Core Strategy Meeting - 5th March 2012

I am currently minded [dependent on further relevent facts] to vote for the Core Strategy to go out to consultation, which is the resolution for our extraordinary meeting on Monday at the Village Hotel, Bournemouth.  If I were to vote against this resolution, it would be anti-democratic.  I am delighted that residents will get a twelve-week period to respond with their issues, before modifications are made to the pre-submission document.  I urge all Ferndown residents to get involved, and write in with your comments - let me know also, of your major issues and concerns if you live in Ferndown Central.  I outlined my main concerns at the meeting of 1st February, at the Barrington Centre, which some of you may have attended. I will be continuing to lobby for HGV to be diverted out of the town centre, for substantive improvmeents to be made to Ferndown town centre, and will continue fighting for traffic flow improvments if there are to be further developments in West Parley and at ferndown Industrial Estate.  The current traffic levels in the town are simply unacceptable and the highways authority has simply not listened to residents or to the former town council traffic working party.  I will also be pushing for allotments to be included in either the Coppins or Holmwood House developments in Ferndown.