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CPRE WILTSHIRE IS TO INCORPORATE AS A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY WITH CHARITABLE STATUS Members are invited once again, should they wish, to submit any comments or suggestions on the Memorandum and Articles of Association to the Branch Secretary. It is planned to incorporate soon, before 1st March 2010 which will be the transfer date for the Charity's assets. The Memorandum of Association (as an AdobePDF file) can be found here and the Articles of Association (MSword document) can be found here. A background explanation as to Incorporation (MSword document) can be found here. LDF SALISBURY HOUSING MARKET AREA Salisbury District Council’s Local Plan is about to run out of time and the Council, who will become extinct when Wiltshire goes unitary next year, has started the process of producing an LDF. They are required to produce a Core Strategy with suggested preferred options to be put out for consultation. The figures for housing starts and potential growth of employment opportunities are guided by the Regional Spatial Strategy, which is in draft form, and awaiting signing off by the Secretary of State. The RSS has indicated that it would like to see 12,400 houses built in the Salisbury HMA by 2026, (6,000 in Salisbury itself, and 6,400 in Salisbury District) to accommodate the 13,900 new employment opportunities that are forecast to grow in this period. The Core Strategy accepts these figures and has indicated some options for their location, guided by a draft Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment, which is also out for consultation. Public meetings have been held throughout the district to explain these papers, and there have been numerous local meetings called to protest at the suggested preferred options, to which local councillors and our MP, Robert Key, have attended. There is considerable local disquiet at the proposals, and at the way the issues are being handled by the local officers, who have been forced to give a longer period for the public to respond. Responses have to be made to Forward Planning and Conservation, Salisbury District Council, 61 Wyndham Road, Salisbury, SP1 3AH by April 25, using the proforma supplied with the booklets. Electronic responses are preferred, and all information is available on SDC’s website at www.salisbury.gov.uk/preferred-options The SHLAA is also to be found on their website. The South Wilts Group CPRE will be making a detailed response to these proposals, in particular questioning the methodology that the RSS has used to support the figures, and will be challenging the draft RSS when it is put out to consultation later this year. TRANQUILLITY CAMPAIGN On Monday, 23rd October 2006 CPRE launched a national campaign to protect tranquillity – one of the countryside’s most valued attributes and an important indicatory of countryside quality. When launching the campaign National Office said: ‘We all need to ‘get away from it all’ and visit areas that are largely free from intrusive manmade noise and structures. The tranquillity we experience in such places is good for our hearts, minds and bodies’. Sadly, ‘getting away from it all’ is becoming harder and hard to do. Tranquillity is under threat from the spread of major roads, airports, houses and other buildings, wind turbines, quarries and, crucially, the new traffic movement and noise such development generates, on the ground and in the air. CPRE has developed an accurate way to measure tranquillity and from that measurement have produced a detailed map revealing the likelihood someone would experience tranquillity in any locality. This map offers an important new way to keep track of our priceless, increasingly threatened tranquil places – and so help to conserve and enhance them. It is hoped decision-makers at all levels will use the maps to do this. If you think you can help, or wish to know more about the campaign, visit [www.cpre.org.uk] For those who wish to contribute to the Wiltshire Landscape Character Assessment (LCA), the draft is available from WCC on the following [link] |
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