Ilminster Town Plan
South Somerset District Council has started thinking about plans for - Yeovil, Crewkerne and Chard - but not the other towns for a while yet. Ilminster was caught on the hop with the recent supermarket application and the subsequent one-way street fiasco.
Ilminster Town Council is thinking ahead and developing its own plan. A draft has been presented a public meetings and published in the Chard & Ilminster News.
South Somerset Climate Action was surprised that no mention was made of either climate change or predicted shortages (or much higher costs) of fuel, food, timber and other materials.
This draft plan was the focus of two public meetings (23 May & 27 June)
Woking has reduced the energy consumption of its municipal buildings by 70+% and is renowned worldwide for its initiatives. I do not see why Ilminster — whose residents must be among the most fortunate people ever to have lived — cannot make a significant contribution.
The whole point of the Town Plan is that we should not sit back and wait for the District Council but should think for ourselves and aim to influence them as much as possible.
Rather than climate change being an option which should not be given emphasis, six out of seven of the Government’s existing policy “Key Planning Objectives” refer to either climate change or closely related matters.