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statutory responsibilities to ensure minimal impact on local services, should the
Home Office’s plan go ahead. We are still waiting for answers to questions from the
Home Office.

Car Parking Machines upgrade

All our car park and on-street pay and display machines are to be replaced.
Replacement of the machines is expected to complete by mid-July, with the new
machines offering improved reliability and a consistent user experience.

The machines will provide customers with a range of payment options, including
cash, card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and an online app. Wi-Fi will also be improved
in car parks with weak phone signals, ensuring smoother transactions. The payment
facilities and display screens will at a height suitable for wheelchair users.

Nitrates
We have had many questions at to how the nitrates policy affects development.
Below is a summary article explaining this.

There are five catchment areas for internationally protected wetland habitats
within, or overlapping with, Dorset Council’s administrative area where phosphorus
and/or nitrogen levels have the potential to adversely affect water quality. Dorset
Council has a legal responsibility to ensure that any development it permits will not
Dorset Property Care adversely affect the integrity of any internationally protected site. Therefore, in all
Allan Slater affected catchments, new residential development cannot be granted planning
Based in Briantspuddle permission if it is unable to demonstrate that it is capable of achieving nutrient
neutrality.
 Services
 Building maintenance The catchment areas within Dorset are:
 General joinery Poole Harbour – Nitrogen and Phosphorus nutrient deposition
 Garden maintenance Somerset Levels and Moors - Phosphorus nutrient deposition
 Garden landscaping River Avon – Phosphorus nutrient deposition
 Kitchens
Chesil and The Fleet – Nitrogen and Phosphorus nutrient deposition
 Man and digger hire
River Axe – Phosphorus nutrient deposition
 Waste carrier licence
The largest and most significant catchment area affecting Dorset in terms of
07973 158092 geographical area and housing applications is Poole Harbour, and Dorset Council

has in place an adopted strategy to mitigate the impacts of nitrogen from new
allan@dorsetpropertycare.co.uk residential development. However, the advice from Natural England in September
www.dorsetpropertycare.co.uk 2022 confirmed that phosphorus is also an issue for Poole Harbour.
The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill is proposing measures which will require

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