A building derelict for 20 years has been turned into a new home after a collaboration with Dorset Council, and is ready for a new tenant during Empty Homes Week. The property is owned by Blandford Freemasons which, with the assistance of the council’s empty homes team and ethical lender Lendology CIC, renovated the building… Read more New home ready for tenant during Empty Homes Week
BRITISH Armed Forces veterans’ exploits during National Service 60 years ago is at the centre of an innovative UK-wide new heritage project.
A public consultation is underway to ensure Dorset’s town and parish councils continue to reflect the communities they represent.
Lyme Regis Town Council have joined forces with Visit Dorset, Dorset Council’s tourism team responsible for promoting the county, to create a new Visit Lyme Regis website that sits under the main Visit Dorset umbrella to support the town’s tourism industry and local economy.
Personal blog from Theresa Leavey, Director of Children’s Services Just as we might have been hoping that our children and young people can emerge from under the blanket of pandemic anxiety and concern that has placed at risk their carefree days of childhood so along rolls another ethereal risk in the cloak of Russia’s incursion… Read more Managing the realities of Global Conflict with our children
A personal blog from Hannah – I began working for Legal Services back in 2008 as a full time Legal Assistant in the Property Team, while studying for my CILEX qualifications part time. The council have always supported my studies, contributing towards expenses, and allowing me to work flexibly to accommodate my studies following periods… Read more Working as a lawyer for Dorset Council
Essential work to clear the slopes of vegetation behind the old council offices at North Quay, Weymouth, will begin next week.
Work on the new junction of Ringwood Road with Casterbridge Road in Ferndown (near the Angel Inn) has been completed on schedule. The improvements consist of an upgraded junction layout, which includes new pedestrian crossings, controlled by a new set of re-phased traffic lights. The improvements are designed to help traffic flow at this busy… Read more Improved junction layout and a new pedestrian crossing on Ringwood Road, Ferndown
Dorset Local Resilience Forum (LRF) will be hosting several community resilience awareness raising sessions, running between 7 and 11 March 2022.
Dorset Council highway engineers have worked hard to limit the construction impacts of building the Principal Street in Gillingham.
Residents who have experienced domestic abuse will receive further support with government funding of £650,000 to Dorset Council. The government grant will be used in the next 12 months to make residents who have experienced any form of domestic abuse safer in their own homes, or in supported accommodation, as well as provide specialist support… Read more Funds awarded for domestic abuse support
Dorset Highways maintenance gangs are out across the county continuing to repair road damage.
Plans to build new affordable homes for people with care and support needs on the site of a former school will be decided at Cabinet next week. The development for the 1.6 hectare site at Worgret Road, Wareham, is part of Purbeck Gateway: a scheme which will provide homes, care and jobs for the local… Read more Dorset Council Cabinet to consider plans for Purbeck Gateway development
Dorset Council has launched a new round of grants to support social, voluntary and community sector organisations.
Improvements to the Castleman Trailway are at the half-way point!
Drivers in Dorset are being reminded of on-street parking charge changes.
Work on new cycle, walking and bus infrastructure improvements on Wimborne Road in Ferndown between Canford Bottom and Trickett’s Cross roundabouts will start next month.
A30 Kitt Hill and Cornhill in Sherborne will remain closed following damage to a wall.
A huge thank you is being sent to relatives who are playing a critical role in helping loved ones to leave hospital. As health and social care services continue to be stretched due to the exceptional pressures of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and seasonal impact of winter, the role of relatives in supporting patients is… Read more Thank you to relatives who are helping loved ones to leave hospital
The council has made the difficult decision to advise all schools to close and has suspended many services for Friday as 100mph winds of Storm Eunice are predicted to hit the county.
Staff and volunteers at Moors Valley Country Park and Forest near Ringwood are celebrating success in the 2022 Dorset Tourism Awards.
Dorset Council’s Community Recovery Grants has awarded over £95K in a bid to support local organisations restart activity and recover after the Pandemic.
A Ferndown resident has been prosecuted for failing to comply with a Planning Enforcement Notice.
Work is about to start to improve cycle lanes on Dorchester Road, Weymouth, to give users a greater sense of safety.
Residents across the whole of Dorset will now be able to nominate locally important buildings, structures, designed landscapes, sites and places to be considered on new Local Heritage Lists.
Dorset Council has been awarded £500,000 to spearhead a new pilot project to look at ways of boosting mobile digital coverage. Joining forces with partners Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Hampshire County councils, this new ‘Wessex Digital Infrastructure Accelerator’ scheme will examine how online mapping technology can help speed up the rollout of connectivity. The… Read more Dorset Council launches new project to help speed up mobile rollout
Families, carers, education settings and communities are being asked for their thoughts on laying the right foundations so Dorset’s children have the best opportunities to thrive.
Dorset Council’s Planning Convergence and transformation project has reached an incredible milestone. It has completed the transfer of over four million documents in just over a year.
Cabinet, Full Council and Committee meetings will resume in-person instead of online, which became the norm at the start of the coronavirus pandemic almost two years ago. The council will begin its return to in person meetings on 15 February with a Full Council meeting in the Council Chamber at County Hall, Dorchester. Some of… Read more Dorset Council to resume face-to-face meetings
Dorset Council has awarded two 18-month contracts for voluntary and community organisations.
