The Wickhambrook Neighbourhood Plan Working Group has continued to be busy. Since you last saw us at the flower show in the Summer West Suffolk Council finished its consultation on their preferred site for building 40 homes and other Buildings, to which we and the parish council provided a detailed response. The land alongside Bunters Road is now West Suffolk Council’s preferred location for any new homes and other premises in our parish.
We’ve commissioned a full landscape survey of all sites offered up under SHELAA and preferred options, and this report will form part of the Neighbourhood Plan support package.
We’ve also commissioned a Design Code, which will help shape the way any new development looks and give guidance to any new building and importantly will be part of our Neighbourhood Plan.
Finally we are working with AECOM to provide a Development Plan, of the new site at Bunters Road. The draft options for this site will be available in February, and we expect to consult with you, the Parish and the landowners and West Suffolk before finalising any plans. It’s important we get this right as these plans will form the backbone of the Neighbourhood Plan.
We fully expect to consult with the community and Parish in early Summer this year on the Draft Neighbourhood Plan, with a final referendum late Summer.
There’s a lot of work to do in the meantime and we need your help. We need good quality digital photographs of the village and its surroundings.
We also need pictures of historical buildings and places of interest. We have a drop box folder where you can upload them, watch out for the poster on this.
You will hear from us soon on where, when and how you can give your feedback on the draft plans for the preferred site at Bunters Road, as we will be providing several pop up events – more details to follow on this, watch out for the posters and social media updates.