Attleborough, Norfolk
[ Community Planning Projects ]
Attleborough Community Team Meeting: Updated 26 August 2010
The next Community Team Meeting will be held at 7pm on Thursday 2 September at Attleborough Town Hall.
The last Community Team meeting was held on 22 July, no meeting was held in June. Subsequent meetings will be held on the 4th Thursday of each month at Attleborough Town Hall. The Community Team Meetings are open to everybody and provide a forum for the community to remain involved in the development of proposals for the growth of the town.
Attleborough Community Team Meeting: 22 April 2010
The meeting was chaired by Richard Middleton, Acting Chairman of the Community Team.
About 40 people attended down in the following community activity groups: Commerce, Business, Enterprise & Jobs, Recreation, Environment, Development, Marketing and Communications. The groups discussed their structure, leadership and overall strategy, and what public and other funding might be accessed.
Attleborough Community Team Meeting: Updated 25 March 2010
Tthe first Attleborough Community Team meeting was held on Thursday 25 March at Attleborough Town Hall. Town Team meetings aim to keep the community involved in the development of proposals for the growth of the town and provide a forum for the community.
Report Back: Updated 9 February 2010
About 400 people participated in the Attleborough Community Planning Weekend facilitated by John Thompson and Partners (JTP) on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 February 2010 to help shape a new Vision for the extension of the town. At the Weekend people participated in two days of discussion workshops, walkabouts and hands-on planning groups to explore local and site specific issues and possible solutions and principles for growth.
Following the two public days the team from JTP analysed and summarised the outcomes and developed an illustrated Vision for the future, which was reported back to the community at 7pm on Tuesday 9 February at Attleborough High School.
Most people accept that growth will happen and want to ensure that it is beneficial for the town. They want the new extension to integrate well with the town and support it by easing traffic congestion, enlivening the town centre with improved retail, creating better cultural, recreational, sports facilities and new open spaces, and creating a new image for the town as an enterprising community. They want more local jobs and homes for local people as well as incomers.
Background
Breckland District Council's (BDC) Core Strategy identifies Attleborough as a strategic growth location to accommodate up to 4,500 homes and associated development. In accordance with the strategy Attleborough Land Ltd (part of Ptarmigan Land Ltd) is promoting land to the south of the railway for the majority of this growth. It is anticipated that an outline planning application will be submitted in 2011.
In advance of this, the BDC will be preparing an Area Action Plan for Attleborough and Snetterton Heath to lay down site-specific guidelines for development. To help inform this process Attleborough Land commissioned JTP to engage local residents and stakeholders in an assessment of the issues and opportunities for the site and surrounding areas and to create a new Vision for the future.
Contact Ieva Ansaberga at JTP on ia@jtp.co.uk for further information.
020 7017 1780.
Attleborough Land Ltd
