West Parley Parish Council

West Parley is another East Dorset community that will benefit from summer floral
displays.

West Parley Residents Association are to be congratulated on their efforts to brighten
up the area.

Future local planning will take the form of a number of Local Development Documents
which together will form the Local Development Framework. The most important of these
is the Core Strategy. Christchurch Borough Council and East Dorset District Council are
working together on its production.

The Core Strategy will set out the broad development strategy for the Councils over
the next 20 years, and will contain the main spatial vision, objectives and planning
policies to make the strategy happen. All of the other Local Development Documents
within the Local Development Framework (LDF) will have to conform to it. The Core
Strategy itself will have to be in conformity with the Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS)
which is currently being produced by the South West Regional Assembly.

The Core Strategy will provide the spatial expression of the Christchurch and East
Dorset Community Plans. The RSS will set targets for the provision of new housing and
employment for a period up to 2026, as well as setting out general policies in relation
to provision of facilities, transport, and protection of natural and historic
features.

Issues & Options consultation 25th March - 6th May 2008

As part of the Issues  Options consultation, East Dorset District Council has prepared
a leaflet to seek the views of local residents on the proposed urban urban extensions
to Ferndown and West Parley.  This leaflet is currently being delivered to households
in the area (replacing an irrelevant leaflet previously delivered) and will also be
available from certain local shops in West Parley including the Co-op, Tiegla Tiles and
Parley Cross Pharmacy.

You can examine the full Core Strategy Issues and Options document in the following
ways:

1:  Copies are on display at the Council Offices and local libraries across East
Dorset and Christchurch.

2:  Obtaining a copy: By contacting the Council's Policy Planning Teams on :
01202 886201 (East Dorset)
01202 495017 (Christchurch) 

3:  On the web:  the document can be viewed or downloaded from the Council's website
at the link below.

A warm welcome is extended to all Parishioners to come along to  hear what is being
achieved by your Council on your behalf.

After the  formal business a Question and Answer Session will be held.  

Our Guest Speaker for the occasion will be Nick Dampney, Community Safety Advisor for
Dorset Fire and Rescue Service.

Refreshments will be served.

Many local residents eligible to use the new bus pass may have received the pass
without the  information leaflet designed to accompany it.  This omission has been
caused by a hitch in their distribution by the external company appointed for this
purpose.  As soon as East Dorset District Council retrieve these leaflets they will
distribute to bus pass holders.

A copy of the leaflet is available by clicking on the 'Dorset for You' Link below

Dorset - B3073
Christchurch Road, between the Longham double miniroundabouts & Parley Cross.
Temporary lights each evening from 6:00pm - 2:00am, weeknights only.
Road works active from Mon 03rd Mar 2008 until Fri 21st Mar 2008

A Public Meeting will be held on
Saturday 23 February 2008 at 2:30pm
in WEST PARLEY MEMORIAL HALL to report on the Draft South West RSS Examination in
Public Panel Report.
Guest speaker
CHRISTOPHER CHOPE, OBE, MP

To read this report in full - click on Link below

For full details, contact Wilts & Dorset direct, either by telephone or email.  For
brief details - together with email address and telephone number, click onto our Public
Transport link.

Following the announcement by Wilts and Dorset that they would be withdrawing bus
services in East Dorset, the county council has stepped in to restore key parts of the
network.

The bus company is cutting services X34, X35, 134, 135, service 11 between Kinson and
West Moors and reducing frequency on the X36 service between Poole and Verwood.

Dorset County Council is aware that communities such as St Leonards and St Ives and
the Heatherlands Estate would be left without a service. The council has therefore
negotiated replacement services on a three year funding package which has also overcome
the risk of contract price inflation.

Councillor Col Geoffrey Brierley said:

"Increasingly Dorset County Council has to intervene in local bus services to ensure
people do not become isolated from everyday needs such as getting to work and the
shops.

"On this occasion it has proved possible to replace services without the usual price
increase. I am sure the council's buying power will continue to yield similar results
in future."

New service 38 will operate more or less hourly between Ringwood and Ferndown
alternately via Ashley Heath and St Ives. At the Ferndown end it will extend to the
Heatherlands Estate.

Service 37 between Poole and Verwood via Ferndown and West Moors will be increased to
hourly from the two hourly frequency originally proposed. This will increase
opportunities for people to make connecting journeys.

The Sunday X36 service from Ferndown to Bournemouth via West Moors, Three Legged
Cross, Verwood and Ringwood will be retained with small modifications. It will be
renumbered 36A.

Services have been timed to try to give as many connections as possible in Ferndown
with service 13 Bournemouth-Ferndown Wimborne and with service X3 Bournemouth-Ringwood
Salisbury in Ringwood.

Changes are expected to take place from Sunday 6  January 2008.

FOR WILTS AND DORSET LATEST OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - CLICK ONTO WEBSITE LINK BELOW

West Parley has come a long way from an Iron Age & Roman Hill Fort at
Dudsbury to a thriving residential Parish complete with two shopping parades and what
is probably one of the busiest crossroads in East Dorset with incessant traffic
throughout the day. 

The oldest part of the village contains All Saints Church, a portion of which dates
from Norman times. The southern boundary of West Parley is the River Stour; this,
together with a swathe of green belt including water meadows and an abundance of trees,
provides a healthy ‘breathing space’ between the densely populated northern suburbs of
Bournemouth and our green and pleasant Parish.

Over the years, the Crossroads area of the Parish has developed a somewhat ‘sad and
neglected’ appearance due to overgrown verges and hedges, kerbside weeds and illegal
flyposting and advertising. However the Parish Council together with West Parley
Residents Association are now making a combined effort to change the situation.  This
will necessitate the co-operation of our residents and traders together with East
Dorset District Council and Dorset County Council.  We hope that very shortly a plan of
action will be taken to ensure that marked improvements take place.

Your suggestions for improvements to the area are welcome.

Use the 'Contact Us' link or telephone the Parish Clerk, Mrs Sue Starmer on 01202
579035.