Aspiration re Community Centre/ Village Hall.
The Parish Team will work toward the provision of a Village Hall/Community Facility over the next few years. A likely site is within the designated shopping area on the Dracan Housing development.
There is provision of funding within the Planning Permission of around £825000 for various purposes and it would be necessary for the Community to make an application or some of that funding. In addition to that there are often grants available and some sources of “matched funding”.
Our wish would be for a centre, managed by the community, available day and night to host a wide range of clubs, societies and support groups one of which daytime “mother and toddler” groups will be very important.
We stress that this is a long term project. We will work with SDDC to get the best outcome. The local authority has already indicated guidance and support.
But we need to upgrade our Parish Meeting to a Parish Council to get the project off the ground. As a first step 271 registered electors signed the legal petition asking SDDC to complete a “Governance Review”. That was well over the required level. The petition was lodged at the Council offices on Tuesday 8th August 2023
That process will take 12 months. Meantime we continue with the first steps towards a site for the hall. That will take some time!!
