Join the Linmere Community Forum

We’re looking for Linmere residents to join our Community Forum, building an open forum with the Linmere delivery team and other stakeholders, to work together in helping to shape the Linmere plan, moving forward. The Community Forum will meet 4 times a year, with our first meeting on 4th November, from 6:30pm, at The Farmstead.

Purpose of the forum

The Linmere Community Forum will provide a regular meeting, to bring together Linmere residents, promoting two-way conversation and opportunities for residents to help shape the forward plan.

The forum will help support this activity and drive future engagement through two key functions. The first is an advisory function by supporting the Linmere team, The Land Trust, and home developers, to shape development progress and community activity. The second is a Community Liaison function, supported and run by the Linmere Delivery Team, where the group shares and receives information and the Linmere team uses established channels to communicate updates to the wider community.

The core aims and objectives: 

• To bring residents together to help develop and implement the forward plan
• To advise on community events, partnerships, and projects that will strengthen and deepen community relationships
• To provide a forum for regular discussion and updates on the construction programme for Linmere
• To provide feedback to the developers and contractors provide an insight into any concerns the community has regarding the construction programme
• To share information on the construction programme to ensure residents and the local community are fully aware of what is happening on site and when
• To provide a forum for the local community to ask the Linmere Team questions and raise issues of concern

Who are we looking for?

The Linmere Community Forum will be drawn from Linmere residents, partners and key stakeholders, based on the Linmere site.

What are you committing to?

Forum members will:

• Attend meetings
• Share questions, views and feedback raised by members of the local community
• Provide advice and opportunities raised through wider community feedback
• Promote consultation and engagement activities being undertaken by the Linmere Delivery Team
• Attend engagement activities
• Contribute to group discussions

Meetings will be held four times a year ahead of the quarterly newsletter distribution.

There is no set requirement for members for the length of service on the group.

How to apply

To apply please send an email including your first name, surname, address, postcode and telephone number to community@linmere.com titling the email “Linmere Community Forum,” explaining, briefly, why you’d like to join.

The deadline to attend the first meeting is Thursday 31st October 2024.

The first forum meeting will be for potential members to understand the forum’s purpose. Following this, interested residents will be asked to confirm their interest in becoming a permanent forum member.

Emma Farrier, who will be leading the forum, extends our invitation to join the Linmere Community Forum, in the video below. We hope you will join us on 4th November, to help us grow the future of Linmere together. 

Linmere is designed to be a place for communities that embraces the natural environment, and where all generations can enjoy a great quality of life. This exciting new collection of leafy and walkable neighbourhoods, situated north of Houghton Regis Bedfordshire, located close to M1 Junction 11a. Nestled into verdant surroundings, its first homes completed and inhabited in 2021. The Land Trust will maintain and preserve these spaces on behalf of Houghton Regis Management Company.