Purbeck District Council: The Inspector’s report on the Examination of the Purbeck District Council Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule has been published. The proposed Charging Schedule has been found sound excepting one reduction required to the residential rate for Upton. This will fall to just £10 per sqm probably the lowest residential rate […]
Eastleigh launches Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) consultation
Eastleigh Borough Council: The kids down at Eastleigh Borough Council, sandwiched between the CIL high fliers at Southampton City and Fareham Borough and the up-and-coming Winchester City, have gamely thrown themselves back into the ring with a strong second round consultation on a Community Infrastructure Levy Draft Charging Schedule (available […]
Winchester City Council to charge Community Infrastructure Levy from April
Winchester City Council: At long last another local authority manages to adopt the Community Infrastructure Levy (if you need a reminder on CIL then take a look at our briefing note). Winchester City Council adopted its CIL on the 8th January 2014 and it will begin charging as of the 7th April 2014. […]
Bournemouth Borough Council propose to plan parking properly
Bournemouth Borough Council: Our friends down at Bournemouth Borough Council currently have an interesting draft planning policy open for public consultation. It is a draft Supplementary Planning Document on everyone’s favourite planning issue – Parking (well so you would believe from public comments on planning applications). The first of the two […]
Approved: extension to restaurant / bar via change of use of next door premises in Ashley Cross, Poole
Borough of Poole: Back in September last year Pure Town Planning secured planning consent for the extension of opening hours to a restaurant/bar in Ashley Cross conservation area in Poole (see here). Following this consent we were asked by the owner of the premises to assist them with their expansion […]
East Dorset and Christchurch Core Strategy Update
East Dorset District Council and Christchurch Borough Council: I noticed that yesterday someone landed on our website having searched “when will East Dorset core strategy be adopted”. Well it’s a good question and a timely reminder for me to provide an update on the subject. For a number of developers it […]
Eastleigh consults yet again!
Eastleigh, Hampshire: Oh dear, what a difference a year makes. It was all going so well when we reported on Eastleigh Borough Council‘s progress on its new Local Plan last year. Unfortunately one or two wheels fell off… Anyway they are back with a new consultation which can be found here and […]
Poole: Planning policy sur la plage
Poole, Dorset: The Borough of Poole has prepared a draft new planning policy document for its plans to “conserve, improve and invest” in Poole’s seafront. The draft Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) entitled Sustaining Poole’s Seafront has just been published for consultation which runs until 06 September 2013. The consultation document is […]
Winchester adopts Core Strategy
Winchester, Hampshire: The City Council has now adopted its Core Strategy or Local Plan Part 1 – Joint Core Strategy to give it its full name. Nothing much more to say really. We wait to see how some of the policies translate into practise, especially affordable housing. In the meantime if you have any queries […]
Christchurch and East Dorset ready to go to war…
Sorry the narration from “The Planners” is getting to me. We have been duly informed that Christchurch Borough Council and East Dorset District Council submitted their joint Core Strategy to the Secretary of State on 15th March 2013. I would imagine he is thrilled. The document will of course not actually […]