Posts from the ‘SW Quadrant’ category

Bridport’s Trick Factory “loses a lot of money”

The Trick Factory in Bridport “no longer gets close to breaking even… the number of local users in recent times doesn’t even amount to double figures, much to the dismay of myself and the disbelief of those that travel to use The Trick Factory.”

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New plans for Bridport’s South West Quadrant

NEW plans for the redevelopment of Bridport’s historic South West Quadrant are to go on show on Friday, December 10. People are invited to view landowners Haywards’ latest proposals for the St Michael’s Trading Estate area in the Red Brick Café between about 11am and 2pm. Haywards’ last scheme – for a mix of 175 new homes and commercial “regeneration” opportunities – was intensely controversial.

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Birdmen to help bikeboys

A FILM about the heights and frights of paragliding is to be shown at Bridport’s Electric Palace to raise funds for Dorset’s only indoor skate and…

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Bridport: South West Quadrant inquiry closed

(Teatime write-up) SO, AS looked increasingly likely all morning, the planning inquiry into Bridport’s biggest development scheme for 30 years was stopped before it ever got properly…

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Revealed: Bridport Domesday Book

THE EXTRAORDINARY range and number of people working in Bridport’s South West Quadrant can today be revealed for the first time. Officially, the number of full-time…

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Major Bridport planning appeal could be over before it’s even begun

SHOULD the inquiry into the biggest proposed development in Bridport for 30 years be allowed to go ahead? That is the question that will – unexpectedly – be decided…

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South West Quadrant: Top West Dorset Lib Dem Sue Farrant backs protestors

LESS than three weeks to go until the start of the appeal into the biggest development in Bridport for 30 years, and Dr Sue Farrant is…

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South West Quadrant: “If this development goes ahead, my wife and I will never visit Bridport again”

NOT ONE letter sent into the Planning Inspectorate supports the redevelopment of the South West Quadrant of Bridport. The proposed “regeneration” of the area, which includes…

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Bridport Trick Factory: A Mum’s view. “If they weren’t doing this, they’d be trashing the house.”

      You can see Harriet Laurie on You Tube by clicking on this link   GRAPHIC designer Harriet Laurie is one of the leaders of the…

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Fight to save Trick Factory moves on to Bucky Doo Square and Chapel in the Garden

TODAY is the big day to save the Trick Factory, the indoor skate park in Bridport that’s threatened with destruction by property developers. So says the…

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