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to do. Again we had to get used to only having oil lamps or candles, no flush are subject to change due to weather conditions or unforeseen circumstances.
toilet and getting water from the well. We had lots of playmates at Shitterton and We will advertise the closures on yellow signs placed in advance at the alongside
recall many carefree, happy days. the A31.

Whilst Mum was in London my sister was taken ill so they had to stay but Mum If you have any questions, or if you would like to know about our work, please
always sent my brother and I a shilling a week each. We had to buy a national contact us on 0300 123 5000 or email info@highwaysengland.co.uk. Or you can
savings stamp with half of it and other half we could use to buy out sweet ration visit our website at https://highwaysengland.co.uk/travel-updates/daily-closure-
which we got at Mr Coles garage shop. report/ where you can find a weekly report of all full closures across the network.
We went to Sunday school at the chapel and I was in Granny Halls concert party.
Great fun. With the help of the farmer I organised a jumble sale on his lawn and a Purbeck Local Plan
concert in his barn and we raised £127 which was sent to the Red Cross. I
received a nice letter of thanks from them. We were always organising little bits of The local plan relates to the Purbeck area of Dorset Council and was submitted for
entertainment in the barn and I was instrumental in teaching most of the village examination in January 2019. Public hearing sessions were held as part of the
boys how to dance. plan’s examination in July, August and October 2019. After considering responses
made on the local plan, and the matters raised in the course of the hearing
One day a special friend, Elsie and I picked primroses and bunched them up and sessions, the Planning Inspector who examined the plan provided the council with
went up to Podges to sell them at sixpence a bunch. I can't remember how a Post Hearing Note in March 2020 ( https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/planning-
many we sold. I developed very bad chilblains on my heels and had a job to get buildings-land/planning-policy/purbeck/post-hearings-note-20-03-2020.pdf ). The
my shoes on. The postmaster, Mr Gower kindly came to take me to school in his fourth paragraph of the Inspector’s note states that ‘…I am reasonably satisfied at
car. The W.V.S. ladies brought us a parcel every month from America.
this stage that with Main Modifications the Plan is likely to be capable of being
found legally compliant and sound…’. The note then goes onto reference several
Then the soldiers arrived in the village and they gave us sweets and chocolate
from the NAAFI. They had films in the Drax Hall and we would walk down there changes that need to be made to the local plan in order to ensure that it meets
and at the interval some of us girls would sing for them. the tests for soundness (described in the National Planning Policy Framework) and
is compliant with planning law. Without these changes the Inspector will not
The American soldiers were billeted in the W.I. hut and in the grounds of White recommend that the council can adopt the local plan.
Lovington. Their sergeant was billeted in the Royal Oak. We had great fun with
the soldiers and at the dances learning to jitterbug. Since receiving the note officers have been working closely with the Planning
Inspector to prepare a ‘composite schedule of proposed Main Modifications’. This
After about three years Mum came back but the house we were in was said to be schedule provides a list of the changes to the local plan that are needed in order
unsafe so we all had to move. The kind people we were living with went to to ensure that it is sound and legally compliant. The next stage of the examination
Spetisbury to live with family and Mum found us another billet in North Street. process for the Purbeck Local Plan involves publishing the proposed Main
Unfortunately this was not such a happy time. I was on curfew in the evenings but Modifications together with a number of other documents including, updated:
I used to climb out of the bedroom local plan policies map(s); Habitats Regulation Assessment (HRA) and Sustainability
window and down a ladder to go and Appraisal (SA); 5 year Housing Land Supply; and an Infrastructure Development
see my friends. Plan.

Mum had been working for the farmer The consultation on the above is scheduled to take place between Friday 13th
and he had an empty cottage in November 2020 and Friday 8th January 2021 over 8 weeks. Officers will be
West Street at the end of Butt Lane so encouraging people to access the consultation documents electronically and
we moved in there. We had one make their responses digitally using an online form or through e-mails, this is in
bedroom and one chair which the accordance with government guidance around social distancing to limit the
previous owners had left. I can spread of COVID-19. Where people are unable to access digital copies of
remember my brother and I sitting on consultation documents or make their response through the council’s website/by
the steps to have our meals. Dad had e-mail, there will be an opportunity to loan a selection of the key documents from
come down to be near us but he a number of libraries (including Upton, Lytchett Matravers, Wareham, Swanage,
could only get lodgings in Poole near Photo credit: Paul and Alison Bennett Wool and Dorchester) and make any responses in writing using a standard

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