Excellent diversion for me too Piers! Maybe the villages should be twinned!
cheers
Jez
On 22 May 2017 at 15:10, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Jez, that was an interesting diversion into the origin of one
> placename, and how it relates to another at the other end of the country -
> Poyntzfield, in Easter Ross. I know it well....
>
> Google "Poyntzfield post office" for a glimpse of how we do things up here.
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus [mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@thomasclausen.
> net] On Behalf Of Jez Cunningham
> Sent: 20 May 2017 10:53
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Neighbourhood planning
>
> Hi ChrisB,
>
> Our village (229 households, <500 population) has been at it for 6 almost
> 12 months. We issued a questionnaire and got 70 replies and then had an
> open weekend and had about the same number of people drop in. Now we move
> into more detail to produce some proposals but we already have a local
> landowner (developer) attacking us with legal guns due to his perceived
> lack of consultation.
>
> If you're interested it's all here
> http://suttonpoyntz.org.uk/index.php/neighbourhood/progress
>
> Cheers
>
> On Fri, 19 May 2017 at 23:24, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It's a bit depressing that it's universal, Chris.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > C M I Barker | Gamlingay
> >
> >
> > > On 19 May 2017, at 23:23, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > We have similar turnouts for our public meetings. Then the ones
> who
> > don't show up scream and shout "foul!". I guess it's universal.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >>
> > >> The village will have another survey and a referendum before we can go
> > >> to the District Council with our Plan, Jez. Most of the division is
> > >> over whether it’s worth doing, not what we should put in it. Of 1800
> > >> households we had 15 people at the “public
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