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COMMUNITY LED PLANNING IN COXHOE

The 2005 Parish Plan

In March 2004 Coxhoe Parish Council decided to carry out a Parish Plan.  The aim of the Parish Plan was to make the local environment, including the two villages of Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill, attractive and pleasant places to live and work; places where people would want to live now and in the future.

In producing the plan the Parish Council took advice from a number of sources including Durham Rural Community Council and Durham County Council.  A Steering Group was formed with representation from elected members as well as residents from the local community.

The parish incorporates two main settlements, Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill.  A primary consideration was to ensure that the consultation process was inclusive, representing the views of residents of all ages from across the parish. It was also identified that informing the community of what was happening was important.  To this end there were regular reports in the community newsletter, an information leaflet was produced and circulated to every household, and even the local businesses were kept informed.

A variety of consultation methods were used, a household questionnaire, public meetings, a young people’s questionnaire and a questionnaire for the primary school children.  Much information was gathered in the process and this was fed into the final plan which was published in 2005.

The Parish Plan included an all important Action Plan which identified key themes and priority actions. Over the past five years the Parish Council and others have been working tirelessly to achieve improvement and change through the Parish Plan and have had notable successes particularly in relation to activities for young people, play and leisure provision as well as traffic calming measures and improved community safety.

Click here to find out more about the achievements of the first Parish Plan.

The 2011 Parish Plan

The group recognise it’s now time to refresh the plan which is five years old.  There are new issues to be addressed and much of what was in the original plan has been achieved.  Work has now started on the new plan.  Click here for details.

National recognition for Coxhoe & Quarrington Hill

The sterling achievements of Coxhoe Parish Council and Coxhoe Community Partnership were endorsed by DCLG (Department for Communities and Local Government) in a recent visit.  The parish is now being used in national publications as an example of a local community identifying its own needs and priorities and taking action to address them. 

Further information

If you would like more details about Coxhoe and the Parish Plan, click here* to visit the Coxhoe Parish Council website.

For general information aboutCommunity Led Planning and how DRCC can help, click here.  Alternatively please contact Lesley Millgate or Carl Marshall.

* Please note that this link will take you to an external website. DRCC is not responsible for the content of external websites.