Green Snow?

The beautiful but dangerous weather we have been enjoying (some of us) these last few days has made me think that snow is not so much white as green! We have been using our cars much less - only driving when we had to - and there are more pedestrians than cars on the local roads! And our neighbours have called in to see if we were all right - we were, but we appreciated the thought.
But the weather has made difficulties for LEGLAG. The Parish Council meeting referred to in my last blog was cancelled, and our next committee meeting has had to be moved because of the slippery conditions at the bottom of Brizen Road where Gerry Potter lives. And we are hoping that the weather will not disrupt our big event this month - the meeting on Jan 18th when Jonathon Porritt will talk on "Cheltenham under Attack" and (we expect) urge us all to defend Cheltenham from the Government's growth agenda and from the big builders' greedy clutches! At present both LEGLAG and Save the Countryside are working all out to co-ordinate plans for this meeting, as well as trudging through slippery streets to deliver our Flyers urging people to respond to the Joint Core Strategy consultation. At least, all this activity is keeping us warm!!

Leckhampton and Warden Hill Parish Council meets on Thursday January 7th. Among the things the Parish Council will have to discuss is the recent appeal by Newbridge Construction, who want build 350 houses at Brizen Farm. This will result in an Inquiry to determine their application to build there. LEGLAG committee members will attend the meeting and urge the PC to object strongly to this application. They will also be making sure that the PC responds to the Joint Core Strategy team's consultation on the future the Cheltenham/Tewkesbiry/Gloucester area before the end of January deadline. LEGLAG would like to work closely with the Parish Council in defending our area from the big developers!

3rd January 2010. Flyers and the RSS. The new Year has dawned bright and cold, but Leglaggers will be keeping warm by running aroud to deliver the 4oooo flyers we have printed urging the people of Leckhampton to respond to the Joint Core Strategy team's public consultation on the future shape of our part of Gloucestershire by the Jan 31 deadline! (Sorry, that should be 4000 flyers - I hope!)
Meanwhile, the RSS itself (which is supposed to be the top level plan within which the Joint Core Strategy team makes more local decisions) looks even less likely ever to be enforced. GOSW states that the latest revisions will not be presented to Govt Ministers until March, at which time they may have other matters on their minds ... So it is a racing certainty that no final RSS will appear before the General Election, and, in view of Conservative's annouced policy re the RSS, odds on that it will never be in force. That will make the current consultation even more important , as the JCS team will have a much freer hand in creating local planning frameworks. So LEGAG's New Year resolution should be "Be Resolute!"