Planning events - March 2015

The Parish Council encourages you to attend these important events that are both highly relevant to the current planning situation in Alderton.   

Draft Tewkesbury Borough Plan Public Consultation, Alderton Village Hall, Thurs 5th March, 3pm to 7.30pm 

This is your opportunity to ask questions about the Borough Council’s draft policies and rural site options. The Borough Council has approved a draft version of the Tewkesbury Borough Plan for public consultation from 27th February to 13th April 2015.  Once adopted this document will form a key part of the development plan for Tewkesbury Borough up to 2031 and alongside the Joint Core Strategy (plus, in Alderton, our Neighbourhood Development Plan) will be used to guide decision making on planning applications. This Plan fills in the detail for smaller communities and invites comments on a number of rural site options being considered for each Rural Service Centre and Service Village identified in the Joint Core Strategy (Alderton has been classified as a Service Village). In the first instance, it has allocated a total of 46 new houses for Alderton village, a figure that, as we know, is already met through the Charles Church development.

More details :- www.tewkesbury.gov.uk/boroughplan 

The deadline for responses to the Draft Tewkesbury Borough Plan is on Monday 13th April 2015 at 5pm.

Alderton Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) update, Alderton Village Hall, Sat 28th March, 10am to 12pm 

Alderton's Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) is a key part of our response to the unprecedented number of planning applications for housing currently around the village. 


The progress of our NDP is crucial if we are to seek to take back some control of the land use in our Parish. Using guidelines from the present government, the Parish Council has argued that a local community should be allowed ‘to shape where development should and should not go’. Our NDP should be our development blueprint for the next 20 years.

The NDP Group has recognised the need for professional support to help us with the next stage of work.  We have appointed a firm of experienced planners to assist us.  The first task we have instructed them to undertake is to prepare proposals for, and facilitate, a workshop for the Alderton NDP Group.   A key objective for the workshop is to consider development opportunities within the Parish (housing, other infrastructure, local green spaces etc).  These proposals will be presented and every resident is invited to come along – your comments will be translated into policies which will make up our NDP. Please continue to support your NDP, so that your views on development can be included.