Portland Plan logo
A Neighbourhood Plan for Portland, Dorset
  • Home
  • What is Neighourhood Planning?
  • Portland Plan Background
  • Portland Plan News
  • Document Library
heritage and character
27 March 2017

Heritage and Character Study Information

General, Heritage and Character Study, Natural & Built Environment

Please Note we are currently awaiting receipt of the final draft version of the study from AECom. As soon as this is received further details will be available via this website.

Major Study Confirms Portland’s Unique Character

As part of the work on the Portland Neighbourhood Plan, a study has helped identify what makes the different parts of the Island special today. On the Town Council’s behalf, AECOM, a leading environmental consultancy, has taken a fresh look at the Portland in 2017. Their Character Assessment Report provides important, up-to-date, evidence to support the planning policies that will go in the Neighbourhood Plan. Government guidelines say neighbourhood plans should develop policies based on an understanding of the defining characteristics of an area. In doing so, policies can ensure that development responds to local character and history, and reflects the identity of local surroundings and materials, while not preventing or discouraging appropriate innovation.

The Character Assessment Report has identified six distinct ‘character areas’ on Portland. It has made recommendations about how development needs to be controlled in the interests of protecting or enhancing their unique character.

Before the Neighbourhood Plan policies are written, the Town Council is giving local people an opportunity to consider the Character Assessment Report and contribute their own thoughts and ideas.

The Portland Character Assessment Report will be on the this website from early April 2017.
It will also be available via Portland Town Council’s website.

The consultation period will run for a whole month period the closing date and further information on how you may register your comments will be shown on the websites.
Alternatively hard copies of the reports and forms to make comments will be available at the following locations during their opening times.

Portland Tophill Library, Straits, Easton, DT5 1HG

Portland Town Council Offices, 52 Easton Street, DT5 1BT

Osprey Leisure Centre, Castletown, DT5 1BD

Related Posts

Portland-Plan-apr-2020

General

Portland Neighbourhood Plan Update April 2020

Consultations, General

Neighbourhood Plan Independent Examination

Consultations, General

Regulation 16 Consultation Update (Nov 19)

Latest News

  • Portland-Plan-apr-2020Portland Neighbourhood Plan Update April 2020
    17th April 2020
  • Neighbourhood Plan Independent Examination
    5th December 2019
  • Regulation 16 Consultation Update (Nov 19)
    13th November 2019
  • Regulation 16 Consultation
    14th August 2019
  • pp-coverTown Council Submits Neighbourhood Plan – July 2019
    21st July 2019

News Categories

  • Business & Employment (3)
  • Community & Social Facilities (4)
  • Consultations (10)
  • General (26)
  • Heritage and Character Study (3)
  • Housing & People (3)
  • Leisure & Recreation (1)
  • Natural & Built Environment (5)
  • Surveys (6)
The Portland Plan

Cookies and Privacy Policy

Like most websites, we store information about your visit in the form of ‘cookies’. The cookies help us to tailor our website to your preferences. Cookies are placed on your computer, which provide information about how you use the site. This information is used statistically and the cookies, do not gather personal information about you and do not allow us access to your computer.
Read our full policy on our Cookies & Privacy page.

Contact

If you have any questions about the Portland Plan, please email info @ portlandplan.org.uk.

Read about how we treat your data on our Cookies & Privacy page.

The Portland Plan working group is a small team of volunteers, so please be aware that depending on the nature of your query, there may be a delay before we are able to respond.

Stay in Touch

Map-logo-white-trans
© 2014-2019 Portland Town Council | Neighbourhood Plan for Portland.
Website made by Design Now
.

The Neighbourhood Plan development is supported by funding from the Community Development Foundation.


Community Development Foundation logo