http://www.belpercivicforum.org The Civic Society of Belper and Milford in Derbyshire Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:43:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en VISION DOCUMENT http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2009/04/07/new-vision-for-meadows-edge/ An historic former school is outlined for development under a charitable trust to become a combined community and business centre. Belper Civic Forum is proposing to take over and maintain the former Herbert Strutt Primary School building, in Derby Road, Belper, and form a new independent charitable development trust to continue ... http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2008/11/03/strutts-project-moves-forward/  About 60 Belper shops completed a short questionnaire recently about their hopes and concerns for retailing in the town. The Civic Forum felt this was necessary to gauge the opinions of an important section of the community, one which does a great deal to shape the character of the town. About 140 town ... http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2008/09/24/retailers-survey/  The Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has dismissed the appeal by Chevin Property against the decision of Amber Valley Borough Council not to allow redevelopment of the building. Chevin Property wanted to replace the building, which started life as a private school c.1830, ... http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2008/06/20/appeal-decision-former-brettles-building-chapel-street/  The feasibility study on the future of the school building concluded that a mixed community and commercial use, as advocated by the Belper Civic Forum, was likely to be the best option from a financial point of view. It suggested that the scheme would be self financing provided the former ... http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2008/06/13/herbert-strutt-school-latest/ The preparation by Amber Valley Borough Council of the Development Brief for the Meadows Edge area in Belper has been delayed. As a consequence, the Belper Civic Forum has postponed its next members' meeting (oringinally planned for 16th June 2008) until further notice. http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2008/06/13/meadows-edge-development-brief/ The Civic Trust have created a new website.  www.civicsocieties.org.uk is online and starting to generate traffic.  You will now be able to access the latest news and information on its free public site - no passwords required!  Each Society has a dedicated page that it can upload information to.  There are also online resources ... http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2008/04/16/new-civic-trust-website-grass-roots-on-line/ After a few months of consultation, discussion and general honing, Belper Civic Forum is proud to make available an alternative development brief for The Meadows Edge in downloadable form. Download it, read it and let the Forum know what you think... Download the file using this link (the file is aproximately ... http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2008/03/31/downloadable-meadows-edge-alternative-development-brief/ In order to provide more information about the Forum's Herbert Strutt Project a special web page has been created. The future of the former school is proving to be a very hot topic in the town, over 1800 people have signed our petition to ask for it to be used ... http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2008/03/26/new-belper-civic-forum-webpage-strutts/ The children and teachers finally left the old Herbert Strutt school building this morning. The story was covered by BBC East Midlands TV, including interviews with Belper Civic Forum about the future use of the site.  The Strutt School sub-group of the Forum decided this week to use the name ... http://www.belpercivicforum.org/2008/02/27/historic-day-for-herbert-strutt-school/