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.”
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.
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 going. Late on in the afternoon, planning…
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 jobs in and around St Michael’s Trading…
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 when landowners Haywards’ launch their appeal into…
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 backing the campaign against plans to redevelop St…
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 St Michael’s Trading Estate, is going to…
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