Highmoor Farm, Poole
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Please have your say on the planning application for Poole’s Highmoor Farm BEFORE 3RD JANUARY 2022 ~
Did you know there’s a farm in the middle of Poole? It’s a surprise to many - and a welcome sight in such a densely built-up area. Lying between Bournemouth University campus and the internationally important Talbot Heath nature reserve, 60-acre Highmoor Farm is a much-loved green oasis where cattle, sheep and horses have grazed for generations. It is the last remaining of six farms set up by the philanthropic Talbot sisters in the nineteenth century to feed the people of Poole. Plans have recently been submitted to build a new private hospital and business park on half of the farm. Read the call to action from campaigners trying to save Highmoor Farm and the defence from the developers. If you want to respond to the Planning Application, you have until 3rd January to do so here. |
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P.S. (Thanks for this to Dana Assinder)
There is a register of Brownfield sites in Dorset/BCP. See the following extract from Dorset Local Nature Partnership Natural Value Report, 2022
"Land and development
Environmental considerations are essential in determining land for development as well as opportunities for enhancing natural spaces which offer economic drivers to the county.
Local Authorities were given the duty to produce Brownfield Land Registers as part of The Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017. The two unitary councils produced their first registers, in their new structures, in 2020. In Dorset Council area there were 83 sites (67.79ha) of which 20 sites had planning permission (19.07ha). In BCP Council there were 328 sites (135.07ha) or which 243 had planning permission (54.9ha) .
Dorset Environmental Record Centre developed Dorset’s Ecological Network Maps for the LNP in 2017 and revised these in 2020. The maps can be used to view the existing ecological network and the higher potential areas which will support future biodiversity net gain and nature recovery."
There is a register of Brownfield sites in Dorset/BCP. See the following extract from Dorset Local Nature Partnership Natural Value Report, 2022
"Land and development
Environmental considerations are essential in determining land for development as well as opportunities for enhancing natural spaces which offer economic drivers to the county.
Local Authorities were given the duty to produce Brownfield Land Registers as part of The Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017. The two unitary councils produced their first registers, in their new structures, in 2020. In Dorset Council area there were 83 sites (67.79ha) of which 20 sites had planning permission (19.07ha). In BCP Council there were 328 sites (135.07ha) or which 243 had planning permission (54.9ha) .
Dorset Environmental Record Centre developed Dorset’s Ecological Network Maps for the LNP in 2017 and revised these in 2020. The maps can be used to view the existing ecological network and the higher potential areas which will support future biodiversity net gain and nature recovery."