Serious concerns about Dorset Council and its Local Plan
11th December 2020
Prior to the birth of the new unitary authority in Rural Dorset, there was already concern a unitary structure would make the council more remote.
Save Pimperne from massive housing development
30th November 2020
This is a view of verdant, unspoilt, rolling downland in the parish of Pimperne which will be desecrated and built over if Wyatt Homes are allowed to build 600 homes north of the Blandford bypass.
Government ‘out of touch’ with own MPs on new planning system and must rethink
22nd November 2020
MP Polling: 55% Conservative backbenchers considering opposing the government’s upheaval of the planning system
The Dorset Review Autumn 2020
2nd November 2020
Autumn edition of our magazine 'The Dorset Review' with updates from our local groups, Dorset under threat from Planning Reform and Farming in the year of COVID-19
Dorset Housing Needs Evidence Report
13th August 2020
An independent report for Dorset CPRE shows that the Dorset Council and BCP Council could be forced to plan for excessive numbers of new housing.
Dorset is under threat from excessive house building & Planning White Paper
Updated 29th October 2020
An independent report for Dorset CPRE shows that the Dorset Council and BCP Council could be forced to plan for excessive numbers of new housing.
The Dorset Review Spring 2020
28th May 2020
Spring edition of our magazine 'The Dorset Review' with updates from our local groups.
Housing White Paper: Listening to the Countryside at last?
10th February 2017
On Tuesday 7th February, the Government published its long-awaited Housing White Paper. At times we have feared that this would herald a new assault on the countryside and yet another round of developer-driven planning changes.