May 2018 Board Meeting
The GWR 5 plank wagon as it may look when restored A very good, forward looking atmosphere in the Boardroom on Saturday as we worked through a number of very positive developments. Top of the priority list is the planning application to Stroud District Council for permission to build platforms at Berkeley and Newtown. We had hoped we could get away with calling them a rebuild of an existing structure, thus avoiding Planning Permission but SDC, probably quite rightly, to be honest, insisted they were a lot more than a rebuild so we need to submit plans and we have set ourselves the ambitious target of doing this by 31st July. We have been held back here by the lack of an architectural draughtsperson prepared to do the drawing work pro bono but regular member Andrew Perrin, who came from Portsmouth specially for the meeting, is a surveyor by trade so he was able to give us some strong pointers as to how to go about the job. So it is being left to him to work with Paul Colechin, o