A Parish Plan
'A unique opportunity for a community to play an
active part in determining its own future’ (Suffolk
Acre).
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Syleham Millennium Cross and Church Lane
Syleham Parish Plan
Syleham's Parish Plan was published
in July 2009 and, already, some local interest groups are
developing. A new craft group is expected to commence early
Spring 2010 and Syleham residents have been invited to
join with Wingfield & District Gardening Club and Wingfield
History Group. The Plan has also been adopted by the Parish
Council and priorities currently identified and under
investigation are:
Transport - residents are being consulted
on a Suffolk County Council initiative which could provide an
11-seater bus, with disabled access, to serve local villages.
Survey forms have been delivered to each household.
Re-cycling facilities - the
potential site would be the car park of the Village Hall.
Residents and interested parties will be invited to
participate in a survey before decisions are taken and an
appropriate questionnaire is currently being
drafted.
Oil-purchasing scheme - enquiries are being
made with a view to offering cost savings.
Footpath survey - residents are invited to
volunteer to take part in a survey, to establish what maintenance
and improvement might be required.
Household waste - residents are urged to
make use of the facility at Brome, which is open from 8am to 5pm to
end March and from 8am to 6pm to end September. Items
accepted include green waste, household and car batteries,
fridges/freezers, tetra pak cartons and electrical goods, but not
wood or plastics.
History of the Parish
Plan
Parish Plans, setting out how villages might (or might not)
wish to develop and the action to be taken to achieve the vision,
have proved to be influential in guiding not only parish
councils but also district and county councils in the decisions
they make. At a public meeting held jointly for residents of
Wingfield and Syleham in April 2007 both communities decided to go
ahead with a Parish Plan. To save on cost, a joint steering
committee was formed, including members from each parish, and
much of the work was done together
Two
fun events held during the summer of 2007 provided an
opportunity for residents of both parishes to
indicate issues of local importance and these
formed the basis for the questionnaire which
was sent to all households during January and February
2008. There was an excellent return rate.
A presentation of the findings was given at the Village Hall on the
morning of Saturday 19th July 2008 and approximately 31 residents
of Syleham visited the exhibition-style event.
People were impressed by the quality of the presentation and
spent time studying the display panels or browsing through
the brochures over a cup of coffee. The Steering Group worked
together on this event, with the Wingfield display taking place in
the afternoon, but then reached the stage where the Wingfield and
Syleham members worked largely independently on producing their
respective Parish Plans.
Wingfield and Syleham have both now produced their Plans,
Syleham's being distributed early in July
2009. The Steering Group hope that
residents find their Parish Plan an attractive and
informative document and they are grateful to the people who
have assisted with the research.
To promote further action, the Steering Group arranged a drop-in
coffee morning on Saturday 31st October at the Village Hall.
This was well attended: voluntary
groups are taking forward some of the issues in which
there was particular interest and the Parish Council is
pursuing others.
Black Horse Hill/Church Hill, Wingfield
Road
Most residents cherish the tranquillity of their parish and want to
see it preserved.
Further information will be posted on this website
as available. Meanwhile, enquiries can be made to Syleham
Parish Clerk
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