DORSET County Council cabinet members have agreed that Broomhills is probably the best place for a new Bridport waste management centre – so now they must find out if it can actually be used. Over the next few months, an estimated £77,000 is going to be spent on further investigations into its suitability. That will take…
SO, in the end, after flocking in at the rate of two a minute, more than 400 people went to Bridport Town Hall to discuss the seven sites short-listed for a new waste management centre in the Bridport area. Dorset County Council’s exhibition about the sites answered some urgent questions,…
Editor’s Note: Steve Spear is a member of the pressure group NOWTS, formed in Bradpole to campaign against Dorset County Council’s idea of putting a Waste Transfer Station (WTS) at Gore Cross. What follows below is a lightly edited version of a piece issued for general distribution, and it makes some interesting points, particularly…
A FORMER dairy farm could become a new household recycling centre and waste transfer station for the Bridport area. Lilac Farm, which lies just east of Bridport off the A35, is to be evaluated in depth by Dorset County Council’s independent planning consultants, Nicholas Pearson Associates. The county council has spent years –…
I DECIDED some time ago to ignore what Leon says, but as he mentioned me in his piece I thought I should respond. Leon seems to think that the money spent on the Gore Cross site is because of the objections by local residents and others. That’s strange, because Dorset County…
ANY SENSIBLE person would think that this latest review of possible locations for a Bridport waste transfer station has put another nail in the Gore Cross coffin. Since the county came up with the “it has to be Gore Cross” decision their primary argument has been that the Highways Agency…
A NEW review of possible sites for a Bridport waste transfer station has put “a big nail in the coffin” of Dorset County Council’s controversial choice of Gore Cross. Top Tory councillor Ronald Coatsworth, who is chairman of West Dorset District Council and county councillor for the Bride Valley, said…
