Many Parish Councils are in the process of organising events by booking diary dates and venues – so if you want to find out what’s happening locally contact your Parish Council. Alternatively set up your own discussion with a group of friends or colleagues, use our list of community venues - a link to which can be found - www.community-blueprint.co.uk/run-event/ - to find somewhere to hold your debate or use a local pub or school or even someone’s front room. The purpose of Blueprint is to tell us what local needs exist in your area particularly in terms of housing, employment and community provision now that Government housing targets no longer exist.

Visit our website www.community-blueprint.co.uk for further details.

Let us have your Blueprint ‘Top Tips’ – if you have run a Blueprint event tell us your successes and pass on any suggestions to others through emailing LDF@winchester.gov.uk and we will update the Blueprint webpages. The Blueprint consultation closes on 10 December 2010.

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October’s Blueprint Top Tip
Take the time to prepare for your event
There’s lots of data on the website which will provide useful background material in terms of house prices, population changes etc all of which will help inform your debate so that you have a meaningful discusssion and come to some useful conclusions about what is needed long term in your community.
 



Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan

The City Council has also just about to publish its draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan for comment. This focusses on the wider Winchester District so it may provide some useful background information for Blueprint– you may also want to comment on it. It will soon be able to be viewed on the website and any comments should be sent to the LDF Team LDF@winchester.gov.uk by 10 December 2010.



Interim Policy Aspirations

Given that it will be some time before the LDF Core Strategy or Development Management and Allocations DPD can be adopted by the Council. The Council is producing some ‘Interim Policy Aspirations’ for a small number of key policy areas.  These are expected to be adopted as non-statutory policy aspirations in January 2011.  They will be ‘material considerations’ for planning applications considered after their adoption and the purpose of publishing them now is to raise awareness with applicants and planning agents so that they can be taken into account when preparing planning applications and developing proposals.