90 home development plan for Broadmayne, Dorset

Dorset Council has validated an outline application for a site adjacent to Broadmead with the proposals now available for consultation.

The development includes parking for more than 200 cars, open spaces including allotments and an enhanced drainage scheme.

The application for the 34-acre farmland site has been put forward by Southern Strategic Land LLP with the document pack running to almost forty items.

The developers say they would like to build 19 two-bed, 35 three-bed and 5 four-bed open market homes with 4 one-bed, 20 two-bed and 7 three-bed ‘affordable’ properties.

90 homes are being proposed for Broadmayne Picture: Southern Strategic Land & Bright Space Architects

The site itself is an area of open farmland with housing on three side to the south of the A352 on the western edge of the village – the field closest to the village will be used for the housing scheme with the further field maintained as an natural open area, described in the proposal as “a country park” with its own parking area.

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Access to the housing site would be off Broadmead to the eastern side of the development field with a temporary road into the site for construction traffic through the northern field, part of which is in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The proposed site

The company say a public consultation held in the village in October attracted 240 people with 89 feedback forms collected. It says the results was a “balanced” view with strong support for smaller homes and bungalows.

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Overall it says that almost 48 per cent who attended the exhibition in the village hall, (31% of those invited), were supportive of the scheme with 30% opposed. More than 75 per cent backed the development being all-electric and as close to net-zero as possible.

Parish councillors had been consulted in an earlier meeting during September and have yet to give their views on the proposals.

How the development could look

A previous, smaller application for 30 homes on part of the site was rejected in 2015, primarily because of concerns over the road junction with Rectory Road, although the council case officer had commented at the time that the principle of housing on the site was acceptable.

The latest scheme include suggestions about how best to deal with traffic to and from the site, including possible improvements to Rectory Road at the junction.

The application, Dorset Council reference 2021/05309, is open to public comment until January 10.