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Annex 9.

April 2018 edition
of the Ickford Informer.

The following is the article in the April edition of the Ickford Informer. This
newspaper is delivered to every house in the village thus keeping the whole village
abreast of current developments and giving all residents the opportunity to join
the steering group.

www.visionforickford.co.uk

We continue to make progress! We have been joined by two more villagers, and welcome
Alan Hudson and David Connell into the team. David has been very activein producing our
‘logo’ seen at the top ofthe page here, and is developing our website www.visionforickford.co.uk
which we hope to have live by early April.

We initially had intended to collect e-mail addresses and use these to update everyone on our
progress and results of the ongoing survey, but with the forthcoming and more stringent data
protection laws coming in, have decided that having our own website for this is more productive.
Please remember that preparing the Neighbourhood Plan is going to be a long process, and
will involve a lot of consultation with you all, before it can finally be adopted.

The questionnaires are now being distributed around the village, and many thanks to those of
you that both piloted these and have already completed them. We are using the data to
supplement information which is already available through sources such as the electoral roll,
AVDC and other web sources, to build the profile of the village. Alan Perkins has been doing
a sterling job in compiling the data base and already it is throwing up a lot of interesting
points. More about this in future updates.

Having myself knocked on many doors with Jan Jones, it is heartwarming to see such an
enthusiasm and interest in the responses from Ickfordians, and for the project to be getting
so much discussion. I also want to thank all the team, not all mentioned here, for their
commitment and time as volunteers.

Sally Chapman our planning consultant said to me recently ‘it is one of the best teams I have
come
across’. No pressure there then!

VISION FOR ICKFORD – NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN
www.visionforickford.co.uk