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Duncan, a member of the East Thame Residents Association, has kindly provided a summary of resident views in response to the meeting and consultation regarding the Thame Neighbourhood Plan.<\/p>\n
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Residents voiced concerns over the new Thame Neighbourhood Plan at a Council meeting last week.\u00a0 Reservations were expressed over the lack of consultation with residents and the recommended sites for development.\u00a0 Residents also raised concerns over the potential placement of industrial buildings close to homes and a lack of provision for new green public space.<\/p>\n
Thame Town Council is now working on a 2nd Thame Neighbourhood Plan (TNP2), which will need to identify additional land for development.\u00a0 South Oxfordshire District Council\u2019s Local Plan states 339 new homes need delivering in Thame, along with a minimum of 3.5 hectares of employment land as well as space for new retail uses.<\/p>\n
Duncan Nickless from East Thame Residents Association reminded councillors that neighbourhood plans were introduced to give local communities a greater say in how their local communities develop but highlighted the unfortunate lack of public engagement and transparency for the new plan in contrast with the original Town Plan.\u00a0 He also expressed great concern from residents about recommendations to allocate business\/industrial sites along Howland Road and directly opposite residential housing.\u00a0 This will negatively impact residents through additional noise and traffic and is completely unnecessary given land could be used further from residential areas.<\/p>\n
Bob Denton also raised concerns about additional noise and disturbance new industrial building could have on residents.\u00a0 Bob described the noise and disturbance he and other residents already experience from the Windles site which runs a 24 hour operation leading some residents to complain to the company and district council.<\/p>\n
Reg Koster from Thame Runners, reminded Councillors that the original Town Plan identified a deficiency of 15 hectares of public space across the town.\u00a0 This shortfall has not yet been addressed and means events such as a regular \u2018Park Run\u2019 can\u2019t be hosted in the town as there isn\u2019t a park large enough.<\/p>\n
Following these representations the Town Council went into a \u2018closed section\u2019 to further discuss the Thame Neighbourhood Plan.<\/p>\n
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Duncan, a member of the East Thame Residents Association, has kindly provided a summary of resident views in response to the meeting and consultation regarding the Thame Neighbourhood Plan. — Residents voiced concerns over the new Thame Neighbourhood Plan at a Council meeting last week.\u00a0 Reservations were expressed over the lack of consultation with residents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[44],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n