Groups to take plan forward (From Warrington Guardian)

Groups to take plan forward

HARTFORD residents are taking action to tackle issues pinpointed by the community and make their village a better place.

Groups have been set up to work on five important community issues identified in the parish plan after a meeting to discuss taking the plan forward.

Providing youth facilities, formalising Home Watch, tackling speeding, developing the village website and conducting an audit of Hartford's trees are the first areas to be looked at by villagers who formed the five working groups according to their particular interests.

Julia Tasker, vice chairwoman of the parish plan implementation group, said the village hall was packed with about 35 people eager to take the parish plan forward.

She said: "I was encouraged by such a good attendance at the meeting.

"Several new ideas were raised and people seemed keen to remain involved - there were a lot of new faces as well as people from earlier consultations who obviously want to try to carry it through."

She said that equal amounts of people were interested in working on each of the five areas, which will now be taken forward separately.

And each group has already started working on lists of contacts and objectives and on creating an action plan.

Home Watch officer Liz Biddle and PC Kevin Taylor, from the traffic division, were on hand at the meeting to offer advice and give groups the benefit of their experience.

Further meetings focusing on other issues will be planned in the future if this first phase of progressing the parish plan is successful.