
Residents to vote on neighbourhood plans
Broadwindsor and Milborne St Andrew could each have a Neighbourhood Plan if residents give it the go ahead.
Broadwindsor and Milborne St Andrew could each have a Neighbourhood Plan if residents give it the go ahead.
Dorset Council has a legal requirement to produce and adopt a new local plan within the next four to five years. This will eventually replace the local plans adopted by the separate district and borough councils that existed before Dorset Council was formed.
A Conservation and Community Fund has been re-opened for the parish areas of Warmwell, Crossways, Knightsford, Broadmayne, Owermoigne, Puddletown, Moreton, and Winfrith Newburgh.
A public examination of a plan for the former Purbeck District area takes place this summer.
Dorset Council has approved a request from Sturminster Marshall Parish Council for the designation of a Neighbourhood Area, which is the first formal stage of preparing a plan.
Motcombe Parish Council has submitted a neighbourhood plan to Dorset Council.