Conservation Area?

Talbot Village was designated a 'Conservation Area' as long ago as 1975, updated in 1991 yet still the Council has not yet produced a character appraisal. Without an appraisal no schemes to manage or enhance the designated area are implemented.

It might seem that the area is extremely vulnerable to inappropriate development despite its conservation status - without any appraisal or subsequent plan to manage the area within the framework of a formal conservation plan, the name 'Conservation Area' seems little more than an empty title used to ensure that the cottages all stay pretty. The character of everything else may have no protection at all.

link to Bournemouth Councils page on the Talbot Village Conservation Area