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A development of 38 homes in Beaminster is set to go ahead as a wholly affordable scheme following a Dorset Council meeting.
Professionals in Dorset with concerns about a child can now pick up the phone and talk to a social worker, rather than fill out a referral form.
A development of 38 homes in Beaminster is set to go ahead as a wholly affordable scheme following a Dorset Council meeting.
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Planned work on roads in the Purbeck area will start up again, following the lifting of an embargo.
Dorset Council Cabinet has approved its draft Council Plan outlining the organisation’s aspirations and priorities for the next four years.
A residential home for children with complex learning difficulties and disabilities has been rated ‘good’ by Ofsted inspectors. The Cherries, run by Dorset Council, is based in Weymouth and provides long-term accommodation for up to nine children. Ofsted visited the home in August and looked at the following areas: • the experiences and progress of… Read more Dorset residential home for children rated as ‘good’ by inspectors
Meet your new patrol officers who are working to make Weymouth even safer.
Care leavers in Dorset will not have to pay council tax until they are 25.
Workers and residents have come together to mark the end of a six-month project to replace the Durweston flood arches.
Everyone is welcome to attend the annual Service of Remembrance at Weymouth Crematorium next month.
The reports for next week’s Dorset Council Cabinet meeting are now online. On Tuesday (1 October) councillors will discuss a number of issues, including:
Dorset Council is highlighting the problem of long-term empty properties during Empty Homes Week, 23-29 September, in conjunction with the Empty Homes Network. Throughout the week the council will be highlighting the issue of empty homes and showing examples of how homes that have been left empty for a long time have been brought back… Read more Highlighting National Empty Homes Week
Dorset Highways maintenance gangs are out across the county continuing to repair road damage.
Residents who confirmed their voter details online, by phone or text have helped Dorset Council reduce costs.
A drainage engineer from Bournemouth has been prosecuted and ordered to pay over £9,000 after he misled a 94-year-old woman about work done at her West Parley home. On 18 September 2019, at Poole Magistrates’ Court, Brendon James White, aged 26, of Cheriton Avenue, Bournemouth, pleaded guilty to two offences under the Consumer Protection From… Read more Drainage engineer prosecuted for misleading 94-year-old Dorset woman
Dorset Council is proposing a temporary extension to the former councils’ rules about dogs in public spaces in order to consult the public and introduce new Dorset-wide Dog-related Public Spaces Protection Orders.
Dorset Council and its partners are celebrating after receiving a £248,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to improve physical access to the Dorchester Roman Town House and share its heritage with a much wider audience.
The Summer holidays were never going to be easy. Apart from keeping seven children entertained, I knew we were facing the imminent departure of my eldest foster child. My lovely Mr C had been with us for two years and now he was transitioning home. With my heart trailing on the floor I started preparing… Read more The latest blog from our foster carer Amanda – Two very different goodbyes.
Dorset Council’s (DC) Climate Change Executive Advisory Panel met on Friday 13 September to listen to members from Extinction Rebellion and discuss the Council’s progress with their plans to tackle climate change.
Dorset Council has begun work on a new Dorset-wide Local Plan which will set out new homes, commercial areas and community facilities, whilst protecting the county’s special environment.
Dorset Council has announced what is happening next in regards to the old council building and site at North Quay in Weymouth.
A vital programme to improve and prevent the loss of precious heathland and its rarest inhabitants, will start this autumn.
Dorset Council is considering introducing a community lottery. This is part of the our aim to develop a support package for the voluntary and community organisations.
Work has nearly finished on site and we’re on track to have all works complete by Friday 27 September.
Dorset Council has opened its Community Impact fund to back community projects that help improve the lives of local people.
The owner of a Dorset-based online fancy dress costume business has been ordered to pay up over £65,000 following a prosecution for the misuse of trade marks.
The pleasure grounds at the Dorset Council run Durlston Country Park is getting a facelift thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Last Thursday (5 September), our Western and Southern Area Planning Committee voted against the proposed demolition of the old council office building at North Quay in Weymouth.
Wool Old Bridge is taking on the rest of The World this September for a chance to win a prestigious industry award.
