A PRESENTATION on the bid to gain special World Heritage Site status for parts of Cornwall and West Devon including Tavistock will be made at the next meeting of Tavistock Forward.

Stephen Gill, West Devon Borough Council head of planning and development, will give members details on the bid to UNESCO for World Heritage Site status, which is still at an early stage.

Tavistock Forward will also hear updates on a number of projects,

including the Hoppa Bus, the Tavistock Canal bi-centenary celebrations, the Guildhall feasibility study, a music and arts festival and the Town Alive programme.

The meeting will take place next Thursday, March 27, upstairs at the Ordulph Arms, in Tavistock, at 7.30pm.

l At Tavistock Forward?s annual meeting in January, the new executive for the following 12 months were elected.

John Taylor was readopted as chair, other members of the executive are Chris Kirwin, Will Smith, Pat Westaway, Moira Andrews, Kelvin Stagg, Simon O?Connor-Thompson and Robert Mulliner.

At the meeting, Mr Taylor gave a summary of the progress made by Tavistock Forward in the previous 12 months. Guest speakers at Tavistock Forward meetings had included John Barkham from the South West Regional Development Agency, Tavistock College Principal John Simes, Devon County Council local services

officer Mike Parnell and Tim Selman from Tamar Valley Services.

Mr Taylor paid tribute to Mr Peter Donkin, who died during the year, who he said was a hard working member of the Tavistock Forward group who would be hard to replace.