Henry Cleary's acknowledgement

By e-mail
Mrs V C Newman
Chairman
Communities Against Ford Eco-town
PO Box 123
Arundel
West Sussex BN18 8BF
1 May 2009

Dear Mrs Newman

Eco-towns consultation

I wanted to write to you to acknowledge receipt of the consultation response that you e-mailed and sent us on behalf of Communities Against Ford Eco-town (CAFÉ) on 27 April, and also the postcards that CAFÉ supporters sent to us around the end of last year.

The consultation response and all the postcards that we received are being included as part of the consultation. Unfortunately it was not possible for us to acknowledge each postcard individually at the time, but I did want to provide you with assurance that they were received, and the views they set out will be taken into consideration.

As you know the consultation came to an end on 30 April and we will now consider all the responses to the consultation along with the findings of the assessment work that has been undertaken. After the final Eco-towns Planning Policy Statement is issued any location which is identified as having potential will still need to go through the planning process and will need to submit a planning application, which will be for local authorities to determine, and this will provide further opportunity for local consultation.

I would be grateful if you could share this letter with members and supporters of CAFÉ.

Yours sincerely
HENRY CLEARY

Here comes the Eco Quarter!

Received an interesting email this morning with this letter attached. Its being delivered to residents in Bognor and surrounding areas. As you can see the letter has a nice green logo to emphasise the "greenness"of bulldozing more countryside to build some more familiar "eco houses" - this time an "eco" quarter instead of an Eco-Town!
 
It has a familiar ring about it - paragraph two has those old chestnuts "sustainable development", "associated employment" "community facilities" and no, I can't stand it "40% landscaped open space" where there is at present 100% open countryside planned by Mother Nature! You will see at the bottom of the page a familiar name - Langmead.  Say no more...

We're all invited to an exhibition on May 8th and 9th.
Friday May 8th
Bersted Parish Council Community Centre,
Chalcraft Lane, North Bersted, Bognor Regis
The exhibition runs from 5.30pm - 8.00pm.

Saturday May 9th
The Regis Centre, The Gallery Room
The exhibition runs from 11.00am - 4.00pm.

Here is a link to a rather swanky brochure (4.3MB PDF document)

Green Issues Communications is a specialist consultation company that is facilitating open engagement with the community and its representatives on this scheme. There is a very basic unprofessional website here www.greenissues.com/breq/

Thanks to the nice lady who sent this...

We have a Widget!

The nice Mr G has been knee deep developing stuff... During a mammoth code marathon spectacular I came up with a widget for all my friendly Mac users against Ford Eco-Town to stick on their desktops - keeping them up to date via RSS... Download the widget here (MAC ONLY)

Any windows widget developers out there who want to make code love for Vista then lets get it on... Haha... silly...