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Malling Action Partnership

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Farmers Market, West Malling, Kent, England, MayPhoto credit:Philralph
Farmers Market, West Malling, Kent, England, May
Photo credit:Philralph

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.


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[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:

[edit] Hinterland

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

[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.

[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

[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:

[edit] Support for MAP

MAP is also supported by

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

[edit] Related topics

[edit] References

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

[edit] Related Wiki pages

[edit] External links

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