The Dorset Council's Northern area planning committee will meet for the first time on Tuesday.

The committee has a 25-house scheme for a site off New Road, Shaftesbury to consider; nine homes for Dunns Lane at Iwerne Minister and a new village hall at New Road, Bourton with up to nine homes also on the site.

The meeting takes place in the Bow Room, The Exchange, Sturminster Newton at 2pm with Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants councillor Sherry Jespersen in the chair. It will be open to the public.