Post in Planning issues

--- Ben Barker <<email obscured>> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Planning issues are clearly major concerns of forum
> members.   Most recently, this has involved
> discussion, outrage and despair about Tescos and
> Gala Bingo.   However, all of these are one-offs and
> there is a wider picture, including over the next
> few years the evolution of 'area plans'.
>
> In several parts of Bristol small groups of local
> people have come together and many have joined the
> new Bristol Neighbourhood Planning Network
> (www.bristolnpn.net).   Visit this site to get a
> better Bristol wide perspective.   The Planning
> Department are recognising and using these groups as
> sounding boards for local issues.
>
> Through the Bemmy Community Partnership we have been
> trying to form such a group, but in vain.   I'm
> proposing, therefore, that this Issues Forum become
> our local group.
>
>     1.   As now, we can discuss planning issues as
> they arise, but you don't have to read them if you
> don't want;
>     2.   As now, individuals can call real meetings
> about particular issues with people in the same room
> (eg the Gala meeting of 22 April) as the mood takes
> them;
>     3.   People who want more can link up with the
> BNPN;
>     4.   We can send a representative to the
> quarterly meetings between BNPN and senior officers
> in the Planning Department.   The first of these is
> on 30 April.   The partnership steering group have
> asked Matthew Symonds to attend this on its behalf.
>     5.   Matthew and future reps can report back any
> relevant issues via the Issues Forum.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Cheers,   Ben.
> Ben barker
>
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