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Supermarkets Meeting
Notes from the supermarkets meeting of 29th Jan, 2010.
We held this PNUK meeting because as is often said, PNUK exists in order not just to talk but to act, and the list below is one set of several ways that action can be taken. So please do have a browse through and see if you, or your colleagues, or your students, can help in some way!
Below are seven key action points, and below that is a more detailed record of the discussions. Thanks to Karen Leach for these and for taking a lead in organising this.
1. Downloadable (as a word file from the menu on the right) is a list of possible research topics, and also skills that planning education needs to deliver - these were where we identified gaps in knowledge of the UK's retail environment. Please a) feel free to suggest more (it could probably benefit from a more academic eye than mine), and b) pass these to students and use them in any other way that is relevant.
2. Helping community groups: Tescopoly are regularly approached by community groups wanting advice, expert witnesses etc. If you might be able to offer this, please contact info@tescopoly.org about this. You can also forward this request to colleagues and contacts who may be able to help (if you would like something more like an 'advert' to pass on, ask Tescopoly). Specifically useful would be expertise on: traffic impacts, PPS4, retail impact assessment, and related legislation.
3. Some participants have also been working on suggestions for model clauses/policies within local development frameworks and hope to circulate this at some stage.
4. Some participants will work further on the implications of PPS4 and hope to circulate this also at some stage.
5. LWM are aiming to look further into offering independent retail impact assessments to community groups.
6. If participants or otherwise would like to start off discussions on a related issue, please do so on the PNUK wiki. Participants have also formed their own emailing list for the time being, for retail specific issues, though we'll see how this works as we go on.
7. We agreed to try to meet again in six months - ie end July, to discuss progress on PPS4 and LDFs amongst other things. If anyone would like to take on the task of organising this, they are welcome! I am happy to arrange it again IF I am around, but that rather depends on funding - I am sure many of you know the feeling.
Thanks for reading and for making things happen!
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