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FINHAM NEWSLETTER 7Th Edition December 2020 FINHAM NEWSLETTER 7th Edition December 2020 Your joint newsletter with updates from: Finham Parish Council Finham Community Library Finham Neighbourhood Watch 1 Chairman’s Welcome So here we go again, just when we thought things were improving the Coventry area goes straight from lockdown into Tier 3 which has come as a big shock to most of us. We have all had plenty of practice at being very careful about what we do, where we go and this needs to continue. It is no use blaming those who have been less diligent, we must hope they will all learn the lessons, pay attention to the rules and help take us out of this mess. It is too early to rely on the vaccines that might help us probably sometime early next year. Later in this newsletter is an update on Kings Hill which paints a very bad picture of the performance of Coventry City Council, again. Rumour has it they are there to help and support all the electorate in the city, let’s hope this becomes reflected in future performances, we can only hope. In response to many many requests from many organisations and prominent individuals, political and otherwise, our CCC has rebuffed help, advice and requests to reconsider their deeply flawed Local Plan. Their response to everyone is to delay the planned review of their Local Plan due in March 2021 until December 2022. Words cannot describe the individuals who have authorised this attempt to prevent fairness, logic and common sense, a commodity that is all too short in supply at our CCC. At this point I would like to comment on planning applications in the Finham area in general. Before placing an application for a development to a property, can I impose on the good will of all who are intending to do so and ask them to mention such plans to their neighbours first of all. Especially the ones who will be affected most and ideally to all neighbours, not just the ones you talk to as a matter of course. Such actions could avoid ill will and formal objections to the plans. Finally, I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, a new year that has to be better than the one that is about to finish. Councillor Paul Davies Chairman 2 Zoom Since our first Zoom meeting held on 21st May we have held one each month, except for August when we all took a break. Our next meeting is on Thursday 21st January 2021 starting at 7.00pm. Details of how you can access the meeting will be shown on the Finham Parish Council website. Our meetings are often lively, there’s nothing dry about them and if you want to keep abreast of what is happening in Finham and maybe become an influence for what is about to happen. Login and contribute, we would love to hear from you. If you would like the meeting login, please email the Clerk at [email protected] Meeting dates for 2021 January 21st Thursday February 18th Thursday March 18th Thursday April 15th May & APMC & APCM 20th Thursday June 17th Thursday July 15th Thursday August No meeting September 16th Thursday October 21st Thursday November 18th Thursday December No meeting Thursday 3 Who are we? Meeting dates Task Groups & Leads Councillor Mrs Ann Bush The Parish Council meets the • Highways (Cllr James Councillor Anthony Dalton (Vice Chairman) third Thursday of the month at Morshead) Councillor Paul Davies (Chairman) Finham Park School, Green Lane • Kings Hill (Cllr Paul Davies) Councillor Mrs Angela Fryer Meetings start at 7pm and all • Police & Crime (Cllr Angela Councillor Mansoor Ahmed parishioners are welcome to Fryer) Councillor James Morshead attend • Schools (Cllr Ann Bush) Councillor Ms Kate Taylor • NHP (Cllr Paul Davies) Councillor Stan McCarthy • City of Culture (Cllr Kate Taylor) Vacancy • Finham Festival (Cllr Anthony Vacancy Dalton) Clerk: Jane Chatterton Vacancy – Parish Council Councillor We have a vacancy on the Parish Council for a new member. Do you have an interest in making Finham a better place for all to live? Do you have a passion for making a difference? Have ideas for improvements, additions, getting problems sorted? Then we would like to hear from you. If you would like further information or an informal chat, please contact the Clerk on [email protected] or the Chairman on [email protected] FPC Task Group Updates • Coventry City of Culture – Councillor Ms Taylor Plans for the 2021 City of Culture continue and information about a number of events has already been released. It will officially begin on 15th May with Coventry Moves. Other events include the UK Asian film festival and the Turner Prize 2021 which will be presented at the Herbert Art Gallery. Between 4th December and 10th January you can enjoy Coventry Glides, socially distanced ice skating in the Cathedral ruins. Organisers are keen to involve a diverse group of Coventry residents and communities. You can find more information about events and how to be involved on https://coventry2021.co.uk. 4 • Kings Hill Development – Councillor Davies Doubts over ‘botched’ population data – The Times newspaper This was the headline in The Times newspaper on Friday 4th December about the Office for National Statistics projections for Coventry. As reported in previous minutes and newsletters, this is not the first article to appear in The Times newspaper shedding doubt over their accuracy and validity. “The overall numbers projected for Coventry appear implausible and may be leading to poor long-term planning decisions” states Andy Street Mayor of the West Midlands. The ONS is now being investigated over its ‘performance’ as confirmed by Ed Humpherson Director-General of the UK Statistics Authority. Ed Humpherson goes on to state that the investigation would “therefore be looking at what broader lessons can be learnt on how these data are used to support decision making”. One wonders what level of diligence Coventry City Council put into assessing the projections those years ago or did it just accept the ONS were the experts without making sure it was acting in the interests of the people of Coventry. On the 25th November, the Coventry Telegraph published an article stating there is cross- party support from both Labour and Conservative MPs representing the constituencies of the Coventry area and its surrounds, expressing their concerns over the ONS projection of a 32% population explosion for Coventry, statistics which CCC has used to create their now widely accepted, much flawed Local Plan. Zarah Sultana MP Labour, Taiwo Owatemi MP Labour, Craig Tracey MP Conservative, Jeremy Wright MP Conservative and Mark Pawsey MP Conservative are among numerous people and organisations to sign the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England letter that has been sent to Sir David Norgrove, Chair UK Statistics Authority complaining about the algorithms used by the ONS to produce such projections which have been shown to be wildly inaccurate. Other signatories to this letter – Allesley Parish Council, Bubbenhall PC, Burton Green PC, Corley PC, Fillongley PC, Finham PC, Keresley PC, Stoneleigh & Ashow PC as well as Allesley Green Residents Association, Nuneaton & Bedworth Residents, Westwood Heath Residents Association, the Leader of the Opposition on Coventry City Council Cllr. Gary Ridley and of course Sir Andrew Watson Chair of CPRE Warwickshire. 5 Andy Street Mayor of the West Midlands has written to CCC as well as to the ONS which has met with statements along the lines of there is nothing we can do; errors of the past cannot be corrected! This truly is another example of experts and supposed democratic representatives getting it spectacularly wrong and then compounding their mistakes by doing nothing to correct their errors. Large areas of greenbelt and greenfield in and around Coventry have been approved for building based on these fantastic ONS figures. The evidence shown by the CPRE states the population projection for Coventry exaggerates growth by up to 60,000 over the next two decades and that the average growth across the whole of the West Midlands is just 14%. So why is Coventry 32%? Should we be expecting an invasion of population in the next ten years bearing in mind the population has grown by only 6% during this period so far. At the time of writing the group is still awaiting a formal response. Also, on the 25th November the Finham Parish Council sent a letter by recorded delivery to the Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP Sec of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government asking him to confirm that he had written to the ONS about the lack of accuracy in the statistics it had produced for Coventry as the FPC had been informed that Mr Jenrick had indeed done so. As you would expect, we have heard nothing to date. Recently the FPC wrote to Cllr. Duggins, Leader of CCC pointing out the absurdity of the 32% figure, something that has been done before but support for a reassessment of the CCC Local Plan had been growing gradually over the past two years or so and therefore the FPC wanted to find out if realism had crept into the minds of CCC. The FPC has received a letter from Cllr Duggins’s office supporting the ONS projections as being the only source of information for population projections as prescribed by central government and therefore common sense presumably should not be allowed to come into the decisions of the wholesale destruction of greenbelt, greenfield and ex-greenbelt land all around Coventry. As advised in previous newsletters, it is the Local Plan of CCC that has been the catalyst for Kings Hill, it being in Warwickshire and it was CCC Local Plan that forced Warwick District Council to co-operate.
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