Lytchett Matravers Neighbourhood Plan

To retain the essence of village life in a growing community and to deliver high quality infrastructure and amenities

Safeguarding our Assets

lmnp Policies July 7, 2015assets, library, pubs, school, shops

In preparation of the Neighbourhood Plan a detailed survey was taken of all the assets in the village. A full list can be found in Appendix E of the Neighbourhood Plan, but these include assets like the village pubs, the shops in the High Street as well as obvious assets like the school and library.

The plan recognises that over time new assets may need to be added to this list or, when appropriate, removed. The Parish Council have the task of monitoring the identified assets for this purpose.

The first policy of the plan is intended to prevent new development harming those assets:

Policy 1: Proposals that harm the identified Communal Assets, Greens Spaces and / or Green Assets identified in this plan will not be supported. Developers should seek to maximise the opportunities for infrastructure improvements identified in this plan and implement any site specific mitigation prior to occupation.

If you have any strong views about this particular policy, don’t forget you only have until the 19th of July to feed those views back to the Neighbourhood Plan Group.

Walk to school bus plans

lmnp Strategic Village Improvement July 4, 2015Neighbourhood Plan, safety, school, SVI

The walk to school bus is up and running and the plan is to improve and shorten the route for the children.

Aspirations for these improvements can be found in the Neighbourhood Plan in Strategic Village Improvement 13:

Lytchett Matravers Parish Council will work to establish a pedestrian “safe route to school” for children attending Lytchett Matravers School and the Play School. This will run from the north of the village, through the village centre by the library, across the Recreation Ground into Eldons Drove and from there via the Dorset County Council track into the corner of the school playing field.