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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. Town clerk Adrian Stuart said the venue was chosen because the town council’s own chamber is to...

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 said that even if grant income had been buoyant many of the charities and community organisations wer...

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 close to adjoining historic sites, including the town’s Roman walks, which could be damaged by diggin...

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 resulted in car parking charges every day of the week, not only at the Fairfield, Dorchester, but at...

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 policy meeting that some of the money would be useful to carry out small projects on the town build...