The Knowle West Residents Planning Group is consulting the community about its proposals for housing on the Novers Slopes as well as in the Inns Court area. You are invited to come along to hear about and comment on the proposals at the exhibition.

The exhibition is at the Mede Centre, Marshall Walk, Inns Court on:

Friday 28th January between 2 and 4pm; and 6 to 8pm

Saturday 29th January between 10 and 2pm.

The Knowle West Residents’ Planning Group have just completed their work on an option for the regeneration of the area covered by the Knowle West Regeneration Plan.

To highlight this work the Group issued the follow press release:

“The Knowle West Residents Planning Group was established in the autumn of 2008 by the local Community in Partnership to ensure that local residents’ views on the future of their neighbourhood were taken into account at all stages in the planning process, something rarely achieved in the past.

Effective community involvement is now part of the City Council’s policy, thanks to the work of the Neighbourhood Planning Network who designed it.  It gives further powers to local people to engage in genuine planning and will soon be part of the Coalition Government’s regulations.

The Group’s alternative is well based on widespread local knowledge through the Group members’ networks, extensive sample surveys of local opinion and exhibitions that the residents arranged themselves…

Please download the latest Knowle West Residents Planning Group (KWRPG) update to read the main points arising from our meeting on March 30th 2010.

Please have a look at the Knowle West Residents Area Plan. It is not set in stone and much work is still left to be done. If you have comments, please contact our chair the Rev Alister Palmer via email on agpal46@tiscali.co.uk or even better come to one of our meetings.