Nick Palmer
| Published: 12th March 2008 09:56 |
Extract from the latest newsletter sent out by Nick Plamer ( Boxtowe Labour MP)
Development update
I'm glad to say the Nottingham Regeneration Limited have agreed to meet me, and I'm now pressing for an early date for this. Very many thanks again to all who wrote to them to urge them to listen. I would still like to be able to talk to their consultants as well so as to influence each stage of the process in our collective interest.
Some of the local developers have been in touch to put their side of the story: the church group (not Beeston Free Church as I reported earlier) who own land west of Bardills, Peverils who want to develop the Chilwell segment (they say they would allow a tram park and ride
site), and the consultants working on the Stanton Ironworks proposal,which seems potentially attractive to me. I remain entirelyunconvinced by the Peveril (Chilwell), Trowell/Cossall and Watnall/Nuthall sites.
The timetable is roughly this:
March 15: I've organised a meeting with my colleagues Paddy Tipping and Vernon Coaker with the County Council and numerous NGOs with an interest in the local environment - the Wildlife Trust, CPRE, etc.
These are not represented on NRL and we are keen that they too should be able to weigh in at an early stage.
Early April: the consultants should complete heir report to NRL.
Summer: NRL should report back to the councils on which areas look plausible for development. I am hoping that, following all our efforts, at least some of the Broxtowe areas will be seen as clearly unsuitable.
Post-summer: the councils update their assessments in consultation with the Government Office for the East Midlands.
2009: concrete planning proposals are likely to be put to the elected councils for anywhere that has survived the initial process.
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