Poundbury
This is part of the new development started in the 1990s at Poundbury on the edge of Dorchester and is an example of what can be achieved, with variety of house-types, design and materials merging into a pleasing environment. Why is it that each new development around Westbourne has provided another clutch of virtually identical houses, same design, same brick, same windows, same tiles, same everything? Cannot the planners, who have such power in these matters, insist on the developers creating something different, something more sensitive to the true character of our village?
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This really could be Westbourne. If new houses could be built like that for similar price, why on earth wouldn't they make the effort? Can you oblige the planners to do it from a historical preservation point of view? Surely it's in everyone's best interests because it raises the value of everyone's existing homes in the village when a new development is aesthetically pleasing.
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