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8 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. 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