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…
THE BEST SITE around Bridport for a new household recycling centre and waste transfer station is Broomhills, just off the A35. So concludes the final stage of an independent review of seven possible locations, published this week by Dorset County Council. THE MUNICIPAL SEVEN From west to east: Miles Cross 1, Miles…
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…
I’M PERPLEXED by recent coverage of the long-running moves to improve Bridport’s Waste & Recycling facilities. The Bridport News has now had two front pages [click here and here] bemoaning both the cost and the lack of movement, giving prominence to the opinions of vocal opponents of the Gore Cross proposals.…
