Archive | 2016

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Drop in surgery

​Have your say!  Fill in your questionnaire by the 22nd July. We are down at the Supermarket between 8am and 2pm on Saturday if you have any questions or just want a chat. See you there!\n\n

Have your say on Porthleven’s future

A huge thank you to everybody who responded to our first questionnaire. We had an excellent number of responses which was recognised as one of the best in Cornwall. The results of this first questionnaire have helped us guide the Porthleven Neighbourhood Plan so far. The next stage involves delving a little deeper into what you […]

Neighbourhood planning – In a nutshell

On Monday 23 May, the Department for Communities and Local Government launched the Make a plan – make a difference campaign across England with advertisements and a new step-by-step website – neighbourhoodplanning.org\r\n\r\nThe campaign is aimed at introducing people to neighbourhood planning, to give them an opportunity to find out more about what’s happening in their area and how […]

Open Day – June 10

We’re inviting Porthleven residents to an Open Day on Friday June 10.\r\n\r\nThe event will take place at Porthleven Church (St Bartholomew’s) with two sessions – the first from 1 and 4pm and the second between 6 and 8pm.\r\n\r\nIt will see the launch of our second questionnaire about future housing developments in the town. This has […]

Neighbourhood Planning in Queen’s Speech

The recent Queen’s Speech included a Neighbourhood Planning and Infrastructure Bill.\r\n “To support the economic recovery, and to create jobs and more apprenticeships, legislation will be introduced to ensure Britain has the infrastructure that businesses need to grow.” \r\n The purpose of the Bill is to: \r\n \r\n Support the Government’s ambition to deliver one […]

Porthleven Neighbourhood Plan forum initial meeting

Key Achievements – May 2016

The story so far… \nOn the 17 May 2014, a presentation was given at an open meeting introducing the Porthleven Neighbourhood Plan (PNP). This identified the possible need for Porthleven to have a neighbourhood plan and offered the chance for those gathered to ask questions.\n\nThe final act of the meeting was to decide if Porthleven […]

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Site Allocations

Site allocation provides an additional layer of protection to those areas that have already been identified in the LLCA as having a low capacity for development. It would be unwise to rely on the LLCA alone to provide enough evidence for an area not to be developed, if a developer were to take a decision […]

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LLCA

\r\n\r\nA great write up in the West Briton this week supporting the great work completed in our landscape Assessment. The next stage is build on this work through site allocation.\r\n\r\nSee the latest on the LLCA and download the full reports.