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The Dorridge & District Local Sustainable Community Group wants villagers to “work together, creatively, constructively and in partnership with others” for “sustainble development”.
It aims to produce a list of “issues, risks, solutions and opportunities” affecting the area and create interest groups.
It also wants to “make it easy for everyone, expert or non-expert, to make contributions to the discussion, to take a considered view and to own the results”.
The idea was devised via comments on The Silhillian in the aftermath of a Sainsbury’s plan for Forest Court being approved by councillors on Wednesday night.
Residents are invited to the Station Cafe Bar at 7.30pm tomorrow (Monday) to discuss ideas.
Its website adds: “We will work within any wider network of national and international groups with a similar agenda in order to share information and to achieve greater influence in decisions which affect our community.
“It's early days, but there are a great number of active groups who have information and expertise that could be useful to us in thinking about what we could achieve in Dorridge.”
The group has been proposed by Chris Baker, a villager for 24 years, in “close consultation” with the Dorridge and District Residents Association (DDRA) and Dorridge Residents Opposed to Village Superstore group (DROVS).
The website adds: “This is intended as an impartial, open and transparent forum to inform and to support activities, discussions and decision making processes which affect the sustainable development of Dorridge.”
Some residents have expressed disappointment with the DDRA, which backed the Sainsbury’s plan.
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