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In the last 20 years Plympton has seen considerable growth as the suburban population has doubled. To help manage this rapid growth more efficiently, Plympton has been separated into a series of separate districts: Yealmpstone, Plympton-St Maurice, Colebrook, Underwood, and Chaddlewood. Plympton is, together with its demographically similar neighbouring suburb of Plymstock, the most right-wing political area of the wider city, invariably returning a Conservative member of parliament. Plympton also has the dubious distinction, along with its neighbouring suburb, of being a 'dispersal area' under an order taken by the City which enables the police to disperse groups of two or more young persons for periods of up to 24 hours if they consider them a threat to public order. A new town to be called Sherford is proposed to be built adjacent to Plympton. This development is expected to consist of "at least 4,000 dwellings by 2016". Recent proposals to build a much enlarged Plymouth Airport along a corridor south of the A38 road north of the Sherford site and east of Plympton leaving Plympton and the Plym estuary (the Laira) as the flight path, seem to the almost universal relief of Plympton residents, to have been shelved or attracted no funding. Plympton still has its own town centre (called the Ridgeway), and is itself an amalgamation of several villages, including St Mary's, St Maurice, Colebrook, Woodford, Boringdon, Newnham, Langage and Chaddlewood. |