Green Belt / Green Spaces

Spelthorne Council's Local Pan Consultation

Jan has been and continues to working with colleagues and Resident Groups in response to the Spelthorne Borough Council Local Plan Consultation .

You can see an update about this here.

Actions taken include:

He is currently compiling a Response To The Consultation - watch this space!
Together with Malcolm Beecher, Cllr Lagden and Cllr Siva (Labour), he set up a Green Belt campaign Petition which has kindly been supported by Chris Packham
Jan has been listening to and working with the views of residents, local groups and local business about the proposals, and preparing supporting materials and consulting experts, including supportive MEPs like Alexandra Phillips who visited some of the sites under threat
Press comment in the News
- coverage by award-winning Sunbury Matters (p22 Dec.2019 issue) and made front page news in the Surrey Advertiser
- coverage by SurreyLive of the Petition handover on 21.1.20 and video interview with Cllr Doerfel and Malcom Beecher

Jan worked working with colleagues and Resident Groups to respond to the Spelthorne Borough Council Consultation on Local Green Space Assessment Methodology which closed on 4th June 2019.

Unless we act swiftly to submit comprehensive replies to the consultation document, we risk losing our green spaces for good.

Actions taken include:

Jan held an urgent meeting was held on 28th May at the Staines Methodist Church in Staines with concerned groups where our analysis of the consultation document and recommendations to be put forward to the council / strategies were discussed
He compiled and submitted a Response To The Consultation
Together with Cllr Lagden and Cllr Siva (Labour), he set up a campaign Petition to support the Response to the Consultation
Jan has been listening to and working with the views of residents, local groups and local business about the proposals
Press comment in the News when this story was covered by SurreyLive