About the Kettlestone and Pensthorpe Parish Plan
In 2000, the Government's Rural White Paper, Our Countryside, the Future, proposed that rural communities should develop local plans to:
- identify key facilities and services
- set out the problems that need to be tackled demonstrate how distinctive character and features could be preserved.
Our Parish - and every other parish in England - is being invited to produce a Parish Plan.
This won't be a dusty document to be filed away in some bureaucrat's desk. The Plan will help to guide what happens in Kettlestone and Pensthorpe in the future.
The Plan could include:
- local development (e.g. infill development, affordable housing, etc.)
- guidelines for the preservation of local character and design
- crime and policing
- transport issues
- the development of the rural economy (local business, employment)
- community issues (green space, play space, village hall, local charity)
- conservation and the environment (wildlife areas, renewable energy).
It could also include anything else that you feel strongly about - it's up to you and everyone else in Kettlestone and Pensthorpe.
So the Plan that we end up with is important. But there is something more important than that: the process of developing the Plan. To make our Plan, we'll have to:
- find out what people want
- have debates about things that are important to us
- listen to other people's points of view
- and meet together to discuss a huge range of subjects.
Click here to find out more about Parish Plans