Desford Parish Neighbourhood Plan

The most recent Strategic Environmental Assessment Report (SEA), the Modifications table and latest draft Desford Parish Neighbourhood Plan are all available on the Desford Parish Council  website:

https://www.desfordparishcouncil.co.uk

Desford Neighbourhood Plan provides the opportunity for our community to provide a positive vision for how we want our neighbourhood to develop in the future.

It is a massively influential document that means your community can choose where new homes, shops and offices are built, and have your say on what those new buildings should look like and what infrastructure should be provided to support them.

Further information can be obtained from:

E-mail: clerk@desfordparishcouncil.co.uk

Desford Parish Council C/o Desford Library Main Street, Desford, Leicester LE9 9JP  

A vision of Desford

Desford Neighbourhood Plan

Davidsons’ Planning Application refused for the fourth time!!

On Tuesday 21 March, Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council Planning Department recommended planning consent for 120 houses in one of the worst possible locations to the west of the village. Approval would have completely contradicted the existing, made Neighbourhood Plan for the Parish, but the Borough Planning Committee unanimously decided to refuse permission, and Desford Parish Council is grateful to those councillors for standing firm. So, our existing plan has been upheld by the Councillors: but it does not end here!Desford Parish Council knows it will eventually have to find some more houses in a review of the Neighbourhood Plan: but the community’s right to say where it will go has been safeguarded for now. Desford Parish Council has commissioned independent consultants to report on housing need and traffic in the parish.

Desford  NP Consultation event 22nd April 2023 

 

Desford Parish Neighbourhood Plan (which covers Botcheston as well as Desford) was made in May 2021 and is now being reviewed.  If you were unable to attend the Open Morning on Saturday 22nd April, you may be interested to read the display by following the link below. There will be another opportunity to make comments at the next stage (known as Regulation 14) later in the year.  Please watch out for publicity about this on the notice boards, the website and social media. See the documents below:

                     Desford NP Consultation Display

                     Desford NP Consultation Analysis

Bernard Grimshaw. Communications Officer

Desford Parish Neighbourhood Plan Working Group

 

The Parish of Desford is a good place to live
This is according to 70% of the respondents to the recent Neighbourhood Questionnaire which 627 of you returned and which is currently being analysed.

The local shops and Sport in Desford are well used but most respondents travel out of the village for the ‘big shop’

Concerns have been expressed about  the number of HGVs, the volume of traffic through the parish, inconsiderate parking and speeding vehicles.

A high number of respondents would like to see more work opportunities for young people and there is some support for the development of light industry but not for heavy industry.

Protection of recreational and open spaces, access to the countryside  and provision of sporting activities are obviously important to respondents as are maintaining the essential characteristics of the Parish and the approaches to it.

There is still much more work to be done on collating the many comments and statements that respondents also added and this will take time.

Be assured, however, that the working group is meeting regularly and with the guidance and support of consultants will produce an appropriate plan which will be submitted to the authorities and to you the residents in due course.

 

Strategic Site Assessment consultation

The six-week Strategic Site Assessment (SSA) consultation  on the Draft Neighbourhood Plan was held in May 2019 and a significant number of the comments have now been built into the Plan. Once the Strategic Environmental  Assessment (SEA) consultation is completed we will then be able to submit the Plan to Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council.by the end of December 2019.

Please find detailed update of SSA Consultation: SSA-Update Notice

Please find copy of the SSA map: Appendix D4 Version 3 SSA map

E-mail: clerk@desfordparishcouncil.co.uk

Desford Parish Council C/o Desford Library Main Street, Desford, Leicester LE9 9JP  

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