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The Campaign to

Keep Wimborne Green

 

 

Diary

Date

Activity

 

Future Events (Nearest  Dates First)

 

Spring 2010

Due to the unprecedented number of responses and a successful legal challenge of the East of England plan the final decision on the South West RSS has been delayed until early 2010. 

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Past Events (Most Recent Dates First)

 

18/3/09

East Dorset County Council Policy and Resources committee recommended to the council members to approve the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments.

These assessments are a Government requirement and the adoption of these, the Council hope, will assist it to continue to protect the greenbelt in East Dorset from speculative development

 

To view these assessments visit: http://www.eastdorset.gov.uk/democracy/cme/details.asp?ID=1705

 

21/1/09

Ministerial meeting with Iain Wright, Minister for Communities and Local Government and report back by MPs to larger gathering of constituents

The MPs attending the ministerial meeting with Iain Wright are Martin Horwood (Cheltenham), Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury), Annette Brooke (Dorset Mid and Poole North), David Drew (Stroud), Steve Webb (Northavon) and Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester) (tbc), along with a constituency campaigner or council leader from their area. 

 

22/7 –

24/10/08

12 Week Consultation on Secretary of State’s proposed changes to the Regional Spatial Strategy.

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8/11/08

A fund raising jumble sale was held at Colehill Memorial Hall

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22/9/08

The East Dorset District met to, among other things, to ratify the vote of the Policy and Resources Committee made on the 3/9 (see below).

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22/9/08

Protest rally in Poole.

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17/9/08

A Public meeting was held at Colehill Memorial Hall at 7.30 pm. This was attended by approximately 150 people.

Keep Wimborne Green would like to thank all those persons who made a donation. We raised £117 for the cause.

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17/9/08

Dorset County Councillors attended a Seminar on the Regional Spatial Strategy.

There was a demonstration outside of the Council Offices in Dorchester to make our feelings felt.

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14/9/08

Protest Rally in Bournemouth.

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3/9/2008

The members of the East Dorset District Council Policy and Resources Committee voted unanimously to reject the Council Planning Officers’ recommendation to support the Secretary of State’s Proposed changes to create urban extensions within the green belt.

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22/7/08

Publication of proposed changes to the Draft Regional Spatial Strategy by the Secretary of State.

27/6/08

First Meeting of Regions Elected Representatives with the express aim of fighting the Regional Spatial Strategy.

Minutes of Meeting (PDF) (Doc)

6/5/08

The Planning application to build 61 new dwellings on land adjacent to 5 Heath Close was rejected by the Planning department at EDDC.

11/3/08

The Colehill Parish Council met at the Colehill Memorial Hall to consider the Planning application to build 61 new dwellings on land adjacent to 5 Heath Close. A packed hall heard the Council vote to recommend the application be rejected by EDDC.

 

3/1/08

The EDDC Policy and Resources Committee met to discuss, among other things, the Council’s response to the EIP Panel’s report.

EDDC Response (246 KB)

 

Minutes of Meeting (70 K)

 

10/1/08

The independent Panel's report of the Examination in Public (EiP) Panel of the Draft Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) for the South West was published by Government Office South West.

 

The independent Panel's report is available to download in 3 sections below or to download the report as one click here (3,606 KB)

EiP Panel's Report - Section 1 Main Report (1,931 KB)

EiP Panel's Report Section 2 - Appendices A, B, & C (1,612 KB)

EiP Panel's Report Section 3 - Appendices D, E & F (1,155 KB)

 

22/9/07

East Dorset branch of C.P.R.E. AGM at Cranborne Village Hall. Starts at 3 pm. 

 

6/7/07

Last day of EIP.

 

7/6/07

Examination in Public hears evidence concerning Bournemouth and Poole HMA sub-regional strategy.  Final Programme

 

17/4/07

Examination in Public begun in Exeter. Final Programme  Pages 30-31 refer to local area concerns.

 

18/10/06

A public meeting was held to discuss the creation of a Parish Plan for Colehill.  A packed hall listened to a number of presentations and then voted to prepare a parish plan. A number of residents volunteered to be on the Steering Committee.

 

27/9/06

Meeting of the East Dorset District Council Policy and Resources Committee at which, among other things, the development of land off Leigh Road was discussed. The consultancy firm PMP submitted a revised proposal which was accepted by the committee but any plans to develop this land as playing fields were postponed indefinitely due to the lack of funds. Details of the meeting including agenda and minutes can be found at http://www.eastdorset.gov.uk/democracy/cme/details.asp?ID=1179.

 

14/8/06

A meeting of the full council (EDDC) ratified the recommendations of the Policy and Resources Committee.

 

Further changes to the submission were made relating to the numbers of homes to be built in East Dorset. A reduction was necessary due to the committee’s recommendation to object to the inclusion of any urban extensions except the one at the allotments at The Cuthbury.

 

Agenda for Meeting  (61K)

Minutes of Meeting (18K)

Revised Submission Document  (90K PDF)

 

 

9/8/06

Meeting of the East Dorset District Council Policy and Resources Committee, at which East Dorset District Council formulated their submissions on the Regional Spatial Strategy. A large number of the residents of East Dorset attended. The CPRE, local community groups including Keep Wimborne Green, Keep Corfe Mullen Green and Keep Parley Cross Green made written submissions and there were a number of presentations to the committee from the aforementioned groups and also from a number of local councillors and other interested parties.

 

The committee recommended that all urban extensions except that relating to the allotments at The Cuthbury were removed from the Draft Regional Spatial Strategy.

 

Agenda for Meeting (61K PDF)

RSS Ad-Hoc Inquiry Team Report (57K PDF)

Recommendations to the Panel on the Draft RSS (147K PDF)

 

Minutes of Meeting (15K)

 

6/6/06

Public Consultation on Regional Spatial Strategy begins.

 

20/4/06

A meeting of the Policy and Resource Committee of the East Dorset District Council accept proposal for new conservation area in North Wimborne.

 

15/4/06

Colehill Parish Council send letter to SWRA stating that they are “strongly opposed” to development on Green Belt Land in the Parish.

 

29/3/06

A public meeting was held at Colehill Memorial Hall.  This was very well attended.

 

Meeting Notes (Word Format - 42K)
Meeting Notes (PDF Format - 16K)

 

10/3/06

S.W.R.A.meet to agree draft of Regional Spatial Strategy 

 

27/1/06

 

S.W.R.A. meet and discuss the draft Regional Spatial Strategy (R.S.S.) and the proposed levels of housing development required in the region. The levels are broadly agreed subject to further evidence of figures etc. They indicate to E.D.D.C. that their proposals should not be site specific. A more specific discussion on the review of the green belt is deferred to 10 March 2006.

 

26/10/05

E.D.D.C. Policy and Resources Committee meet. We formally present our petition against loss of green belt land and are told again of the 5sites that E.D.D.C. have identified for possible house building. A letter is received from W. Wallace, Head of Policy and Planning for E.D.D.C., in it he says, “no green belt boundaries are forever, although they are intended to provide a high degree of certainty and durability”.

 

21/10/05

S.W.R.A. meet at the Council Chambers in Exeter

 

19/9/05

We address a meeting of E.D.D.C. on the matter of our petition against any development on green belt sites.

 

9/9/05

South East Dorset Strategic Planning and Transportation Joint Committee meet in Poole and 5 green belt sites are identified for housing development. These sites are listed and the information sent to the South West Regional Assembly (S.W.R.A.).

 

25/7/05

 “Planning East Dorset” leaflet is issued by East Dorset District Council (E.D.D.C.) and sent (by us) to residents requesting that everyone return the “Community Involvement” tear off. East Dorset Statement of Community Involvement (pre-submission draft).This briefly explains how various interested parties can get involved with the Local Development Framework that replaces East Dorset Local Plan 2002.

 

This statement of community involvement (SCI) is supposed to ensure that everyone knows what is going on

 

2000

E.D.D.C. acquires a 37-acre site north of Leigh Road from the National Trust for the building of a sports complex

 

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