Next Forum Meeting
Wednesday January 15th, 7pm
The Manor Room, Buttery Lane
Teversal Village, NG17 3JN
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Latest News
- Minutes of the Forum meeting held on October 23rd now available October 26, 2024
- The Forum has applied to Ashfield D.C. for re-designation for 2025-2030 October 11, 2024
- Minutes of the Forum meeting held on July 3rd now available July 17, 2024
- Minutes of the Forum meeting held on April 10th now available April 15, 2024
- Minutes of the Forum meeting & AGM held on January 17th now available January 24, 2024
Working Groups
Following the formal adoption of the Teversal, Stanton Hill & Skegby Neighbourhood Plan by Ashfield District Council, the members of the Forum set up a series of Working Groups to put many of the ideas and proposals in the Plan into practice.
If you would like to know more about any of the Working Groups, or contribute to their work,
please go to our Contact Us page and let us know your area of interest
Planning & Environment working group
Purpose
To monitor new and ongoing planning applications in the Plan area and comment as appropriate to ADC
To seek to ensure adequate local facilities in the Plan area.
To review any aspects that affect the environment in the Plan area and to comment or initiate action as appropriate.
To liaise with developers and comment on the design, layout and property mix for any new housing or industrial development in the Plan area.
Climate Change & Sustainability working group
Purpose
Promote and pursue policies and objectives that reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in the Neighbourhood Forum area and, along with many other local and national organisations, has declared a Climate Emergency.
Promote improved home energy efficiency programs in conjunction with Ashfield D.C. and other local and national organisations
Establish a Community Energy Cooperative (or similar body) to create a sustainable and affordable local energy supply through community investment
Operate a Food Share scheme with volunteers taking surplus food from the Stanton Hill Coop, and other donated food, to Skegby library twice a week, where it is available to those who need it.
The Forum area is particularly badly served by public transport yet a large number of residents do not own a car or have any other form of personal transport. This has an effect on their ability to obtain work, education and access healthcare and shopping. In any event car journeys are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
The Forum is therefore committed to improving public transport provision. To this end it seeks to form productive relationships with decision makers at national, regional and local level as well as transport operators. Its objective is the provision of an affordable, regular and reliable bus service throughout the Neighbourhood Area.
If you want a better bus service - join the Forum and take part in this campaign.
Heritage working group
Purpose
To create and maintain a register of heritage assets to be added to and amended from time to time - (NCC listed sites, NCC archaeological sites, NCC parks and gardens, NCC non-designated sites, Teversal Conservation area, Teversal pastures SSSI and mining plans).
Each asset will added to a map to be made available for viewing
To monitor the condition of heritage assets and suggest interventions if considered necessary
To support and advise the Planning and Environment group on planning applications affecting heritage assets
Friends of Stanton Hill working group
Purpose
Following the closure of Sutton, Teversal and Silverhill Collieries in the 1980’s and the co-incidental relocation of thousands of textile jobs that were often a second source of income, Stanton Hill entered a period of gradual decline. Now it is near the top of the national league tables of deprivation.
Various initiatives have tried to address this with varying degrees of success but none have stemmed the decline resulting in high levels of cynicism and inertia. The problem is no better illustrated than by Stanton Hill’s struggling High Street.
The Stanton Hill Regeneration Group aims to reverse the situation because the people of Stanton Hill deserve better. Why should we succeed when others have failed?
• Residents, businesses, voluntary groups and educational institutions must help shape a vision for Stanton Hill and help identify the issues that need to be addressed
• Residents, businesses and voluntary organisations need to be enthused so that they play an active part of any strategy
• Regeneration requires coordinated action from a range of public sector agencies and substantial direct investment
• The Regeneration Group recognises that whilst it may be possible to identify quick fixes, any strategy must be long term, which means it will outlast its current members
The Group is already working with Ashfield District Council and the Mansfield/Ashfield Regeneration Team and intends to draw in other outside agencies that can make a valuable contribution. To start the process the Group has prepared a set of questionnaires for residents and businesses designed to tease out the issues that need to be addressed. The results, together with information gleaned from wider consultations, will provide the Group with a sound basis from which to develop a strategy
There is no reason why Stanton Hill can’t be a pleasant and vibrant place in which to live and work, a place that will offer its residents a chance to live fulfilling lives where everyone, young and old, can reach their potential.
If you believe in this vision you’re welcome to join the Group. It’s composed of ordinary members of the public whose only qualification is a desire to make Stanton Hill a better place for themselves and future generations. The more people who become involved the more we can achieve, so come and join us.
You can reach the Group through the Contact Us page of the website.