Neighbourhood Plan: What do you think of Stone?

What do you like about Stone? What do you dislike? What problems need to be dealt with? What should be changed? What improvements need to be made?

Stone Town Council wants to know your answers to all of the above questions as it starts the second stage of a consultation on a Neighbourhood Plan for the town.

A leaflet has been posted to households across the town with information about the consultation – you can see it below in case it hasn’t popped through your door.

You can complete a questionnaire on the town council website – make sure you have your say.

The consultation ends on Friday 11th December.

The questions that the town council would like us to answer are:

[box type=”shadow” align=”aligncenter” ]What do you like about Stone and what do you think should be preserved and retained?

What do you dislike about Stone and what are the problems that need to be dealt with?

What do you think should be changed in Stone and what improvements should be made?[/box]

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Drop-in events are also taking place:

[box type=”info” align=”aligncenter” ]Saturday 21st November, 9am to 2pm, Stone High Street

Monday 23rd November, 6pm to 8.30pm, at Walton Community Centre

Tuesday 24th November, 6pm to 8.30pm, at St Michael’s First School

Wednesday 25th November, 6pm to 8.30pm, at Alleyne’s Academy[/box]

The Neighbourhood Plan is being produced by a steering group of town councillors and local residents, chaired by Cllr Jill Hood, with the support of neighbourhood plan specialists Urban Vision from Stoke-on-Trent.

Stone Town Council is producing a Neighbourhood Plan for Stone to guide the planning and future development of the town up to 2031. The Neighbourhood Plan will enable the local community to refine the adopted Stafford Borough Local Plan, and give local people more say in where new development goes and what kind of development is allowed.

Neighbourhood Plans are a new kind of plan, introduced by the Localism Act in 2011. They are produced by local people for their own areas and are only brought into force after a majority vote by residents in a local referendum. Neighbourhood Plans carry weight – they are part of the statutory planning system. This means that Stafford Borough Council will have to take the policies and proposals in the Stone Neighbourhood Plan into account when it makes decisions on planning applications in Stone.