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PURBECK DISTRICT COUNCIL REPORT
FAMILIES FOR
CHILDREN
The Local Plan
TRUST
The consultation and publication period for the pre-
submission Purbeck Local Plan has recently been
completed.
PDC are currently analysing the responses and I will
Families for Children Trust is a Specialist Adoption Agency and charitable trust
based in the South West. include details of that next month. In summary, PDC
received responses from around 200 people /
We place vulnerable children from all over the UK with new adoptive families in organisations. Between them, they made over 600
Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, Somerset and the Isles of Scilly. We currently have a separate comments. Plus, they received responses from 8 town and parish
real shortage of adopters coming forward and a growing number of children councils.
waiting for adoptive families.
One of the points that has come to PDC’s attention from one parish council that
You have previously kindly included dates for our upcoming information sessions we wanted to clarify is the view that sites that landowners have promoted
in your publication where people can learn about becoming an adopter and through the “SHLAA” (which is broadly a mechanism for landowners and others to
how we can support you for life. The next meetings in Dorset are: put forward sites for consideration) will be given preferential treatment when
looking at small sites. This is not the case. Any small site submitted for planning

permission will be treated on its planning merits regardless of whether it was or
January 2019 wasn’t promoted through the SHLAA.
Date: Friday 18 January Time 10.00am to 12.00 noon
th
Venue: Families for Children, Unit 11 Herringston Barn, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 9PU Transfer of assets
PDC have provided draft heads of terms and associated maps for the transfer of

February 2019 some Purbeck Assets (generally land) to the Parish Council. This was done at the
request of the Parish Council and myself as the District Councillor and is part of a
st
Date: Thursday 21 February Time 10.00am to 12.00 noon policy of transferring small parcels of land and assets before the new Council
comes into existence. This makes sense as local Parish Councils will be better
Venue: Families for Children, Unit 11 Herringston Barn, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 9PU placed to manage these assets if they want to.

Surgery
Surgeries are held on the first Saturday of every month. These are held at the
communal Lounge in Turberville Court in Bere Regis from 09.30 a.m. to 10.00 a.m.
If you have any questions or queries related to the business of Purbeck District
Council please do come along. If anyone wants to contact me and cannot get
to the surgery my email address is peter.wharf@btopenworld.com.
Peter Wharf - District Councillor

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