Policy 1. Local Green Spaces
Policy 2. Local Landscape Features
Policy 3. Village character
Policy 4. Respecting the history of Puddletown
Policy 5. Design
Policy 6. Wildlife and Natural Habitats
Policy 7. European and internationally protected sites
Policy 8. Flood Risk
Policy 9. Noise Assessments
Policy 10. The scale and location of new housing development in Puddletown
Policy 11. House types
Policy 12. Housing & Community Uses site allocation: Land at Athelhampton Rd
Policy 13. Housing allocation: Northbrook Farm
Policy 14. Supporting Community Facilities and Local Services
Policy 15. Creating safer roads and pedestrian / cycle routes
Policy 16. Parking Provision
Project P1. The Puddletown Area Parish Council and Dorset Council will continue to liaise with the Forestry Commission and local police to ensure good, clear access to and public safety in the environs of Forest.
Project P2. The Parish Council will work with the National Trust and other interested parties to promote greater understanding of the Thomas Hardy and Tolpuddle Martyr connections to the area, for example through the production of a visitor information brochure and negotiating and waymarking a Martyr’s Trail from Tolpuddle to Shire Hall.
Project P3. The Puddletown Area Parish Council and Dorset Council will liaise with Natural England and the Forestry Commission to establish a potential project that would meet the Dorset Heathlands Planning Framework requirements.
Project P4. The Parish Council will continue to lobby for noise-reduction measures on the A35 as and when opportunities arise.
Project P5. The Parish Council will work with local groups and organisations to develop and promote material, including maps, leaflets and web sites, to advertise the tourism opportunities, accommodation, local shops and businesses within Puddletown and the surrounding area.
Project P6. The Parish Council will work with the Highways Authority and local bus providers to identify initiatives that improve public transport connecting Puddletown to other transport networks and to nearby villages and large towns - this could include investigating the use of 'empty' school buses; the implementation of community bus schemes and/or demand responsive transport schemes.
Area Profile for Puddletown & Athelhampton https://apps.geowessex.com/stats/AreaProfiles/Parish/puddletown-and-athelhampton
Basic Conditions Statement, March 2020, prepared for Puddletown Parish Council by Dorset Planning Consultant Limited
Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Workspace Strategy, October 2016, Dorset Councils https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/planning-buildings-land/planning-policy/joint-planning-policy-work/pdfs/workspace/bournemouth-dorset-and-poole-workspace-strategy-2016.pdf
Consultation Statement, May 2020, Puddletown Neighbourhood Plan Group
Dark Skies Map, CPRE http://nightblight.cpre.org.uk/maps/
Dorset Explorer mapped constraints, Dorset Council https://explorer.geowessex.com/
Dorset Road traffic collision data website https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/roads-highways-maintenance/road-safety/road-traffic-collision-map.aspx
Dorset’s Ecological Networks https://dorsetlnp.org.uk/dorsets-ecological-networks/
DRAFT Village Character Appraisal Plan, May 2017, prepared for Puddletown Parish Council by Feria Urbanism
Environmental noise guidelines for the European Region, 2018, World Health Organisation https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/279952
Geology of Britain viewer http://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbritain/home.html?location=puddletown
Green Spaces Assessment, 2019, Puddletown Neighbourhood Plan Group
Housing Needs – Indicative Figure Report, August 2019, Dorset Council
Joint Local Plan Review for West Dorset, Weymouth and Portland: Level of Growth – Employment Land Background Paper, February 2017 https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/planning-buildings-land/planning-policy/west-dorset-and-weymouth-portland/local-plan-review/pdf/backgroup-papers/level-of-growth-employment-land.pdf
National Heritage List for England https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/
National Planning Policy Framework and relevant planning practice guidance https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/planning-practice-guidance
Puddletown Forest Design Plan, 2013, Forestry England https://www.forestryengland.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Purbeck%20Forest%20Plan%20Puddletown.pdf
Puddletown Parish Housing Needs Assessment (HNA), May 2018, prepared for Puddletown Parish Council by AECOM http://www.puddletownareaparishcouncil.
Puddletown, Stinsford and Lower Bockhampton and Tolpuddle Conservation Area Appraisal, December 2007, West Dorset District Council https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/planning-buildings-land/planning/planning-constraints/conservation-areas/west-dorset/pdfs/puddletown-stinsford-and-lower-bockhampton-and-tolpuddle-conservation-area-appraisal.pdf
Report from the 2016 survey, March 2017, prepared by the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group http://www.puddletownareaparishcouncil.co.uk/_UserFiles/Files/PNP%20Survey%20March%202017%20Final%20Report1.pdf
Results from the Community Design Event, May 2017, prepared for Puddletown Parish Council by Feria Urbanism http://www.puddletownareaparishcouncil.co.uk/_UserFiles/Files/Neighbourhood%20Plan/Community%20Design%20Event.pdf
Site Assessment Report for the Puddletown Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, December 2018, AECOM http://www.puddletownareaparishcouncil.co.uk/_UserFiles/Files/Neighbourhood%20Plan/Puddletown%20NP%20Site%20Assessment%20Report%20V1.0_211218.pdf and http://www.puddletownareaparishcouncil.co.uk/_UserFiles/Files/Neighbourhood%20Plan/Site%20Assessment%20Report%20December%202018%20Appendix.pdf
Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Puddletown Neighbourhood Plan - Environmental Report http://www.puddletownareaparishcouncil.co.uk/_UserFiles/Files/Neighbourhood%20Plan/SEA%20Environmental%20Report%20November%202019.pdf
Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Puddletown Neighbourhood Plan - Scoping Report (draft for consultation), October 2018, prepared for Puddletown Area Parish Council by AECOM http://www.puddletownareaparishcouncil.co.uk/_UserFiles/Files/Neighbourhood%20Plan/Puddletown%20NP%20SEA%20Scoping%20Report_V2.0_051018.pdf
Settlement & Character Analysis, May 2017, prepared for Puddletown Parish Council by Feria Urbanism http://www.puddletownareaparishcouncil.co.uk/_UserFiles/Files/Neighbourhood%20Plan/Settlement%20and%20Character%20Analysis.pdf
Strategic noise mapping data https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-noise-mapping-2019
Thomas Hardy’s Wessex website http://www.eugenebirchall.co.uk/
West Dorset Landscape Character Assessment, February 2009, West Dorset District Council https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/planning-buildings-land/planning-policy/west-dorset-and-weymouth-portland/other-planning-documents/pdfs/sg/landscape-character-assessment-february-2009.pdf
West Dorset, Weymouth & Portland Local Plan, October 2016, jointly prepared and adopted by West Dorset District Council and Weymouth & Portland Borough Council https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/planning-buildings-land/planning-policy/west-dorset-and-weymouth-portland/adopted-local-plan/adopted-local-plan.aspx
Location |
Grade |
List No. |
Puddletown Primary School, 38, High Street |
II |
1119073 |
5, High Street |
II |
1119074 |
9, High Street |
II |
1119075 |
Cobblers, 11, High Street |
II |
1119076 |
Nos 17 to 25 (odd nos) including front boundary railings, 17-25, High Street |
II |
1119077 |
Walls and gate piers to Service Yard, adjoining west end of north front of Ilsington House, Ilsington |
II |
1119078 |
Ha-Ha surrounding the garden of Ilsington House on east and south, and boundary wall to the garden, Ilsington |
II |
1119079 |
Waterston Manor, Lower Waterston |
I |
1119080 |
Stables, 50m south west of Waterston Manor, Lower Waterston |
II |
1119081 |
15-21, Mill Street |
II |
1119082 |
3-8, The Moor |
II |
1119083 |
Stafford Park Farm House, including boundary wall and gate piers, Northbrook |
II |
1119084 |
Willoughby House, 2, The Square |
II |
1119085 |
6, The Square |
II |
1119086 |
Hand monument, in the churchyard in the angle of the north porch and west end of north aisle of The Church Of Saint Mary, The Square |
II |
1119087 |
William Dennis Monument, in the churchyard, 2m south east of item 12/111, The Square |
II |
1119088 |
Churchyard Cross, in the churchyard, 15m south of the south porch of The Church Of Saint Mary, The Square |
II |
1119089 |
Former Stable immediately north of Keeper's Cottage, Yellowham Hill |
II |
1119090 |
Dewlish Lodge Gates |
II |
1119111 |
1-6, Chine Hill |
II |
1119112 |
1, 2 And 3, Trent Meadows including attached stables, High Street |
II |
1119113 |
Antique Book and Map Shop and Saddlers, 32, High Street |
II |
1119114 |
34 and 36, High Street |
II |
1119115 |
Remains of Cross, at SY 730915, near Parish boundary |
II |
1119856 |
1, Athelhampton Road |
II |
1154375 |
The Old Vicarage including garden walls adjoining Ilsington House, The Green |
II* |
1154384 |
16-30, High Street |
II |
1154401 |
The Reading Room, High Street |
II |
1154417 |
Entrance Gate Piers to Waterston Manor, Lower Waterston |
II |
1154452 |
Stable Flats, and Gate House 30m west south west of Waterston House, 1 and 2, Lower Waterston |
II |
1154460 |
Bridge over River Piddle, and wall along south side of river, extending west from the bridge to the gap filled by railing, Mill Street |
II |
1154469 |
12, New Street |
II |
1154489 |
Troy House including iron railings around bay, 3, The Square |
II |
1154504 |
5, The Square |
II |
1154512 |
Boundary railings, gate piers and gates to Ilsington House, The Square |
II |
1154516 |
Church of Saint Mary, The Square |
I |
1154532 |
Group of 6 Monuments in the Churchyard, 3m north east of the chancel of the Church Of Saint Mary, The Square |
II |
1154559 |
George Edwards Monument, in the churchyard, 2m south of the south transept of The Church Of Saint Mary, The Square |
II |
1154564 |
Keeper's Cottage, Yellowham Hill |
II |
1154567 |
Troy Town Cottages, 1-4, Yellowham Hill |
II |
1154575 |
K6 Telephone Kiosk west north west of No 9, The Square |
II |
1254380 |
The Martyn's House, 9, The Square |
II |
1303741 |
Tudor Cottage, 14, Mill Street |
II |
1303778 |
8, The Square |
II* |
1303784 |
Hastings Farm House, Ilsington Road |
II |
1303801 |
No 23 including front boundary railing, 23, Mill Street |
II |
1303814 |
Two garden walls at Waterston Manor, extending from The Gate House to the main entrance gateway, Lower Waterston |
II |
1324011 |
Willoughby Cottage, 12, Mill Street |
II |
1324012 |
10 and 11, New Street |
II |
1324013 |
4, The Square |
II |
1324014 |
No 7, including detached outbuilding at rear, 7, The Square |
II |
1324015 |
Group of 5 monuments in the churchyard 3m north of the north porch of The Church Of Saint Mary, The Square |
II |
1324016 |
The Stables, 1-8, Walpole Court |
II |
1324017 |
Troy Town Farm House, Yellowham Hill |
II |
1324018 |
15, High Street |
II |
1324048 |
Ilsington House, Ilsington |
II* |
1324049 |
Ilsington Farm House, Ilsington Road |
II |
1324050 |
Frome Bridge, Puddletown, West Dorset, Dorset |
II |
1425414 |
| Name | (ha) | Appropriate for consideration in the Neighbourhood Plan? |
| Site 1: Chapel Ground (Athelhampton Road) |
7.30 | Potentially - whilst development of the whole site would lead to significant impacts on landscape character, smaller scale and sensitive development of the northern part of the site may be appropriate. |
| Site 2: Rod Hill Lane |
12.50 | Potentially - development of the whole site would be inappropriate given the likelihood of significant landscape character impacts. Smaller scale development of the northern part of the site may be appropriate if new access constraints can be overcome. |
| Site 3: The Coombe |
1.58 | No - given significant access issues, potential deliverability issues and landscape constraints. |
| Site 4: Kite Hill |
4.51 | No - due to access issues and the isolation of the site within the existing landscape. |
| Site 5: Pastures Field |
0.52 | Potentially - if access constraints and noise pollution issues can be addressed, the site may be appropriate for an allocation. |
| Site 6: Three Lanes |
1.75 | Potentially - if potential road safety issues constraints and noise pollution issues can be addressed. |
| Site 7: Judges Meadow |
0.80 | No - due to flood risk issues, historic environment constraints and potential road safety issues. |
| Site 8: Northbrook Farm |
1.85 | Potentially - the site offers significant potential for the provision of local employment uses and small scale housing provision through mixed use development, if noise issues and historic environment constraints at the site can be addressed. Not appropriate for residential-led development, given the relative distance of services and facilities in the Village Centre. |
| Site 1: Land at Athelhampton Road adjoining Chapel Ground (part only) |
✔ A new access could be created onto the main road (rather than using Milom Lane junction), and could help slow speeds if the junction was designed with this in mind. ✔ There would be sufficient space available that could include some public open space and community or employment uses if a need were to arise. – Having a more limited area (keeping development to the south side of the telegraph poles) would ensure the ridge and skyline would remain visible and the development would not encroach too near to Little Knoll Copse. – Whilst Ilsington House to the north is screened by mature trees, its setting could be impacted should this tree screen be removed (although this is already the case with the surgery). – Rainwater does drain from the higher ground to the south, and the flows would need to be assessed and measures taken to reduce flood risk in any design. ❌ The site is productive farmland which would be permanently lost through this development. ❌ The development does extend the village outwards in a linear fashion (particularly if the site size and housing numbers are overly restricted). |
| Site 2: Rod Hill Lane (part only) |
✔ The development would not significantly extend the village beyond its current limits or impact on existing residents. ✔ There would be sufficient space available that could include some public open space and community or employment uses if a need were to arise. –The more limited area (below 70m contour) should ensure the ridge and skyline would remain visible (and although it would be more visible than the equivalent development on Site 1, this could be off-set by woodland planting on the skyline). – It potentially provides an opportunity to negotiate a pedestrian link around the southern edge of village (as the land is in the same ownership) but this would need to navigate across the sunken green lane and could prove costly (and may not be feasible). – Whilst Ilsington House to the north is screened by mature trees, its setting could be impacted should this tree screen be removed (although this is already the case with the surgery). – Rainwater does drain from the higher ground to the south, and the flows would need to be assessed and measures taken to reduce flood risk in any design. ❌ The site is productive farmland which would be permanently lost through this development. ❌ The site would have to be accessed off Milom Lane, which would urbanise the character of the lane (up to the site access). |
| Site 5: Pastures Field |
✔ The development is low-lying and would not significantly extend the village beyond its current limits or impact on existing residents. ✔ The site is particularly well located for access to facilities. – Whilst there is some surface water flood risk associated with the western end of the site, this should not significantly reduce the site’s capacity, and it is likely that measures can be taken to manage flows across the site and reduce flood risk in any design. – Whilst the site is farmland, it is of limited size and lower grade than Sites 1 and 2. ❌ The site’s future occupants will be subject to noise from the bypass, although it is likely that mitigation can be secured to reduce this to an acceptable level. ❌ There is no easy solution to providing highways access – any solution is likely to involve third party land and may not be feasible or viable. ❌ This area already has a large amount of development planned (41 dwellings on the site to the north and 5 dwellings to the east) that are likely to be developed over the next 5 years. |
| Site 8: Northbrook Farm (part only) |
✔ The development would include what are underused farm buildings to the west of Stafford Park Farm House, reducing the need to release other greenfield sites. ✔ The landowner has made clear that the land to the south (the flood risk area) would be made available as an amenity to the village provided at least 10 dwellings are achieved. – Having a more limited area (keeping development to the existing yard, which should accommodate 10 – 12 dwellings) should ensure that the setting of Stafford Park Farm House is not adversely affected. – Whilst the site is part of a farmyard, the main farm buildings are further to the west, and the redevelopment of the yard should not impact on the farm’s continued operation. – Whilst there may be bats or barn owls in some of the redundant buildings (a survey would be needed), it is likely that measures could be incorporated to retain and enhance their habitats. –The landowner has confirmed that they have no interest in developing employment-type units. ❌ The site is slightly divorced from the main village and is not well located for residents to access facilities, although the offer of land could enable the provision of an off-road link as far as Druce Lane. ❌ The site’s future occupants will be subject to noise from the bypass, although it is likely that mitigation can be secured to reduce this to an acceptable level. |
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