PDC have just released their (our) CORE STRATEGY ISSUES AND OPTIONS CONSULTATION
if you'd like to view and comment then pop along to:
Planning Reception, Purbeck District Council
(Monday -Thursday 8:45am - 4:45pm, and Friday 8:45am - 4:15pm)
Corfe Castle Library, East Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5EE
(Mon 2pm - 4:30pm, Wed 4:30pm -7pm, Fri 9:30am -12pm, Sat 9:30am -12pm)
Dorchester Library, Colliton Park, Dorchester, DT1 1XJ
(Mon 10am -7pm, Tue 9:30am -7pm, Wed 9:30am -7pm, Thu 9:30am -5pm, Fri 9:30am -7pm, Sat 9am - 4pm)
Lytchett Matravers Library, High Street, Lytchett Matravers, BH16 6BG
(Mon 9am -1pm/2pm - 5pm, Tue 2pm - 5pm, Thu 9am -1pm, Fri 2pm -7pm, Sat 9am -12:30pm)
Poole Central Library, Dolphin Centre, Poole, BH15 1QE
(Mon 9am - 6pm, Tue 9am - 6pm, Wed 9am - 6pm, Thu 9am - 6pm, Fri 9am -6pm, Sat 9am -5pm)
Upton Library, Corner House, Upton Cross, Poole, BH16 5PW
(Mon 9:30am -1pm/ 2pm-5pm, Tue 9:30am -1pm/ 2pm -5pm, Wed 9:30am -1pm/ 2pm - 5pm, Fri 9:30am -1pm/ 2pm - 7pm, Sat 9am -12:30pm)
Swanage Library, High Street, Swanage, BH19 2NU
(Mon 10am -7pm, Tue 9:30am -1:30pm, Wed 9:30am - 5pm, Fri 9:30am - 7pm, Sat 9am - 4pm)
Wareham Library, South Street, Wareham, BH20 4LR
(Mon 10am - 5pm, Tue 9:30am -7pm, Thu 9:30am - 5pm, Fri 9:30am -7pm, Sat 9am -12:30pm)
Wool Library, D’Urberville Centre, Colliers Lane, Wool, BH20 6DL
(Tue 3pm -7pm, Thu 10am -1pm, Sat 9:30am -12:30pm)
It's a 43 page document full of entirely accessible linguistics, sorry, Govspeak.
However, it is about our next 20 years, so give it a go.
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 7:53 PM
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Is it available online?
PDC say it should be on their site on Monday.
That's really annoying because I spent ages trying to find it online on Friday when PDC said in their e-mail "Copies of the documents can be viewed and downloaded from the Council’s website www.purbeck.gov.uk (follow consultation links from the home page)."
Me too, did you find the 'test' link?
That has the resonse form, just ready n waiting.
To be honest I find the PDC website so hard to navigate that I believe someone should be taken to task about it.
PDC have kept their word.
Get reading!
http://www.purbeck.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=10865
Who or what is "Government of the South West" and who is our local representative?
I assume its the South West Regional Development Agency.
SWERDA - as it's snappily known!
QUANGO
Each region of England has one, lucky us.
You do not get a representative at regional level. They held a referendum in the north east region and the voters decided they would rather not have regional representatives.
SWRDA is the south west regional development agency and is part of regional government. English constitution is a bit complex with, in the case of rural dorset, like us, three levels of elected reps and then region and then parliament and then the EU who of course make the laws.
It may br more interesting for what it does not say than for what it says. There is no sign of a vision that the future will be different from the past, quite the opposite in fact, it is all about stopping change.
One thought came to me after reading the parts about Swanage. We used to hear a lot about Trotskyite infiltration in the Labour Party in places where membership levels were low and the party was in control but largely moribund. Has the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England done the same to the Conservatives in Purbeck. PDC policy gives primacy to stopping or at least minimising rural development. They regard it as more important than anything else, hiding behind slogans about protecting Purbeck for future generations. I can't help thinking the CPRE does more than knit cottage shaped tea cosies. How else do we explain PDC's conversion from the council that permitted all those estates on heath and green fields the far side of Wareham not so long ago to its present position. They have been infiltrated.
I agree that it is a very staid plan. But PDC's hands are to a degree tied.
Bear in mind, they HAVE to identify land for the next 15yrs and, let's be diplomatic, UP TO, 5000 homes.
You have to read between the lines but these things are included.
There are some interesting snippets in the document. For example:
"Change of use of retail provision
• Requires proof that facilities have been sufficiently and realistically marketed for at least 6-12
months and that current use is not viable now or in the future
• Requires proof that change of use would not harm vitality, viability & functionality of the settlement
• Gives priority to changes of use that would benefit the local community rather than the individual."
Quite how anybody can prove a negative I don't know, however, its gratifying to see the socialist principal that change and development should be for the benefit of the community rather than for profit has been accepted.
What next I wonder. Council leader Suttle leading us bravely into the collectivist future behind the blue banner?
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