The Town Plan

Introduction

Bishop’s Stortford Town Council has officially adopted a far-reaching Town Plan.  The plan was presented to the Mayor at a ceremony held at the Rhodes Arts Complex on 10th March. It builds on the responses by over 4000 residents to a questionnaire issued to residents late in 2008, and is being launched in tandem with the 2020 vision created by the District Council. The Plan sets out specific actions which the Council will take to enhance the town focussing on the six themes of  

• Riverside amenities
• Town centre appearance and historic buildings
• Town centre and market vibrancy
• Litter
• Public and sustainable transport
• Local Employment

Many of these actions can only be achieved with the cooperation of multiple organisations and to drive them forward the Town Council will establish project groups with other authorities and stakeholders including the District, County, Police, Businesses, the Environment Agency and Voluntary groups.

A four page summary of the plan will be delivered to every household in Bishop's Stortford and can be downloaded here

A more extensive summary can be downloaded here

The full plan can be downloaded here

Progress

The Town plan has a total of 78 separate actions.  We are currently in the first phase of completing these actions which comprises:

Refering comments and opportunities, where appropriate, to other authorities.  Responses will be monitored and published on this website

Establishing project teams.  The following project teams have so far been established:

• Listed Buildings
• Marketing Bishop's Stortford
• Moat

For details of their progress view the 'Task and Finish Group' minutes in the Document Library

 

 

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