A SLUMP in planning applications to Dorset Council may indicate a down-turn in the local economy. The figures also run contrary to the Government’s declared aim of building more homes. Figures from ...

Residents can learn about two key planning documents at a drop-in session. Weymouth Town Council is hosting the free event on Wednesday, November 26, to explain the differences between the Weymouth ...

Two sets of developers are in the running to buy and transform the site of a former council building, 10 years after it was ...

A CHANGE to Marks & Spencer at Ferndown is among the planning applications submitted to Dorset Council for the east Dorset area.

"We ask that this damaging and unacceptable 'holiday village' development is prevented." Local fight proposal for new luxury ...

PORTLAND Port has welcomed the news that a project to build at a waste incinerator at the site can finally move forward.

The drop-in session offers an opportunity to understand their implications for Weymouth. To participate in the referendum, ...

Dorset Council’s Cabinet heard on Thursday that the cost of the project had now risen by around half a million pounds to £1.44m with a call for a revised planning application to be submitted to ...

Campaigners have pledged to “fight on” in their opposition to a planned waste incinerator near Dorset’s Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. An Oxfordshire pub can be listed as an asset of community ...

Firefighters are hoping to install a memorial bench to their colleague who was killed responding to a 999 call. Mark Hillier ...

Greencells Group has signed with Irish state-owned electricity provider Electricity Supply Board (ESB) for a solar plant ...

Plans to renovate and demolish part of a listed building in Bridport has been supported. Owners of 98 West Bay Road, near to the Crown Roundabout have been granted permission to alter the Grade II ...