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DORSET’S climate change consultation is likely to produce the answers Dorset Council wants – Dorchester town council planning committee has been told. “Yet again it’s a consultation which isn’t a consultation – it’s carefully designed to get the answers they want to get,” claimed Cllr Susie Hosford. She warned that the exercise of making preferred choices would later be used to cut policies which were too expensive, a view backed by fellow town councillor Cllr Andy Canning...

A DORSET high street is set for a significant face-lift in the new year.

A "BUSY and growing market town" will be getting a makeover in the new year, as part of its £3million ongoing transformation. Gillingham High Street is set for significant enhancement in February, with plans to improve pavements and resurface the road between South Street and Newbury Roundabout. Uneven paving in the ‘raised table’ areas and the pavement between Lloyds Bank and Newbury will be replaced with an imprinting technique recently used in Station Road. This technique – wh...

THE project to remove Weymouths historic harbour rail tracks is due to restart in days. Workers will return to South Parade at Custom House Quay, working towards the Pavilion Car Park, from Monday, January 4. The former Weymouth Branch Line is being removed by highways authority Dorset Council due to safety concerns, and phase one saw the majority of track along Commercial Road removed during the autumn. Phase two of the project, to remove tracks at Custom House Quay on Weymouths north ...

TWO new electric vehicle car charging points are set to be installed in west Dorset. From February next year, owners of electric cars and vans will be able to charge their vehicles at charge points in West Bay and Lyme Regis. Dorset Council has announced there will be 44 new electric vehicle chargepoints across 18 council-owned car parks as part of its pledge to become carbon-neutral by 2040. The charging points will be located in West Bay Road car back and Holmbush car park. They will ...

A WEST Dorset initiative to improve the landscape is set to benefit from more than £200,000 of government funding. The Greening West Dorsets Hills and Vales project organised by the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership, has received £214,000 from the governments Green Recovery Challenge Fund. The project will see Dorset AONB working with local organisations and farmers with an aim to conserve and restore some of the most well-loved and valuable landscapes in the ...

MORE than 40 new electric vehicle chargepoints are coming to Dorset as part of the councils commitment to become carbon-neutral by 2050. Dorset Council has announced there will be 44 new electric vehicle chargepoints in 18 council-owned car parks which will be ready to use from February 2021. The 22kw chargepoints, using 100 per cent renewable energy supplied by Statkraft, a hydropower company, will enable drivers to charge their electric vehicles while visiting the county. The chargepo...

MORE than 40 new electric vehicle chargepoints are coming to Dorset as part of the councils commitment to become carbon-neutral by 2050. Dorset Council has announced there will be 44 new electric vehicle chargepoints in 18 council-owned car parks which will be ready to use from February 2021. The 22kw chargepoints, using 100 per cent renewable energy supplied by Statkraft, a hydropower company, will enable drivers to charge their electric vehicles while visiting the county. The chargepo...

PARKING permits for a Weymouth district will be changing - in a move that is supported by residents and opposed by hotel and guest house owners. Dorset Council has announced there will be four amendments to the residents parking scheme in the Park District area of Weymouth as a result of a consultation which was launched in October 2018. During the consultation - which calculated that there are 526 spaces for vehicles within zones A and C with 698 permits in circulation - 273 questionnair...

ENVIRONMENTAL projects in Dorset have received almost £800,000 worth of grant funding in a bid to boost jobs and encourage people to reconnect with nature. A grant of £549,900 from the Governments Green Recovery Challenge Fund has been awarded to Purbecks Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to create a lowland heathland mosaic at the heart of the recently declared Purbeck Heaths National Nature Reserve (NNR). The conservation is being carried out to support local livestock grazing busine...