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07Nov
2025
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Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group – Informal Consultation

The Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group is currently evaluating new sites to meet Crudwell’s requirement to allocate a further 39 homes for development by 2038 in our new Neighbourhood Plan.
This is essential to meet new Government targets while ensuring that we have protection from much larger speculative applications while Wiltshire’s housing supply remains inadequate. We told you about the sites in WOIC and are now inviting you to give us your views in this informal consultation while keeping you informed of the Steering Group’s work in progress.
The next formal consultation will be in Regulation 14 early in the New Year. You will find the survey on the link below, if you wish to give us your views then please submit your response by the 30th of November.
Complete the Survey
Roy F Hamilton-Lambley
Chairman; Crudwell Parish Council

25Apr
2025
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Important Update Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Design Code

We are developing a new Crudwell Design Code as part of the Neighbourhood Plan Review. The Code gives detailed instruction and guidance to developers of new homes and extensions to properties to ensure that any new building is in harmony with our village street scene.
Following our consultation event in Crudwell Village Hall on Tuesday the 22nd of April we have now made the draft Design Code available online for your review together with a simple form where you can give your views or suggestions. Please review the Design Code and then, if you wish, make your comments on the response form. A paper copy of the response form is also available in the Post Office. The consultation will close on the 18th of May 2025.
Roy F Hamilton-Lambley
Chairman; Crudwell Parish Council

14Apr
2025
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Important Event – Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Design Code

Important Event; Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Design Code
As you are probably aware Crudwell Parish Council are currently engaged in a formal review of the Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan. This is necessary to ensure that any housing development in the village prior to 2038 is at a scale, design and affordability which meets local needs.
As part of this work the Parish Council and Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group has commissioned a required Crudwell Design Code to update the current Design Guide in our 2021 Neighbourhood Plan. The architectural consultants toured the parish with us during February in order to help develop the code and have now delivered a first draft.
The clue is in the title; a Design Guide gives guidance whereas a Design Code gives specific instruction to developers of new housing and to extensions of existing properties. The code will help to ensure that any development is in keeping with and complimentary to our village street scene and heritage.
We have promised to keep you informed at all stages of the Plans development and in order to do this we are inviting you to an exhibition of features of the draft Design Code in Crudwell Village Hall from 3pm to 7pm on Tuesday the 22nd of April. Members of the Steering Group and the architectural consultants will be there to answer your questions, and you will be invited to give your written or verbal feedback. The draft Design Code will also subsequently be available on our website for review and comment.
 
We do hope to see you on the 22nd April.

23Feb
2025
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Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan; Important Information

Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan; Important Information
The information below is available on a pdf which includes a QR code here  Neighbourhood Plan Bulletin
The Government recently published new planning guidelines with a compulsory target to deliver 1.5 million homes. This means that the number of new homes to be built in Wiltshire has been increased by 80%. This has a direct impact on the number of new homes that must be built in Crudwell  by 2038 from 11 to 39. This is in addition to the 25 homes to be built in Tuners Lane and other existing commitments.
The Neighbourhood Plan “made” in 2021 protects us from any development in Crudwell until 2026 and we are currently undertaking a formal Review of that plan to give us extended protection until 2031/2.
If we do not complete this new plan, Crudwell will be exposed to speculative planning applications for sites, which could be much larger than we require or could sustain, as can be seen springing up in Malmesbury and Tetbury and many other towns and villages. The new plan will ensure that our protection is extended and limited to the 39 homes required of us on sites chosen in consultation with the community.
As part of this process,  we held a new call for sites, and since the new targets were announced, have had renewed Steering Group discussions with the two landowners who responded with offers of sites considered to be viable by 2038. (Three landowners responded with one likely to be excluded as it is remote from the village and very small.)
Fresh discussions focussed on demonstrating the suitability and deliverability of housing on the sites to meet the parish’s requirement for new homes by 2038 have taken place. We have confirmed that two sites could potentially meet the requirement of 39, these are designated as Site A (Carpenters Yard) and B (Chapel Way), with Site A potentially providing up to 15 homes and Site B providing 25 homes.
We are fully conscious of the issues of increased traffic and flood risk and are convinced  that completion of the new plan, including allocation of the two sites, will prevent us from exposure to excessive, unsustainable developments that will fully compromise the character of the Parish. This new plan ensures that Crudwell will remain rural and pleasant, while  delivering on the mandatory allocation.
We are committed to consulting with the community at all stages of the Neighbourhood Plan’s development. So in light of new nationwide house-building targets, we would welcome your feedback on these latest proposals ahead of formal consultation processes later in the year.
We would welcome your comments, please complete the comments form online at:
https://form.jotform.com/250464278207357
Or fill in a paper copy (link at top of the post Neighbourhood Plan Bulletin, print and complete) and leave at the Post Office, The Wheatsheaf Inn, The Potting Shed or Pettifers Hotel.
Roy F Hamilton Lambley; Chairman, Crudwell Parish Council

24May
2023
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Neighbourhood Plan – Public Consultation 26th May

You will probably be aware that the current Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan allocated a site for up to 25 new homes on the northern side of Tuners Lane.
The Neighbourhood Plan referred to a Community Liaison Group who would work with the applicant to ensure that the scheme is well designed.
The applicant has planned a public consultation event to be held between 5:00pm and 7:30pm on Friday 26th May at the Village Hall.
View the Public Consultation Flyer
It is a drop in session so you can attend at any time between 5:00pm and 7:30pm.
The applicant will explain how you can make your views known at the event.
We would encourage you to attend if you can, and then to make comments to the applicant afterwards.

30Jul
2021
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Steering Group Membership Update

Sian Burke-Murphy; who has led the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group from its inception has now stepped down as Chair.
We are all indebted to Sian who’s drive, inspiration and dedication has helped the Group to successfully achieve it’s  goal of a made Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan. We are pleased that Sian will remain as a Steering Group and Community Liaison Group member.
Steering Group Secretary; Cllr. Roy Lambley who has led on the Regulation 16 consultation and Referendum stages of the Plan was elected as the new Steering Group Chairman. Parish Clerk Lisa Dent was elected as Steering Group Secretary and Crudwell Flood Warden John McWilliam was co-opted as a Steering Group member.
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Roy F Lambley – Neighbourhood Plan
Steering Group Chairman

23May
2021
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Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan ‘made’ latest news

Following our announcement of the 11th May stating that the Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan had passed  the 6th May Referendum with 83% of votes in favour, we are pleased to inform you that we have now received confirmation from Wiltshire Council that the Plan has been formally ‘made’. This means that our Neighbourhood Plan now forms part of the Wiltshire Council Development Plan and the policies in the Neighbourhood Plan will be given full weight when assessing planning applications that affect land in the Crudwell Neighbourhood Area. Having a made Neighbourhood Plan helps to ensure that we have much more control of any development in our Neighbourhood Area until 2026, when a new Neighbourhood Plan can be developed.
For full details please see the Made Neighbourhood Plan and the Decision Statement from Wiltshire Council below.
Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Final Decision Statement (following referendum)
Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan 2019-2026 (Made – May 2021)

11May
2021
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Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan Referendum results

Following the referendum held on the 6th May, the Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan has passed with the following result posted on Wiltshire Council’s website 9th May at: https://elections.wiltshire.gov.uk/Home/Division/5673
Yes 450 / No 83
The Plan will now be ‘made’, and become part of Wiltshire Council’s Local Plan.
We would like to thank all Crudwell residents who have helped with the plan, including the Steering Group members, over forty focus group members, our Parish Councillors, our local businesses and our retained planning consultant who has been funded by Government grants and by the Parish Council. We have also had excellent support from our link officer and the Neighbourhood Planning team at Wiltshire Council. And last but by no means least of course we thank the many Crudwell parishioners who have given their time generously during our consultation, helped in countless other ways and of course have voted in the Referendum.
While 450 parishioners (84% of those who voted and 50% of those on the electoral register) accepted that the plan is in the best interests of Crudwell we do understand that some of you are unhappy with the prospect of development in Tuners Lane. We can assure you that all views have been taken into account throughout, but at the end of the day we are required to have development of 25 houses and the Tuners Lane site, as one of only two sites which were deliverable by 2026, was chosen as demonstrably the more sustainable site in terms of access to facilities and traffic management. Included in the scope of the work are footway and parking improvements for Tuners Lane, funding for infrastructure including the school and possibly other village benefits.
The Community Liaison Group membership will include Tuners Lane residents and our flood warden. Working with the Parish Council and the flood warden we shall engage with Wessex Water in order that they take account for and remedy the existing flooding and sewage effluent episodes, which occur with heavy rainfall. The developers have to demonstrate that the development itself improves the current water run off from the site and does not cause flooding elsewhere but we do understand your concerns.
The need for a Neighbourhood Plan arose from discussions at a community gathering at the Mayfield Hotel in 2017, attended by over 40 residents, following which the Parish Council endorsed the idea and appointed a Steering Group to undertake the work. Since then Steering Group members, supported by 40 other local volunteers, have run public meetings, surveys, three major statutory consultations, gathered evidence as members of one of four thematic working groups, and organised 4 main exhibitions where you were invited to share your views.
We believe that the policies in the Plan, which have been designed with your input and requirements from our consultations, will facilitate the sustainable and scalable development of Crudwell through till 2026 and lay sound foundations for the future. Key to this are both our new Design Guide; to ensure that new buildings are in harmony with the village and street scene; and our unique Community Liaison Group. This body, comprising Steering Group members, Parish Councillors and residents will work with the site promoters to develop and agree details of a Tuners Lane planning application which will deliver high quality, well designed and realistically affordable houses. This will in turn lead to the tendering and appointment of a building firm to complete the development by 2026.
Many thanks again to all who have helped to make this happen.
Cllr Roy F Lambley; Secretary
Sian Burke Murphy; Chair
For CrudwellNeighbourhood Plan Steering Group

23Apr
2021
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Referendum timings and info plus some FAQ’s

Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan-IMPORTANT NOTICE
It’s time to have your say!  Reminder… voting for the Crudwell Neighbourhood Plan
Referendum will take place on Election Day; 6th May 2021.
If you wish to vote, are a Crudwell Resident on the Electoral Register and have a postal
vote you must submit this to reach Wilts Council by 10pm on election day. You can
also vote in person at the polling station (Crudwell Village Hall) between 7am and
10pm on the 6th May 2021.
We have included some of our recent Frequently Asked Questions
which are also available on our website
Link to further information and FAQs

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