{"id":2818,"date":"2022-06-19T18:33:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T17:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2022-06-19T18:33:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T17:33:37","slug":"roman-road-bow-neighbourhood-plan-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Plan update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>The <b>Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Forum\u00a0<\/b><b>Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b><span dir=\"ltr\">2.30 pm on Saturday 16th July<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>St. Paul&#8217;s Old Ford, St. Stephen&#8217;s Road E3<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Draft Neighbourhood Plan Recommended for referendum by Independent Examiner<\/b><\/div>\n<p>After more than 6 years of community engagement, research and writing, the finalised neighbourhood plan for Bow has now been scrutinized by an independent examiner. The examiner required the Forum to make some minor modifications &#8211; to improve some maps and add small amounts of\u00a0 text, but concluded:<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8216;<b>I recommend that the Plan, once modified, proceeds to referendum on the basis that it has met all the relevant legal requirements.&#8217;<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0It is hoped that the Council cabinet\u00a0 will make a decision <span dir=\"ltr\">on <\/span><b><span dir=\"ltr\">1st August<\/span>,<\/b>\u00a0accepting the examiner&#8217;s recommendation for a local referendum on the plan has to take place. According to the regulations, this would need to be<b> by mid October.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Everyone will be able to vote who is entitled to vote in local Council elections and lives in the plan area (Bow East and Bow West wards, excluding Fish island)..<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If a majority vote in favour of the plan, it will guide decisions over the use and development of land and planning applications in Bow to 2031. it <a href=\"http:\/\/will.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will.be<\/a> part of the statutory development plan for the area, sitting under the Tower Hamlets Local Plan 2031 and the London Plan 2021 .<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>What are the main themes of the plan?<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>A thriving high street and local economy<\/li>\n<li><b>G<\/b>reen streets that encourage walking and cycling<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful public spaces<\/li>\n<li>New life for our local heritage<\/li>\n<li>High quality affordable housing<\/li>\n<li>A resilient and well-networked community infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b>Where can I read the draft plan?<\/b><\/div>\n<div>The plan and supporting evidence is on the Forum website:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/romanroadbowneighbourhoodplan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/romanroadbowneighbourhoodplan.org<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b>How can I get involved?<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>You can<b> join the Neighbourhood Forum<\/b> on the website. This entitles you to vote at Forum meetings, including the Annual General Meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Come to the Neighbourhood Forum<\/b>\u00a0<b>Annual\u00a0General\u00a0Meeting\u00a0(AGM),<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Consider joining the Forum committee, which will be elected at the AGM <span dir=\"ltr\">on 16th July <\/span><\/b>\u00a0More people are needed to help steer the plan through these final steps. The committee currently meets online once a month, and they would love to hear from you if you are interested. Please send a short email to the Neighbourhood Forum: at:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:forum@romanroadbowneighbourhoodplan.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forum@romanroadbowneighbourhoodplan.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The Forum hopes you will join them\u00a0<span dir=\"ltr\">on <\/span><b><span dir=\"ltr\">Saturday<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<b><span dir=\"ltr\">16th July<\/span> <\/b>for\u00a0the <b>Forum AGM<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><span dir=\"ltr\">2.30 pm Saturday 16th July<\/span><\/b>\u00a0at\u00a0<b>St Paul&#8217;s Old Ford, St. Stephen&#8217;s Road.<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Forum\u00a0Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2.30 pm on Saturday 16th July St. Paul&#8217;s Old Ford, St. Stephen&#8217;s Road E3 Draft Neighbourhood Plan Recommended for referendum by Independent Examiner After more than 6 years of community engagement, research and writing, the finalised neighbourhood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=2818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Plan update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-consultation","category-community-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcara.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bow-sign.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GT9s-Js","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}