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Sustaining Poole’s Seafront
Last updated: 14th September 2013
Creating a self-financing, sustainable seafront for future generations to enjoy
The consultation on the vision to create a self-financing, sustainable seafront for future generations to enjoy has now ended.
The Council are working hard to go through the various web, e-mail and written responses, of which there were over 200. Once they have all been reviewed a summary will be published with the future direction and Council procedures for the Planning Document.
Background
Following an extensive public engagement programme in Spring 2012 a Draft Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) for Sustaining Poole's Seafront was created and consulted upon in August and September 2013. This document can be downloaded from the links (right).
Poole's seafront is one of the town's outstanding natural environments. Conserving and improving it is important, but upgrading or maintaining the toilets, other buildings and the water and electricity supply requires investment. This presents a real challenge in a time of unprecedented budget cuts so we have to look at innovative, but sensitive, ways of generating income.
In order to achieve our vision for the seafront 3 Key Themes have been identified that run through the draft document:
- Deliver high quality design and construction.
- Maintain, respect and enhance the natural environment.
- Improve connections between the seafront beaches, the town centre and wider surrounding conurbation.
If adopted, the plan will set out a framework to allow carefully managed projects to come forward providing new and better facilities for our whole seafront, all year round, without harming the natural environment.
Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) Consultation Draft Summer 2013 - download the document (pdf, 8Mb)
Ways we have engaged with the public and stakeholders… read about previous consultations
Consultation ended 6th September 2013