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Dorchester town council’s planning and environment chairman Cllr Robin Potter (foreground) prepares to lead the first face to face meeting for 16 months – held at the town’s cricket club Picture: Trevor Bevins AN historic moment – Dorchester town council’s planning and environment committee meeting together, in person, for the first time since March 2020. The meeting, which also attracted a couple of members of the public, was held in the town’s Weymouth Avenue cricket pavilion....

Sunday car boot at Dorchester Market site Picture: TREVOR BEVINS. CHARITY and community organisations in and around Dorchester will not be getting any donations from the Sunday car boot sales this year. Income has been badly hit by Covid and the market has not been held for most of the year. The Dorchester joint markets panel decided this week (wed) that with only a small amount of income it would carry any donations over until the 2022-23 financial year. Panel chair Cllr Molly Rennie s...

Metal detectorists fail in bid to search on council-owned land AN application for metal detectorists to search on town council-owned land at Salisbury Field, and on other sites owned by Dorchester Town Council, has been rejected. Town clerk Adrian Stuart said that to allow it would ‘open a can of worms’ and pave the way for other requests -  or worse, encourage illegal use. He said that the request had come from a responsible enthusiast but said that much of the town’s land was clo...

SUNDAY car boot fans in Dorchester will have to pay the new all-week car parking fees when the event resumes this weekend. For the last decade those attending the popular car boot sales, which raise tens of thousands of pounds for local charities each year, have been able to park for free. From this weekend it will cost most £4 – four times the minimum charge for Wednesday parking when the commercial stall market is held. Dorset Council introduced the new fees from April 1 which has ...

Municipal Buildings, Dorchester Picture: Trevor Bevins EXTRA cash is likely to be invested in Dorchester’s Municipal Buildings project after the town council found itself £85,000 better off than predicted. Some of the extra money is now expected to be used to make additional changes as part of the Municipal Buildings revamp and, if needed, to help support Dorchester Arts as it moves to take over the management of the building from September. Town clerk Adrian Stuart told an online town...

Row over Save The Area North of Dorchesters banner DORSET Council has been accused of doing little to publicise the effects its Local Plan review might have on Dorchester – other than take down a banner which drew attention to it. That move has now led to the town council seeking to take control over which banners are displayed in the county town. Independent councillor Cllr Alistair Chisholm, who is among those opposing plans for 4,000 new homes north of Dorchester, says he finds it �...

A COUNCIL tax increase of less than 1per cent is likely to be approved by Dorchester town council next week.

DORCHESTER’S tourism will be given a shot in the arm by the town council during the coming year as the country comes out of the pandemic. Work is progressing with a number of partners to make more of the county town’s heritage attractions including launching a new website for visitors. The town council is also expected to back new tourism information services if Dorset Council cuts its £80,000 a year funding for the town’s tourist information office. But town councillor Alistair ...

Dorchester market Picture: Trevor Bevins DORCHESTERS main Wednesday stall market could be about to enter a new, positive, era. New markets committee chair Cllr Molly Rennie says there is now a can do attitude from Dorset Council which puts the success of the market above the need for profit. She has revealed that talks are continuing about handing some of the administration of the weekly market from Dorset Council to Dorchester town council. The towns markets, which include the Sunday...