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The proposal will be explained in papers for the Places & Resources Scrutiny Committee on March 25. As previously reported the move was thought likely with a relocation for staff based at the building to County Hall. The council has already disposed of the Princes House building in the town centre and former district council offices at Furzehill, Wimborne and Norden, Blandford. The Dorchester offices have been closed since the start of the lockdown and even with an easing of restrictions Dorset Council has said that it will continue to have many of its staff working from home, at least part-time. It is thought the library and learning centre, attached to the west end of the building, will remain open.
NO MAJOR summer events will be organised by Dorchester Town Council this year – faced with continued uncertainty over the Covid 19 pandemic. The decision will affect the annual Loveparks event, outdoor cinema, the Anonymous Festival and the August Bank Holiday music day. But town councillors heard that Dorchester will not be without some summer happenings with a series of smaller pop up’ activities being planned for the Borough Gardens and other venues around the county town. READ MORE: Deputy town clerk Steve Newman told councillors that the amount of work required to organise the larger events made it too risky to go ahead in the hope that the Government tactics in dealing with the pandemic were successful. He said under the current lockdown release programme the very earliest any larger events could be held was June 21, and even that assumed all the safety tests had been met.
DORSET Council is one of three local authorities in the South West with the largest percentage of assets invested in fossil fuels. A report by environmental campaigners Friends of the Earth and Platform revealed that the pension fund of Dorset invests around 4.49 per cent of the fund’s value into fossil fuels. According to the campaigners, Dorset, Devon, and Avon council pension funds account for 58 per cent of all fossil fuel investments by Local Authority Pension Funds in the South West. Co-ordinator of East Dorset Friends of the Earth, Angela Pooley told the Daily Echo: “Our first thought on this report, along with the national Friends of the Earth, was that we should be moving away from fossil fuels and, locally, there should be no more investment at all in fossil fuels.
As Trinity College Cambridge divests, UK council pensions still hold £10bn in fossil fuels
Freedom of information requests by environmental campaigners have revealed that UK local government pensions held almost £10bn in fossil fuel companies last year, despite the trend towards climate emergency declarations.
The requests reveal the pension investment trends of more than 80 UK councils
The results of the requests, which pertained to investments held in the 2019/20 financial year, have been published today (23 February) by Friends of the Earth and Platform in the form of a report.
The organisations sent requests to 98 local authorities and 85 provided information. Collectively, these 85 councils held £9.9bn of investments in fossil fuels through their pension schemes – the equivalent of £1,450 for each person accessing a local government pension scheme in the UK.