First meeting of Village Renewal and Development Thematic Group (13-10-09)

13/10/2009

The Rural Network for Northern Ireland has established a Village Renewal and Development Thematic Group, the first meeting of which took place on September 15th.

Facilitated by Local Action Groups (LAGs) Measure 3.5 of the Rural Development Programme focuses on Village renewal and development. The aim of the measure is to enable and encourage residents of villages and surrounding areas to create a vision and an integrated action plan to ensure the full potential of these areas is achieved and to support integrated village initiatives which promote cross-community development and regeneration. Representatives of all seven LAGs attended the meeting and Bob Adams of GROW South Antrim was elected as Chair of the group. The aims of Thematic Working Group are to research and evaluate approaches to village renewal and development; to identify approaches and good practices capable of delivering benefits to rural Northern Ireland; to record and report their findings and recommendations for the benefit of both the local and wider networks and to encourage the adoption of good practices. The establishment of the Working Group enables the LAGs in Northern Ireland to access the experiences of others and will allow them, through the network, to evaluate approaches to village renewal and development and to assist local actions through their assessment of those type of actions most likely to successfully transfer. An associated programme of action will be developed and implemented over the next 12 months. A copy of the Terms of reference notes and materials from the Thematic Working Group meetings will be posted on the membership section of the Rural Network site www.ruralnetworkni.org.uk

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