Purbeck consultation:
Remember that PDC are currently consulting on modifications to the Core Strategy, which dictates what can be in the Swanage Local Plan. This ends on 31st July and includes proposals that Swanage has:
- 200 homes outside the extension settlement (and about 700 within the town)
- Supermarket expansion in Swanage. (It was originally going to be on the outskirts of Wareham.)
- No economic strategy to find jobs
- Transport Strategy that relies on a few more buses to solve congestion.
- No specific protection for AoNB (our countryside)
Swanage Town and Community Partnership are hoping to run a session at Funworld on Sat 14th July to help people respond to this consultation.
The next STCP quarterly meeting will be on Thursday, 13th September at 2.30pm.
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Mike , the link you put in does not work it comes up saying URL not found:(
It worked for me. Perhaps there was a gremlin earlier.
I was puzzled to read this at MM21
"Mitigation measures that will ensure the development including the SANGS are nitrogen neutral…"
Carbon neutral we are all aware of but nitrogen? Can anyone offer enlightenment on the significance of this, or is it a mistake?
So now PDC plan to build a new supermarket in Swanage. Where I wonder? The medical centre site perhaps? Is there a connection here? Have the doctors done a deal with Tesco or someone?Is that why they're keen to move?
Who is the Swanage Town Community Partnership ?
Have a look at
http://swanagetownandcommunitypartnership.co.uk/
It looks like the doctors, who own the Health Centre can sell it to the co-op and get funding for a new one somewhere else, and of course, take the profit for themselves. You could easily extend the Health Centre up, all the worries about pipes and infrastructure have been refuted. So its all about personal profit? I could of course be wrong....
The Swanage Town and Community Partnership was formed a few years ago with the intention of finding what people want and need, and providing a focus to enable these visions to become reality.
Thanks for the link, but it doesn't really say who STCP is.
Who is finding out what people want and need? Who is it that is making these visions become reality?
Anonymous said at 4:02 "So now PDC plan to build a new supermarket in Swanage" ... What the plan actually says is that provision for 900 - 950m2 of retail food floor space be made over the next 15 years. (The total area of the Co-op store is around 800m2). Perhaps of more concern is the non-food floorspace allocation of 2000m2, which has not been reduced in line with the reduction in food space as a result of lower population forecasts. What is it that the council expect us all to be buying that we're currently doing without? Or are we just expected to buy new rather than "make do and mend".. maybe this is to justify the new super-duper recycling facility?
Anonymous said (3:35pm) "Carbon neutral we are all aware of but nitrogen? Can anyone offer enlightenment on the significance of this, or is it a mistake?"
The plan says, (MM55-MM56, pages 36/37) "A joint approach to ensure that new development is nitrogen neutral is underway". It further clarifies this by saying that change-of-use from agricultural land to housing development at Wareham, Upton and Lytchett Matravers will reduce nitrogen fertilizer run-off into Poole Harbour, making these developments "nitrogen-neutral". Rather than looking at an over-fertilized field and requiring the farmer(s) to reduce nitrate pollution, the approach is simply to tarmac the lot, with the argument that nitrate-rich sewer effluent is less damaging than nitrate-rich farm run-off. You can see the twisted logic, but twisted it most certainly is...
Thanks for that. I can see that it is a valid consideration.
Ah.... tarmac the countryside and we will be much greener - right. Also get rid of those burping cows.
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