On 28 January 2020, Dorset Council Cabinet members approved the 2020/21 Budget Strategy. The report will now to go Full Council on Tuesday 18 February for final approval. One of the approved initiatives relates to long-term empty properties seeing an increase in council tax premiums. Councillors approved in addition to existing premiums to: charge a… Read more Long-term empty property premiums to bring more empty homes back into use
Working towards making home ownership a reality in Dorset, Opening Doors will now cover Purbeck and East Dorset.
Dorset Council Cabinet agrees to enter into a contract with Homes England that will see an extra £808,855 go towards building 53 new affordable homes in Bridport.
Up to 46 new affordable homes have been approved following the Dorset Council Northern Planning Committee meeting on 19 November.
A development of 38 homes in Beaminster is set to go ahead as a wholly affordable scheme following a Dorset Council meeting.
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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Care leavers in Dorset will not have to pay council tax until they are 25.
Two local communities are just one step away from having approved neighbourhood plans for their area.
A paper is being presented to Dorset Council cabinet on 30 July which will ask members to support the council entering into a funding agreement with Homes England which will secure up to £6,310,000 of Housing Infrastructure Funding (HIF).
Dorset Council has approved a request from Queen Thorne Parish Council for the designation of a neighbourhood area, which is the first formal stage of preparing a neighbourhood plan.
Dorset Council along with NHS partners, co-hosted a stakeholder event this week to show options for new health, care and housing facilities on the Wareham middle school site.
Victims of domestic violence are to be offered greater choice of accommodation in Dorset in a bid to help them rebuild their lives.
Broadwindsor and Milborne St Andrew could each have a Neighbourhood Plan if residents give it the go ahead.
Dorset Council has a legal requirement to produce and adopt a new local plan within the next four to five years. This will eventually replace the local plans adopted by the separate district and borough councils that existed before Dorset Council was formed.
The redevelopment of North Quay is stepping in the right direction thanks a funding boost from Homes England.
A local community has taken a significant step closer to having greater influence over planning decisions in their area.
Dorset Council has approved a request from Sturminster Marshall Parish Council for the designation of a Neighbourhood Area, which is the first formal stage of preparing a plan.
