From Sustainable Community Action

Malling Action Partnership, or MAP, is a community-based partnership, launched 3 April 2006, to undertake a Market Towns Initiative 'health check' in the market town of West Malling (Kent, England) and its hinterland. A health check is just a detailed look at local services and seeing if they provide all the things that people who live in, work in, or visit the town, need and want.

Contents 1 News 2 Hinterland 3 Vision and Action Plan 4 Contact MAP 4.1 Working groups 4.2 Other contacts 5 Future meetings 6 Previous meetings 7 Communicating with the local community 8 Who is taking part in MAP? 9 Support for MAP 10 Related topics 11 References 12 Related Wiki pages 13 External links

[edit] News

• New (March 2007) feature on MAP Environment group page - Neighbourhood Fix-It rss feed and links
• New (November 2006) - MAP general comments page - use this page to write comments about living, working, shopping, getting around, etc. in West Malling and its surrounding villages.
• Low carbon community initiative - also use the MAP general comments page page to support or otherwise comment on this idea.
• Recent changes to talk pages:

• Talk:Transport Snapshot for the West Malling area - ARRIVA Bus Services change of routing from A228??? December 6 2006

[edit] Hinterland

Broadly speaking the hinterland is seen as including the adjoining parishes of

• Addington
• Birling
• East Malling and Larkfield
• Kings Hill
• Leybourne
• Mereworth
• Offham
• Ryarsh
• Trottiscliffe

[edit] Vision and Action Plan

• The health check is intended to lead to a community-developed vision for the future of West Malling as a market town, and an action plan. MAP will then help advance community-chosen most-needed projects.

[edit] Contact MAP

Remember to change the (at) to the appropriate symbol in the contact details given below

[edit] Working groups

Four working groups are covering different aspects of the Health Check, and all are open to anyone interested in helping.

• Transport and Accessibility - Chair: Norman Kemp - nuventurecoachesltd (at) yahoo.co.uk
• Social and community - Chair: Molly Potts - robert.vago (at) virgin.net
• Economic - Chair: Sash Luck - theoldclockshop (at) tesco.net
• Environment - Chair: vacant as at March 2007

[edit] Other contacts

• West Malling Parish Council Clerk - Carole D'Silva - carole.wmpc (at) btconnect.com
• MAP Co-ordinator - Keith Bullard, talk - NEWMARKCCKMB (at) btinternet.com
• MAP Chair - Trudy Dean, talk - trudy.dean (at) kent.gov.uk
• Action with Communities in Rural Kent -
• advice / help re using this wiki - Philralph, talk

[edit] Future meetings

• Working groups are continuing their meetings and activities throughout the autumn and winter, and all are open to anyone interested in helping.
• The next general MAP meeting for everyone is likely to be early 2007 (Proposed meeting for December 2006 not now going ahead)
• The next Steering Group meeting is being arranged for after Christmas

[edit] Previous meetings

• MAP environment forum October 31 2006 - you can add further comment, but please read the introductory paragraphs first.
• MAP skill share workshop August 2006 - some feedback and flipchart listings

[edit] Communicating with the local community

As well as more informal communications, MAP produces a regular Newsletter and aims to keep anyone interested, even if not able to actively contribute at the present time, informed about progress.

[edit] Who is taking part in MAP?

So far, the following groups have sent representatives to MAP meetings:

• Chamber of Commerce
• West Malling Church of England Primary School
• Nu-Venture buses
• Malling Society
• West Malling Village Hall Committee
• Age Concern
• Town Malling Cricket Club
• Malling Lions
• Malling Photographic Society
• Malling Area Volunteer Bureau
• Pilsdon at Malling
• Parish, Borough and County Councils

[edit] Support for MAP

• Project consultants: Action with Communities in Rural Kent
  

MAP is also supported by

• Kent County Council
• South East Rural Towns Partnership
• South East England Development Agency

The Market Towns Initiative has been developed from an initiative of the Countryside Agency, now part of Natural England

[edit] Related topics

• MAP draft publicity leaflet

[edit] References

• MAP Newsletters no. 3 & 4
• West Malling Parish Council Newsletter, March 2006

[edit] Related Wiki pages

• wikipedia:West Malling

[edit] External links

• West Malling Resource Centre, Independent site which includes useful community links
• Action for Market Towns (AMT) Not-for-profit membership association dedicated to promoting the vitality and viability of small towns across the UK.
• Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council
• Kent Connects