I updated Fenny Compton Parish Council with progress on the proposed affordable housing scheme.
I met Orbit Heart of England Housing Association and Stratford DC staff to discuss the potential for various garage sites to be used for affordable housing schemes for local people.
I spoke to the owner of a potential development site for affordable housing in Sambourne.

I continued to record the returned questionnaires from the Public Consultation on the proposed affordable housing scheme in Bishop’s Itchington.
I wrote to Langley Parish Council, Morton Bagot, Oldberrow & Spernall Joint Parish Council, Preston Bagot Parish Meeting and Ullenhall Parish Council following my presentation to Henley & Studley Community Forum with offers to undertake Housing Needs Surveys.
I contacted Wootton Wawen Parish Council offering to attend a meeting to explain the Housing Needs Survey process.

I continued to record the returned questionnaires from the Public Consultation on proposed affordable housing schemes in Bishop’s Itchington and Snitterfield.
I prepared and issued the Report on the Public Consultation on a proposed affordable housing scheme in Snitterfield.
I started to prepare the material for the Public Consultation Drop In Event in Bishop’s Itchington on 7 November 2009.
I wrote to Exhall Parish Council to introduce myself and offer to undertake a Housing Needs Survey as included in the Parish Plan Action Plan.

I analysed the comments from the Public Consultation Event about the proposed affordable housing scheme in Snitterfield.
I continued to record the returned questionnaires from the Public Consultation on proposed affordable housing schemes in Bishop’s Itchington and Snitterfield.
I discussed a potential development site in Wellesbourne with the owners.
I arranged to meet Tanworth-in-Arden Parish Council to discuss affordable housing and undertaking a Housing Needs Survey.
I attended a meeting of the Warwickshire Rural Housing Enabler Project Steering Group.

I responded to a request from a developer for information about previous Housing Needs Surveys undertaken in Kineton Parish.
I met the owner of a potential development site in Lighthorne Heath to discuss its suitability for housing and the need for the Parish Council’s support.
I met the developer of the proposed affordable housing schemes in Fenny Compton and Snitterfield.
I responded to some enquiries from residents about the proposed affordable housing schemes in Fenny Compton and Snitterfield.

Following my return from holiday, I completed and issued the agenda and papers for the next meeting of the Warwickshire Rural Housing Enabler Project Steering Group.
I contacted Salford Priors Parish Council to clarify whether or not it wishes to pursue a particular potential development for affordable housing with Warwickshire CC Highways.
I started to record the returned questionnaires from the Public Consultation on proposed affordable housing schemes in Bishop’s Itchington and Snitterfield.

Wood Park FarmAnother session with John and Sue Collins and Mary Willis. We met at the Tithe Barn in Polesworth with volunteer, Les Holmes, and tried out some group interviewing with a few different microphones. John, Sue and Mary generated some wonderful conversation about the realities of farm life with all its highs and lows, which I recorded on video.

A few weeks earlier, I copied this photo of John's Aunt Nora at Wood Park Farm, Polesworth. She's wearing a Tamworth High School uniform.

Hill Farm, ShuttingtonBack with Bill and Mary Willis in Warton this week, this time with Geoff Frisby. If my notes are correct, Geoff and Mary's father, Sidney, farmed at Hill Farm, Shuttington. The farmhouse is pictured here, before demolition to make way for opencast working. So much has changed.

 Mary spent some time on the phone telling people about the My Farming Life project, and hopefully encouraging them to tell their farming story for the record.

I requested confirmation from Stratford DC that a site in Edgehill would be suitable as a Rural Exception Site for affordable housing.
I requested initial reaction to possible development sites for affordable housing in Little Compton from Stratford DC and Warwickshire CC from a planning and highways perspective.
I finalised dates for the Housing Needs Survey in Clifford Chambers & Milcote and arranged printing of the forms and covering letter.
The forms will be delivered in mid October with a return date of 11 November 2009.

This week I had a meeting with John Wilson, Archivist at RASE, based in the Arthur Rank building at Stoneleigh. I met John and student Librarian, Heather, in the cloistered environment of the libraryFrom www.windowsonwarwickshire. Farm life as depicted for children in the 1950s.. Central to the room is a grand table with imposing chairs like something out of Hogwarts (apologies to those who have not read Harry Potter).