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Message from Gryff Rhys Jones Civic Voice President
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“Help stop our planning policies being vandalised. If you care about the future of your local neighbourhood then write now to your local newspaper.”
Addingham is threatened by weaknesses evident in the Government's new National Planning Policy Framework, due for publication soon. During the work to address BMDC's Local Development Framework draft the Society has become aware of this looming problem,
The Telegraph (Feb 3rd) highlighted Oakham --Rutland-------
"Just half a mile south of the centre of the town – complete with castle, butter cross, stocks and a mention in the Domesday Book – planning permission has been given to build a big estate of around 100 houses on fields in a locally defined Area of Particularly Attractive Countryside that were supposedly exempt from development. Despite vigorous local opposition, the plans were approved because they conformed with the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) – even though it is yet to be implemented and ministers have spent the past months redrafting it in response to an enormous public outcry.
Unless ministers produce a drastically different document in the next few weeks, this experience is going to become commonplace throughout the country, not least because – as a report by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) will reveal on Monday – the reforms will withdraw a 25-year-old safeguard from more than half of the English landscape. And it will happen despite ministers’ repeated insistence that the reforms will give local people power to control inappropriate development through drawing up their own local plans."
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Civic Voice is the national charity for the civic movement in England. Addingham Civic Society is a contributing member to Civic Voice. Griff Rees Jones' message goes on to say....

"We need your help in one final push to promote our campaign for fair planning. We are asking every individual member of a civic society and others to write to their local newspaper to let them know your feelings about the changes. By working together as a movement we were able to create an All Party Parliamentary Group and put huge pressure on local MPs when the planning changes were first announced - lets now work together as a movement to tell the country what we think of these changes and at the same time promote the name of all civic societies.

If you share our concerns (as we know the majority of you do) then please let your local newspaper know. It will only take a few minutes. We have drafted a letter for you to use or amend and it will be sent automatically to your local newspaper. Your views count so lets be heard across the country - (remember to include the name of your civic society on the letter). The Government is rattled by the responses from communities across the country and every voice will make a difference. Lets drive home the the importance of the civic society network and make it clear in every local newspaper across the country that the civic movement do not support these changes".

Follow this Link to access the Civic Voice Site and an easy way to write to the Gazette

http://www.civicvoice.org.uk/campaigns/fair-planning/

IT WILL ONLY TAKE A MINUTE, AND MAY HELP TO STOP BRADFORD'S FAULTED PLAN