Just a note to Neville's Cross residents to let you know we're still here! We've had a quiet couple of years during and since Covid-19, partly because we couldn't meet in person and partly due to some changes of personnel on our committee. However, we're back up and running and are once again meeting regularly, We now hold our community meetings at the Merryoaks Community Hall.
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Many people in the Durham Parish are wondering why they have received two polling cards for the May 6th election. One is for the elections and the other is a referendum on the Durham City Neighbourhood Plan.
The referendum is NOT about the County Plan, which is the strategic plan for the whole of County Durham. This has already been agreed by the County Council and is now in use. The referendum is about the Durham City Neighbourhood Plan which is the local plan for the City of Durham Parish area. It has been 9 years in the making and is a Durham City-focussed plan devised by local people for local people and in consultation with local people. In order for the Plan to become operational there has to be a referendum where the people decide whether it should be adopted. More details can be found here : https://dh1.org.uk/ Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, we have been unable to hold our quarterly residents' meetings during 2020. The Trustees have continued to hold meetings remotely, but due to the larger numbers of people that attend our open meetings we did not feel that this was an appropriate substitute for meeting face-to-face.
If you do have any issues you wish to raise with us, please do email. The Facebook group also continues to be a lively forum for sharing community matters. Don't forget that this year's Christmas Festival takes place on 6th December 2019 at Ustinov College in Neville's Cross. This is a fantastic community event, which is now in its 3rd year and well attended by local residents. Come along and help make this year's event another success! More information here.
Please see below a link to the Eventbrite page for the anti-social behaviour conference which the City of Durham Parish Council is hosting on 31st October at 13:00pm in Durham Town Hall.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-of-durham-parish-council-anti-social-behaviour-conference-tickets-74099576829 Any members of the public wishing to attend this event need to register using this link. City of Durham Parish Council is hosting a free training event for local residents, All are welcome and there will be a fantastic training provider (a barrister specialising in licensing law and also an author of a number of books on the subject).
The event will take place from 6pm in Durham Town Hall on Monday 30th September. The event is designed to provide training free of charge to residents on responding to new licensing applications in our area and more. At our annual Parish meeting, a number of residents said they'd like to find out more about licensing and the Parish Council has decided to host this event as a result. Anyone wishing to attend need only sign up to the event via the below Eventbrite link below: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-of-durham-licensing-training-event-tickets-70899439131 The public examination of the County Durham Plan will take place in the Glebe Centre, Murton, Seaham, SR7 9BX over the period from 22 October to 4 December this year.
The Government’s appointed inspector, William Fieldhouse, is in receipt of written comments and criticisms of the Plan from many interested parties and has invited a selection of those parties to make their case in public. Any member of the public is eligible to attend the Examination in Public and thus show their concern by sheer weight of numbers. At our meeting on 25th June (7pm, St John's Church) the NXCA will be discussing the Neighbourhood Plan for the City, drawn up to reflect what residents, businesses and visitors have said are their priorities for planning policies to conserve and improve our city and the Neville's Cross area. It is vital that local residents have the opportunity to be involved in shaping the contents of the Plan. The public consultation for the plan runs from 17th May to the 28th June 2019.
If over 50% of those who vote in a referendum give approval to the Plan it then becomes the statutory development plan by which, along with national and County planning policies, development and enhancement proposals within the City of Durham Parish are decided. More information about the plan can be found here. A message from the City of Durham Parish Council:
Firstly, on behalf of Councillors on the City of Durham Parish Council, a huge thank you to everyone who has supported the CrowdJustice fundraising campaign to date. Thanks to your support, over £9,800 has been raised to support a judicial review of the County Council’s decision to build its new headquarters at the Sands and the City of Durham Parish Council has now lodged its case with the courts. At our annual Parish meeting in May, residents told the Parish Council that this is the biggest issue for them in the Parish and asked Councillors to continue in their opposition to these plans. The Parish Council will be continuing its fundraising campaign until the 16th July (beginning of the Summer holidays). The Parish Council will thereafter be putting the fundraising campaign on hold until September; at which point we hope to hear back from the courts as to whether this will proceed to a full judicial review. Please continue to promote and share the link to our campaign below until the 16th July: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-challenge-against-dcc-sands-hq/ A big thank you again to everyone who has fundraised and got the Parish Council to this stage. The next meeting of the Neville's Cross Community Association will be held at 7pm on Tuesday 25th June 2019 in the Upper Room, St John's Church. The meeting is open to all local residents, so please do come along and join us.
Our agenda and minutes of previous meetings can be found here. |