| Location | Venue | Date booked | Event time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferndown | Village Hall | Tuesday 2 September | 2pm to 7pm |
| Blandford | Royal British Legion Club | Thursday 4 September | 2pm to 7pm |
| Bridport | Town Hall | Wednesday 10 September | 2pm to 7pm |
| Dorchester | Corn Exchange | Thursday 11 September | 2pm to 7pm |
| Weymouth | Library | Friday 12 September | 10am to 5pm |
| Shaftesbury | Town Hall | Tuesday 16 September | 2pm to 6pm |
| Lytchett Matravers | Village Hall | Wednesday 17 September | 2pm to 6pm |
| Verwood | Memorial Hall | Monday 22 September | 2pm to 6pm |
| Crossways | Village Hall | Tuesday 23 September | 2pm to 7pm |
| Gillingham | Town Hall | Thursday 25 September | 2pm to 7pm |
| Swanage | Emmanuel Baptist Church | Tuesday 30 September | 2pm to 6pm |
| Wimborne | Allendale Centre | Wednesday 1 October | 1:30pm to 5:30pm |
| Sherborne | Digby Hall | Tuesday 7 October | 2pm to 7pm |
Bournemouth
Thursday 18 September, 9am to 1pm.
Travel Interchange
BCP Council Local Travel and Visitor Information Office
(underneath Asda)
BH8 8GP
Christchurch
Monday 29 September, 10am to 3pm.
Christchurch Library
29 High Street
BH23 1AW
Poole
Saturday 20 September, 11am to 3pm.
Scaplen’s Court
Lower Garden Room, opposite Poole Museum, Sarum Street
(Off High Street nr Poole Quay)
BH15 IJW
Further details on the plan and consultation is available on both Dorset Council and BCP Councils websites here
Colehill Parish Councils’ submission on this draft plan is as follows:
Sustainable transport
We have learned that pedestrianisation of Wimborne Minster town centre is a long term planning option. It is a pity that the cycle path 256 along Leigh Road and Wimborne Road West terminates before gaining entry to the Wimborne town centre, and we have noted this as a deficiency of a number of the proposed opportunity sites in the Colehill area. This would appear to be an example of separate aspects of a strategy being addressed without synchronisation, to the detriment of public acceptance.
There is no sustainable link from the high ground of Colehill to Leigh Road. This deficiency impacts on a number of development opportunities and the wider development of a sustainable community. We would like to see implementation of more flexible community transport schemes serving the daily needs of the distributed population.
Stated strategy to deliver more efficient use of existing network
We observe in the Local Transport Plan that it is your aim to use the existing transportation network more efficiently, and thereby be able to support the expected increase in transportation need without building extensions to the network. Looking at the local transportation issues already encountered in Colehill, we find it difficult to see how the main through-routes – Smugglers Lane/Middlehill Road/Canford Bottom; Wimborne Road/Rowlands Hill; Burts Hill – will be able to accommodate the increased traffic from and to out-of-area housing developments. At the Allendale Centre drop-in it was proposed to us that reduction of local journey traffic could be achieved, allowing the through-routes more residual capacity. We believe this to be an unrealistic expectation – especially given the predictable increase in traffic through the village that will occur once the new Aldi store is built at Canford Bottom.
Infrastructure in terms of capability to plan and implement
We have been trying to progress a long-standing request for pedestrian crossings to be established on the Smugglers Lane/Middlehill Road/Canford Bottom route for a number of years now. While we appreciate that technical matters have to be addressed, it is unacceptable that lack of skilled resources at County level is quoted as the reason for not even being able to say when the crossings will be implemented.