Bridport was proud to host 32 mayors from all around Dorset last Wednesday 22nd September. Bridport’s own mayor Ian Bark took them on a tour of the town, which included St Mary’s Primary and the West Bay Discovery Centre, to showcase community projects that he is particularly proud of....
As York prepares to welcome Afghan refugees, housing is becoming a critical issue. It is not that York lacks rental housing, but rather that it lacks affordable housing, a particular problem for people who will likely have left their country with nothing. This article seeks to offer an alternative...
“We are calling the 9th October Day of Action for four reasons:
1) Over 100,000 families are living in Temporary Accommodation while over half a million homes have no permanent resident.
2) The wrong kind of housing is being built across the country - they are unaffordable to anyone on an...
People who own second homes cause homelessness and community death. Yet the government rewards them with lavish subsidies and tax breaks.
How big would our housing crisis be if it were not for second homes? It’s a question almost no one in public life wants to ask, let alone answer....
Instead of concrete cancer in the sky looking like aliens in an episode of Dr Who or opportunites to label and stigmatise parts of the population
how about creating something to be proud of and treating people like humans and not cattle?
'It's almost as if treating people with kindness and...
Efforts to support people off the streets and to help prevent rough sleeping is set to continue with a funding boost of £2,463.893 awarded to BCP Council.
The funding has been awarded to BCP Council as part of the government’s Rough Sleeping Initiative to end rough sleeping across England and...
Poole homeless charity, Routes to Roots, is delighted to confirm that restoration work at its future permanent base in Hill Street continues to make excellent progress. Preservation of the former 19th Century church remains at the forefront of the renovations and two specialists in their field, Stonemason Sarah Klopper...
Poole homeless charity Routes to Roots started the year on a tremendous high as we acquired the former Hill Street Baptist Church with plans to establish it as a permanent one-stop centre for all help available to the homeless and vulnerably housed. Thanks to an interest-free loan from the...
To date over £10,000 has been raised by kind donations to a new fund called ‘Change for Good’. Local people across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole have given because they want to help individuals who have been sleeping rough to make a positive move off the street and access the...
Weymouth Town Council spent almost four hours finalising their position on Dorset Council’s Draft Local Plan at an Extraordinary Full Council Meeting on Tuesday 9thMarch.
Councillors had produced a summary of the Town Council’s positions along with a series of questions for residents. The input from residents will influence Weymouth Town Council’s final submission for the Local Plan consultation,...
