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HOMES FOR LOCAL

PEOPLE

CHARACTER &
HERITAGE

OUR HIGH STREETS

GETTING AROUND

AMENETIES
(HEALTH,
EDUCATION)

ETHICAL
DEVELOPMENT

SPACES FOR PEOPLE

FUNDING LOCAL
PROJECTS

New social housing

for local people
Affordable
regeneration of
council housing
mindful of population
density
No vacant properties
(investment, just for
profit)
Considerate and
community-led
infilling
Community purchase
Promote creation of
housing Co-ops
Artists studios
Stick to the highest bar
for the maximum
number of social
housing built in any
development

This is our habitat

Preserve and enhance
neighbourhood and
community feeling
Conservation area
(preserve and
enhance)
Recognise importance
of our Medieval street
layout
Restriction of building
heights
Identify and promote
locally listed sites
and community
assets (provide CIL
money pot for
renovation)
Promote history of the
area (tourism, blue
plaque, cultural
museum)

Provision of small
commercial premises
for independent
businesses
Encourage diversity
Fewer chains
Fewer betting shops
and fast food premises
(health and wellbeing
issue)
Preserve and enhance
history of artisans,
creative people and
small businesses)

Encourage porosity of
area for cycle and
pedestrian traffic
Traffic and road usage
Footpath space on key
streets
Discourage cutthroughs (trucks on
small roads)
Air quality and noise
Impact of
development and
building works on
getting around
neighbourhood

Adequate nursery and

school places (all
ages)
Encourage and support
new schools and
nurseries
Keep schools for
education (no change
of use)
More youth
groups/venues/ afterschool clubs/scouts in
our area
Community space/caf
where more isolated
members of
community can go to
meet others
(neighbourhood
feeling promotes
health and wellbeing)

Continuous consultation
of developers with the
Neighbourhood Forum
(pre-app; OBVNF first
port of call; developers
pack)
Community-led, sociallyresponsible development
Smaller-scale human
development (wherever
possible)
Intelligent development
Consultation: which
buildings for which sites
Viability monitoring body

Enhance and increase

parks, open spaces,
gardens
Preserve and increase
number of trees
Community space
(meeting space, caf):
new spaces, but also
maximise use of
existing spaces
Enable use of
dormant spaces
(spontaneous
gardens)

OBVNF to be
consulted for use of
CIL money to be
selected from running
list of community /
local projects and
initiatives
Support cultural
spaces and groups