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DORSET Council’s budget for next year could have been worse – although residents will still face a 3 per cent increase in their council tax and…
DORSET Council’s budget for next year could have been worse – although residents will still face a 3 per cent increase in their council tax and…
THE Highways director for Dorset is to be asked to appear before Dorchester Town Council to explain what his department is doing to improve roads and paths in the county town. The town’s planning and environment committee heard that since Dorset Council came into being more than a year ago a local committee to push forward improvements has been abandoned. Town and unitary councillor Andy Canning, who used to chair that committee, said he saw little chance of it being re-started but said that there was projects still needed to improve safety and tackle pollution. The town planning co...
The proposal will be explained in papers for the Places & Resources Scrutiny Committee on March 25. As previously reported the move was thought likely with a relocation for staff based at the building to County Hall. The council has already disposed of the Princes House building in the town centre and former district council offices at Furzehill, Wimborne and Norden, Blandford. The Dorchester offices have been closed since the start of the lockdown and even with an easing of restrictions Dorset Council has said that it will continue to have many of its staff working from home, at least ...
NO MAJOR summer events will be organised by Dorchester Town Council this year – faced with continued uncertainty over the Covid 19 pandemic. The decision will affect the annual Loveparks event, outdoor cinema, the Anonymous Festival and the August Bank Holiday music day. But town councillors heard that Dorchester will not be without some summer happenings with a series of smaller 'pop up’ activities being planned for the Borough Gardens and other venues around the county town. READ MORE: Deputy town clerk Steve Newman told councillors that the amount of work required to organ...