Neighbourhood Planning can address local development related themes that include:
- heritage and conservation;
- development & housing – including design;
- environment and biodiversity;
- local economy; and
- Road safety and transport.
Once the community has given its views on these themes, via a series of community engagement sessions, they are tested against Dorset’s Local Plan and Policy to see whether there is some commonality.
There may be instances where the ambition of the community to change something can’t be met, as the existing policy doesn’t allow, and a ‘local policy’ isn’t viable. But our neighbourhood plan can still highlight the problem and state the need for measures.
The plan will recognise, through development themes identified by the community to protect the unique character of the villages and surrounding countryside.
The Neighbourhood plan will state the intention within the scope of its role (items that identified by the community that fall outside of the scope of the plan will be passe to the Parish Council). Once the plan has been ‘made’ responsibility for its enforcement sits with the Parish Council and Dorset Local Planning Authority.
The vision for our three villages
“The priorities identified by the community for development in the Parish until 2040 are to retain the characteristics of each village to preserve the rural, coastal and heritage setting in an area of outstanding natural beauty, sustain and enhance the environment for the community, businesses, and future generations through effective land management, limited sympathetic development and the protection of the surrounding countryside.”