Lindfield Rural Parish Council's business plan is launched

Residents’ views are welcomed and can be submitted by March 4, to Santi Gil, clerk to the council at www.lindfieldrural-pc.org.uk/contact_us.asp.

The parish council says the aim in issuing a business plan is to have a fundamental examination of policies and activities including how the council is organised and how it provide services.

This means looking at how the decision-making processes can be improved, making the council and members more accessible to the community and having a radical look at how the council provides information via its website and communicates generally about what it does.

It also aims to encourage and improve community feedback/participation in council activities and with working local organisations as well as improving its contribution to environmental activities like planting trees or improving recreational open spaces

Planning applications should also be stringently scrutinised, so that they are sympathetic to rural surroundings, meet the highest standard of design, construction, comply with water and energy efficiency rules and ensure that there is no adverse impact on the environment.

The council also hopes to examine how it can contribute to health and wellbeing activities.

New chairman Trevor Webster said: “This plan is in draft format because we are sincere in wanting to hear from everybody in the Parish about what they would like to see as changes and what they believe should be our priorities.

“The plan is the first step in modernising the Parish Council for the future and as we enter a new decade it is important to listen to what people and organisations have to say in developing such a plan”

The council will consider all comments during March and an amended and final version of the plan goes to the parish council meeting on April 6, before publication.

Council offices are in the Scaynes Hill Millennium Centre.