A Giant Step Forward For Bridport Cohousing Bridport Cohousing - a community-led housing group - has taken a huge step forward this week with its plan to build affordable, sustainable homes for local people looking for a different way of living in this vibrant Dorset town. After over four...
Plans for 36 homes have been approved in Mosterton by West Dorset District Council’s Planning Committee. Stonewater submitted a planning application for a site next to Windsor Close, on the south-western edge of the village. The development consists of 28 houses and eight bungalows. Once completed,...
West Dorset District Council has approved a revised application from City & Country Residential Ltd for the H M Prison site in Dorchester.Cllr Fred Horsington, Chairman of West Dorset District Council’s Planning Committee, said: “We are pleased we were able to work with the developer and...
West Dorset District Council’s independent viability assessor has just completed its examination of the Dorchester Prison site scheme, promoted by City & Country Residential Ltd. The District Council’s Local Plan has a policy that requires housing developers to build 35% of the units as affordable housing. However this policy...
West Dorset District Council and Weymouth & Portland Borough Council are reviewing their recently adopted Joint Local Plan. To help with this process the councils are carrying out a 'call for sites' to identify sites that may have potential for development over the next 15 years and beyond. Cllr Ian Gardner,...
Local Labour campaigners were in the town centre on Saturday 9th January 2016 ahead of the deadline to comment on the Prison site development proposals. In under two hours, they collected over 70 letters of support objecting to planning proposals, proposals which clearly do not include any affordable housing. ...
Eight affordable rented homes planned for Tolpuddle. The Central Farm site was identified in a recent Strategic Housing Land Assessment as a suitable site for a small development of affordable homes. Hastoe Housing Association along with C G Fry’s have been working towards a development in the area for...
This weekend, 12/13 September, 20 West Dorset homes will be open to visitors. The people who live in them have done something to make them more environmentally friendly, and are happy to show visitors what they have done to create their ‘EcoHomes’. There’s something for everybody, from phone apps...
National Empty Homes Week is being supported by West Dorset District Council and Weymouth & Portland Borough Council by encouraging owners of empty homes to bring their properties back into use to help manage the high housing need across the area. The Empty Homes Agency estimates that there are...
Come and meet some of our cohousing members and have an informal chat about the project over a cuppa at the Beach & Barnicot Cafe in South Street Bridport from 10.30-12 noon on Thursday December 11th. Look out for a table with a Bridport cohousing sign on it or...
