YETMINSTER
REP: Michaela and Graham Plaice: gplaice@gmail.com 872921
I start this month’s article with a huge thank you to our family of distributors, volunteers all, who brave every weather to deliver the magazine to your door. My apologies to the residents of Linda Manaton and Valerie Rowsell’s round – I have undertaken Linda’s round for the last couple of months and totally mixed up her round with Valerie’s, which meant double accounting and, for some residents, no magazine; this has brought home to me how valuable the distributors are. A level of competence has been reintroduced with the welcome return of Jenny Hoppe and Linda. Once again, thank you. May I ask all Yetminster residents to pay particular attention to the details in 34
the Dorset Local Plan and the information laid out for proposed further housing for Yetminster. I recommend reading David Torrance’s article regarding the YRIPC Neighbourhood Plan (p38); although it allays many of my fears regarding the number of new houses being quoted (150), I still have my placard used during the Gladman application. There was an excellent article and radio presentation on Abbey 104 regarding this issue, from a councillor from Sherborne who championed the need to consider building new houses in select developments within our villages and not just stick large developments on the fringes. Examples of this can be seen in Yetminster, Thornford, Sherborne and Yeovil.
