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Learn about the Sandon Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) and the questionnaire results. Discover the vision for Sandon's future and what's next in the planning process.
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Sandon NeighbourhoodDevelopment Planand Questionnaire Results
Overview • What is a Neighbourhood Plan • What is happening in Sandon • Questionnaire • Questionnaire results • Vision • What next?
What is a Neighbourhooddevelopment plan? (NDP) • Agreed by Parliament 2011 (Localism Act) • Part of Local Planning process • Opportunity to contribute thoughts about • where new houses will be built • preserving green spaces, rural views, wildlife • what sort of housing developments • where business should be located
What is happening in Sandon? • Your parish council agreed to form an NDP group in October 2017 • 4 Parish Councillors and 5 parishioners • Chelmsford City council agreed Sandon NDP process on 2nd November 2017 • Sandon NDP website: ndp4sandon.co.uk • Questionnaire sent out February 2018
Questionnaire • Thank you to all who responded • £50 winner announced at Annual Assembly • You have given us information about: • what you love in Sandon • what you want to see and not want to see • maybe thoughts towards OUR SHARED VISION FOR SANDON
Questionnaire Results 25% Respondents: 163 completed out Not all replies gavetheir age of 650 delivered
Questionnaire Results 1 Living in Sandon – what is important to you?
Questionnaire Results 2 If more houses were built – what type?
Questionnaire Results 3 and 4 What style of new housing would you prefer?
Questionnaire Results 5 What size of development would you prefer? (Note 10 or less rather than less than 10 as on questionnaire)
Some of your comments about housing We need more houses to accommodate the growing younger community who still wish to stay and live in Sandon We do not have the infrastructure for large scale developments Spacing between new houses should be maintained according to existing. The village envelope should not be extended
Questionnaire Results 7 Commercial Buildings – which type of site would you prefer?
Questionnaire Results 8 What would improve living standards here?
Questionnaire Results 9 Important public facilities
Questionnaire Results 9 (again) More important public facilities
Questionnaire Results 10 What facilities would you like to see provided by any future development?
Questionnaire Results 11 How important is protection/enhancement of local heritage and environment?
Questionnaire Results 12 Do you support renewable energy schemes? In some circumstance for wind eg ‘appropriate’ or ‘at sea’ or ‘on the coast’ For solar eg ‘discrete’, preferably on commercial buildings’
Draft Vision Sandon will be a village community, clearly separated from neighbouring settlements by green space, preserving a rural character Small housing developments will maintain a mix of housing size and type with good access to the Park and Ride by foot and bike This and any other essential building growth, must acknowledge the concerns of Sandon residents about present infrastructure, as traffic and roads, medical and educational facilities are already working to capacity
What Next? • Vision • Objectives • Policies • Ask Chelmsford to approve our PLAN • Independent examination of the PLAN • Referendum