Hello!
Welcome to our February update about our work in Somerton.
Our February Resident Steering Group met on the 7 at Nexus House - and online via Teams. We had five residents and three Councillors attend the meeting. Tony, Terry and Phillipa from Oxford Architects and Rebecca Sluman and Phillip Lott from Newport City Homes chaired the meeting.
Terry talked through the information that will be shown on the community consultation event at The Hope Centre on Thursday 8 February 2-7pm.
Please see minutes for details.
Project Plan
We have a project plan that we work to, however, this has slipped slightly due to the changes we have had to make to the designs of Acacia Avenue (Phase 1). We will be sending a submission to Welsh Government for them to comment on the designs in the coming months, then we will be looking to submit planning permission.
Design Update
We will be focusing on Acacia Avenue (Phase 1) and will be submitting a planning application for this area only. This is to reduce the planning risk and will be the quickest and most efficient way to get this phase underway.
The boundary for Acacia Avenue has now changed and will exclude Poplar Road. This will decrease the size of the public open space and will include a play area.
Acacia Avenue will be the focus of the community consultation event and will show the designs that have been put together, following on from comments from previous community consultation events and comments from Newport City Council planning department.
We have submitted a formal Secure by Design Application and we are awaiting comments back on our application.
Communication
We will provide feedback following from the community consultation event in the next months minutes and blog.
Time and Date of Next Meeting
Wednesday 6 March at 17:30pm
We hope that this blog has been useful – if you have any questions, or if there’s anything you’d like us to cover in future blogs, please get in touch with us at rebecca.sluman@newportcityhomes.com.
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