Preliminary report on PDC consultation:
Distributing new housing around Swanage, Upton, Wareham and larger villages was the preference of respondents to Purbeck District Council’s recent consultation on Planning Purbeck’s Future. However, the response to the proposal for a large supermarket on the edge of Wareham was less clear-cut ... more on website
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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How difficult can PDC make it to use their website? They put up four different PDF docs marked 1,2 3,& 4 NO TITLES! You have to load them all to see what’s in them!
Still it was nice to see Swanage View got a mention.
Hmm: see in Doc 1. Interesting to see that people's comments have been noted. Though does anyone feel they would like to know (beforehand) if their comments are being recorded and abstracted?
1.3 Web forum
1.3.1 For the first time a web forum was made available for people to post comments and start discussions. However, the take up was slow with only 28 comments. In contrast, the Swanage View website has around 130 comments on the Core Strategy consultation, and these have been noted.
The Government Office for the South West appears to be a little geographically challenged as they sent their letter to "PDC, Westport House, StStephens Rd, Bournemouth", however it does make the sensible point that putting houses in Swanage and jobs at Winfrith would not do much for traffic on the A351.
STC clearly wish the whole question of more people would go away.
I think some people will be surprised to see their comments available for all to read.
Only if they didn't read the small print.
"Swanage Town Council and Wool Parish Council have chosen not to support extensions to their settlement"
So where is all the affordable housing - that they support - going?
'So where is all the affordable housing - that they support - going?'
Wherever this government decides, with scant regard for local government's views.
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