FORMAL NOTICE OF CONSULTATION ON THE REGULATION 14 STAGE OF THE REVIEWED MELKSHAM NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 

Melksham Town Council and Melksham Without Parish Council has reviewed its current Neighbourhood Plan (adopted July 2021) for the Melksham Neighbourhood Plan Area. The reviewed draft Plan updates some existing policies and provides some new policies which, once adopted, must be used in the determination of planning applications within the parishes of Melksham Town and Melksham Without.

In accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, Melksham Town Council and Melksham Without Parish Council are required to publicise the draft Neighbourhood Plan and invite comments.

Copies of the Plan will be available for public inspection from Monday 16th October until Sunday 3rd December 2023 for a period of 7 weeks. The draft Plan and associated material are online at: www.melkshamneighbourhoodplan.org

Hard copies are available at: 

Melksham Town Hall, SN12 6ES

Melksham Without Parish Council offices, SN12 6ES

Melksham Campus (Library), SN12 6ES

Spindles Caf, Top Lane, Whitley, SN12 8QU

Drop in consultation events are being held on:

Thursday 26th October, 4pm to 7pm at the Melksham Campus (past the Cafe area)

Friday 10th November, 4pm to 7pm at Shaw Village Hall, The Beeches, Shaw, SN12 8EW

Saturday 11th November, 10am to 2pm at the Melksham Campus (past the Cafe area)

Representations may be made in the following ways:

Completing the online questionnaire at www.melkshamneighbourhoodplan.org

Downloading and completing the questionnaire and emailing to: contact@melkshamneighbourhoodplan.org

Downloading and completing the questionnaire and delivering/posting a hard copy to Melksham Town Council, Town Hall, Market Place, Melksham, SN12 6ES or Melksham Without Parish Council, First Floor, Melksham Community Campus, Market Place, Melksham, SN12 6ES

Completing a Questionnaire at any of the places where hard copies are available and dropping into the Comments Box

Completing a Questionnaire at one of the drop in consultation events and dropping into the Comments Box Any person or organisation may comment on the Plan.

All representations must be received by either Melksham Town Council or Melksham Without Parish Council no later than midnight on Sunday 3rd December 2023.

All representations will be publicly available* and will be considered by both Councils in producing the final plan, which will then be submitted to Wiltshire Council for Regulation 16 consultation and Independent Examination. (*with personal information redacted). We will share information of who was contacted with Wiltshire Council to enable contact again at the Regulation 16 stage.

Please address all correspondence to contact@melkshamneighbourhoodplan.org