The key principles that any part of the plan must be judged against

• The village residents must remain in control of what is happening. – outside agencies must not be allowed to dictate what we do – if it is not what we want then we don’t do it.

Any individual schemes must

• clearly benefit the residents – example,  a heritage centre  must include community facilities for residents. 
• be environmentally friendly and improve the habitat around the village.
• have low running costs – we don’t want to be saddled with continually raising lots of money.
• respect the historical layout of the village – no insensitive or large scale developments.
• preserve the historical heritage of the village – that means seeking money for archaeological investigation and urgently needed preservation work.
• target facilities for quiet visitors who come to experience the calm of this part of Sherwood  – we don’t need the noise and disruption of mass tourism because the important nature of the village would be lost.
• not increase the amount of traffic in the village  - Main Road is already bad enough so there should be no new car parking for visitors within the village.
• not create parking problems in the village - do we need residents only parking ?
• treat the village and surrounding forest as a whole historical and geographic unit. – create better links to the surrounding areas for both wildlife and people.