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EXPLAINING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN MILBORNE MOVIES

PART 5 Friday April 12th.

Doors and Bar open 7.00; film
nd
The Vote is on Thursday 2 May starts 7.30
Our Neighbourhood Plan has passed the Examiner’s scrutiny. He has declared it ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, says the film review
safe in law. He did recommend some minor changes to improve it which we were site, Rotten Tomatoes, is a foot-stomping
pleased to accept. The updated plan is now on our website to view at https:// celebration of Queen, their music and their
www.bereregisparishcouncil.co.uk/neighbourhood-plan-complete/ extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury,
who defied stereotypes and shattered
The next stage is that the plan will be put to all Bere Regis residents who are
registered to vote, in a simple referendum, asking if you accept it or don’t accept convention to become one of the most
it, on Thursday 2nd May. beloved entertainers on the planet. The film
traces the meteoric rise of the band
The Parish Council, having spent 6 years through their iconic songs and
drafting this plan and consulting many times revolutionary sound, their near-implosion as
with residents, and knowing how much the Mercury's lifestyle spirals out of control, and
provisions of the plan will affect us all, would their triumphant reunion on the eve of Live
urge everyone to attend the polling station at Aid, where Mercury, facing a life-
the Drax Hall to vote. threatening illness, leads the band in one of
the greatest performances in the history of rock music… cementing the legacy of

a band that were always more like a family, and who continue to inspire
To remind you, the main provisions are:
outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day.
 105 houses, 40% of which must be
‘affordable’, to be built on 5 sites, all Come and see it with us - or see it again, if you have already enjoyed it!
adjoining the village
 Creation of an enlarged employment area near the Shell garage

 The creation of an accessible green space for walking between the village
and the by-pass
 Protection to areas of green space within the village

 Protection to community services and facilities
 Acquisition of land to enable new facilities to be provided in due course

Why should you vote to accept it?
Passing the referendum means our plan will form part of the Purbeck Local Plan,
so it will have considerable weight in law, and developers will be obliged to
consider it and take it into account when drawing up their planning applications.
In general development will only be permitted on the agreed sites, and to the
numbers agreed. We will gain access to considerable areas of green space and
land will become available to enable more young peoples’ facilities to be

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