Your neighbourhood
Finding your neighbourhood… then we’ll gather the planning register, the map, air quality, flooding and police data.
Your neighbourhood
Finding your neighbourhood… then we’ll gather the planning register, the map, air quality, flooding and police data.
Community Connect · by CommUNIty
Neighbourhood report
Colehill & Wimborne Minster East ward · Holt · Dorset Council · Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency
11
Green spaces mapped within 1km
1
Community venues and places of worship
6
Public defibrillators recorded
3
Planning applications still undecided
4
Schools, colleges and libraries
44
Crimes recorded, August 2026
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PublicNearest defibrillator: The Horns Inn
220m away · 24/7 Access · The Horns Inn
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.8105&mlon=-1.97507#map=19/50.8105/-1.97507
The green space, heathland, woodland and water on your doorstep. How clean the air is, where it floods, and where you can help.
Fair , 22 on the European AQI.
| PM2.5 | 5.9 µg/m³ |
| PM10 | 10.5 µg/m³ |
| Nitrogen dioxide | 4.5 µg/m³ |
| Ozone | 49 µg/m³ |
Modelled hourly for this location, not a roadside measurement.
No flood warnings in force within 20km.
Warnings are live alerts. They say nothing about long-term risk. Check that at https://www.gov.uk/check-long-term-flood-risk
| Place | What it is | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Colehill Triangle (Woodland) | Park | 720m |
10 unnamed on the map. Real places, but OpenStreetMap has no name for them, so they are counted and not listed.
What is being proposed, built and dug up around you. Most of it is decided in public, on a deadline, but only if somebody notices in time.
11 within 1km, 3 still undecided.
| Type of application | Number |
|---|---|
| Major schemes, Large schemes. The council's own classification. | 0 |
| Tree works, Pruning, felling and hedge work. Nothing is built. | 9 |
| Other, Certificates, conditions, amendments, advertising and minor works. | 2 |
| Application | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| T5 Cherry - Remove storm damaged branch.2 Crofton Furzehill Colehill Wimborne BH21 4HD · ref P/TRD/2026/05989 | Permitted | 610m |
| Scots Pine - Remove storm damaged branch.17 Beaucroft Road Colehill Wimborne BH21 2QW · ref P/TRD/2026/05987 | Permitted | 840m |
| Proposed 3x new Standard AC Heat Pump enclosed in acoustic housing installed at ground level; Proposed 1x new Internal Pack and External Gas cooler to be installed at ground level; Proposed new Hit and Miss Timber fence of 2.4m high with access gate3 Burts Hill Wimborne Minster BH21 1NS · ref P/FUL/2026/05622 | Undecided | 910m |
| Scots Pine - Remove dead stem. Remove split branch.Weavers Kyrchil Lane Colehill Wimborne BH21 2RT · ref P/TRD/2026/05636 | Permitted | 720m |
| T6 Oak- Lateral reduction of up to 3 metres on the SE aspect overhanging 11 Rotary Close. This is to be achieved by the removal of secondary and tertiary branches only.Located on green space adjacent to 11 Rotary Close Colehill BH21 7BL · ref P/TRT/2026/05455 | Undecided | 960m |
| Reserved matters application (following the approval of Planning permission 3/14/0016/OUT) to include access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale, for a Local Centre east of Cranborne Road. (Variation of Condition 1 of permission P/RES/2025/01385, to vary the approved drawings to facilitate the installation of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels on the roofs of the approved buildings). |
The halls, groups and events that hold a neighbourhood together, and the practical ways to contribute to it rather than only complain about it.
| Place | What it is | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| St Michael and All Angels Church, anglican | Place of worship | 610m |
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Submitted by neighbours and checked by a moderator before publication. Not an official listing.
Where the nearest defibrillator is before you need it, who to call, and the sport and wellbeing services that keep people well in the first place.
| Where | Access | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| The Horns Inn. The Horns Inn, BH21 7AA | Public · 24/7 Access | 220m |
| St Michael's Ce Va Middle School. St Michaels Ce Va Middle School, BH21 7AB | Public · Varied Access | 580m |
| St Michael's Ce Va Middle School. St Michaels Ce Va Middle School, BH21 7AB | Public · Varied Access | 580m |
| Public defibrillator. The Reef Youth And Community Centre, BH21 7AB | Public · 24/7 Access | 610m |
| Colehill Sports And Social Club. 108 Wimborne Road, BH21 2QR | Public · 24/7 Access | 760m |
| Public defibrillator. The Stocks Inn, BH21 4HT | Public · 24/7 Access | 850m |
| Public defibrillator. Beaucroft School, BH21 2SS | Restricted · Varied Access | 620m |
| Wimborne First School And Nursery. Campanula Way, BH21 4FW | Restricted · Varied Access | 810m |
In an emergency call 999. The operator tells you where the nearest working defibrillator is and gives you its access code. Devices marked Restricted sit inside a building and may not be reachable. Source: British Heart Foundation. From The Circuit, the national register, published 2026-10-01. A monthly snapshot, not a live feed. Community Connect is not endorsed by or affiliated with the British Heart Foundation.
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| Place | What it is | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Dumpton School | School | 80m |
| St Michael's Church of England Middle School, anglican · Initio Learning Trust | School | 500m |
| Beaucroft Foundation School | School | 630m |
| Wimborne First School and Nursery, Hamwic Education Trust | School | 820m |
Harmony places real weight on respecting place, tradition and what came before. What is protected near you, and what makes this neighbourhood distinctive.
| Place | What it is | Distance |
|---|
1 unnamed on the map. Real places, but OpenStreetMap has no name for them, so they are counted and not listed.
Every figure above is public data, gathered on the date on the front page. Nothing here is a substitute for the authoritative register this is a starting point for a conversation, not evidence.
| Source | Used for | Caveat |
|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap (Overpass) | Green space, venues, defibrillators, schools, heritage | Volunteer-maintained. Absence means unmapped as often as it means absent. |
| PlanIt | Planning applications | Mirrors council registers; the council’s own is authoritative. |
| data.police.uk | Recorded crime | Anonymised map points, ~2 months behind. |
| Open-Meteo | Air quality | Modelled, not a roadside monitor. |
| Environment Agency | Flood warnings | Live warnings only, not long-term risk. |
| UK Parliament Members API | Constituency and MP | Not recorded |
| Postcodes.io / ONS | Ward, parish, council, coordinates | Not recorded |
OpenStreetMap data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. Public sector information is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Undecided |
| 890m |
| T1 Goat Willow - Fell to ground level.6 Cobbs Road Colehill BH21 2RL · ref P/TRC/2026/05007 | Permitted | 560m |
| T01 Fir / Norway Spruce (Picea abies) - Fell to ground level.15 Beaucroft Road Colehill BH21 2QW · ref P/TRT/2026/04796 | Permitted | 820m |
| Scots Pine (labelled T14 on the First Schedule to the Tree Preservation Order) - Remove branch forking south to a point 2ft from main stem.Treetops Merrifield Colehill BH21 7AJ · ref P/TRT/2026/04676 | Permitted | 570m |
| Dead Sycamore - Fell.20 Kyrchil Lane Colehill Wimborne BH21 2RT · ref P/TRD/2026/04435 | Permitted | 890m |
| T1 Ash - Fell to 5 ft. T2 Ash - Fell to 5 ft. T3 Ash - Fell to 5 ft. T4 Ash - Fell to 5 ft.Rotherwood Merrifield Colehill BH21 7AJ · ref P/TRC/2026/04249 | Permitted | 450m |
Source: PlanIt, which mirrors council registers. The council’s own register is the authoritative one, https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/planning.
Large developments granted permission in the last five years. These stay listed after they leave the 90-day view. A scheme is at its most visible on the ground when it is quietest on the register. Permission is not building work: no open dataset records whether a scheme has started.
| Scheme | Permission | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Variation of condition no.9 of PA 3/14/0016/OUT (Residential development of up to 630 dwellings, a new local centre, a replacement and extended Wimborne First School, public open space and new allotments together with new access, streets and other related infrastructure. (all matters reserved). Additional information rec'd 28.3.14, revised 9.6.15 as amended by plans rec'd 30th September 2014 and 22nd December 2014) to seek to remove the provision of traffic signals at the Allenview Road/Hanham Road junction to include pedestrian crossing facilities at the Allenview Road/Hanham Road junction - delete Criterion Xi (11) from C.9. Land to the east and west of Cranborne Road Colehill · ref P/VOC/2025/07207 | Approved · 2026-04-24 | 870m |
| Change of use to a dog exercise park to include the formation of car parking areas, fencing and storage container.. Shady Glades Long Lane Wimborne BH21 7AQ · ref P/FUL/2024/06769 | Approved · 2025-04-30 | 750m |
| Non material amendment to Approved P/A 3/19/2437/RM (Reserved Matters details for 312 dwellings, public open space, vehicular, cycle and pedestrian access, connections to the SANG, landscape planting and surface water attenuation features) to replace a tree within the focal square due to non availability of the approved tree.. Land West of Cranborne Road Wimborne Minster · ref P/NMA/2024/00342 | Approved · 2024-02-02 | 870m |
44 incidents recorded near this postcode in August 2026.
About 19% higher than a year ago, 128 across June to August 2026 against 108 in June to August 2025, the same three months a year earlier.
Snapped to anonymised map points and roughly two months behind. One month near one postcode is too small a sample to read as a trend.
| Place | What it is | Distance |
|---|
3 unnamed on the map. Real places, but OpenStreetMap has no name for them, so they are counted and not listed.