I have added various pictures from around the village, more will be added soon. If anyone has any good pictures (especially of a street or feature not yet on) please email them to me admin@blackpoolisbest.co.uk

Thanks

With regard to my previous post below, please note that the location for the exhibition on 7-9th July has now been changed. The exhibition trailer will now be located on the Promenade opposite the Balmoral Hotel (215-217 Promenade)

Blackpool Council is about to publish the Foxhall Area Action Plan Issues and Options Paper and associated Sustainability Appraisal for consultation. This document is one of the first of a number of emerging Local Development Framework (LDF) documents which will be subject to consultation over the next few months.

The Issues and options Paper sets out a range of options for a vision for the Foxhall area which will be used to steer regeneration over the coming years and asks for your views on which vision is most appropriate for Foxhall. The document also sets a number of Core Objectives for the future development and regeneration of the Foxhall resort neighbourhood.

Under a number of topic based chapters, the document then presents the more detailed issues that face Foxhall and asks the important questions that require answers to help address these issues.

The Sustainability Appraisal is a process for assessing the social, economic and environmental impacts of the Foxhall Area Action Plan and aims to ensure that the plan contributes to sustainable development.

The consultation period will last for 8 weeks, beginning on 1st July and closing at 5pm on 1st September 2008 and during this period we would invite any interested persons to view and make comments on these important documents.

Local residents in the Foxhall area will receieve further information about the consultation throught the post in the near future.

You can view and also make comments on the documents online using our new consultation portal. In order to use the Portal you must first register your details by visiting the site using the link below and clicking on 'register', you will then be sent a username and password which you can use to access the site and make comments on the document. Once registered, you will be informed by email of future consultations on new planning documents produced by the Council’s Development Plans and Projects Team. You can access the Portal using the following link:

http://consult.blackpool.gov.uk/portal

You can also view and download the documents online on the Council’s website at

http://www.blackpool.gov.uk/Services/G-L/LocalDevelopmentFramework/Home.htm

In addition, the documents will also be available to view at all local libraries throughout the consultation period.

You can also put your comments forward by attending one of the Workshops to be held at the following locations:


7th – 9th July (10am until 4pm):
Exhibition Trailer located on the Promenade, next to Central Pier

22nd July (1pm until 4pm)
The Abberford Hotel, 12-14 Yorkshire Street, FY1 5BG

16th July (1 pm until 4pm)
The Shores Hotel, 29-31 Tyldesley Road, FY1 5DH

In addition, any comments you wish to submit by email should be sent to:
Development.plans@blackpool.gov.uk. If you wish to put forward comments in writing you can download and print the document using the link provided above and write your answers in the spaces provided throughout the document and return the completed paper to the address below.

To request a hard copy of the Issues and Options Paper or Sustainability Appraisal, or to ask any questions about the document and the consultation process, please contact the Development Plans and Projects Team using the details provided below:

Doug Cooper
Blackpool Council
Planning Department
Development Plans and Projects
P.O. BOX 17
Corporation Street
Blackpool
FY1 1LZ
Tel: 01253 476242

Hi there,

Channel 4 is making a new series of the popular cookery show 'Come Dine With Me' and we are filming in the Blackpool area next month.

We are looking for people who might be interested in taking part.

If you love hosting dinner parties, have a big passion for cooking and want to show off your culinary skills (and be in with a chance of winning £1,000) please get in touch

You can call 0207 6332608 or email me on richard.dyson@itv.com



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Note from Blackpoolisbest:

This looks genuine as channel 4's web-site shows:

Granada Television is looking for new keen amateur chefs to take part in the hugely popular Channel 4 show, Come Dine with Me. In each episode, we visit a different town or city in the UK. Over the course of a week each contestant takes it in turn to host a dinner party for the others. At the end of the week the best host wins a £1,000 cash prize.

If you live in any of these areas – Blackburn, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Blackpool, Slough, Windsor, Royal Berkshire, Luton, Bedfordshire, Aberdeen, Southampton, Plymouth, Belfast, Antrim, or Swindon then please email us on comedinewithme@granadamedia.com or call 0871 200 3939. (I'd be tempted to use this email / telephone instead of the above)

For further information copy and paste this to your browser:

http://www.channel4.com/microsites/T/takepart/dine1.html

Hi there
Just wondering whats happening to the village are the council going ahead with changes or what?

The Council will be holding a meeting on the 27th November at the Abberford Hotel (Yorkshire Street) from 12-3pm to present the draft options for change in Foxhall which will go out to consultation in the New Year as the 'Foxhall Area Action Plan Issues and Options Paper'. The purpose of the meeting is to present the draft broad options for change before moving on to a workshop session where attendees will have the chance to make suggestions on whether or not they feel these options are suitable and if not provide suggestions on other possible ways forward.

The results of the workshops will be used to make any necessary ammendments to the Issues and Options Paper before we formally consult on the paper in the New Year. All residents and businesses in the area covered by the Action Plan will be made aware of consultation on the Issues and options Paper in the New Year and invivted to make comments.

Please feel free to come along to the meeting and provide your ideas. However, if you cannot attend you will be contacted in the New Year and given the opportunity to comment on the Issues and Options Paper

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch by telephone on 01253 476242 or email at: Daniel.welsh@blackpool.gov.uk

Kind regards

Daniel Welsh

Dear Sir / Madam

The Council will be consulting on a Planning document starting next week for a 5 week period. This document may be of interest to hotelliers, businesses and residents in the Foxhall area.

The document contains two sections, the first deals with the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report for the Council's emerging Local Development Framework (which will replace the old system of Local Plans) and provides information about the Borough and the indicators that will be used to undertake a full Sustainability Appraisal of all new Local Development Documents to be produced in the future by the Council, such as the Core Strategy.

The second part of this document is a Scoping Report which looks specifically at the Foxhall Area Action Plan and provides an introduction to the area and a section discussing the background and purpose of the Action Plan before moving on to provide baseline information about the area, any issues which have arisen after analysis of a range of plans and programmes currently in place before finally setting out the Sustainability Appraisal framework which will be used to assess the objectives and options put forward in the Foxhall Area Action Plan Issues and Options Paper, which we will be consulting on in the New Year.

The document will be available for viewing on the Council's website from next week should anyone wish to view and make comments. However, I should make it clear that this is not the Issues and Options Paper which will set out the range of potential options for the future of Foxhall. This Scoping Report is a fairly technical document concerned with how the Council will undertake a Sustainability Appraisal of the options we will be consulting on in the New Year. As I stated previously, we will consult on the Issues and Options Paper seperately and everyone in the Foxhall area will be made aware of this in due course.


Kind regards

Daniel Welsh
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Planning Department
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Hi there,

Have just heard today from a neighbour that the monies secured for this area is now going to fund a project in Bispham instead. Can the Council do this after securing funding for one area give it to another?

Ian.

Hello There,
We have just moved into the village (York Street) and wondered if this forum is still active?
If I may be so bold as to ask.. I have heard that the Buildings are to receive a lick of paint by the Council, the Hotel we have moved into is in desperate need of external painting which I am prepared to do, but did not want to step on or spoil any ongoing scheme that your Association has worked hard to achieve. If you could let me know of any update it would be apprecited.

Thank You

Ian Thorpe.

what a good idea,this gives local people,business.a chance to air their views.and to catch up on whats happening in the foxhall village area.so lets support this site and add to it. we all have our moans so lets share them.you never know the council might look at this site and take on board what is said.
phil.