Contents:

• Membership
• Remit
• Activities

Membership

Members of the Panel are invited to serve by the Panel Chairman because of their interest in and knowledge of the appropriate issues. The Panel should normally have not less than four and not more than ten members.

Remit

The Panel's main purpose is to monitor and, if necessary, comment upon two related subjects affecting the parishes of Sonning and Sonning Eye: planning and environmental matters and highway matters, including public transport and the street scene. It should be guided by the purposes set out in the Constitution, particularly "to promote high standards of planning and architecture" and "to secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic, natural or public interest".

Activities

The Panel are currently working with the Sonning Parish Council Highways Working Group to develop a long term strategy to reduce the impact of the large volumes of traffic that pass through the two villages. This will also seek to reduce the amount of street signs that clutter up the villages, possibly by adopting the concept of 'shared space', pioneered in Holland, which deliberately blurs the separation of road users and pavement users.

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