CAMPAIGNERS are urging Dorset residents to engage in an upcoming consultation on a plan which will guide decisions on planning applications for around the next 20 years. Dorset Council s Local Plan is currently in development and will set out planning policies and allocations for the Dorset Council area until at least 2038. In a recent letter, Dorset CPRE (Campaign to Protect Rural England) has encouraged residents to give their opinions through the consultation, amid concerns that town and parish councils are being consulted increasingly less by Dorset Council. The consultation, which is due to take place in January, will give residents the opportunity to comment on the council s draft plan, which outlines the strategy for ensuring the growth that the area needs happens in the right places and is of the right character and quality.
CAMPAIGNERS are urging Dorset residents to engage in an upcoming consultation on a plan which will guide decisions on planning applications for around the next 20 years. Dorset Council s Local Plan is currently in development and will set out planning policies and allocations for the Dorset Council area until at least 2038. In a recent letter, Dorset CPRE (Campaign to Protect Rural England) has encouraged residents to give their opinions through the consultation, amid concerns that town and parish councils are being consulted increasingly less by Dorset Council. The consultation, which is due to take place in January, will give residents the opportunity to comment on the council s draft plan, which outlines the strategy for ensuring the growth that the area needs happens in the right places and is of the right character and quality.
Tory MPs welcomed Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick s move but said we still need radical change
16 December 2020 • 9:05pm
Robert Jenrick was applauded by Tory MPs in rural constituencies for revising the formula for house building targets
Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
Ministers must go further than shelving a controversial housing target algorithm and ensure that planning systems are locally-led, MPs and campaigners have urged.
Robert Jenrick, the Housing Secretary, was applauded by Tory MPs in rural constituencies on Wednesday after he announced an overhaul of the formula for house building targets that will see more homes built in urban areas.
Former prime minister Theresa May was among senior Tories who had warned the computer-based formula first proposed in August would lead to swathes of southern England being “concreted over”.
A HOUSING plan detailing where 30,000 homes can be built in South Oxfordshire has been approved after a year-long delay. The South Oxfordshire Local Plan, described as a ‘plan that no-one wanted’, was adopted by the district’s councillors after a tense and long meeting held on Thursday night. Many of the new estates in the plan will now be built around the outskirts of Oxford, including on sites at Grenoble Road and near the Sandhills estate. Others include plans to develop Chalgrove Airfield into a ‘new town’, and extra housing near Culham. The council’s Liberal Democrat-Green majority had hoped to scrap the plan and overhaul it due to concerns about how many new homes were being built on Green Belt land, countryside which is supposed to be free from development.