Following a meeting of the Hurst Neighbourhood Plan Working group (HNPWG) on the 6th January 2025, the Chair of the HNPWG, along with the rest of the HNPWG, have resigned from the Group with immediate effect.
Penny Curry who was Chair of the HNPWG remains Chair of the Hurst Parish Council and the Hurst Parish Council was informed of the resignations at the Parish Council meeting on the 7th January, 2025.
Locality (the national membership network supporting local community organisations) has confirmed that there is no formal process in relation to stopping the preparation of a Neighbourhood Development Plan that needs to be followed but has advised that we should notify the local community and let the Local Authority know. We have duly informed Wokingham Borough Council and this release will be put on our website and our social media channels.
Our understanding from Locality is that because the Hurst Parish Council have designated the Neighbourhood Plan that designation remains. As the HNPWG falls under the auspices of the Hurst Parish Council any future correspondence relating to the Hurst Neighbourhood Plan should go to the Hurst Parish Council (clerk@hurstpc.org.uk).
Members of the Hurst Parish Council will consider the way forward at our next meeting on the 4th February 2025.
St Nicholas Hurst Parish Council
8th January 2025