NOVEMBER 2023 GLENFIELD GAZETTE online

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