The Chesham Neighbourhood Plan Consultation is open until 15th April.
It takes about 10 minutes to complete and we would encourage you to take 10 mins to put your ideas forward. The more they hear from us, the more we can influence any decisions!
If you need ideas, see below for some responses from other Sustainable Chesham Members. These are given as a guide, please respond in your own words where possible. Where identical responses are analysed by computers, it can reduce their weighting.
Please note these suggestions are not exhaustive and only given to help. You may well have better ideas to include, so please do include them!
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Chesham Town Council – Neighbourhood Plan
Consultation questions and ideas from other SC members
Q1. What do you think are the 5 biggest issues facing Chesham? Please select five.
Comment in ‘Other’ could include:
And/Or
Q2. Do you agree with Chesham looking at it’s own plan? Yes, as there would be a more local focus.
Q3. As your Town Council, we started work on a Neighbourhood Plan to protect our Green Belt. We do not support building on the Green Belt and we believe that alternatives are available in order to deliver the homes that we need. Where and how would you like to see these new homes built? You can select up to three.
Comment could include;
Q4. Some industrial employment land in Chesham is not in a suitable location (noise, pollution and other issues near homes). Do you think there is a need to maintain the current amount of employment land in the town?
Comment could include;
Q5. The Neighbourhood Plan can help to contribute to efforts to tackle climate change in a number of ways. How do you think we should tackle climate change locally?
We would suggest ticking all of these and also ‘Other’. Within comments for ‘Other’ you could include:
Q6. Support of design standards locally. We support high design standards that promote the sustainability of new builds, these don’t necessarily make the buildings more expensive and can save cost for the owner/occupier. Examples of this include Passive Haus; Carbon Neutral Construction; Non-Gas as standard, Home Quality Mark, BREEAM.
Q7. Through the Neighbourhood Plan we also intend to protect our current buildings, especially those in the Chesham Conservation Area, but also across the town, and to protect buildings that have local architectural and historic value. Are there any particular buildings or sites that you think are important to protect?
Comment could include;
Q8 Asks about types of house to be built in town centre. You can only tick one box here, so you could tick ‘Other’ and list more than one type if you thought this the best answer. Comment here could include;
Q9. We want to create a network of safe and convenient footpaths and cycle paths within the town and out into the countryside to enable people to leave their cars at home. Are there any particular routes in the town that you would like to see improved that would make it more likely for you to walk or cycle more around town?
Comment could include;
Q10. In order to deliver more homes in the town centre, development on existing car parks would be required. Were this to happen, would you support the building of at least one multi storey car park in order to maintain the number of car parking spaces in the town centre.
Comment could include;
Many Thanks,
Sustainable Chesham Team