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
Local residents in Wool, Bovington and East Burton are being asked to give their thoughts to help shape their area.
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.
Enforcement Officers from the Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP), working alongside Dorset Council’s Legal team, have secured another successful prosecution of a fly-tipper.
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 is due to start on the new Weymouth seafront lighting scheme on Monday 16 September.
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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.
Work to maintain Weymouth’s Historic Harbour began on 30 September.
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.
Dorset Council welcomes the Chancellor’s spending round announcement to increase funding for council-run services. These include adult social care and services for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). On Wednesday this week, Chancellor Sajid Javid promised access for councils across the country to £1.5bn new funding for social care, and an additional £700m to… Read more Dorset Council welcomes government’s spending round announcement
An oil spill training exercise will be held in Weymouth next week.
Clean-ups of Radipole Lake have taken place this summer.
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has published a report after an investigation found that Dorset County Council had failed to provide suitable provision for a child with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
A right of way that crosses Lodmoor Nature Reserve in Weymouth will be temporarily closed while engineering work takes place.
