Town Centre Master News Today

Will include dereliction strategy

The long-awaited White Paper on Levelling up finally made an appearance yesterday and after all it promised it delivered very little.

A long-awaited independent review is underway into the controversial Bournemouth Development Company, ten years after it was set up. BDC was established in 2011 as 50/50 partnership between the former Bournemouth Borough Council and private developer Morgan Sindall. But although it has delivered a number of flats schemes on town centre car parks, BDC has been bedevilled by criticism of a lack of transparency, the slow rate of progress, conflicts of interests and serious questions over whe...