Announcement

Liaison Group

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From: Amy Jackson
Subject: resubmission of Nocton Dairies plans
To: amy@oxtale.co.uk
Cc: "'Robert Howard'" , "DAVID BARNES" , "Peter Willes"
Date: Tuesday, 16 November, 2010, 19:01

Dear all (last attendees at the liaison group/parish council chairs/parish council clerks)

We are finally in a position to resubmit the planning application by the end of this week and wanted to let you know that in advance of some media briefings we are holding tomorrow.

We hesitated to tell you earlier than this because we still didn’t know the plans would be ready and so we were poised to cancel the briefings if necessary. However the plan will be ready and we wanted to let you know as soon as possible. The media will be told tomorrow that the plans will be resubmitted by the end of the week.

We have heard over the past few weeks that there has been concern we were going to try and sneak this application in just before Christmas so no one can spend time looking at it. Nothing is further from the truth and as a result we are going to do our best to communicate as widely as possible to raise awareness of the application going in. Because we have been plagued with interest from the national media for weeks (due to some very effective campaigning!) we are dealing with them first to get them out the way then are coming up to Lincolnshire to spend lunch/afternoon talking to the local media to make sure they are clear where things stand and can communicate onwards.

We are keen that the plans are visible as soon as possible and so will be posting them on our own website www.noctondairies.co.uk shortly (hopefully the website will withstand the demand!). Please be aware that while these plans will be visible, they won’t yet have been validated by the council although we do know the new reference will be 10/0831/FUL when they are.

We have just finalised the factsheet and have arranged to have it printed and delivered to residences in Nocton, Dunston, Branston, Potterhanworth and Scopwick later this week, and to Metheringham in a single batch for onward distribution by the parish council.

We have also written to your respective parish council clerks tonight to formally request a meeting so we can find out what you think the open meeting/exhibition requirements might be for each village.

We apologise for the time taken to get to this point. We would have dearly liked to have had the application in earlier but it was important to get it right.

Please don’t hesitate to get back in touch if there are any queries; otherwise we hope all your most immediate questions will be answered by the factsheet and website which will be delivered/operational later in the week. We look forward to hearing from your parish councils shortly.

Kind regards
Amy

T: 01993 880360
M: 07917 773756
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