If you are planning a new build, an extension or conversion of your home, then the changes to the building regulations are important.
Building regulations make sure that any work done on a property is up to a certain standard.
From 15 June changes to the nation-wide regulations aim to improve...
Property developers who want planning permission for major building projects should face a new “health test” imposed by local councils to see if their plans will promote healthier living in the area, a researcher has proposed.
Major developments that can show they will deliver a “net health gain” by supporting...
No matter what a person's politics... are this is for us all.
Those cuts and the people of Dorset:
https://dorseteye.com/universal-credit-cut-will-hit/
Make 2022 a year of kicking the selfish and cruel out of our lives and start to make a real difference.
Douglas James
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In a new report out today (to mark World Homeless Day on 10 October), Healthwatch Dorset shines a spotlight on the health and care needs of people who are homeless and the challenges they face when trying to access vital care and support, such as dental care and end of...
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...
STAND is a group of local people campaigning to prevent 4,000 houses being built on countryside to the north of Dorchester in Dorset.
As part of their campaign to stop the proposed development of over 4,000 houses to the North of Dorchester, STAND (Save the Area North of Dorchester), started a public petition in September 2018. The...
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...
