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Gardens ARE Brownfield.
78 building plots in Swanage.
Just as Purbeck Housing Action dies so PDC release their, sorry, our ¨Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment¨ (SHLAA).
See: http://www.purbeck.gov.uk/housing/strategic_housing_land.aspx
and just in case: http://tinyurl.com/cacshf
I´ve only had a brief glance but it´ll complete the Rabling Rd, uh, development. Fill in around Bon Accord and hugely expand Herston - but not as much as it might´ve.
Yours
renter - as was.
Sorry, could you attach this bit to the last post.
After a quick look, that´s about 660 new homes in Swanage, 40 in Worth/Harmans Cross, loads around Arne and Stobo´ro.
The Lychett Matravers/Minster bit is still included, but possibly qualified.
Thanks
renter
It looks like from tonight we will all have to be carefull of where we visit on the net whom we speak to and censor our own emails this Orwellian Govt: has it wish now, here endeth free speech and privacy!
SUNDAY LUNCH
What do people do nowadays on a Sunday lunchtime - between, say, mid-day and 3pm?
Do you stay at home and have a roast dinner? Do you go out? Watch sport? Have a drink at the pub?
What would you LIKE to do on a Sunday lunchtime in Swanage?
Comments please!
LIVE MUSIC IN SWANAGE AT EASTER - all welcome, admission free
EASTER SATURDAY - 8.30 pm at the Grand Hotel, Steve Darrington Band with Hugh Budden - blues, soul and rock 'n' roll!
EASTER SUNDAY - 5pm to 8pm at Bar Seven in the High Stret, Steve Darrington Band with Mike Steele - blues, soul and rock 'n' roll!
EASTER MONDAY - 3pm - 6pm at Bar Seven in the High Street, The Refrains - 'Feel Good' songs from the 50s, 60s and 70s with great harmonies too!
SOS! A Vision for Swanage/Purbeck
Recently new campaign groups have sprung up in Purbeck. There may be a concern that there is a decline in peoples involvement in politics but there is certainly not a lack of enthusiastic wonderful people that are trying to make (political) changes at a 'grass roots' level.
A few years ago Purbeck Housing Action Group was created and led very strongly and successfully by Nico, this opened up the gates for contraversial discussions to take place. What a breath of fresh air! The Gazette enabled many people to voice their concerns. Politicians and councillors took notice. This has had a positive outcome in that the Swanage group has supported other rural groups in eg Devon, Cornwall and Wales. MP Matthew Taylor has presented a sustainable communities report to central government. Members of the Swanage housing group continue to be active and communicate with Purbeck District Council over housing concerns. Thank you Nico.
More recently groups such as SOS (Save our Schools)and 'Say No to the 2 Tier' have been formed. These groups have attracted many concerned teachers, Teaching Assistants, governors, staff, parents,councillors and members of the community. Two hundred people marched to Dorset County Council to show their strength of feeling!
PEAT (Purbeck Environment Action Team)- has been meeting for about 3 years. More recently this group has agreed to work towards 'Transition Purbeck www.TransitionTowns. This group has expanded hugely and attracts many younger people in their 20's and 30's!! It is hoped that the group, by going into schools, will sonn be able to encourage older children too.
PEAT has officially joined with the other Transition areas throughout this country and abroad. Transition Dorchester has been running for about a year. They are supporting each other to find ways of creating more sustainable and thriving communities.
What all these groups have in common is that they attract many 'active' like minded people from the community, they work hard to try to make a positive difference. They do not wait around for Purbeck District Council to do the work for them. They are inclusive and believe very much that decisions should be made by the community.
Dave Pratten the headmaster of Swanage Middle School has spoken positively at public meetings. He has highlighted the importance of 'A Vision'. This is what is needed for Swanage/Purbeck.
There are more young people wishing to live and work around here, and more young families have chosen more recently to move here permanently because of a healthy lifestyle and good schools.
So...somehow we all need to get together and make this Vision happen!
There is no reason why it can't! There are little pockets in Devon, Cornwall and Wales that have created sustainable thriving communities. As soon as you arrive, you can feel the difference.
If you have any 'positive' ideas of how to create 'this vision' then post them here. Its not all doom and gloom!
What with the paintings all over the Pier Head, the thatch restaurant, and the removal of the balcony above the East Bar door it looks like it is a planning free for all in “Down Town Swanage”. Why are the planning officers so scared to take action?
I have found an early Tv appearance of george Willey.
He is after the opening sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR6FQG0H9-I
GP Appointments
Has anyone managed to get a face to face appointment with their own GP without having to wait a couple of weeks lately? I get offered phone calls and appointments with other doctors who always list ne to my symptoms and tell me I need to see my own doctor which wastes my time and theirs. No doubt the box ticking is going perfectly but the real picture is different.
When I was a kid you just turned up and waited. Now you wait ages for an appointment and then wait anything up to three quarters of an hour to see them. Progress?
Drummond Road!
What is the lates news for the Drummond Road planning application?
MOWLEM BAR & RESTAURANT
As a regular visitor (not a 2nd home owner!), I would be interested to know whether the refurbishment to the Mowlem has now been completed and whether it has improved significantly.
Chalk and Cheese
Chalk and Cheese have funding that is available to are support small businesses. The meetings are held at Athelhampton -the only Purbeck business to apply is the Keystone (Burngate) project. All the other businesses are from west Dorset. eg Jyoti from Fivepenny Farm a sustainable farming community...where are the applications from Purbeck. The funds are there and the support..where is the energy from Purbeck. Don't sit around blaming others get off your bums and apply for what others in Dorset are doing. If you have a small business that is benefitting the community...then contact CHALK & CHEESE
T: 01305 215227-We so want to talk to you so don't hesitate.. To talk
to us about your project call 01305 215228, for local products ring 01305 215229 if you're not sure then our main number is 01305 215226. To send us anything the fax is 01305 215001 but you need to clearly mark it Chalk and Cheese as the fax lives a long way from us,
e-mail is info@chalkandcheese.org and finally our address for a more traditional approach is:
Chalk and Cheese Stinsford Business Centre Stinsford Dorchester Dorset DT2 8PY
Live Music In Swanage
A new poster is appearing in the shop windows of Swanage, dedicated to local Live Music. It shows who's playing where and when during May.
This first, trial issue is available from the Tourist Information Centre; participating venues and advertisers; and can be downloaded from http://www.swanagelife.com
If you wish to see your Live Music event listed in the June issue, or you wish to advertise, please contact me. Thank you.
Steve Darrington
EMAIL
s.darrington@btopenworld.com
PHONE
01929 422338 (during usual office hours)
PEAT on the SCREEN !
Please support this active local group that are making a positive change for Purbeck.
We are happy to offer our support to other groups too.
PEAT (Purbeck Environment Action Team) is hitting the screens and putting on the following series of FREE environmental film and documentary showings all across Purbeck in May and June..Please come along for a fun and interesting evening out.
**Thursday 21st May – 7pm – A Crude Awakening – At the Square and Compass, Worth Matravers
**Thursday 4th June – 7pm – A Message In The Waves, At Studland Study Centre, Knoll Beach. Guest Speaker Steve Trewhella
**Saturday 6th June – 7 pm – Power of Community – At Corfe Castle Village Hall. Guest speaker Andy McKee.
**Thursday 11th June – 7pm – The 11th Hour (Narrated by Leonardo Di Caprio) – At The Rex cinema, Wareham. Guest speaker Mark Constantine
PEAT is a local group of like-minded individuals working towards sustainability in Purbeck. The group formed in June 2006 to focus on how Purbeck can play its part to combat climate change. They encourage “living lightly” and sharing the Earth’s resources fairly and are supported by DA21 (formally Dorset Agenda 21).
PEAT has grown from strength to strength following the success of the “PEAT on the Street” day in September last year where the group took over the streets of Wareham to highlight ways of living sustainably and to celebrate the natural wonder of the local area. PEAT is now focusing on moving towards Transition Purbeck.
Transition Purbeck joins other Transition initiatives locally and worldwide. The main aim of the Transition initiative is for local communities to become sustainable and self-sufficient. The first step on this exciting and necessary journey is to raise awareness of peak oil and the cause and effect of climate change on a local and global level.
If you would like to find out more please contact us at
peatda21@googlemail.com or take a look on our website at
www.peat-da21.org
Thoughts?
For One Short Moment Forget The Expenses Debacle.
In the midst of all the justified furore of our once honourable members, I wish to pause to look at the mess 12 years of Labour lack of governance has brought us.
Education an utter shambles, hospitals no better than untold billions of wasted cash, police thuggish and politicised, a disgraced speaker still lauded as he is forced to quit. Our secret services and armed forces strapped for cash, a public transport like a "Carry On" film and our roads so badly maintained they kill untold thousands a year. We have a State Broadcaster who now makes The USSR Pravda look amateurs, we have laws forced upon us by a crowd of unelected EU Commissioners aided and abetted by an expenses culture Parliament, that puts our fraudsters in the bottom half of the Conference League.
At the head of this unmitigated disaster sits a man who picks his nose in public, is as nasty to his own party non-believers as he is to the rest of us doubters of his sanity. You might care to add your own list of failure and incompetence.
So amongst this shambles and wreckage of out Country Jimmy Brown "carries on" regardless. The Speaker, Labours' own place man, is forced to leave in shame. His ministers more singly corrupt than the rest of The House put together, remain intact and rich beyond most peoples' dreams. What has the great man have to say?
"Mr Brown again resisted calls for an early general election saying the crisis was not about government but about the system and it was reforming the system that would solve the problem."
Translation, "Nothing to do with me Guv." So was the system created in America? Did he change the system over the last 12 years? You bet he did. Well if these revelations of collective greed, neglect and utter arrogance and incompetence fail to force an election what will it take? For sure the real economic tsunami has not yet reached beyond the beach. That will hit around October. We should take heed and vote Labour into oblivion, or else face further destruction.
Hat tip oldrighie
Missing
Are you missing your Swanage Advertiser lately? It seems they've stopped delivering to parts of North Swanage and Durlston.
Anybody else not getting a copy?
Again thoughts!
I love the reaction from most people when you gently remind them that East Germans had more freedoms than a UK Citizen.
“Rubbish” they say. “Stop over reacting” they wail.
Well, we are now the 5th most Electronic Police State in the World. In fact, only well organised Dictatorships can beat the UK when it comes to storing and searching every little piece of information about you. The harmless citizen.
1st China
2nd North Korea
3rd Belarus
4th Russia
5th England & Wales
The 17 criteria that were used to define an electronic police state are listed below:
Daily documents: How much is required day-to-day for residents to present state-issued identity documents or registration.
Border issues: What is demanded for a border entry.
Financial tracking: The state’s ability to search and record financial transactions.
Gag orders: The penalties for revealing to someone else the state is searching their records.
Anti-crypto laws: Bans on cryptography.
Constitutional protections: Either a lack of protections or someone overriding them.
Data storage: The state’s ability to record and keep what it uncovers.
Data search: The processes to search through data.
ISP data retention: The demand for ISPs to save customers’ records.
Telephone data retention: States’ requirements for communications companies to record and save records.
Cell phone records: The saving and using of cell phone users’ records.
Medical records: Demands from states that medical records retain information.
Enforcement: The state’s ability to use force (SWAT teams) to seize someone.
Habeus corpus: Either an absence of such rights or someone overriding them.
Police-Intel barrier: the absence of a barrier between police and intelligence organizations.
Covert hacking: State operatives meddling in data on private computers covertly.
Loose warrants: Warrants that are being issued without careful review of police claims by a truly independent judge.
Tues 14:00ish
2-6
The lay-by just above the Chippie in Herston.
2 police cars, one motorcyle.
Anybody know anything?
Wed 3-6 12ish.
Anyone heard anything about a ´hit and run´ in the area today?
PEAT on the SCREEN - reminder
Saturday 6th June - Corfe Castle Village Hall 7pm - free admission - refreshments. Film - Power of Community and speaker Andy Mckee from Dorchester.
PEAT people (for Transition Purbeck) support local businesses, source local food,are reducing their fossil fuel consumption, and are generally trying to live more lighltly. Please join us on this journey. We can have fun on the way if we do this together!!
PEAT (Purbeck Environment Action Team) for Transition Purbeck.
Free Film!
PEAT on the SCREEN
Is showing 11th Hour–on 11th June 2009
At the Rex, Wareham at 7pm
Guest Speaker, Mark Constantine, Co-Founder, Lush
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this captivating documentary explores the perilous state of our planet and the means by which we can change our course.
A first rate documentary on ecology and the environment, with excellent new footage and archive material shot around the world~Observer
Come to The 11 Hour and get 50% off the Monday 15th June showing of Age of Stupid!! 7pm
Age of Stupid just £3 on Monday if you come to the 11th Hour!
Age of Stupid ~ Watch the movie that everyone’s talking about!
Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
I defy anyone to come out and not feel like they’ve got to make a difference. Caroline Lucas, Green Party
PEAT
Sale of Swanage's Family Silver -
Swanage Bay View Holiday Park - has been sold!
According to Fox Leisure, the firm handling the sale of SBV, the park is now listed as Sold. The identity of the new owner(s) is unknown at this time, as is the timetable for completion of the sale, but the betting is on Shorefields who own the park next door.
Let's hope the Town Council has done something that will benefit Swanage well into the future, as well as the caravan owners who comprise the largest portion of tourists visiting and contributing to the coffers of Swanage. Let's keep our fingers crossed that the Vista's amenities remain available (albeit on a commercial basis) to the town's residents and visitors.
STC has conducted this process without any consultation with the Owners at the Park, or Residents of Swanage, both of whom are major stakeholders in SBV, so any successes or failures in this transaction must be credited to, or blamed on, them alone.
Watch this space!
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