Minutes of the Extraordinary Parish Council Meeting held on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 7.00pm in Bradford Abbas Village Hall
Attendance: Cllrs. R Legg, P Clark, S Jenkins, D Coffin, J Barber, J Thomas, 6 members of the public and the Parish Clerk.
- Welcome and Apologies for Absence: The Chairman welcomed Councillors and members of the public to the meeting. Apologies for absence were received from Cllr Furby and accepted
- Declarations of Interest: There were no declarations of interest declared.
- Introduction to the meeting: Cllr Legg explained to members and the members of the public present that this meeting was to discuss the Dorset Local Plan Consultation document and not the Neighbourhood Plan the draft of which was launched last week. Also Bradford Abbas has no specific sites identified in the Dorset Local Plan and so the speculative site on Babylon Hill was outside the remit of the meeting. It was noted by a member of the public that an officer had indicated at the Public Consultation event in Sherborne that the proposed possible development on Babylon Hill could be used to offset numbers required in a neighbouring county. Cllr Legg indicated that Planners had previously rejected this site as being unsuitable and this is why it was not in the allocation.
- Comments from Councillors and Members of the Public. Cllr Legg then went through the questions being asked in the consultation document and Councillors and members of the public had the opportunity to give their views on each item.
- Next Steps The answers and responses would be fed into the document and submitted to Dorset Council
Date of next Ordinary Council Meeting – Tuesday 4th November 2025 at 7.00pm in Bradford Abbas Village Hall.