Forum: new hearings needed
Clifton Village Neighbourhood Forum submits detailed responses to Calderdale Council’s local plan modifications and calls on Planning Inspector to hold fresh hearings into garden suburbs viability, transport and free school funding failure. The Clifton Village Neighbourhood Forum (CVNF) is working for a sustainable and deliverable plan for Clifton and continues actively participating in the local […]
School’s out in South East Calderdale
– Friday 30 September at 13:28, news just reached us that the Department for Education advised Calderdale Council in early August that the free school would not be funded. This and the news that cash-strapped West Yorkshire Combined Authority will review all business cases not already at the full business case stage (this means the […]
Calderdale Local Plan – respond to main modifications –
Guidance from community planning groups and passionate individuals across Calderdale, brought together by CPRE West Yorkshire, have spent time thinking about how communities and individuals can respond to Calderdale Council’s current main modification consultation. It is clear from some recent social media posts that the process is confusing, with over 1,200 pages of primary content […]
Consultation starts
Main modifications consultation underway. The long-awaited consultation on the main modifications to Calderdale’s local plan finally started on Friday 12 August. Like most of the other consultations, this is also being undertaken during the school holiday period; however, this time, Calderdale has been pushed into extending the statutory minimum period largely because one political party […]
Joint meeting coolest place to be
Joint forum meeting coolest place to be! Seventy-five people braved one of the hottest nights of the year for the joint Clifton Village Community Association (CVCA) and Clifton Village Neighbourhood Forum (CVNF) meeting. Held in the air-conditioned comfort of the Holiday Inn, CVCA Vice-Chair Allison Rushton spoke about some of the recent work undertaken in […]
Village public meeting announced
The Clifton Village Community Association (CVCA) and the Clifton Village Neighbourhood Forum will be holding a public meeting on Sunday 17 July 7pm at the Clifton Suite, Holiday Inn, Brighouse. The meeting will hear from CVCA and CVNF representatives on a number of issues including: Calderdale’s local plan – how you can participate What’s happening […]
More issues for Calderdale
Changes to building regualtions likely to cause more problems for Claderdale Council’s Local Plan delivery.
Forum statement on Calderdale Local Plan
Statement on Calderdale Local Plan from the Clifton Village Neighbourhood Forum. The Inspector’s initial post-hearing letter has just been published by the Council. Despite Calderdale claiming they are ‘a major step closer to final adoption of the Local Plan’, it is clear, and this is what the Planning Inspector’s letter in fact means, that the […]
Council refuses to answer local plan roof-tax questions
Forum Chair, Tony Perryman, has expressed concern that Calderdale Council has refused to answer fundamental questions on how Calderdale’s local plan will be funded.
Calderdale Council’s Planning Lead has written to Clifton Village Neighbourhood Forum (CVNF) Chair, Tony Perryman, refusing to answer the Forum’s recent three questions submitted on the proposed local plan roof-tax.
Forum questions Calderdale’s roof-tax
the Clifton Village Neighbourhood Forum (CVNF) provided a written note setting out reasons why the CVNF considers the proposed funding mechanism for the strategic sites to be unlawful.