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<strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2023</strong> <strong>GLENFIELD</strong> <strong>GAZETTE</strong><br />
More Neighbourhood Plan News<br />
Glenfield<br />
Neighbourhood<br />
Plan goes to<br />
Referendum<br />
THE <strong>GLENFIELD</strong> NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN has<br />
been accepted by an independent examiner,<br />
with some modifications, and has been<br />
recommended to go to public Referendum.<br />
It is now up to residents in Glenfield to decide whether to approve the<br />
Plan. The Referendum will take place on Thursday 23 November.<br />
If approved by residents the Plan will pass back to Blaby District Council<br />
to be ‘Made’ – meaning accepted. It will then become an integral part of<br />
local planning policy.<br />
A Neighbourhood Plan sets out a community’s ambitions to shape local<br />
growth. It details areas where commerce and construction would be<br />
welcome, while protecting heritage, amenities and areas of green space.<br />
The document ensures communities are able to influence development<br />
and have a real say during the planning process.<br />
The Glenfield Neighbourhood Plan has gone through a number of stages<br />
since work began several years ago. Blaby District Council has supported<br />
the Steering Group at Glenfield Parish Council through the process.<br />
The Plan focuses on the themes of housing, the built, natural and historic<br />
environments, climate change and protecting and improving community<br />
facilities and amenities.<br />
A consultation was held with residents, businesses and key agencies in<br />
February/March and the Plan was submitted to an independent examiner<br />
in April.<br />
Modifications were made by the examiner and the updated Plan with<br />
a recommendation to go to Referendum was accepted by Blaby District<br />
Councillors at the full Council meeting on Tuesday 26 September.<br />
Further information will be posted on the Council’s website and paper<br />
copies of the information will be available at the Council Offices and<br />
Glenfield Library. All documents relating to the Plan will be available on<br />
Blaby District Council’s website by Monday 16 October.<br />
How to take part in the Referendum<br />
In order to vote at this Referendum, you must live within Glenfield Parish<br />
and be registered to vote. If you aren’t already, you can register to vote<br />
here: www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.<br />
The deadline to register to vote in the Referendum is midnight on Tuesday<br />
7 November.<br />
Poll cards will be delivered from Tuesday 24 October.<br />
If you wish to vote by post, the deadline to apply is 5pm on Wednesday 8<br />
November.<br />
If you wish to vote by proxy, which is when someone you trust votes on<br />
your behalf, the deadline to apply for a proxy vote is 5pm on Wednesday<br />
15 November.<br />
As with all elections now, voters will need to take an accepted form<br />
of photo ID with them when they attend the polling station to cast their<br />
ballot, or if they are casting a proxy vote. Accepted forms of ID include a<br />
passport, driving license or old age bus pass.<br />
A full list of accepted forms of photo ID can be found here: Accepted<br />
forms of photo ID | Electoral Commission. If you do not have an accepted<br />
form of photo ID you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate (VAC).<br />
Information on applying for a VAC can be found here: Apply for photo ID to<br />
vote (called a ‘Voter Authority Certificate’) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)<br />
The deadline to apply for a VAC at this Referendum is 5pm<br />
on Wednesday 15 November.<br />
On polling day, Thursday 23 November, polling stations<br />
at The Hall School, Glenfield Frith Drive, LE3 8PQ and Park<br />
House, Stamford Street, LE3 8DL, will be open from 7am to<br />
10pm.<br />
St Peter’s Church News<br />
THIS MONTH we will again remember all those from our<br />
community who fought and died in the World Wars of the<br />
previous century, and subsequent conflicts.<br />
We will also recall those who survived but who were forever changed<br />
as a result of physical and mental injuries, and all those who never trod<br />
the battlefields but whose resultant grief shaped their lives. We will do so<br />
against a backdrop of two current international conflicts. Our own country<br />
is an active participant in neither, though in both we stand alongside our<br />
allies.<br />
The war in Ukraine is drawing close to two years of active fighting,<br />
though of course the tensions and military manoeuvrings go back far<br />
longer. But even that drawn-out struggle pales against the complexity of<br />
the history behind the flare-up in Israel-Palestine which has burst into<br />
such dreadful events over the past weekend, as I write.<br />
I utterly condemn the actions of Hamas, the kidnappings, the murders<br />
of civilians. Many have found that condemnation hard to voice. Perhaps<br />
because of the history of this war-torn region, and past allegiances and<br />
events, perhaps, to be generous to those who hesitate, because we know<br />
all too well that vengeance can be as bloody or more so than the offence<br />
and all of us know that this conflict has the potential to be even more<br />
incendiary than that which has raged in Eastern Europe.<br />
Both sets of hostilities, with innocent civilians needing defence from<br />
those willing to carry out what we would hope to be unthinkable violence<br />
and crimes, weigh heavily as we remember together this month. Much as<br />
we would love warfare to be a thing of the past, we know it is a reality in<br />
the present and a risk in the future. Human nature is slow to change and<br />
the hatreds, and greeds, and jealousies which stoke war spring up afresh<br />
in each generation.<br />
In a short magazine<br />
article, I cannot<br />
fully explain, but<br />
I<br />
believe that the only hope<br />
we have is in prayer. That<br />
the only way hearts can be<br />
turned from this violence is<br />
by the work of God, seen in<br />
Jesus Christ who overcame<br />
violence and death with<br />
forgiveness and love. Only<br />
he can reconcile those who<br />
stand so opposed. So join<br />
me this year, at our Acts of<br />
Remembrance, in praying<br />
for peace in the world God<br />
so loves today.<br />
Richard Trethewey<br />
Rector of St Peter’s, Glenfield and All Saints, Newtown Linford.<br />
Tel: 0116 287 1604<br />
Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.