Blandford property renovated to provide local homes
West View, which had been empty for a long time, is being extensively renovated to provide six single bedroom units.
West View, which had been empty for a long time, is being extensively renovated to provide six single bedroom units.
The new development in Moorside Road provides four-bedroom homes for people in the Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch area.
The site of the former power station is to be developed and local people are being encouraged to have a say on shaping the site.
There were an unprecedented number of responses to the Draft Local Plan, which will be modified significantly.
The area is to be regenerated with the provision of one-, two- and three-bed apartments on land at Carter’s Quay.
The proposal for a 1,700 homes development at Alderholt Meadows hasn’t gone done well with villagers.
Dorset CPRE (The Campaign to Protect Rural England) says Dorset Council is hoping to hide the scale of the opposition to its housing target of more than 39,000 properties contained in the draft Local Plan.
The government estimates that the BCP Council area needs to accommodate 2,700 new homes a year, but the authority says this is excessive.
Three families who are on BCP Council’s housing list will soon be moving into the homes in Strouden Park.
The decision on how funds from Section 106 agreements are to be spent will now lie in the hands of town and parish councils.