In October, 2019 BCP announced the first stages of the new Local Plan. It will provide the framework of policies and site allocations that will guide development over the next 20 years.
The first stage of the process was the Call for Sites, which invited local landowners to offer land for allocation by the council for development.
The parcels of land offered under the Call for Sites are designated as ‘Promoted Sites’. In BCP's published list of Promoted Sites, there are 11 such sites in the Bearwood and Merley ward, all of them on what is currently Green Belt land.
We saw what happened with the Poole Local Plan. Amongst those to come forward in response to the Call for Sites in 2015 were the Baileys, owners of Cruxton Farm, and Canford School who, between them offered Oakley fields (Land North of Merley) for allocation by Poole Council for a large housing development. As a consequence, the Green Belt status was removed from Land North of Merley in 2018. The developers recently received planning permission to build 550 houses and a care home.
LET’S MAKE SURE WE DON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN.
THE LOCAL COMMUNITY HAS ITS VOICE: LET'S MAKE BCP LISTEN TO US THIS TIME.
If you would like to see fuller details of all 11 local promoted sites, see DOWNLOADS below.
We are determined not to let the deliberations of the BCP Local Plan slip under the radar, as happened when the Poole Local Plan allocated Cruxton and Knighton farms for development in 2018.
Three promoted sites within Canford Magna.
Residents in Canford Magna and those living on the eastern side of Merley (Brabazon Road, Hawker Close and Sopwith Crescent) should be aware of these promoted sites.
The Garden Coppice is 16.7 acres of mature woodland and fields, with a small number of houses on the periphery, including the eighteenth century old vicarage. It is within the Conservation area of Canford Magna, and part of it is in a Flood Zone.
The view from Queen Anne Drive.
The promoters (three house-owners within the Coppice) suggest a potential of 84 dwellings on the site.
The view from the corner of Queen Anne Drive and Arrowsmith Road.
As one emerges from Canford Magna to join Magna Road, the view is of sloping fields which invariably contain horses.
Hamworthy Club has a sports centre and various sporting faciities, including a cricket pitch and a Par 3 1650 yard golf course. The 19.7 acre site is being promoted by Canford School, who own the land. While retaining some of the leisure facilities, the proposal is for 50 - 100 dwellings.
This 158 acre site is owned by WH White Ltd, who own Canford Park Arena and who developed Canford Paddock and Canford Park. Not content with his 1000+ houses already in the pipe-line, director Bill Riddell is promoting Land West of Knighton as an urban extension with a potential for 2,300 houses.
Promoted Sites (pdf)
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