03 |
Informal meeting to scope
out VDS - guest speakers Lis & Nigel Heriz-Smith (Lynsted VDS). OFS Heritage Room - 1pm.
|
Meeting held - and was
attended by: John Cutmore, Reg Turnill, Gladys, Richard Grundy,
Royer Joyce, Margaret & Ken Gorrie, Linda Rene Martin, Janet
Holben and Lis and Nigel Heriz Smith. We explored whether we
wanted to go ahead with a VDS for Sandgate - and decided that this
piece of work is a 'must do'. |
