BRIDPORT’S acclaimed Café Royal is to be auctioned next month, as West Dorset District Council embarks on a plan to raise £1.5 million. The Café Royal is opposite Bridport bus station. Its big-windowed American diner style has, over the years, attracted many admirers. Wired magazine correspondent Russell Davies visited in 2009. On…
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 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 -…
(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 inspector Simon Rawle decided that landowners Haywards did not have the right to appeal against West Dorset…
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 Estate is 112. That is the figure previously used in planning applications to redevelop the estate. But…
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 the future of the South West Quadrant, at the Park Dean Holiday Park in West Bay on…
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 Michael’s Trading Estate. Dr Farrant, the Liberal Democrats’ contender for West Dorset at the forthcoming General Election, says she…
