Newport and District Civic Society (NDCS) has announced a new venue for its speaker meetings. The venue is The Pavilion at Newport Cricket Club situated on Audley Avenue, Newport TF10 7DP.

The first speaker meeting will be on Tuesday 27 September 2022, commencing at 7.30 pm. Doors open at 7.15 pm and the bar in The Pavilion will be open during the evening. Car parking is available on site next to The Pavilion.

The speaker at the meeting is:-

Joanne Reay, the new Clerk of Newport Town Council, who will be talking about her first impressions of Newport and her hopes and aspirations for Newport and its community.

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“NEWPORT MATTERS – OR DOES IT ?”

5th May 7.45pm – Newport Cricket Club – Free

Short presentation on – HOUSING GROWTH IN NEWPORT; NEWPORT’S NEW INDUSTRIAL PARK ; DEVELOPERS £ FOR NEWPORT ; TandW £ FOR NEWPORT TOWN CENTRE ; CAR PARKING IN NEWPORT ; HOW HEALTHY IS NEWPORT TOWN CENTRE?
Our aim is to 1. Inform you about the above
2. Provide opportunities to stay informed
3.Provide opportunities to maintain and improve the “Quality of Life” in Newport

NOTICE IS GIVEN
NEWPORT (Shropshire) TOWN COUNCIL
will hold its
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

The meeting will be held at

The Parish Rooms, NEW STREET, NEWPORT
7.00 p.m. on
Wednesday 6th April 2022

All electors of Newport are invited & encouraged to attend this meeting A representative from West Mercia Police will give a presentation on the work of the Local Safer Neighbourhood Team.

Followed by a Residents Discussion – on matters that affect residents and the town directly Town Council’s Annual “Special Recognition Award” will be announced and presented following the meeting

All electors of Newport are invited & encouraged to attend this meeting.

Town Clerk – Sheila Atkinson March 2022

The final approval given to build on the green field site to the west of Station Road (Shropshire Star, 29/1/22, ‘Plans for more than 300 homes to be built on Newport field get green light’) marks the end of an 11 year fight by the (Tried To) Save Newport from the Developers Campaign, a group of local people and organisations, who had sought to retain this last remaining and much valued area of open space between Newport and Church Aston.
Having prevented the building of a giant Sainsbury’s superstore on the Council owned land, then failing to have the site formally designated as a Village Green, the campaign group lobbied to retain the area as open space through the development of the Council’s Local Plan. This may have been successful had the Council not by-passed the Inquiry Inspector’s proposed modifications to the Draft Plan by submitting, and then approving, a planning application on land in their ownership.
Whilst the Bloor Homes scheme is a vast improvement on the previous development proposals for the site, this should not take away from the fact that there is no identified need to be building this major urban extension to the south of Newport. According to the Council’s own latest Housing Land Supply Statement, sufficient housing sites have already been identified to meet the assessed need for the next 6 years, a period during which the Council’s Local Plan is due to be reviewed and rolled forward. The developer’s statement that around 12 acres of usable green space, including a series of green corridors through the site creating new recreational and leisure opportunities and a community orchard, will somehow provide better open space and compensate for the loss of 35 acres of Grade 2 agricultural land, I would suggest is somewhat debatable.
Work has now started to prepare the site for development, with hedge and tree cutting prior to the bird nesting season. A number of issues, however, still remain unresolved. There is still no approved surface water drainage scheme, the extent of the loss of hedgerow along the A518 has still to be determined, and the capacity of the local primary and secondary schools to accommodate the required additional pupil places has been thrown into question.
Newport and its environs have seen the development of 1,300 houses, including those currently under construction, over the past 10 years, resulting in an estimated population increase of some 3,000 people, representing a 25% increase since the 2011 Census. Over the same period Telford is estimated to have grown by 10%. Telford is a designated growth area with infrastructural capacity, Newport is not. Funding to be made available by the developer through Section 106 planning obligations will not be sufficient to redress Newport’s lack of the necessary physical, social and environmental infrastructure to accommodate the impact of a further 300 houses.
This development could finally provide a tipping point and result in a marked reduction in the quality of life for local residents. This is reflected in the community consultation feedback undertaken by Bloor Homes consultants, with two thirds of respondents indicating that ‘there was not a need for new high quality homes in Newport’.
Of course, this will not be the last housing site to be developed to the south of Newport, with the land to the east of Station Rd about to be sold with outline planning approval for a further 200 houses.
John Pay Church Aston

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The Society is considering offering to host a meeting of representatives from other local groups and voluntary bodies to see if any common issues which relate to the town and its future would benefit from being addressed by representatives and/or volunteers from other local groups/voluntary bodies. The meeting would be held at a date yet to be fixed towards the end of January 2022.