June 2006
The NSE announce a public consultation exercise regarding their future direction and use of their Chalfont St Peter site. The information is aimed at a much wider audience than just their neighbours. Furthermore, it addresses all of the NSE's activities and not simply long-term residential accommodation. The downloadable consultation paper is an interesting and informative read. The NSE invite interested parties to complete an online questionnaire by 30 June with the intention of putting the results to an internal Board meeting near the end of July 2006.
The information provided is more direct and useful than the newsletters of 2003/04. It talks about being commercial, including depreciation in fees, staffing fees and recruitment issues, etc. It touches on problems of maintaining existing and excessive properties but does not put forward plans for the future of the site - perhaps, given the 'consultative' nature of the exercise this is understandable. But the proof of the pudding will be the eating. |
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