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Vision and the Good Husband ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ an architect’s perspective There has been much talk about Neighbourhood Planning, particularly in the Northern part of the parish where I live. It follows voting at a public meeting to undertake a study under the new Localism Act. This vote had a positive result but what has surprised me is the level of anxiety it seems to generate, a fear of change. Yet the whole point is to empower local people to share in having some influence over their surroundings for the common good - what a farmer might call good husbandry. The <strong>Valley</strong> contains five settlements; a much-loved and familiar environment - why else would we be living here ? It has been gradually transformed over the last century, not always for the better but we find we can accept its evolution as a natural process, all villages growing by some 50% in the last sixty years. Most of us have an innate, if romantic vision of the Wessex landscape of Thomas Hardy, seen in so many of the names around us, and many perhaps our visitors expect to see still. Indeed, until the 50s, our villages remained largely unaltered from that time, perhaps more decayed in the cob and thatch after the strains of war and hardship of the 1940s but the narrow streets were still verdant with foliage and orchard trees still seen. It is since that time the real change has happened : council housing set back frontages and used vacant land, groups of speculative housing appeared in the 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond, encouraged by the new Town and Country Planning Acts of 1947. The decision makers of Hardy’s time had been local people focused on village matters; they needed to care for local communities that depended upon them but we have seen more and more decided for us within the much wider remit of district government from their Dorchester headquarters. This is where the new Local Plan is generated to produce a standard under which the whole West Dorset region will be categorised. A Neighbourhood Plan will set out legal guidance for the District Council to use when they determine planning applications. It will show a coherent pattern of objectives as a first reference rather than just their more generalised Local Plan which will apply otherwise. Here for the first time, is an opportunity for us all to express ourselves and say what we want to see. We shall each have a local vote, and only one, so we need not feel bound to accept what we do not want unless it is the common will. Development will always happen but it does not have to be wrong; evolution demands it but an overall strategy of our own can direct investment in the right way; it can achieve community projects but also sustainable objectives, even the conservation and local generation of energy by design might reduce demand for solar roof panels. It might all be a lengthy task but it can also bring real rewards if we are open to ideas for achieving them – good husbandry. 55 John Browning / 01300 348981
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