An aerial view of the Wessex Fields site on the edge of Bournemouth. Photo: BCP Council THE sale of more than five acres of land to Royal Bournemouth Hospital has been finalised by BCP Council. Approved by the council’s cabinet in February, the deal for about one-third of the Wessex Fields site forms part of plans to expand the hospital. The sale has now been signed off with its final terms agreed at the end of last month although the price paid to the council has still yet to be made public. University Hospitals Dorset, the trust that runs Royal Bournemouth Hospital, approached the council about buying a strip of the Wessex Fields site backing onto its grounds.
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Bill Gates, Mark Carney and others warn us climate change is a much bigger threat than Covid. Risks of feed-back loops, domino-type feedbacks and runaway climate change need to be avoided. Atmospheric carbon needs to return to 280 parts per million CO2 for safety. We are now at 417ppm and rising. We can all, especially representatives, help do something about this. I noted East Dorset Friends of the Earth’s criticism of BCP’s shockingly delayed, inadequate response to the climate and biodiverity crises. The portfolio holder for regeneration, economy and strategic planning, deputy leader of BCP Council, Philip Broadhead, did not answer my question.