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Statement of Community Involvement in Planning (SCI) 2022 Public Consultation – Test Valley Borough Council

Test Valley Borough Council has published for public participation its draft Statement of Community Involvement in Planning (SCI) 2022 and is inviting representations between Friday 11 November and Friday 16 December. The purpose of the SCI is to set out the consultation measures that the Council will undertake when consulting on planning policy documents and publicising planning applications.

Test Valley Borough Council are repeating the public consultation process as it became aware that not all consultees received notification of the original consultation. Representations made on the SCI received during the original consultation do not need to be resubmitted. They will be retained and considered in finalising the document.

The SCI complements the Council’s broader commitment contained within its Corporate Plan with regards to promoting positive community engagement with local communities, businesses and interest groups. The preparation of an SCI is a legal requirement and once adopted, the Council needs to be consistent with its content.

The Council’s current SCI 2017 will reach its five year anniversary of adoption at the end of 2022, a review has been undertaken and an updated draft SCI published for public consultation. The SCI will apply the whole of Test Valley, outside of the New Forest National Park.

A copy of the draft SCI document, is available on the Council’s website and can be accessed here It is available for public inspection at the following Council offices between the hours of 08.30 and 17.00 Monday to Thursday and 16.30 on Friday:

• Beech Hurst, Weyhill Road, ANDOVER, Hampshire, SP10 3AJ, and
• Former Magistrates Court, Church Street, ROMSEY, Hampshire, SO51 8AQ

A hard copy is also available for public inspection during library opening times at local libraries at Andover, Romsey, North Baddesley, Chandler’s Ford and Lordshill.

Representations can be made by either:

• Sent in writing to Planning Policy and Economic Development Service, Test Valley Borough Council, Beech Hurst, Weyhill Road, ANDOVER, Hampshire, SP10 3AJ; or
• Emailed to planningpolicy@testvalley.gov.uk

Only those representations that are made in writing to arrive at the address specified above (either hard copy or electronically) within the 5 week period from Friday 11 November 2022 and ending 12noon Friday 16 December 2022 will have the right to have their representations considered. Any representations should specify the matters to which they relate and the grounds on which they are made. Representations will be available for public inspection with personal information redacted.

Further information can be obtained from the Planning Policy and Economic Development Service on 01264 368000 or email planningpolicy@testvalley.gov.uk

Lower Wyke Farm Solar Park

BSR Energy are preparing to submit an application to Basingstoke & Deane District Council for a Solar PV scheme mid distance between the village of St Mary Bourne to the east and the town of Andover to the west. The Solar scheme will have an approximate design capacity of 29MWp and would generate an estimated MWh of clean, renewable and sustainable electricity per year. This is the equivalent to the annual electrical needs of approx. 7,252 family homes*. The anticipated CO2 displacement is around 6,423 tonnes per annum. To read more about this, click here

You can also look at the Community Consultation poster below, providing details of a drop-in consultation event:

November 2022 Minutes – Enham Alamein Parish Council

The Minutes of the Enham Alamein Parish Council meeting held on 9 November 2022 are now available and can be viewed here

Please be aware that the Minutes are not formally agreed and resolved by members until the December 2022 meeting of the parish council.

Enham Alamein Parish Council – December Meeting – Change of Venue

The next meeting of the Enham Alamein Parish Council will be on 14 December 2022 at 7.00pm but will be held at April’s Farm, Green Lane Farm, Upper Enham, Andover, SP11 6JB and NOT at the Landale Wilson Hall.

The ONS’ Health Index is a rich data set that gives an overall picture of the nation’s health and how it has been declining or improving. You can see in close-up how health varies from area to area and what local factors are in play. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) as just published its findings up to 2020.

Enham Alamein Parish Council – 9 November 2022 Meeting Agenda

The next meeting of the Enham Alamein Parish Council will be held on 9 November 2022 commencing at 19.00 hours at the Landale Wilson Hall, Enham Alamein. The meeting is open to all members of the public and they are warmly welcome to attend. The agenda is now available and can be found under Documents, Agendas and 2022 Agendas or here.

The first set of unrounded estimates from Census 2021 have been released covering demography and migration, including age and sex, country of birth, household size and people’s living arrangements.

The new interactive maps will help you find out what people’s lives were like across England and Wales when they answered Census 2021. They will allow you to see the data not just for the local authority area, but your local neighbourhood as well.

And in the article Voices of our ageing population: Living longer lives, the Office for National Statistics goes far beyond the numbers to provide expert views on issues related to ageing and explain why census data are particularly useful. What do we know about the lives of older people and the challenges they face? How do the data help to plan for an older population? And, what do older people themselves think about ageing and how we could all age better?

Just as the nature of crime evolves, so must the data sources we rely on to capture its true nature and extent. If you’ve listened to the media you may have got the impression that overall crime in England and Wales is at record levels, but do the statistics back that up, or has crime actually been falling? Or is it the case that the nature of crime has simply changed over the last few decades, meaning we’re now more likely to be targeted online than in the streets? 

And what in any case is the value of understanding the overall level of crime when that term captures such a wide and varied range of social ills and harms?   

The latest episode of Statistically Speaking debunks common misconceptions, unpicking the valuable insights hidden within measures of total crime. Have a look at the news article issued by the Office for National Statistics here

Latest Planning Application Enham Alamein – 22/02758/ADVN

Enham Alamein Parish Council has received the following planning application 22/02758/ADVN for a hedge advertisement with letters shaped using natural hedge on formwork – regularisation application at land at the entrance to Enham Place, Newbury Road, Enham Alamein.

The application can be viewed by following the link below and entering the reference number of 22/02758/ADVN in the search facility.

The link is: https://view-applications.testvalley.gov.uk/online-applications/

The closing date for the public to submit comments to Test Valley Borough Council (Planning Authority) is 18 November 2022

The Enham Alamein Parish profile provides a summary of the latest available information on the demographic make-up of the parish of Enham Alamein within Test Valley. It looks at information on topics such as the population structure, economic, housing, health and educational information for the parish.

Enham Alamein is one of the Test Valley’s fifty-nine parishes. It has an area of 346.58 hectares which represents 0.55% of the total area of Test Valley; in terms of size, Enham Alamein is Test Valley’s fourth smallest parish. The parish’s population is 773 and its population density is 3.00 people per hectare, which is higher than the Test Valley Borough average population density of 2.10 people per hectare