UP to 135 new homes could be built on land near Blandford.
A planning application has been submitted to Dorset Council by David Locke Associates on behalf of Hallam Land Management for a site of around 5.7 hectares, north of Ward’s Drove, Blandford St Mary.
The application says a “mix of house types” would be built on the site, including affordable homes, as well as green space.
It promises a “sensitively-designed scheme which respects the site’s urban edge and its landscape setting”, near the current St Mary’s Hill development.
Access to the development would come from the A350 Bournemouth Road, the application said, with the North Dorset Trailway from Ward’s Drove running through the site.
How the 135 new homes near Blandford could look. Picture: David Lock Associates/Dorset Council
“A key feature of the proposals is the integration of the North Dorset Trailway from Ward’s Drove at the southern boundary through the site to the northern boundary, where it is planned to continue through the adjacent development to a new controlled crossing at grade of the A354 Blandford Bypass,” it said.
“The new route away from its current alignment on the A350 will create an attractive, convenient and direct pedestrian and cycle connection that can be used to access local services and facilities and make it more attractive as a long distance recreational route.”
A “robust, high quality, sustainable residential development” is planned, the application added, with “good connections to local services and community facilities in Blandford St Mary and Blandford Forum”.
For more details on the scheme, and to comment, log on to www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk and search for application reference P/OUT/2023/07266.
Unbelievable. What do they think they (landowners/developers and planners) are doing to this county? With so many houses being built as well as those planned, where is the infrastructure to cope with an increased population? The current infrastructure is creaking and clearly unable to cope with the population that we have so why make it worse?
Too many houses not enough infrastructure
What more houses in Blandford perhaps someone from the County Council would like to explain how they intend to increase the infrastructure of the area predominantly Schools, Doctors, Dentist etc because the town is already stretched to the limit to the extent there are no NHS Dentist, School Classrooms are full to capacity and as for Doctors well we all know the problems there. I for one will oppose this application
We do need more housing so as this is green and social housing included sounds good to me .
This is ridiculous! There are far too many houses in and around BLANDFORD. Small villages are becoming towns and neither BLANDFORD nor the surrrounding villages have the infrastructure to support this enormous increase in population. Too few schools, very limited GPServices, stretched social services and hospitals. The roads are a mess now and with the increase of car owners and traffic this will just get worse. Rural GP practices having to take on thousands of patients from BLANDFORD which in turn will destroy the current excellent service provision. . Dorset county council seem hell’s bent on destroying Dorset. Stop this continuous house building before it’s too late.
Can who ever is building these please check the letterboxes function properly. Nearly all the houses on the new blandford st Mary hills estate don’t. If you can’t get a simple letterbox right what’s the rest of the house like.?
It is ok building all these new houses but there is not enough schools,doctors,dentists or anything like that to support them as what we have are already pushed and can’t take anymore but no new services like that are built
Enough is enough Blandford can’t cope the roads are chock a block already you are destroying out town
You need to build another doctors surgery to cope with blandfords current population! Not add more houses , the river doesn’t get trenched out and in winter blandford becomes a flood plan so at some point might need the land for the water to have somewhere to go !!! Or soak away to !! Or do u just plan on the river wiping the hole lot out ! Befor something is done !!!
The people who buy the fields up and plan new homes don’t care about where the children will go to school or what will happen if people need a doctor or dentist. The schools here are full and it’s very difficult to see a doctor. How will cars pass through the town or get around the bypass, it’s always currently jammed up and that’s without another two hundred or so cars from this proposed development. Whatever are we to do about this?
An absolutely outrageous application, clearly money oriented and encouraged by the seemingly unthinking Council. Sure we all know there is a need in the UK for more housing , but no one could possibly dispute that Dorset and Blandford in particular, has not produced a vast number already and is at a point where services and facilities, including schools surgeries and dentists are at breaking point .
A350
The road is so busy it has become unsafe to push a wheel chair/pushchair along the pavement as it so narrow we have a new bus stop my concerns are another entrance would-be unsafe for both pedestrians and vehicles . so many unsold houses in Blandford St mary? why more ?lack of infrastructure
This field is full of wildlife, why destroy another natural habitat when there are already 500 new houses going to be built in Blandford , we do not have the infrastructure to support this ever expanding town. There will also be the extra volume of traffic on the A350 which is already a busy main road, I fear another entrance into another new development could be a potential hazard. We already have the St Mary’s Hill new development with many unsold properties, why build more?