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March 2019 No.450
The Stradbroke Neighbourhood Plan The neighbourhood plan team was very pleased to see the results of the referendum held on Thursday 31st January. 80% of people voted "yes" to the neighbourhood plan. The plan is now going to a full Mid Suffolk District Council meeting to be formally adopted will then have the same legal status as Mid Suffolk's own local plan. The neighbourhood plan contains four new sites for housing development over the next twenty years and we hope it is going to allow sensible and sustainable development in Stradbroke. This means broadly the same level of development over the next twenty years as we have seen over the last twenty years. Having a neighbourhood plan also means more money comes directly to Stradbroke as houses are built to enable us to improve local infrastructure. The neighbourhood plan team are now working on a "Parish Infrastructure Improvement Plan" which will set out how this money can be spent. We are looking in particular at plans to build a new nursery to replace the old building at the primary school as well as expansion of the doctor's surgery to cope with a larger population. The development sites in the plan will also bring community benefits as they go ahead such as an extension to the playing fields and a car park and bus drop off area behind the primary school. We are very proud that Stradbroke became only the second area in Mid Suffolk to have a neighbourhood plan. Debenham approved their plan in a referendum a week after ours and other local places including Eye, Wilby Laxfield and Fressingfield are all working on ther own plans. The Stradbroke Neighbourhood Plan will be regularly reviewed by the Parish Council to ensure it remains up to date as the village continues to develop over the coming years.
James Hargrave, Stradbroke Neighbourhood Plan Team