Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023

Ref.

Issue

Possible actions

Lead agencies and partners

Monitor the effectiveness of the policies contained in the Plan.

Meeting with district planning officers and planning committee members to discuss how the policies should be applied in practice.

Regular monitoring of applications coming into the parish and utilising the policies to inform comments from the parish council.

Reviewing decisions taken and how the policies were interpreted – this could include the development of a set of key performance indicators for each NP policy, in order to measure effectiveness.

Parish Council, NHDC

Consider local housing needs in the parish

Regularly update the Local Housing Needs Survey which, in combination with the housing list maintained by NHDC, will provide evidence to inform Policy W2.

Parish Council, NHDC, Housing Association

Identify opportunities to improve the contribution of buildings and structures to local character

Maintain a directory of historic assets that are potentially 'at risk' and consider how they can be better conserved.

Several buildings in the village have roof forms, or other features indicative of former thatching, such as disproportionately high chimneys, steep roofs with half-hips or catslide extensions. Research should be encouraged to identify such buildings and potentially to encourage the reintroduction of long-straw thatching for roof replacement when the need arrives.

Parish Council, private owners, NHDC, Historic England

Encourage more participation in village life

Promotion of local events and activities, including social media, newsletters.

Consider running new activities. Explore with families options for teenage activities.

Parish Council, local community groups

Reducing reliance on cars for journeys

Explore options to introduce car sharing schemes. Potential to explore enhanced community bus scheme to complement the HertsLynx on-demand bus service available. The Parish Council were involved in getting three official stops included on the initial route launch.

Parish Council, local transport providers

Lack of village shop

Explore appetite for and opportunities to introduce a community shop.

Parish Council, local community