1. Executive Summary

1. The Langley Burrell Neighbourhood Plan process was started in June 2014, and a small team from the Parish was established to undertake the full Neighbourhood Planning process, undertake the necessary consultations as appropriate and ultimately produce the proposed Plan for consideration for adoption by the Parish.

2. During this time the team has consulted widely. The steering group nominated the area contained within the Langley Burrell Parish boundary but excluding the small part of the Parish that lay to the west of the A350 as the Designated Area for the Neighbourhood Plan. This was agreed with the Parish Council, and the public were consulted over a 6 week period via the Wiltshire Council website. The Designation of Langley Burrell Neighbourhood Area was approved in accordance with section 61G of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended for the purposes of Neighbourhood Planning by Wiltshire Councilon 13 March 2015. In addition Wiltshire Council delivered a Housing Needs Survey to all households and produced an analysis of the returns. WC’s conclusions have informed this plan.

3. There were then a number of consultation meetings with the community and Neighbourhood Plan Questionnaires were designed and distributed in August 2015. These were delivered to all 124 houses in the Neighbourhood Area along with pre-paid reply envelopes to encourage completion of the forms. 56 responses were received and assessed. This information was fed into the draft Neighbourhood Plan, and a number of consultative meetings were held in the village hall in late 2015 and early 2016. The presentations, attended by approaching 100 people, provided good feedback as to how the public wished to see the land covered by the Designated Area in Langley Burrell Parish develop in the future. An initial draft of the Neighbourhood Plan was circulated to all houses in the Parish, along with the statutory consultees and other interested parties in March 2016, and feedback was requested. This obtained a strong response rate. All the feedback and comments received were reviewed and assessed, and the Neighbourhood Plan was then revised to take such feedback into account where appropriate. This revised [final] draft is now being submitted to Wiltshire Council for formal review, following which it will be made available for formal consultation by the community.

4. The main points of the Langley Burrell Neighbourhood Plan are to:

• Preserve and protect the open green space between Chippenham and each of the village of Langley Burrell, the hamlets at Kellaways and Peckingell, and the former farmstead settlement at Barrow Farm (together ‘the Settlements’)
• Retain the historic and ancient rural landscape character of the Parish and the Settlements, and to preserve the character and settings of the heritage assets within the Parish;
• To preserve and protect the amenity value to the community of certain tracts of land, including the creation of designated areas of Local Green Space at two locations in the Parish, being
• the playing fields adjacent to the village Hall,
• the green space in the village centre next to Oakhurst.
• Safeguard and preserve certain key views and vistas in the locality
• Support the need for a limited number of additional houses in keeping with Langley Burrell’s designation as a small village under the WCS, such additional houses to be in single or small developments (with a maximum of five houses in any one development)
• Protect and improve wildlife habitats and increase bio-diversity
• Grow the rural economy, and support small businesses and home working
• Support agricultural enterprises in the Parish and the amenity of farmland
• Improve road maintenance and traffic management, with the reduction of speed on our roads as a priority Promote the safety of cyclists, walkers, joggers and horse riders, on roads, footpaths and bridleways Encourage a low carbon economy and use of appropriate renewable energy
• Protect existing community facilities, services and support new ones which benefit community well-being Monitor Broadband to achieve optimum speed throughout the Parish