RTW Town Forum - Champions & Working Groups
- since 2005 and 2010/2011

Community - Environment / Street Scene - Grot Spots - Health - Heritage - Leisure & Parks - Local Strategic Partnership - Local Development Framework (LDF) - Planning - Streetscape / Townscape - Transport - Vision for Royal Tunbridge Wells



'RTW Town Forum AIMS & OBJECTIVES'

RTW Town Forum Aims & Objectives 2010/2011 agreed at RTW Town Forum 25 March 2010
RTW Town Forum Aims & Objectives 2010/2011
RTW Town Forum 25 March 2010



'PLANNING'

Local Development Framework - Core Strategy

Royal Tunbridge Wells - Town Centre Area Action Plan

RTW Town Centre - Civic Centre Site - Regeneration

Core Strategy Review - Consultation
TWBC Planning Policy Team
RTW TF 26 May 2011
The Assembly Hall Theatre of the future?” - Looking to 2020 and beyond
Paul Taylor, TWBC Director of Change & Communities
RTW TF 24 February 2011
'Thinking differently about libraries'
RTW Town Forum TCAAP Working Group 2010 - Library Working Group
RTW TF 25 November 2010
Questions/Answers re: Museum
RTW Town Forum TCAAP Working Group 2010 - Museum Working Group
RTW TF 28 October 2010
Questionnaire: Library in Royal Tunbridge Wells / Borough of Tunbridge Wells
RTW Town Forum TCAAP Working Group 2010 - Library Working Group
RTW TF 28 October 2010
Questions re: Museum in Royal Tunbridge Wells / Borough of Tunbridge Wells
RTW Town Forum TCAAP Working Group 2010 - Museum Working Group
RTW TF 28 October 2010
Civic Centre Site Working Groups
(RTW Town Centre Area Action Plan Working Group)

— Assembly Hall - Katharina Mahler-Bech (Telephone House Neighbours Association)
— Adult Education - Mary Wardrop (Sherborne Close Management)
— Museum - Altan Omer (Benhall Mill Road Land Association)
— Library - Jane Fenwick (Calverley Park Association)
Christopher Thomas (Woodbury Close Residents Association)

These group leads will response to the consultation on the Town Hall site in autumn 2010.
September 2010
RTW / TW Retail Stakeholder Event 13 July 2010 - Follow-up Questionnaire
RTW Town Forum TCAAP Working Group 2010
11 September 2010
RTW Town Centre Area Action Plan - Comments to Questionnaire / Allocations RTW Town Forum TCAAP Working Group 2010
24 August 2010
TWBC Local Development Framework (LDF)





'COMMUNITY'

RTW Town Forum Community Champion:
Katharina Mahler-Bech, taking over from Daniel Bech,
Telephone House Neighbours Association - RTW Town Centre
October 2010
KCC - No Use Empty - Empty Properties Initiative
No Use Empty - Regeneration and Economic Development
Kent's Empty Property Initiative
Meeting 9 November 2010 - to mark 5th anniversary
RTW Town Cente Walk 4 March 2010 - Cleaner & Greener RTW - Environment & Streetscene
Royal Tunbridge Wells Town Centre Walk
issues: Cleaner & Greener Royal Tunbridge Wells - Environment & Streetscene
RTW Town Forum & Tunbridge Wells Borough Councillors 4 March 2010
Powerpoint Presentation: Highways issues
affecting the streetscene / streetscape of Royal Tunbridge Wells
"RTW Conservation Area at Risk" - Royal Tunbridge Wells Streetscene / Streetscape
KCC / TWBC / RTW Town Forum Meeting
discuss issues under the responsibility of Kent Highways Services (KHS)
KHS / TWBC / RTW Town Forum Meeting 4 November 2009
Powerpoint Presentation: Environmental / Conservation issues
affecting the streetscene / streetscape of Royal Tunbridge Wells
"RTW Conservation Area at Risk" - Royal Tunbridge Wells Streetscene / Streetscape
TWBC / RTW Town Forum Meeting
to discuss issues under the responsibility of the Borough Council
TWBC / RTW Town Forum Meeting 23 September 2009

Local Strategic Partnership (Community Plan)

Local Strategic Partnership - Tunbridge Wells Together
The Council in partnership with the public, private, community and voluntary sector
— to discuss challenges and opportunities and to develop a long term vision for the borough.


'ENVIRONMENT / STREET SCENE'

GROT SPOTS - TOWNSCAPE - STREETSCAPE

Royal Tunbridge Wells - Local Press reports on Grot Spots and "Our Dingy Town!"
"Spot the Grot, Stop the Rot!"
start: October 2005
update 26 June 2010 - Rail line under town ‘grot spot’: Cinema (Kent on Saturday / KOS)
update 2 May 2010 - Arriva Bus Depot, a 'mega grot spot' (Kent on Saturday / KOS)
update 21 August 2009 - "Seven deadly sins" ruining our town - war on scruffy streets (The Courier)
Report a Grot Spot Report a Grot Spot in Royal Tunbridge Wells you think needs improvement

RTW Grot Spots:

> > > Grot Spot - Ritz Building/Cinema Site

MORE INFO on the history of the Cinema saga: Cinema Saga - since 2000




'HERITAGE'

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Heritage Champion: Councillor Mike Rusbridge
Western area of the Borough
2008/2009 and 2009/2010




'TRANSPORT'

RTW Town Forum Transport Champion:
John V Goodfellow, Banner Farm Residents Association
since January 2009
Transport Report
Revision of the Borough Transport Strategy
for RTW Town Foum 25.03.2010
Public Transport Forum

Bus Gateway & Five Ways in RTW

Parking - Safe Crossings - Public Transport





'VISION'

Royal Tunbridge Wells in Bloom
(part of "Cleaner & Greener Royal Tunbridge Wells")

Royal Tunbridge Wells in Bloom - www.royaltunbridgewellsinbloom.org.uk - db/2010 Royal Tunbridge Wells in Bloom - www.royaltunbridgewellsinbloom.org.uk
Royal Tunbridge Wells in Bloom - relaunch 2010
Meetings
since June 2009

The PANTILES area
(including: Union Square)

Future of the town Royal Tunbridge Wells — RTW in Bloom, Wine Fair in RTW
Meeting with Targetfollow (Adrian Goldney, Head of Marketing/Sales, Lucy Wilson)
Daniel Bech, Michael Holman
11 March 2010





RTW Town Forum Champions 2009-2010

RTW Town Forum Champions 2009-2010RTW Town Forum Champions 2009-2010

Community - Environment - Grot Spots / Townscape / Street Scene - Planning / Local Development Framework (LDF) - Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) - Transport - Vision for RTW (RTW in Bloom - The Future of RTW)



RTW Town Forum Champions 2008-2009

RTW Town Forum Champions 2008-2009RTW Town Forum Champions 2008-2009

Community - Environment - Grot Spots / Townscape / Street Scene - Planning / Local Development Framework (LDF) - Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) - Transport - Vision for RTW (RTW in Bloom - The Future of RTW)



RTW Town Forum Working Groups 2007-2008

RTW Town Forum Working Groups 2007-2008RTW Town Forum Working Groups 2007-2008

Grot Spots / Townscape / Street Scene - Planning / Local Development Framework (LDF) - Community Plan / Local Strategic Partnership - Environment / Housing - Transport - Vision for RTW (Public Art & Culture - The Pantiles Area)



RTW Town Forum Committees 2006-2007

RTW Town Forum Committees 2006-2007RTW Town Forum Committees 2006-2007

Grot Spots / Townscape / Street Scene - Community Plan - Planning / Local Development Framework (LDF) - Transport - Housing / Environment - Vision for RTW



RTW Town Forum Committees 2005-2006

RTW Town Forum Committees 2005-2006RTW Town Forum Committees 2005-2006

"Brighten-up RTW", "Community Plan", "Local Development Framework" (LDF),
"Licensing", "Vision for Kent", "South East Plan"