Plans for 1,000 homes near Dorchester go on show (From Dorset Echo)

Will we see pedestrian crossings and a cycle path across the by-pass to encourage people not to use their cars from this new estate? They don't appear in the published plan (yet).

This is clearly more evidence of Robert Gould's extremely dodgy practices. One really wonders if he just does this stuff to Dorchester so that his constituency is left alone and he retains his cushy job, or if - perhaps - there is something more in it for him. Build 1000 houses on a flood risk, ignore groundwater protection, break a promise not to develop outside the bypass, no extra schools, no extra health facilities, no parking, no jobs for the residents. This is madness, but he'll probably get away with it. 'Local residents can have their say..'. What tosh!! There will be a few diagrams and posters and artist impressions - that will be it. He really doesn't want us to have a say, and even if we do he'll ignore it. Remember, we had a referendum about the Charles Street development and 97% said NO. Dorchester is being rogered by Robert Gould.

Same thing happens in Weymouth too. Certain 'farmer' developers seem to be able to do what they like, regardless of what's needed or wanted.

I seem to remember residents being 'given their say' when plans were published for the new council offices. How much notice was taken of the public's objections? Goes to show that councillors let you state an opinion and then completely ignore it.

Steve Rodgers wrote:
This is clearly more evidence of Robert Gould's extremely dodgy practices. One really wonders if he just does this stuff to Dorchester so that his constituency is left alone and he retains his cushy job, or if - perhaps - there is something more in it for him. Build 1000 houses on a flood risk, ignore groundwater protection, break a promise not to develop outside the bypass, no extra schools, no extra health facilities, no parking, no jobs for the residents. This is madness, but he'll probably get away with it. 'Local residents can have their say..'. What tosh!! There will be a few diagrams and posters and artist impressions - that will be it. He really doesn't want us to have a say, and even if we do he'll ignore it. Remember, we had a referendum about the Charles Street development and 97% said NO. Dorchester is being rogered by Robert Gould.

And your suggestions for the alternative sites are?

Well, here's hoping that tonight we will see exactly why this is the only suitable site - and what the need is in the first place. What worries me is that this site seems SO unsuitable - but more than that we look at the way the Charles Street development was slimed through with commitees meeting in secret and the public being ignored and locked out and we wonder why he is doing the same thing with this project. I doubt if I'll be directly effected at all by this, but it seems so wrong and being done so wrongly.

Is this the same Cllr Gould who continues to tell us we were consulted over the Council Offices?
THis man has become more and more the dodgy car salesman, lovely runner gun, will go on for years and 5 minutes later doesn't go any further in life.
Having visited Sherbourne today I was told how they have thrown out both new houses and a new Tesco's because of public pressure. Guess where Cllr Gould comes from?????
So Dorchester is going to have in addition to the 6/7,000 extra people in Poundbury another 2/3,000 residents in this new development. Perhaps Cllr Gould will tell us how the centre of Dorchester will be for cars and people shopping when phase 2 is built on Charles Street.
This Proposal is MADNESS unless buses, cycle tracks, a Health Centre, road system and at least another 1,000 car park spaces being created in the centre of town. NOT the Market car park, try carrying the 3/4 bags of shopping back from the centre town shops for over half a mile. Go on Cllr Gould and your colleagues try it one day, see if you would be happy with it.

Dorchester has nearly doubled in size, with the poundbury development yet services to the public are cut. There will be insufficient school places, emergency services, hospital and gp services to cope with another influx of 2000 -4000 residents (dependant on the number of occupants per household). Without proper infrastructure it is ridiculous to just keep building. But what do I know, I am just a Dorset resident. Why would any politician or developer care about my opinion.

...and what will all these people DO when they are here?

...and if there is such a housing shortage, why are rents and house prices so reasonable in this part of the world?

'as bent as a WDDC councillor'

Get a grip wrote:

Steve Rodgers wrote:
This is clearly more evidence of Robert Gould's extremely dodgy practices. One really wonders if he just does this stuff to Dorchester so that his constituency is left alone and he retains his cushy job, or if - perhaps - there is something more in it for him. Build 1000 houses on a flood risk, ignore groundwater protection, break a promise not to develop outside the bypass, no extra schools, no extra health facilities, no parking, no jobs for the residents. This is madness, but he'll probably get away with it. 'Local residents can have their say..'. What tosh!! There will be a few diagrams and posters and artist impressions - that will be it. He really doesn't want us to have a say, and even if we do he'll ignore it. Remember, we had a referendum about the Charles Street development and 97% said NO. Dorchester is being rogered by Robert Gould.

And your suggestions for the alternative sites are?

Poyntington & Sherborne in Goulds front garden.

Steve Rodgers wrote:
...and what will all these people DO when they are here?

...and if there is such a housing shortage, why are rents and house prices so reasonable in this part of the world?

'as bent as a WDDC councillor'

There is no housing shortage, i would agree. There is no more work being created so that points to investors buying up homes.
However I don't think house prices or rents are reasonable at all. The housing market is a house of cards being propped out by the funding for lending scheme and now, rumours of negative interest rates to force banks to loan more.
If the economic cycle completes as I think it must, a lot of homeowners are going to see what reasonable really means. House prices didn't rise due to immigration or population growth; they rose because of cheap credit. That's gone for good.

I hope to God they don't build these houses, it looks awful. I walk my dog over those fields and love that we have wide open spaces here and beautiful countryside. I've lived here all my life and part of the reason I love Dorchester is because it's a small town. I think the Poundbury development is more than enough. They'll soon be saying the Thomas Hardye School is too small when everybody said don't knock it down, make Castlefield and TH both mixed sex and serve both sides of Dorch. If Dorchester carries on increasing, there won't be enough schools and there is only one leisure centre!

Dorset Boy wrote:

Get a grip wrote:

Steve Rodgers wrote:
This is clearly more evidence of Robert Gould's extremely dodgy practices. One really wonders if he just does this stuff to Dorchester so that his constituency is left alone and he retains his cushy job, or if - perhaps - there is something more in it for him. Build 1000 houses on a flood risk, ignore groundwater protection, break a promise not to develop outside the bypass, no extra schools, no extra health facilities, no parking, no jobs for the residents. This is madness, but he'll probably get away with it. 'Local residents can have their say..'. What tosh!! There will be a few diagrams and posters and artist impressions - that will be it. He really doesn't want us to have a say, and even if we do he'll ignore it. Remember, we had a referendum about the Charles Street development and 97% said NO. Dorchester is being rogered by Robert Gould.

And your suggestions for the alternative sites are?

Poyntington & Sherborne in Goulds front garden.

Now that is a really great suggestion! Gould has to go after the Charles st offices scam he is as trustworthy as the Tory party.

cj07589 wrote:

Dorset Boy wrote:

Get a grip wrote:

Steve Rodgers wrote:
This is clearly more evidence of Robert Gould's extremely dodgy practices. One really wonders if he just does this stuff to Dorchester so that his constituency is left alone and he retains his cushy job, or if - perhaps - there is something more in it for him. Build 1000 houses on a flood risk, ignore groundwater protection, break a promise not to develop outside the bypass, no extra schools, no extra health facilities, no parking, no jobs for the residents. This is madness, but he'll probably get away with it. 'Local residents can have their say..'. What tosh!! There will be a few diagrams and posters and artist impressions - that will be it. He really doesn't want us to have a say, and even if we do he'll ignore it. Remember, we had a referendum about the Charles Street development and 97% said NO. Dorchester is being rogered by Robert Gould.

And your suggestions for the alternative sites are?

Poyntington & Sherborne in Goulds front garden.

Now that is a really great suggestion! Gould has to go after the Charles st offices scam he is as trustworthy as the Tory party.

Gould will NOT be voted out at the next set of elections.

He is voted for by people in Sherborne, who frankly could not give a monkey's about the Charles St development (just as the good people of Dorchester would not care if the Charles St saga had happened in Sherborne).

If he can keep the developers out of Sherborne, then he is safe.

Is it me or is everything rubbish? wrote:

cj07589 wrote:

Dorset Boy wrote:

Get a grip wrote:

Steve Rodgers wrote:
This is clearly more evidence of Robert Gould's extremely dodgy practices. One really wonders if he just does this stuff to Dorchester so that his constituency is left alone and he retains his cushy job, or if - perhaps - there is something more in it for him. Build 1000 houses on a flood risk, ignore groundwater protection, break a promise not to develop outside the bypass, no extra schools, no extra health facilities, no parking, no jobs for the residents. This is madness, but he'll probably get away with it. 'Local residents can have their say..'. What tosh!! There will be a few diagrams and posters and artist impressions - that will be it. He really doesn't want us to have a say, and even if we do he'll ignore it. Remember, we had a referendum about the Charles Street development and 97% said NO. Dorchester is being rogered by Robert Gould.

And your suggestions for the alternative sites are?

Poyntington & Sherborne in Goulds front garden.

Now that is a really great suggestion! Gould has to go after the Charles st offices scam he is as trustworthy as the Tory party.

Gould will NOT be voted out at the next set of elections.

He is voted for by people in Sherborne, who frankly could not give a monkey's about the Charles St development (just as the good people of Dorchester would not care if the Charles St saga had happened in Sherborne).

If he can keep the developers out of Sherborne, then he is safe.

Yup, wonderful thing, democracy.