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Low Carbon Dorset Community Impact Survey
Low Carbon Dorset is a Dorset Council programme helping local organisations reduce carbon emissions and save on energy costs. Your community building recently received a grant from Low Carbon Dorset to install energy efficiency or renewable energy measures. We are keen to hear from you about whether you think these measures have improved the building.
Dorset Council Call for Sites
Please use this online form to submit sites for assessment by the Council. Whilst the Dorset Council 'call for sites' 2024 is now closed, sites that may have potential for new homes (including for the settled and Traveller communities), and employment development can still be submitted through this online form. We will be assessing submissions received before 20 December 2024, in 2025. Sites submitted after 20 December 2024 will likely be assessed at a later date. Please note:...
Weymouth Neighbourhood Plan 2021 to 2038
Weymouth Town Council has prepared a neighbourhood plan. It has sent the draft plan to Dorset Council to arrange for its examination. Dorset Council must now consult on the submitted neighbourhood plan for a minimum period of 6 weeks. This is a Regulation 16 consultation and will take place between 24 January 2025 and 10 April 2025 (inclusive). To respond to the consultation, see below. The Weymouth Neighbourhood Plan is available to read together with the supporting documents...
Closed consultations and engagement
Nutrient Mitigation Call for Land
Put your land forward to be considered for Dorset Council's Nitrogen Mitigation Delivery in the Poole Harbour Catchment. Welcome to Dorset Council's Nitrogen Mitigation Call for Land. We are interested in receiving submissions from landowners and farmers for land that will help us deliver nitrogen mitigation in the Poole Harbour Catchment. We are primarily looking for mitigation projects which will involve a permanent land-use change. We may consider some limited amount of mitigation...
Children's Centres Consultation
Over the years Dorset Council, unlike many other local authorities, has maintained a network of children’s centres, recognising the importance of local community based information and support for families. Throughout this time the types of services delivered from the centres have changed and developed. Where services have changed there have been localised community engagement activities to ensure families were kept up to date with developments. Despite...
Consultation on Admission Numbers for Sturminster Marshall First School 2026 to 2027
By Virtue of Schedule 3 of the School Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2013, Dorset Council is required to consult on changes to provision at Maintained Schools including the reduction in Admission Numbers (AN). The proposed AN will apply to admissions to the relevant age group (the normal year of entry) commencing from the beginning of the school year 2026/27 and for any subsequent school year. Notice is hereby given for the following...