Author Archives: Sue Childs

The Forum has responded to the University’s consultation on their plans for developments on St Mary’s Field and Maiden Castle. The response is available here Durham City NPF response to Masterplan. The Forum expressed a number of concerns, e.g. pedestrian … Continue reading →

Durham City Neighbourhood Planning Forum will be holding their Annual General Meeting on 17th February 2017 at 6.00 pm in St Nicholas’ Lower Hall. Non-Forum members are welcome to attend as observers.

The Durham City Neighbourhood Planning Forum have been building an evidence base as to whether there is the need to improve facilities for the arts and culture within Our Neighbourhood. Results from the priority survey carried out in June/July 2015 … Continue reading →

The Forum made a response ( north-road-regeneration-and-a690-improvements) to Durham Council’s North Road Regeneration and A690 Improvements – Revised Proposals (October 2016). The need and potential for regeneration of North Road is considerable. There are buildings of great architectural and historic … Continue reading →

The Forum took a stall at the Eco-Festival at St John’s, Neville’s Cross on 19th June 2016. Visitors to the festival were encouraged to mark up an outline map of the neighbourhood to show places where the walking environment could … Continue reading →

The Forum has carried out a study of young people’s views of Durham City. The results are now available: npf-young-peoples-consultation-report-2016-pdf All respondents had a positive appreciation of Durham City, its heritage, environment, and community, which is evidenced by their comments, … Continue reading →

We have made a response to the County Durham Plan Issues and Options consultation  Many of the questions asked by the Council have relevance to Durham City and to the Neighbourhood Plan. For example in answer to the question about … Continue reading →

Durham County Council has recently published the DCC’s Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) which “sets out how and when you can contribute in the planning process, including the Local Plan and planning applications. It also sets out our advice on how … Continue reading →

The Durham City Neighbourhood Planning Forum held its Annual General Meeting in the Miners’ Hall, Redhills, on Friday 18 March. It was chaired by Roger Cornwell and attended by 30 people, including local MP Roberta Blackman-Woods. She was thanked for … Continue reading →

Public exhibition on the Milburngate House regeneration plans, 17th February 2016, 12 noon to 7 pm, Radisson Blu Hotel. Project information: http://www.durhamriversiderenewal.co.uk/ (available from 17th Feb)