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- “Downright insulting”: Greens slam Portland Port’s ‘keeping community at heart’ newsletter with incinerator set to be built there
Green Councillor Clare Sutton was quoted by the Dorset Echo: “For Portland Port to claim in its newsletter that it has our ‘community at heart’ is not just insensitive and ill-judged; it is downright insulting. Would that be the community which has come out in force to oppose the waste incinerator at every step of the way for over five years?” - Belinda Bawden calls for better joined-up working across the county
Bridport & Lyme Regis News reported on Green Councillor Belinda Bawden’s question to the full Dorset Council meeting on 10th April: “[…] Could we please design a process whereby Dorset Council promptly develops project proposals for the requested repairs, maintenance and improvements in our wards, with suggested requests for co-funding if appropriate, so that town and parish councils can decide whether they are prepared to contribute financially to get things done?” - “No evidence” of Dorset Council’s permeable surfaces policy being put into effect, says Cllr Belinda Bawden as tarmac car park extension agreed
The Dorset Echo covered an intervention by Green Councillor Belinda Bawden in support of a Labour councillor’s complaint that an approved car park extension to a Dorset Council-owned site in Chickerell is set to be tarmac, rather than a semi-permeable surface. - Cllr Kelvin Clayton calls for affordable housing in Bridport, as unaffordable retirement homes proposal rejected
Green Bridport Town Councillor Kelvin Clayton told Bridport & Lyme Regis News he welcomed Dorset Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for 70 new retirement homes in Bridport with no affordable housing element – but that he “very much hopes” a new developer will take on the site to provide much needed affordable housing. - Dorchester Town Council agrees Green’s proposal for more plant-based catering options
Dorchester Town Council has approved a proposal by Green Councillor Poppy Farmer to increase the proportion of plant-based food provided at its receptions and civic events. - Cllr Belinda Bawden: “Quite a lot of complaints” about newer, brighter streetlights
BBC Dorset covered Councillor Belinda Bawden’s contribution to a Dorset Council debate where resident dissatisfaction at the brightness of newer streetlights in the county was noted: “Councillor Bawden told the committee that she received quite a lot of complaints about the new, brighter lights where they had been fitted already.”
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Our next Business Meetings for members only will be on Monday 24th February via Zoom at 7.30pm [note this is a change from a previously advertised date and time] and then Tuesday March 18th at 7.30pm in Dorchester. Then Tuesday April 22nd via ZOOM and Tuesday May 13th in Dorchester.
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