Tarvin

Public Meeting 18.10.10

2010-09-28T12:17:00.000-07:00

PUBLIC MEETING

v Find out what 357 residents told us about living in Tarvin Parish when they returned their questionnaires recently

v Help us to shape the future of our Community by looking at some of the issues raised and their potential solutions

7.30 pm Monday 18^th October 2010

Main Hall, Tarvin Community Centre

Tarvin Parish Plan Steering Group will present

the preliminary analysis to the residents of Tarvin Parish.

Come and join us – Tea and Coffee provided

Thank you to residents of Tarvin

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A fantastic response to the Tarvin Parish Plan questionnaire - 347 completed questionnaires received!

The draw for the meal at the George & Dragon will take place on Saturday 7th August at 2pm.

Tarvin Parish Plan Questionnaire

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The community volunteers of Tarvin Parish Plan Steering Group were delighted with the response from other volunteers to help distribute the Tarvin Plan questionnaire to all houses across Tarvin Parish over the last 2 weeks.

Nearly 1200 questionnaires have been distributed to all households to ensure that the all residents in the community have the opportunity to have their say about what they would like for Tarvin in the future.

There are lots of sections to the plan for the community to share their views, from leisure to transport and there is even a special section dedicated to finding out what the young people of Tarvin would like to see in the future.

The volunteer group hope that as many people in the community will return the questionnaires as possible, when the will also have the chance to win a meal for four in The George and Dragon in Tarvin.

Many communities across Britain have designed their own plan some have been able to secure grants to improve their village and the facilities.

All residents in the community are encouraged to join in by simply filling in the questionnaire and sending it back in the Freepost envelope provided.

It is hoped that many residents will also volunteer to play a small or large part in helping to implement Tarvin Parish’s plan.

Please be a part of it – Tarvin Parish Plan – Your Community – Your Future

Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting 08/06/10

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VENUE: Edna Rose Room, Community Centre

MEMBERS ATTENDING: Steering Group: Alan Chesters, Karen Hemmings, Steve Hemmings, Phil Miles , Sarah Evans, Debbie Ridley, Ray Williams, Rachael Lloyd, Sue Hardacre. Volunteers: Steven Hildreth, Hazel Hildreth, Jim Grogan, Jane Lush, Ted Lush, Cathy Hones, Mark Wyatt, Christine Oliver, Kelvin Oliver, David Smeatham, Hilary Banner, Pat Coy.

ITEMS DISCUSSED:
1 Apologies for Absence
2 Minutes of the Meeting held on 25th May
3 Matters Arising
4 Matters not on the Agenda which members wish to discuss in AOB
5 Presentation of completed Questionnaire
6 Plans for distribution of Questionnaire
7 Potential Working Groups - further thoughts
8 A.O.B. as identified in Item 4
9 Date of next meeting

ACTIONS AGREED:
1. APOLOGIES
Apologies received from Steering Group: Roger Hones, Joan Millar, Brian Hardacre. Volunteers: Margaret Dixon, Carol and John Law, Anna Mellor, Jim Wigan.

2. MINUTES OF MEETING 25th MAY 2010
Agreed as a true record.

3. MATTERS ARISING
A huge thank you from the Steering Group to Sue (Hardacre) for the excellent draft press release.

4. MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA WHICH MEMBERS WISH TO DISCUSS IN AOB
None

5. PRESENTATION OF COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRE
Steve Hemmings gave the volunteers an overview of the questionnaire. The volunteers asked pertinant questions and made a number of valuable suggestions.

A number of amendments were agreed as listed on separate page.

It was raised that people may have a business but may not be a resident of Tarvin should be included, and steering group would reflect on the comments from the volunteers and address later in meeting. It was felt that businesses would possibly be covered by the Economy working group.

It was felt that the volunteers brought fresh ideas and observations. Hilary Banner commented that the questionnaire was very impressive.

Thanks expressed to Steve, Brian and Rachael for their tremendous work on the questionnaire.

6. PLANS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF QUESTIONNAIRE
Karen and Debbie will deliver bundles of questionnaires and distribution maps to volunteers. Roger to provide Phil with map that council use (agreed by Cathy), Phil will then highlight delivery route for each bundle of questionnaires.

When the questionnaires are available a stuffing and labelling envelope evening will be arranged - all volunteers welcome!

Allocated distribution areas and contact list for distribution of questionnaire attached.

It was hoped that the questionnaire would be distributed in the last week of June/first week in July.

Margaret Dixon unable to attend meeting but prepared to help with distribution. Roger/Phil to contact her?

Ray gave a budget update and at present there is a shortfall of around £300 for the plan. Ted Lush very generously offered up to £100 towards a meal at the George and Dragon as an incentive to get people to return the completed questionnaire.

7. POTENTIAL WORKING GROUPS - FURTHER THOUGHTS
At present the working groups identified as Community, Economy and Environment, after analysing completed questionnaires more working groups may be formed. Initial volunteers for the working groups were Community – Debbie, Economy – Ted Lush, Environment – Hilary Banner.

Volunteers were thanked for their contribution and left the meeting.

8. A.O.B. AS IDENTIFIED IN ITEM 4

Items that arose during the course of the meeting:-

Sue and Alan to liase re the press releases. Debbie would contact Ben at the Chronicle to see if they were interested.

Sue would find out publishing dates of Grapevine, Tarporley Talk for press release/reminders re questionnaire. Roger to find out Tarvin Times date please.

Debbie to organize posters reminding people to return the questionnaire (Sue to advise content) these will be displayed around Tarvin in A3 and A4 sizes.

Sarah Evans to email Tarvin businesses advising them where we are up to with the questionnaire and that we will contact them at a later date re holding a meeting for their input.

Time sheets to be forwarded to Rachael – Debbie to email copy to steering group members.

9. DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Tuesday 6th July 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Edna Rose Room, Community Centre. Roger to book.

Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting 25/05/10

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VENUE: Edna Rose Room, Community Centre

MEMBERS ATTENDING: Alan Chesters, Sue Hardacre, Steve Hemmings, Rachael Lloyd, Phil Miles, Joan Millar,

ITEMS DISCUSSED:
1 Apologies
2 Minutes of Meeting 4 May 2010;
3 Questionnaire
4 Plans for Distribution of Questionnaire
5 Analysis of Responses
6 Potential Working Groups
7Any Other Business
8 Date of Next Meeting

ACTIONS AGREED:
1 APOLOGIES: Apologies received from Sarah, Brian, Karen, Roger, Hazel, Debbie and Ray.
2 MINUTES OF MEETING: Minutes of meeting of 4 May 2010 agreed.
3 QUESTIONNAIRE: Rachael had produced an updated version of the questionnaire and a few minor amendments were noted. Because of concern regarding the Young People Volunteers – age under 16 it was agreed that this should be excluded and agreement was reached on the rewording of the Parish Plan Volunteers section to include young people volunteers. The rewording of the Local Business section was also agreed.

Steve agreed to print 6 copies of the questionnaire for further discussion at the 8 June meeting. Steve reported that Karen was still awaiting printing quotes.

Alan reported that Debbie had priced envelopes and labels. Steve agreed to purchase the envelopes and labels.

4 PLANS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF QUESTIONNAIRE: Phil agreed to organise a plan for the distribution of the questionnaire for the next meeting.

Sue agreed to produce a draft press release to appear in the Chester Chronicle, Tarporley Talk and Grapevine and possibly to be heard on local radio to coincide with the distribution/return date of the questionnaire.

5 ANALYSIS OF RESPONSES: Once the definitive questionnaire is available Steve, Rachael and Brian would look into the process for analysing the responses.

6 POTENTIAL WORKING GROUPS: Alan pointed out that each Working Group would require at least one member of the Steering Group. He asked those present to indicate which Group, if any, they might be willing to serve on. This would be reviewed as things developed: Community – Rachael and Alan; Environment – Phil and Alan; Economy – Brian and Sue.

7 AOB: Members expressed concern about the non attendance of two original members of the Group, and felt they should be contacted to see if they were still interested.

8 DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, 8 June 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Edna Rose Room, Community Centre.

Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting 04/05/10

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MEMBERS ATTENDING: Alan Chesters, Karen Hemmings, Steve Hemmings, Phil Miles , Debbie Ridley, Ray Williams, Sue Hardacre, Sarah Evans, Roger Hones, Joan Millar, Rachael Lloyd, Brian Hardacre

ITEMS DISCUSSED:
1 Apologies
2 Minutes of Meeting 21st April 2010
3 Matters Arising
4 Questionnaire
5 Printing
6 Date of next 2 meetings

ACTIONS AGREED:

1. APOLOGIES: Hazel Manning. Alan explained that Hazel had resigned as Vice Chair but at this stage was still a Steering Group member. No other apologies received. It was proposed that we decide on a new Vice Chair immediately and Phil Miles was nominated and elected unopposed.

2. MINUTES OF MEETING 21st April 2010: Agreed

3. MATTERS ARISING:
Roger had presented a report to the Annual meeting of the Tarvin Parish Council in Alan’s absence

4. QUESTIONNAIRE:
Discussion centred around the extensive feedback we had received from Bron. Generally the group felt de-motivated by having to revisit each question although some of Bron’s comments had been helpful.

Rachael was of the view that we know our Community so we know what to ask. Steve had been disappointed with Bron’s response and felt that it had been unnecessary to provide 57 responses. Alan had spoken to Bron who had confirmed that the questionnaire was ours to finish – she was merely sharing her experience with us of having seen about 70 questionnaires from different communities. Brian felt that perhaps a library of questions to choose from would have been more helpful given that there was so much experience out there.

The meeting, however, reviewed the questionnaire with Bron’s comments in mind and Rachael offered to update the questionnaire and took the relevant notes.

On the subject of U16’s completing the questionnaire and providing their personal details if they wished to volunteer, Roger would clarify the guidance with Bron.

5. PRINTING:
Karen had obtained quotes for printing and it was agreed that we would go with the cheapest quote but first give the chance for the firm in Bunbury to match the lowest price as there was a preference by the Steering Group to award the business to a local firm.

8. DATE OF NEXT MEETINGS:
Tuesday 25th May 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Edna Rose Room, Community Centre.
Tuesday 8th June 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Edna Rose Room, Community Centre. Volunteers to be invited to discuss helping with distribution of questionnaires.

Update on the Tarvin Parish Plan

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The Tarvin Parish Plan has been awarded a grant by Cheshire West and Chester Council and the Steering Group is putting the finishing touches to a questionnaire which will be hand delivered to each household by the end of May/June. Your responses will be important in shaping the Parish Plan for Tarvin and , for convenience you will be able to return the questionnaire to a freepost address.

Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting 21/04/10

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Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting
VENUE: Edna Rose Room, Community Centre

DATE: 21st April 2010

MEMBERS ATTENDING: Alan Chesters, Karen Hemmings, Steve Hemmings, Phil Miles , Debbie Ridley, Ray Williams, Sue Hardacre, Sarah Evans, Roger Hones (for part of the meeting)

ITEMS DISCUSSED:
1 Apologies
2 Minutes of Meeting 9th March 2010
3 Matters Arising : a) Liability Insurance (b) Grant Application (c) Key players (d) Sponsorship
(e) Logo
4 Date of next meeting

ACTIONS AGREED:

1. APOLOGIES: Apologies received from Joan Millar, Rachel Lloyd, Hazel Manning, Brian Hardacre. Hazel Manning had offered to resign because of work commitments. Before accepting her resignation Alan will contact Hazel.

2. MINUTES OF MEETING 9th March 2010: Agreed

3. MATTERS ARISING: (a) LIABILITY INSURANCE: This is accessed through the Parish Council cover restricted to administrative duties, and, a member of Parish Council being at the meeting.

(b) GRANT APPLICATION: This has been completed and signed for by Parish Council (Chairman) and Steering Group (Chairman).

(c) KEY PLAYERS AND STAKEHOLDERS: The list was now more comprehensive and will be maintained as a live list.

4. QUESTIONNAIRE: A small number of changes were discussed and agreed by the group. Steve will produce the latest issue for circulation.

5. Karen had obtained costs for printing of the questionnaire, PM & KM to obtain two further quotes based on an A4 format & to include the new logo & sponsorship details

6. Distribution & Return of Questionnaire: Debbie had investigated the costs involved in using a pre-paid envelope to encourage replies. This was a relatively straightforward procedure that involved an initial payment for licence of £76.70 then a low postage cost for any returns.

Sue offered her address as the return address for replies.

Distribution will be by members of the SG and volunteers from the Parish. Meeting to be arranged for 25th May to discuss distribution involving all known volunteers and members of SG.

7. Initial Discussion on Analysis of Responses: Steve will produce a spreadsheet to assist with the analysis and to aid creation of graphs etc.

8. Potential Working Groups: Discussion centred on potentially three working groups to analyze the data, these would be Community/ Environment/Economy. Members of the Steering Group would engage with the WG volunteers.

9. AOB:
Phil has updated the Project Plan, issue 4 to be circulated.
Debbie requires newsbites for the Blog.
Alan to submit report to Parish Council AGM on 26th April 2010.

10. Date of Next Meeting: Tuesday 4th May 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Edna Rose Room, Community Centre. Roger to book.

Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting 09/03/10

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Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting

VENUE: Edna Rose Room, Community Centre

DATE: 9th March 2010

MEMBERS ATTENDING: Alan Chesters, Karen Hemmings, Steve Hemmings, Phil Miles , Debbie Ridley, Ray Williams, Brian Hardacre, Rachael Lloyd, Roger Hones, Brian Spruce, Hazel Manning, Joan Millar, Sue Hardacre.

ITEMS DISCUSSED:
1 Apologies
2 Minutes of Meeting 11th February 2010
3 Matters Arising : a) Liability Insurance (b) Grant Application (c) Key players
4 Questionnaire
5 Sponsorship
6 Date of next meeting

ACTIONS AGREED:

1. APOLOGIES: Apologies received from Sarah Evans, Mike Tyrie

2. MINUTES OF MEETING 11th FEBRUARY 2010: Agreed

3. MATTERS ARISING:

(a) LIABILITY INSURANCE: Still waiting to hear if we can be added to the Parish Council’s insurance.

(b) GRANT APPLICATION: This had been successful and a grant of £2750 awarded. Chair thanked Phil Miles for preparing the application.

Many letters of support had been received to accompany the application.

(c) KEY PLAYERS AND STAKEHOLDERS: The list was now more comprehensive and will be maintained as a live list. Still to add are Tarvin Environment Group, Allotment Group and the Farms in the Parish.

4. QUESTIONNAIRE: Much discussion took place about the layout and content of the first draft. Members thought that ease of reading, relevance of questions and speed of completion and were most important.

If the questionnaire could be produced on A4 without incurring higher costs this would make the document easier to read and allow a simpler layout. Content should go through a précis to ensure best use of easy to understand language. Hazel offered to review the content with this purpose.

Steve, Brian and Rachel would incorporate feedback into the 2nd draft of the questionnaire which they would circulate by email to members so that the final draft could be agreed by our next meeting.

It was agreed that Debbie investigate the cost of reply paid envelopes for easy return of questionnaires

5. SPONSORSHIP: Roger reported that the George & Dragon, along with Marstons, had agreed to sponsor the questionnaire to the tune of £500 - £600 on the understanding that they would be acknowledged on each questionnaire alongside their logo. Further details to be negotiated.

6. DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, 21st April 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Edna Rose Room, Community Centre. Roger to book.

Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting 11/02/10

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Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting

VENUE: Edna Rose Room, Community Centre

DATE: 11th February 2010

MEMBERS ATTENDING: Alan Chesters, Karen Hemmings, Steve Hemmings, Phil Miles , Debbie Ridley, Ray Williams, Brian Hardacre, Rachael Lloyd, Roger Hones

ITEMS DISCUSSED:
1 Apologies
2 Minutes of Meeting 20th January 2010
3 Matters Arising : (a) Liability Insurance, (b) Blogger site, (c) Response of Parish Council
4 Blogger Site
5 Budget
6 Grant Application
7 Key Players and Stakeholders
8 Scoping of the Project
9 Process for conflation of Issues identified in early consultations
10 Potential Working Groups
11 Parish Plan Logo
12 Date of next meeting

ACTIONS AGREED:

1. APOLOGIES: Apologies received from Hazel Manning, Brian Spruce, Sarah Evans, Joan Millar, Mike Tyrie, Sue Hardacre

2 MINUTES of meeting on 20th January to be modified to show Anna Mellor as having attended.

3 MATTERS ARISING:

(a) LIABILITY INSURANCE: Tarvin Parish Council Clerk is getting a quote to add the Steering Group members onto the Parish Councils’s existing Public Liability Insurance Cover

(b) BLOGGER SITE: Greg has shown Debbie how to administer the blogger website as he needs to devote his time to other interests. Karen offered to cover for Debbie. Debbie will review the way in which the Parish boundary is displayed on the site. A Youth page has been added to encourage younger contributions. Debbie has logged the site with Google and the site will become more visible once posts are submitted and loaded onto the site. Thanks were expressed to Gregg and Debbie for this achievement.

(c) RESPONSE OF PARISH COUNCIL: Alan attended the monthly Parish Council meeting when the Parish Council voted to preserve their original contribution of £150 to the Parish Plan budget rather than increase it to £250. Alan hoped that this wasn’t a reflection of lack of support. The Parish Council said that the Steering Group should approach them again in the future if there was a requirement for further funding. The Parish Council agreed to sign the grant application when it was ready.

4 MATTERS NOT ON AGENDA: See Item 12.

5 BUDGET: Bank Account will be open from 12/2/2010. Money will then be able to be transferred into the account from the Parish Council. No Bank charges will be incurred unless the account goes overdrawn. Budget has been revised to reflect cost and quote changes. Meeting agreed to change policy on production of final report. 100 full reports would be printed with each household receiving a summary report. The meeting approved the revised budget commenting that it was an honest budget and recorded thanks to Ray and Phil for their efforts.

6 GRANT APPLICATION: Phil sent a draft application to Bron and received 5 pages of comments back. This has resulted in a programme of work which is now in place. Further letters of support will be requested. The meeting agreed to submit the application. Thanks were expressed to Phil for the effort he has put in to complete the application in time.

7 KEY PLAYERS AND STAKEHOLDERS: 2 groups were identified as missing from the Local Groups list and these would be added. Rachel had identified a good number of local businesses and would liaise with Karen to finalise the list.

8 PROJECT PLAN: Phil has added a traffic light system to Mike’s Project Plan to help identify the status of each task.

9 INITIAL IDENTIFICATIONOF PRINCIPAL ISSUES: Brian presented his analysis of the early issues identified at the first public meetings and explained that he had grouped them into main headings. He proposed 3 main headings of Community, Environment and Economy. ‘Community’ covered Crime, Social Facilities and Housing. ‘Environment’ included Countryside and Built Environment and Highways. ‘Economy’ included Employment, Education and Training, Transport, Health, Shopping and Services. The analysis was well received and Brian was thanked for its production.

10 POTENTIAL WORKING GROUPS Brian suggested limiting the number of working groups to 3 to reflect the principal issues identified in his analysis. Each group could split into smaller groups if necessary. It was agreed that Brian, Steve and Rachel would meet to do some more work on the questionnaire with a decision on working groups to be made at a future meeting.

11 SPONSORSHIP: Roger proposed offering exclusive sponsorship of the Parish Plan to a local business in return for a financial contribution covering the total of extra funds which the Steering Group needed to raise themselves. The meeting felt that this could alienate other local businesses. Instead it was agreed to contact the George and Dragon, who had already made an approach, to gauge their interest in sponsoring the questionnaire going to each household. This would also be acknowledged in the final report along with references to any other businesses or individuals who had given significant support to the Parish Plan.

12 LOGO: Brian presented the idea of creating a logo for the Parish Plan. After some discussion the meeting agreed that it was something to continue thinking about before making a decision.

13 DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, 9thth March 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Edna Rose Room, Community Centre. Roger to book.

Tarvin Christmas Festival

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The Tarvin Xmas Festival presented an excellent opportunity to inform more Tarvin, Oscroft and Stapleford residents about the proposed Parish Plan. Information leaflets were left in The Gunnery, Bargain Booze, Jessops and The Tarvin News the week before the festival, more were handed out at the festival.
Although most people who visited the stall were from Tarvin itself a few people were from Oscroft and Tarvin Sands, and all showed a positive interest in the proposed Parish Plan.

Many thanks to the following businesses who generously donated prizes for games: The Gunnery, Bargain Booze, Tarvin News

Thank you also to Tarvin Primary School for the loan of the display boards.

Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting 09/12/09

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VENUE: Edna Rose Room, Community Centre

DATE: 9 December 2009

MEMBERS ATTENDING: Alan Chesters, Sarah Evans, Karen Hemmings, Steve Hemmings, Hazel Manning, Anna Mellor, Phil Miles, Joan Millar, Debbie Ridley, Ray Williams

Alan welcomed everybody and announced that Cyril had resigned but would be willing to help on working parties. Anna also announced that she would be resigning but would help on working parties. Alan to contact Sue and Brian Hardacre who had expressed interest.

ITEMS DISCUSSED:
1 Apologies
2 Minutes of Meeting 17 November 2009
3 Matters Arising
4 Matters not on the Agenda
5 Name for the Project
6 Approval of Draft Steering Group Constitution
7 Chairmanship
8 Approval of Draft Terms of Reference
9 Christmas Market Report
10 Identification of Key Players and Stakeholders
11 Insurance
12 Any Other Business
13 Date of Next Meeting

ACTIONS AGREED:

1 APOLOGIES: Apologies received from Rachael and Roger.

2 MINUTES OF MEETING: Minutes of 17 November 2009 agreed.

3 MATTERS ARISING:

Questionnare: Phil reported on meeting with Karen and Steve – agreed to send a detailed questionnaire to every household – 1087 in 2001 census – a similar one to businesses (including businesses run from home) plus questionnaire to groups and societies. Debbie’s son to attend next meeting to outline ideas regarding blogger site.

Budget: Meeting on budget in the New Year - details of printing costs a priority.

Parish Council: Roger to send a copy of Minutes to the Parish Clerk. Alan to attend Parish Council Meeting every 3 months to speak in the open forum.

Scoping: Mike not at meeting.

4 MATTERS NOT ON AGENDA: See Item 12.

5 NAME OF THE PROJECT: Only 5 suggestions received – ‘Tarvin – Your Community – Your Future’ agreed but would be reviewed further at next meeting.

6 DRAFT STEERING GROUP CONSTITUTION: Roger - wording to be amended – 3.1 ‘The membership of the Group shall be no more than 15 people …’. 7.3 - Keep wording as in draft – Parish Clerk proposing to the Parish Council that the Group keep their own accounts and report back to the PC. Ray would look into whether necessary to have provision for liability.

7 CHAIRMANSHIP: Alan prepared to continue as Chairman – proposed by Ray and seconded by Debbie.

8 DRAFT TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR WORKING GROUPS: Roger 3.0 ‘Methodology/ies’ to be changed to ‘Methodology’. Group agreed not to use initials but to write WG etc in full.

9 CHRISTMAS MARKET – REPORT: Debbie and Anna congratulated and thanked for their hard work - about 230 leaflets distributed but only 6 returned todate. Expenses £23.48 Takings £33.60 = Profit £21.12.

10 IDENTIFICATION OF KEY PLAYERS AND STAKEHOLDERS: Karen and Steve would look into identification of key players and stakeholders.

11 INSURANCE: Ray would ask Bronwen what insurance needed ie public liability and find out about risk assessment.

12 ANY OTHER BUSINESS: Alan asked if Group going to answer a document entitled ‘A Sustainable Community Strategy’ for Cheshire West and Chester – decided against as a Group but could be answered individually.

13 DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, 20 January 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Edna Rose Room, Community Centre.

Some of the feedback to the questions asked at the public meeting held at end of September 2009

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What things do you most value about our Community and want to preserve?
The rural village nature of Tarvin – ensuring this as well as the sustainability of the village.
A successful village school, local groups/societies - Woodland
The High Street – a good selection of shops pubs etc.
A reasonable feeling of community cohesion – although this is diminishing – good community assets – the Churches, the Woodland, the Community Centre (to an extent), the Library, shops and pubs.
The number of community societies and organizations available
The history of Tarvin – the buildings in the centre of Tarvin.
The cleanliness of the village.

What improvements would make our community even better?
Traffic problems to be addressed
Better and more effective use of existing Community Centre – Film club – Ballroom Dancing – Theatre Group
Effective control of anti social behaviour – awareness of underlying social/behavioural problems.
Improved facilities for young people
More youth activities e.g. Scouts, somewhere for teenagers to meet & play pool etc.
Better communication – but I certainly don’t know how!
Rejuvenation of Neighbourhood Watch
Youth café in one of the pubs – drug awareness for parents – to start a Village choir – a village noticeboard (similar Tarporley)
Better use of the Community Centre
Fibre optic cables for next generation Broadband
A car park in the centre of Tarvin – an enforced reduction of on street parking in the village centre
Dog fouling and dogs off lead in the field
Integration of all groups/ages
More for young people to do. – Facilities for 13 – 18 year olds.
Allotments – Vegetable gardening Club – Computer Club – Cookery Club

What do you most dislike about our community and would like to change?
Lack of cohesion between different parts of the settlement
Social diversity
I actually like Tarvin! I dare say it could be better – but I don’t actually dislike anything!
Lack of interest – Bullying on the Playing Field – children vandalizing property
Divisions and apathy
Dog muck on the Woodland Walk
Traffic and parking problems
Anti social behaviour older youths – due to lack of facilities?
Hedges encroaching onto pavement despite being cut back/tidied
I feel that the Nelsons property should be used for affordable housing for locals. I know of villages which do this and the last thing we need is a supermarket this will obviously cause the closure of all our fabulously helpful shops
I feel it is a problem that young people cannot afford to live in the village – there does need to be some attractive affordable housing for them.

Tarvin Parish Plan - Minutes of Steering Group Meeting 17/11/09

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TARVIN PARISH PLAN MINUTES OF STEERING GROUP MEETING

VENUE : Parish Room, Tarvin

DATE : 17th November 2009

MEMBERS ATTENDING : Alan Chesters, Ray Williams, Hazel Manning, Joan Millar, Sarah Evans, Mike Tyrie, Roger Hones, Phil Miles, Anna Mellor, Debbie Ridley, Rachael Lloyd, Karen Hemmings, Steve Hemmings, Cyril Williams

APOLOGIES FROM : Brian Spruce

ITEMS DISCUSSED :
1. Election of Officers
2. Name of Group
3. Steering Group Constitution
4. Consultation process
5. Stall at Christmas Festival
6. Parish Plan Budget
7. Research
8. Filing and Data storage
9. Updating Parish Council
10. Project Scope and Plan
11. Working Groups
12. Key players and Stakeholders
13. Communication strategy
14. Expenses
15. Volunteer Time logs
16. Grant application
17. Next meeting date

ACTIONS AGREED :

1. Chair – Alan Chesters for first two meetings. Vice Chair – Hazel Manning. Secretary – Roger Hones. Minuting Secretary (to cover absence of Secretary) Joan Millar. Treasurer – Ray Williams

2. Naming of Group to be deferred. Debbie and Anna to arrange to ask Public at Christmas Festival for name suggestions. For the time being to be known as ‘Tarvin Parish Plan’.

3. Officers will meet on 25th November at 7.30pm to work on a constitution to bring back to the next Steering Group meeting. Roger to circulate specimen constitutions.

4. Development of questionnaire by a small group. Steve will arrange a meeting between Karen, Phil and himself. Debbie will investigate options to consult the public in Tarvin via a social networking group or website. Young persons to be asked to put questions into their own ‘language’.

5. Debbie and Anna will organise decoration/presentation of Christmas Festival Stall and possibly a game to attract the public in. Roger to get 250 of the CCA questionnaires printed.

Rota for Saturday 5th December:

9:00 – 11:00 Steve and Anna
11:00 – 13:00 Karen and Debbie
13:00 – 14:30 Ray and Hazel
14:30 – 16:00 Alan and Cyril

6. Officers to set a budget to present back to the Steering Group

7. Debbie will collate available information about Tarvin

8. Sarah will store all paper copies of documents used by and produced by the Steering Group. Roger will arrange for safe electronic storage of data.

9. Parish Council to receive Minutes of our meetings and Alan to arrange to present to the PC once every 3 months.

10. Mike Tyrie to take on scoping out the project and planning its implementation.

11. It was decided that it was too premature to agree working group titles at this point

12. We would all consider who the Key players and Stakeholders might be and discuss at our next meeting

13. Communication to be via newsletter (hard copy and electronic), and via social networking group and/or website. Parish Council publishes and hand delivers a quarterly newsletter and Tarvin Athletic FC deliver to each household in March. Meeting minutes to be made as widely available as possible.

14. Ray Williams will advise us all how to claim for out of pocket expenses

15. Volunteer time logs must be completed regularly and sent to Rachael. Roger to circulate time logs.

16. Phil, Alan, Ray and Mike to meet to begin preparing the grant application. Phil to convene.

DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Wednesday 9th December 2009 7.30pm

Edna Rose Room, Community Centre

Why do we need a Parish Plan?

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The world is a changing place. Here in Tarvin we live in a rural community and it's easy to think that it has always been this way, and will always stay this way.

However, one of the few certainties of life is that things will change. The size, shape and content of Tarvin is no different from anything else. Pressures for change will come from within and from without: but they will be there.

The village can change in many ways. Some of these changes may be perceived as good; some may be perceived as less beneficial. So what can we, as residents, do to give our input into the forces of change? One route is to have a Parish Plan.

What is a Parish Plan?

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A Parish Plan is a document setting out how we, the residents, want to see the area develop over the next few years. It can cover a range of issues, and gives us a recognised voice. The Parish Plan documents the socio-economic and environmental issues of a community and its proposed remedies, objectives and actions.

Parish plans are evolving documents, they outline how a community would like to develop over the next 10 years. They include a vision for the future, an expression of the residents' views and an action plan detailing how these developments can be achieved.

For the plan to be effective, it needs YOUR input! For the plan to have weight, it needs to be able to demonstrate that all of the villagers have had an opportunity to contribute, and that the key conclusions are those of the village and not personal opinions of the authors.