Parish Plan Steering Group Meeting 23/02/2012

These are the key points from the meeting.  For the full minutes please read the formal Minutes document.

Progress
The newsletter and Housing Needs questionnaire are now being delivered to households and a number of posters provided by Midlands Rural Housing, have been placed on show at strategic places around the village publicising the questionnaire.

Parish Plan Sub Group
The group has had talks with village groups and has drawn up a list of the 130 issues already received.  Parking is the worst issue recorded and a map will be on show at the Open Day to record the locations of parking issues.

The Open Day  ***Everybody welcome***

The Parish Plan Open Day
is at Binley Woods Village Hall
on Saturday 24th March 2012

Drop in any time between 10.00am and 5.00pm

Find out what’s happening on the Parish Plan, Housing Needs Survey and Village Design Statement

Have your say on village issues and get help with your housing questionnaire

Meet your MP (11.00am – 12.00 noon)

Bring along your old photos and share your memories of the village

See more information in the full Minutes document.

What Issues is Binley Woods facing?

We need to identify the issues, and we need to know your point of view
So that we can develop a good Parish Plan questionnaire, please help us to identify those issues that residents of Binley Woods feel strongly about.

Examples of possible issues

• Is speeding traffic or dog fouling a major problem?
• Is parking a problem, or our narrow roads causing parked cars to block the pavement?
• Are there problems with our refuse collection or public transport or pavements?
• Do we have enough facilities for our youngsters or mothers & toddlers or elderly residents?  If not, what is missing?
• Are we well served by the Police or NHS or Social Services?  If not, how could this be improved?
• Is the infrequent evening bus service an issue?
• What about the congestion in the Elm Close area?

Good things
Please affirm things that you value in the village that you would want protected and would not like to lose, such as:

• Shops, including the pharmacy and dentist, and the Roseycombe
• Village Hall and Village Hall Committee
• Brandon Woods community woodland and the Friends of Brandon Woods
• The street lighting provision and the 30mph limit on Rugby Road
• Allotments, playing field, pavilion and village green with children’s playground
• The 15 minute bus service into Coventry and evening buses to the hospital
• The Primary School
• Parish Council

You may agree or disagree with any of those examples, and you may have other ideas.  Please tell us what you think – we need to know your point of view!

Please take a few minutes to think about what issues you or your group believes need to be addressed and jot your views down in a comment below…  You can do that by clicking the “Comment”  link below. You can do it anonymously, or you can leave your name, and even add your e-mail address, as you wish.

Parish Plan Steering Group Meeting 25/01/2012

These are the key points from the meeting.  For the full minutes please read the formal Minutes document.

Issues facing the village
To help us develop the Parish Plan Questionnaire, we are compiling a list of issues facing the village that residents feel strongly about.  We already have a long list, and we will be talking to all local and Village Hall user groups to establish their likely issues.

Housing Needs Survey Questionnaire
This is the Questionnaire for the Housing Needs Survey, which will be delivered personally to every household by members of the Steering Group and Volunteers Group over two weeks from the end of February.  Maximisation of the number of completed questionnaires returned will be helped by an explanation of its purpose and offer of assistance to each household on delivery.  All completed returned questionnaires will be entered into a £50 prize draw, to further encourage completions.

Open Day – 24th March
The Village Hall will be open to residents from 10am to 5pm.   The object is to enable residents to get to know more about the Parish Plan Project and the progress to date towards its final production.  A representative of Midlands Rural Housing will be available until 2 pm to deal with any questions relating to the Housing Survey.

Next Newsletter
Watch out for the next Newsletter, coming soon.  (The minutes document mentions coloured papaer for the Newsletter, but it will be on white paper because coloured is a lot more expensive.)

Team Get-Together – 20th February
This will be a get-together of the Steering Group and Volunteers.  The purpose of  this meeting will be to enable group members and volunteers to get to know each other, and to update volunteers on the present status of the project.   We’ll also work out arrangements for delivering the questionnaires.

See more information in the full minutes document.

Logo for inclusion in documents and official e-mails

This is the logo for Binley Woods Parish Plan documents and information, voted for by the Steering Group.  The group of three trees was specially designed by Steven Hier, of Binley Woods.

To download, (left-)click on the image you need to display it on its own, and and then save it to your computer.

• The first one in each row is for printing up to 5 cm square at printer resolution 300 dots per inch.  So use this one in Word documents and PDFs where the logo will be printed up to 5cm square.  (On a display screen or e-mail it will go up to about 18 cm without blurring.)
• The second one is for screen display or inserted in an e-mail at the size shown, or for printing up to about 1.5 cm
• The third one is for display or e-mails at the size shown.  It’s too small for documents that will be printed.

 

         

 

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Housing Needs Group Meeting 11/11/2011

The Group met with Richard Mugglestone from Midlands Rural Housing (working under contract to Rugby Borough Council), who spoke about his role in surveying housing needs in rural areas.

Midlands Rural Housing can produce a Housing Needs Survey together with a covering letter, analyse the results and produce a report.  Richard has considerable experience and expertise in drawing up questionnaires but would consult with us to decide on the questions to be included.  There would be no cost to us.

Discussion took place around the timescale and consensus was that the questionnaire should be administered in early spring.  This would be well before the main Parish Plan survey but that was considered useful for several reasons:

1. Analysis will be by a separate body so it does not need to be an integral part of the main survey
2. Information collected may be very useful in informing the main questionnaire
3. An earlier survey will keep people interested and involved
4. Two shorter questionnaires with a period of time in between would be less daunting than one long questionnaire.  This might improve response rate.

We discussed strategies for encouraging people to respond. Suggestions included:

1. Posters placed on lamp posts
2. Offering residents the services of a volunteer to help fill in the questionnaire
3. Volunteers being on hand at village coffee morning or other specified community event

Richard agreed to provide information for the Project Plan and to produce a draft questionnaire and covering letter so that these can be discussed at the next Housing Needs Group meeting.

We all felt this had been a very useful meeting.

Green Belt

The question of which parts of the village are ‘Green belt’ was raised at the Steering Group meeting – the answer is “everything that is not already built on”.

The attached maps show:

1. The extent of the Green Belt in the Rugby Borough area
2. The extent of the Green Belt around Binley Woods
3. Details of the notation used on the maps

Cheers,
Ken.

Parish Plan Steering Group Meeting 27/10/2011

This is a summary of the meeting.  For the full minutes please read the formal Minutes document.

As this was the first Steering Group meeting, the members introduced themselves in turn. It was apparent that we had a broad section of the community represented on the Steering Group with a great deal of experience of serving Binley Woods village.

What Do We Want To Produce?

After some discussion, it was agreed that we will produce all three possible deliverables:

• Parish Plan
• Housing Needs Survey
• Village Design Statement

Each one was seen as a valuable tool to help shape the future of the village.  Three sub-groups will be formed to take each one forward.  Members of the Sub-groups are listed in the full meeting minutes.

We will consider a “pre-questionnaire” to determine those issues that the residents of Binley Woods feel should be covered in the Parish Plan.

The Parish Plan should be a living document that would continue to develop and evolve to meet the changing needs of the village.

Date of Next / Future Meetings

Future Steering Group meetings will be held on the last Thursday of each month except December and August.

Binley Woods Maps

Added 28th October 2011

Map showing the area of Binley Woods

Map of Earl Craven and Wolston Ward polling district boundaries

Parish Plan Steering Group Agenda 27/10/2011

Morrison Room, 7:30 pm

AGENDA

1. Introduction & Welcome (Paul Salisbury, Chairman, Parish Council)
2. Round Table Introductions
3. Election of Chairman
4. Election of Officers / Specialists

• Vice Chairman
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Webmaster

5. What Do We Want To Produce?

• Parish Plan
• Housing Needs Survey
• Village Design Statement

6. Champions / Sub-groups Chairman
7. Communications / IT
8. Methodology
9. Next Steps
10. Date of Next / Future Meetings

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