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Minutes of Totnes Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group

Wednesday 20th April, Totnes Guildhall, 7pm - 9pm

Present - Thea Platt, Tony Whitty, Peter Rees, Robert Vint, Teresa Lakeman, Faze Al, Mary Coughlan-Clarke,

Apologies - Ian Franklin, Rosie Adams, Chris Balch, Lindsay Garner

Chair - Paul Bennett

Task/Issues / Detail
Minutes of last meeting / ·  Approved
·  No general matters of note
Sites update / ·  Notes available from sites meeting
·  Action: Thea to ask Frances if she has any information about ownership of the industrial estate
·  Action: Call for sites to go on the agenda for the next sites meeting. Thea to speak to Dave Chapman about his suggested process for a public call for sites and assessing sites for other uses (other than housing)
·  Sheep field –Teresa announced that a decision to sell off and develop the sheep field site was made by governors (on April 19th)
·  The Neighbourhood Plan and KEVICC representatives are meeting on April 27th for a round-table discussion about the potential for the sheep-field being developed as part of an NDO.
·  The sites group are meeting with Chris Brooks from South Hams on April 27th
Update on vision and objectives / ·  Action Thea: Meet editors and writers of Neighbourhood Plans (John Bray and James Shorten) and report back to Steering Group next week in order to make a quick decision
Task Group Lead update / ·  Action: Thea to write press release to update people about overall progress of the Neighbourhood Plan
·  Action: Thea to pull together evidence base database and share with the Steering group and task group leads. The next Task Group lead meeting will look at this and identify gaps in the evidence base.
Coordinators report / ·  No actions
Date of next meeting / ·  Wednesday 18th May

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