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BYTHEWAY Field off Leigh Road has become the first Suitable Accessible Natural Green Space (SANG) in Dorset. SANGs are designated areas of green space which are intended to provide mitigation for the potential impact of residential development on nearby heathland by preventing an increase in visitor pressure on the heathland. These sites are funded by developers either directly or via the Heathland Mitigation Fund to mitigate the...

Around 200 campaigners from Wimborne, Colehill and West Parley have staged a protest march ahead of the East Dorset District Council's vote on its core strategy. The campaigners, calling themselves the Keep West Parley Green residents group, carried a coffin heralding the 'death of democracy' to the counicl offices at Furzehill. The group claims that plans to build 2,000 new homes on green belt land has been pushed through undemocratic...

MORE than 200 people gathered to march solemnly behind the coffin of East Dorset democracy to the district council's headquarters at Furzehill yesterday in protest at the district's proposed core strategy identifying land for more than 1000 new houses in the district. The protest was led by parishioners of West Parley, who are opposing a proposal for 500 homes in their village, and swelled by those from Wimborne and Colehill...