114 new homes 'would ruin Dorset village'
114 new homes 'would ruin Dorset village' DORSET councillors claim proposals for more than 100 extra homes on the edge of a north Dorset village would overwhelm the community and ruin its rural character. Dorset Council’s northern area planning committee has rejected an outline application for up to 114 homes on a triangular site south of Lower Road, Stalbridge. Cllr Graham Carr Jones, ward councillor for the area, says the debate illustrates how the failure to meet government land supply targets has put the area at the mercy of developers, rather than local people. Although council...