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
4
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, July 2026
Open to commentTree works
T1 Goat Willow - Fell to ground level. — 6 Cobbs Road Colehill BH21 2RL · 560m away · lodged 7 days ago. The council hasn't published a closing date. Its record will have one.
https://planning.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=431411
Open to commentTree works
T01 Fir / Norway Spruce (Picea abies) - Fell to ground level. — 15 Beaucroft Road Colehill BH21 2QW · 820m away · lodged 16 days ago. The council hasn't published a closing date. Its record will have one.
https://planning.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=431167
EventCommUNIty Discovery Series - You Are When You Eat
October 20th 2026 7pm-8.15pm · Inspire Theatre, Fusion Building, Bournemouth University · 9.4km
https://talbotvillage.org.uk/event/community-discovery-series-3-you-are-when-you-eat/
EventCommUNIty Discovery Series - Living Well Active
Tuesday 6 October 2026, 7.00pm–8.00pm · Inspire Theatre, Fusion Building, Bournemouth University · 9.4km
https://talbotvillage.org.uk/event/community-discovery-series-3-living-well-active/
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.
Good , 20 on the European AQI.
| PM2.5 | 5.2 µg/m³ |
| PM10 | 14.9 µg/m³ |
| Nitrogen dioxide | 1.8 µg/m³ |
| Ozone | 51 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 |
3 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.
5 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. | 5 |
| Application | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| T1 Goat Willow - Fell to ground level.6 Cobbs Road Colehill BH21 2RL · ref P/TRC/2026/05007 | Undecided | 560m |
| T01 Fir / Norway Spruce (Picea abies) - Fell to ground level.15 Beaucroft Road Colehill BH21 2QW · ref P/TRT/2026/04796 | Undecided | 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 | Undecided | 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.
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 |
Vikki Slade (Liberal Democrat), Mid Dorset and North Poole
Write to them at https://www.writetothem.com/
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 2026-08-03. 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.
| 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 July 2026.
About 70% higher than a year ago, 163 across May to July 2026 against 96 in May to July 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.