Your Future, Your Plan

mylorflushingplan.uk

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News from the Steering Group

The Neighbourhood Development Plan team has been hard at work over the past month raising awareness of the plan across the Parish. You might have spotted our post box and the post cards which people have been using to say what they love about living here and what they would like to change in the future; more about those below and about forthcoming dates for public meetings.

When it is finished, the Mylor Neighbourhood Development Plan (as it will be called, because it covers Mylor Parish) will form the first level of planning law. That means that developers and others who wish to apply for planning in future will have to make sure their proposals are reflected in the Plan, and match the priorities of the people who live here.

That is why we are consulting as many people as possible who live in the Parish. The challenge we all face is this: how do we develop Mylor and Flushing and the other settlements in the Parish, in a sustainable way without adversely affecting the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which surrounds us?

One of our tasks, together, in the coming months, is to come up with a shared vision for the future of our Parish. We will be working on this with your help at public meetings and through our social media. If you have ideas, please come along ready to share, debate and tell us what is important to you as the future planning criteria for the Parish. Join in the conversation and have your say.

Answers on a postcard please

Our post boxes are popping up at public meetings such as the recent evening in Flushing Village Club and the Mylor Christmas Fair at Tremayne Hall, and they will be travelling around the shops, pubs, cafes and schools in the coming months. The questions are; “What do I like best about my community?” and “What would I like to change?”. If you can’t get hold of a post card, you can write a note and put it in one of the boxes, or you can email your reply.

This simple but effective method is already eliciting some valuable information and ideas which we are collating so that the topic groups can feed them into their deliberations. It is a little early to report in detail on the main themes that are emerging, but it is clear that the comments on parking, housing, space for our schools, traffic speed and community facilities are fitting well with our topic groups. We will be asking further questions as the plan develops, so please keep your contributions coming.

We would especially like to hear more from younger people so if you have young members of your family, from school age upwards, please encourage them to take part and get their friends involved as well. This is their chance to tell us their aspirations for the future of the place where they live. It is a hard fact but our Parish is graded as a Tier 1 area which is the highest housing price category in Cornwall. It is a challenge for young people to get a foot on the housing ladder, even with so-called affordable housing. We need to hear your ideas about what we can do about this so that young people do not have to move away from their home area, and that if they wish to, they can have the opportunity to move back here.