Give Clapham a Helping Hand

Last year many of you completed the Neighbourhood Plan’s Household Survey. Despite the challenges of this strangest of strange years, the team behind the Plan has been hard at work analysing the results and shaping them into a draft document.

We hope to publish a draft plan in the first quarter of 2021, ready for everyone to read and comment on.

The Neighbourhood Plan will give us, as a community, more of a voice when it comes to planning decisions affecting our Parish. It provides a guide for the planning authority and must be considered for any new planning applications.

Please do watch out for more news of the draft plan in the next newsletter.

In the meantime, we need a handful of new volunteers to help assess and progress some of the non-planning related ideas that came out of the survey. These ideas are many and varied, and include a dedicated dog walking area, new tree planting, improved footpaths and the development of a strategy to improve mobile phone reception.

None of these ideas fall under the remit of the Neighbourhood Plan, but we know they are all important to our community. For this reason, we are looking for a small team of volunteers to start shaping the ideas into a Parish Plan, to pick up the baton from the fantastic Parish Plan of 2008, and help Clapham flourish and grow over the next decade.

If you would like to be part of this team, we’d love to hear from you. To get the ball rolling, email: info@claphamplan.net or call Ann Sheridan on 07866 096215.