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List of Key Stakeholders, Local Groups, Press and Media Blandford+ Neighbourhood Plan Consultation List of Consultees / Recipients Statutory (Schedule 1) Statutory (Schedule 1) Cont Statutory (Schedule 1) Cont Land Interests & Other Savills (on behalf of the Coates North Dorset District Council Pimperne Parish Council Sturminster Marshall Parish Council Family) Dorsert Council Council Silton Parish Meeting Vale of Allen Parish Council Savills (on behalf of Bryanston RFE) East Dorset District Council South Tarrant Valley Parish Council Sixpenny Handley Parish Council Wyatt Homes Purbeck District Council Spetisbury Parish Council Gussage St Michael Parish Meeting Barton Willmore South Somerset District Council Shillingstone Parish Council Bere Regis Parish Council Down House Estate Somerset County Council Sutton Waldron Parish Council Bloxworth Parish Meeting Blandford Forum Town Councillors West Dorset District Council and Weymouth & Portland Borough Council Shaftesbury Town Council Moreton Parish Council Blandford St. Mary Parish Councillors Wiltshire Council Stalbridge Town Council Morden Parish Council Bryanston Paris Councillors Ashmore Parish Council Stoke Wake Parish Meeting Abbas & Templecombe Parish Council Urban Vision Enterprises CIC Blandford St Mary Stourton Caundle Parish Council Cucklington Parish Council AECOM Blandford Forum Stourpaine Parish Council Henstridge Parish Council Locality Bourton Parish Council Sturminster Newton Town Council Pen Selwood Parish Council BFTC Press Contact Group Tarrant Launceston & Monkton Parish Bryanston Councils Wincanton Town Council NDDC Press Officer Buckhorn Weston & Kington Magna Parish NDDC Local Organisation Contact Councils Tarrant Hinton Parish Council The Coal Authority Group Homes & Communities Agency (now Charlton Marshall Parish Council Tarrant Gunville Parish Council Homes England) Clemdell Ltd Chettle Parish Council The Stours Parish Council Natural England Allotment Society The Orchards and Margaret Marsh Parish Child Okeford Parish Council Council Environment Agency Blandford Schools Compton Abbas Parish Council Turnworth Parish Meeting Historic England Simon Hoare MP Durweston Parish Council Winterborne Whitechurch Parish Council Network Rail Dorset Regulations & Equality Council Farnham Parish Council Winterborne Stickland Mono Consultants Limited Blandford Educational Trust Fontmell Magna Parish Council Winterborne Houghton Parish Council Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group Urban Vision Enterprise CIC Southern Gas Network Fifehead Neville Parish Meeting Winterborne Clenston Parish Meeting AECOM Fifehead Magdalen Parish Meeting Woolland Parish Meeting Wessex Water Locality Blandford Area Youth Centre Glanvilles Wooton Parish Meeting Affpuddle / Turnerspuddle Parish Council Blandford+ Steering Group Gillingham Town Council Bishops Caundle Parish Council Blandford Forum Museum Trust Councillors Hazelbury Bryan Parish Council Buckland Newton Parish Council Blandford Fashion Musem Dorset Association of Parish and Town Hilton Parish Council Cam Vale Group Councils Hinton St Mary Parish Council Cheselbourne Parish Council Dorset Wildlife Trust Ibberton Parish Council Dewlish Parish Council Dorset CPRE Iwerne Minster Parish Council Folke Parish Coucil Blandford Adult Education Centre Iwerne Courtney and Steepleton Group Parish Council Holwell Parish Council Blandford & District Civic Society Langton Long Parish Meeting Purse Caundle Parish Council Sovereign Housing Association Lydlinch Parish Council Puddletown Area Group Hanover Housing Association Lower Winterborne Parish Council Piddle Valley Group Gypsy And Traveller Liaison Mappowder Parish Meeting Minterne Magna Parish Council The Gypsy Council Marnhull Parish Council Melcombe Horsey Parish Meeting Dorset Racial Equality Council Manston and Hammoon Parish Council Zeals Parish Council Churches Together in Dorset Melbury Abbas and Cann Group Parish Council Berwick St John Parish Council St Peter and St Paul's Church Milton Abbas Parish Council Mere Parish Council The Chamber of Commerce Motcombe Parish Council Tollard Royal Parish Council North Dorset Disability Action Group Milborne St Andrew Parish Council Donhead St Mary Parish Council Dorset AONB Partnership Okeford Fitzpaine Parish Council Sedgehill & Semley Parish Council Cranborne Chase AONB Pulham Parish Meeting Pamphill and Shapwick Parish Council.
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