| Report of Wivenhoe's Annual Town Meeting held on
Thursday, 12th May, 2005
Cllr Peter Hill and fellow councillors present (Deputy Mayor, Cllr Tom Roberts and Councillors Dave Purdey, Penny Kraft, Ken Rogers, Brian Sinclair, Frances Richards and Cyril Liddy) assisted by Town Clerk Antoinette Stinson, presented their Annual Report, highlighting particular points of interest. (To see the Town Council's report, click here) Peter Hill referred everybody to the leaflet given out which set set out the Town Council's recently drawn up General Aims and 47 Specific Objectives for the year ahead. He invited everyone to read these carefully and provide comments to the Town Council. Click here for a copy of these Aims and Objectives. Amongst those thanked during the evening for their contribution to life in Wivenhoe was Paul Alden to whom Peter Hill presented two bottles of port for technical support provided by Paul for the Wivenhoe Encyclopedia (for Paul's entry in the Business section, click here). Deputy Mayor Cllr Tom Roberts introduced Stella Meesters from the Rural Community Council of Essex who spoke about Village Appraisals and Town Plans. The meeting agreed with Tom Robert's initiative to establish a group of people to take this idea forward and Eugene Kraft, Albey Stinson, Dave Harrison, and Tony Evans volunteered to help Tom Roberts.
Dave Cookson invited everyone to participate in the Local Development Process. He said views were important. To see more about the Local Development Framework click here for a pdf document (2.6mb).
Click here for the Town Council's home page in the Wivenhoe Encyclopedia |
Over
60 residents attended a full evening which started with the presentation
of cheques from the Mayor's Charity Fund to 21 organisations. Town Mayor,
Cllr Peter Hill said a near-record amount of £6,815 had been raised and
that he was grateful for the help and support of the Mayor's Charity Fund
Organising Committee and everybody who had attended or contributed to a
wide variety of successful events during the year. For picture and list of
grants, 
It
was then the turn of CBC's Planning Policy Manager Dave Cookson, with
colleague John Davies from Planning Department, to tell the meeting about
the consultation arrangements for the new Local Development Framework (LDF)
arrangements where CBC are required under new Government regulations to
consult first on the the methodology for input into the LDF, which
replaces the recently agreed Local Plan for the Colchester Borough, and
then in a second stage to consult on the planning proposals in the LDF
itself.