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MIA:
10 March 2014 - UPDATE ON THE SALE OF HIBBERT LANE
Members of the ex-MIA contact group met with College representatives to gather information about their plans for the future and in particular for the Hibbert Lane site.
The following notes on this meeting have been agreed with the College.
The College are proposing to put the land out to tender in April to national house builders who operate in the North West, with a view to selecting a preferred developer in May. There will follow the submission of a planning application to SMBC and the usual 13 week process and a public consultation in autumn.
Any residential development will have to comply with local and national planning policy and be a mix of accommodation, with an agreed percentage of affordable housing to be determined by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, whose planning guidance aims for up to 30%.
The plans for Buxton Lane have not been addressed yet. The plans will be heavily modified from those previously submitted, with more emphasis on classroom accommodation to meet EFA approval. The College has applied to EFA for a £1.5m grant for a 10 room Maths & Science block on Buxton Lane as a Phase 1 development and is awaiting a decision.
The College is currently recruiting student and parent governors. The College Board of Governors includes a contingent of parent, student and professionals within their field of practice. If you would like to express an interest in joining the College Board of Governors then please contact the Clerk to the Governors for an application form.
Marple residents should notice that the College are currently recruiting new members to the Board of Governors. There is little direct representation of the Marple community on the Board, and this would seem to be an ideal opportunity for parents, students or any member of the community with an interest in the College's future and its role in Marple, to contact the College. The ex-MIA contact group will meet with the College again in a few months time, and relay any information that we gather from the meeting to the Marple community via this web site.
MIA:
4 December 2013 - MARPLE COLLEGE STATEMENT
MARPLE COLLEGE STATEMENT – former members of Marple in Action met up with Edward Vitalis, Finance Director at Marple College, to share thoughts on where the College is now going with the Hibbert Lane site. He is awaiting a report from his planning consultants before any announcements can be made but he was happy for us to release the following statements:
“The College has officially parted from its contract with ASDA.
Hibbert Lane needs to be disposed of in order to reinvest the capital receipt in the development of the Buxton Lane site for continued provision of sixth form education in Marple.
A logical option is that the Hibbert Lane site could be sold for housing development.
The College is committed to full and frank consultation with the community about any plans.”
MIA:
4 October 2013 - MARPLE IN ACTION CHARITY DONATIONS
The ballot has now closed for the distribution of the remaining £447.05 in Marple in Action's bank account.
The votes were cast as follows:
Friends of Marple Memorial Park 99 votes = 36.00%, earning £160.94
New Horizons 73 votes = 26.55%, earning £118.67
Marple Cancer Charities 81 votes = 29.45%, earning £131.68
Marple Civic Society 22 votes = 8.00%, earning £35.76
We shall be arranging to pay these splendid local organisations in the near future.
Please note: A number of other worthy causes were nominated and received a very small number of votes. However, they were subsequently excluded due to the administrative difficultly of distributing tiny amounts.
MIA:
13 September 2013 - FINAL MARPLE IN ACTION NEWSLETTER
ASDA DEADLINE PASSES! Click below to read the Final Newsletter:
http://www.marple-uk.com/marple-in-action/MiA-newsletter-Final.pdf
Marple in Action was formed solely to fight the planning application for a supermarket on Hibbert Lane. As this has been successfully achieved, it has been decided that its’ activities should cease and its’ remaining cash be distributed to local charities. MiA still have over £400 to distribute even after some last minute expenses, so please vote to let us know which local charity/cause you want to get the biggest share. Funds will be distributed in accordance with the public vote on The Marple Website Forum, Facebook and on our stall at Marple Food and Drink Festival tomorrow.
The four local charities / causes nominated to receive a share of the fund are (in alphabetical order):
Friends of Marple Memorial Park
Marple Cancer Charities
Marple Civic Society
New Horizons
The closing date for the ballot is 30 September 2013, after which the money will be shared amongst these organisations in proportion to the votes that they receive. The online votes will be incorporated with the votes collected on Saturday at the Food and Drink Festival.
MIA:
29 June 2013 - MARPLE IN ACTION PRAISED IN PARLIAMENT
Sir Andrew Stunell MP spoke on the subject of "ill-conceived" planning applications in the House of Commons on the 19th June, and commended the work of “campaign group Marple in Action, which worked hard to make it clear that the community felt the ( Asda ) proposal to be ill-conceived”. Sir Andrew, who got his knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours, has been a strong supporter of Marple in Action throughout the two year campaign against the proposal for a supermarket on Hibbert Lane.
Marple in Action would also like to acknowledge the strong support received from the Marple Councillors, Sue Ingham, Shan Alexander, Andrew Bispham, Martin Candler, Kevin Dowling, and Craig Wright.
Mainly though, the success of the campaign was down to the people of Marple, who put up posters, signed petitions, wrote letters, marched and demonstrated that they didn't want Asda to ruin our town by building a supermarket on the College site.
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