About this website


This is to keep you informed about the work on a Neighbourhood Plan for the Broadwindsor Group Parish.

Below will be latest news, invitations to meetings and so on and you can add your comments after any post.
On the right is a short description of Neighbourhood Plans and below that a list of useful websites, for example government advice about neighbourhood Plans and the Weymouth, Portland and West Dorset Local Plan.

This affects everyone in the Broadwindsor Group Parish.
Whether you live in Blackdown, Broadwindsor, Drimpton, Seaborough, or smaller settlements, this is your business. We can all help to decide how our communities will develop and thrive.

Thursday 21 April 2016

Update 21st April 2016

We have a committee meeting next week (people from Broadwindsor Group Parish are welcome to attend) - Wednesday 27th April, 10.30 am, in the Comrades Hall, after which more detailed information will be posted here.

Just to give you an idea of where we are (this list was written by our consultant Joe Witherden) in the Neighbourhood Plan process, here is a very brief list of what needs to be done:

-        Agree to prepare Neighbourhood Plan    
-        Agree Neighbourhood Plan area
-        Decision on scope of NP
-        Research and evidence gathering on identified issues
-        Identify and consult on options (if relevant)
-        Draft Plan and consult
-        Submission
-        Examination
-        Referendum

Key
Agreed
In progress
For the Future

There is always a comment box at the end of posts here, you may submit ideas, suggestions and comments that way at any time. 

Wednesday 13 January 2016

Having your say.

Broadwindsor Neighbourhood Plan Committee Public Meetings

The Neighbourhood Plan committee invites all residents of the Broadwindsor Group Parish to attend two meetings:


The first on 9th February at Comrades Hall, Broadwindsor
The second on 23rd February at Drimpton Village Hall.

Both meetings start at 7.30pm.


The meetings are to collate everybody’s views and opinions on what to consider for our Neighbourhood Plan.

Items we want to cover at the meetings include:
Local needs:
Housing / Business / Social / Transport / Other Infrastructure.
The assets we need to protect:
Landscape / Heritage / Character / Wildlife / Community Facilities.
Places that could be changed for the better and provide development opportunities.

Please put your thinking caps on so that we can make good use of these meetings to enable our plan to evolve to serve our community and future generations well.


The Neighbourhood Plan Committee needs your input to ensure that this happens.

For more information please contact either:
* Rowland Hibbard    rowlandxhibbard@yahoo.co.uk    01460x30269
* Steve Chubb           chubbiesx1@btinternet.com         01308x868385
(Remove the x from the above email addresses and/or phone numbers to use them - trying to reduce nuisance calls and messages).

Even if you are unable to attend a meeting your ideas are still welcome, please send them via either of the contacts above.