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What is a Village Plan?

 The Village Plan should NOT be confused with the operation and aims of the BJ PRESERVATION SOCIETY which are  quite separate and established many years earlier ( some 26 years older) .

Village or Parish Plans were announced by the Government in 2000 as a way of helping communities to engage meaningfully with the local planning process. A Parish Plan enables local people to decide how they would like their community to develop. All the issues discussed in a Plan should be raised by villages at the various consultation sessions held in the Villages and the Plan should be written and owned by the local community.

The Plan usually has the following functions:

  1. To provide a “snap shot” of life in the villages today: a record or profile at the time.
  2. To consult with the community to help identify what people value and want to preserve and also what they would like to change.
  3. To find ways of improving the villages and the lives of those who live there and to turn these ideas into an action plan.
  4. The Plan is intended to influence a wide rage of organisations that may take decisions that affect the life of the community, particularly in relation to Planning issues.
  5. Grants and funding for the parish and local organisations - To help when seeking funds or assistance from outside agencies.
  6. Local services.
  7. Leisure, recreation and sport.
  8. Community safety.
  9. The local environment.
  10. Other external changes.
  11. To act as a reference point for statutory bodies e.g. the borough or county councils when making decisions that affect the village.
  12. The Plan should highlight the issues that the community have identified as being important to them, and also propose potential actions to help address some of them.

Regretfully the BJVP is a SLOW-SLOW-SLOW oh! so very SLOW MOVING organisation  

The BJVP Committee have not organised ant effective lines of communication - they consistantly ignore BJO's offer for free publicity and update within this site. However we will keep everyone updated, to a degree, with postings withing our "FORUM" - VILLAGE PLAN - topicÂ