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PDC Elections 3 May 2012

These are the candidates standing in the forthcoming elections. You don't need a polling card to vote at a polling station.

Swanage North

CLARK Peter Benwell Liberal Democrat candidate
HARDING Lorie Labour Party candidate
MARSH Gloria Ann The Conservative Party candidate

Swanage South

HADLEY Mike Liberal Democrat candidate

PATRICK Alison The Conservative Party candidate
ROKER Rupert The Labour and Co-operative Party candidate

Focus newsletters:

Swanage South  http://tinyurl.com/87uqth5

Swanage North  http://tinyurl.com/7es97ru

C-SCOPE Marine Plan Consultation

Draft C-SCOPE Marine Plan Consultation (Click for link to C-SCOPE website)

You are invited to comment on the Draft C-SCOPE Marine Plan. Your feedback is particularly important as this is a pilot project which could help to inform national marine planning. The Draft C-SCOPE Marine Plan is a non-statutory plan which aims to provide users, managers and regulators of the marine plan area, whether in public, private or voluntary sectors, with direction, policies and advice to ensure that their plans and activities contribute to sustainable development in the area. While the Plan should be taken as a whole, it is also intended to be complementary to existing plans and strategies. It seeks to avoid duplication as far as possible but does sign-post users to other relevant plans and strategies where they overlap.

Additionally there is an aspiration that the C-SCOPE Marine Plan will become a material consideration for local planning and regulatory authorities when making decisions on new applications for development, and eventually be given some statutory recognition through incorporation into local plans and national marine plans when they are developed.

Day Centres

Peter Clark (of the Swanage and Isle of Purbeck Lib Dems) attended the DCC debate on the future of the Day Centres in Dorset. This is his feedback.

The consultation report and recommendations are all
laid out in a long report (item 7), which is available on the Dorsetforyou website.

As I see it, the situation is as follows.

D.C.C., encouraged by Debbie Ward, the director of Adult Services, seem to
have listened to the consultation. Can this be true? I believe that it is!

The overall preference was to keep the Day Centres in the ownership of
D.C.C.(option 1) This was especially so in the cases of the users of the Day
centres and their carers. Option 3 was the least popular. There was a
widespread view that income streams could be improved both by changing the
qualifications needed to use the Centres and by increasing the use of the
premises by outside bodies. The point made forcibly by Mel and Gerry Norris that
closure of the premises would result in larger public expenditure elsewhere
was also given prominence.

As a result a Partnership option was recommended. The aim would be to
maximise opportunities for partnerships with other groups and to establish
multiple use of buildings.

The Chief Executive voiced concern about how much of this would be possible.
Andrew Cattaway, the responsible cabinet member, was very positive in his
comment that 'this can be achieved.'

A fuller report on how this might be achieved will go to the May cabinet.

That's it. Good news so far, but a long way to go.

Elections 5 May 2011

These are the elected councillors:
SWANAGE TOWN COUNCIL

South Swanage
Turnout: 48.1%
Mike Bonfield (Con) 1189
Angelo Wiggins (Con) 1118
Alison Patrick (Con) 1023
Mike Pratt (Con) 1003
Ian Brown (Con) 976
Steve Poultney (Con) 953
Cherry Bartlett (Lab) 911

Not elected:
Judith Taylor (Con) 892
Avril Harris (Lab) 750
Rupert Roker (Lab) 749
Mike Hadley (Lib D) 728

North Swanage
Turnout: 54.37%
Bill Trite (Con) 1175
Gary Suttle (Con) 1108
Gloria Marsh (Con) 1099
Cindy Harris (Con) 956
Mike Whitwam (Con) 912

Not elected:
Peter Clark (Lib Dem) 580
Elizabeth Clarke (Lib Dem) 493
Lorrie Harding (Lab) 376
Max Stanford (Lab) 336

SWANAGE PURBECK DISTRICT COUNCILLORS

South Swanage
Turnout: 37.9%
Mike Pratt (Con) 1123
Not elected:
Rupert Roker (Lab) 629
Mike Hadley (Lib Dem) 518
Leigh Van de Zande (Lab) 318

North Swanage
Turnout: 53.9%
Bill Trite (Con) 1192
Not elected:
Elizabeth Clarke (Lib Dem) 340
Harding (Lab) 285

Elections May 2011

Local elections are being held on Thursday 5th May to elect Swanage representatives for Purbeck District Council and Swanage Town Council. There will also be a referendum on whether to adopt the Alternative Vote, rather than the present 'first past the post' system, for national elections in the future. You should have received a Polling Card with details of where to vote. If not, and you think you should be able to vote, contact Purbeck District Council on 01929 556561

You can see the election leaflets here for Swanage South and Swanage North

Here you may see the Lib Dem Purbeck Manifesto and a list of recent Achievements

FOCUS (Winter 2011)

Focus (Winter 2011)

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