Paying for parking at Dorchester Fairfield car park Picture: Trevor Bevins DORSET Council is to be told that their plan for a county-wide three tier parking system does not recognise the complexity of the issue across the area. Dorchester town councillor Susie Hosford said she failed to understand why the Dorset Council parking review was “hell bent” on the tier system with common charges at three levels across the whole county - with seaside and popular visitor sites at up to £10 a day; less for market towns in the next category and villages and rural car parks generally the cheapest.
Paying for parking at Dorchester Fairfield car park Picture: Trevor Bevins DORSET Council is to be told that their plan for a county-wide three tier parking system does not recognise the complexity of the issue across the area. Dorchester town councillor Susie Hosford said she failed to understand why the Dorset Council parking review was “hell bent” on the tier system with common charges at three levels across the whole county - with seaside and popular visitor sites at up to £10 a day; less for market towns in the next category and villages and rural car parks generally the cheapest.
Dorset Council has agreed to the continued use of a mobile at The Orchard in Chalmington COUNCIL-SPEAK is doing little to encourage people to engage with Dorset Council – according to some councillors. Lyme Regis councillor Daryl Turner told a meeting this week that too many documents are difficult to understand. He picked on a cultural strategy document which he said was full of classic council-speak throughout . “People are not going to read page after page of this sort of stuff,” he told the people and health overview committee during an online meeting, viewed live by a maximum of eight people on Tuesday.
The ancient, corrugated metal bridge coverings near Maumbury Rings and in Allington Avenue are both badly corroded. Cllr Stella Jones says the one in Allington Avenue is so bad that there are now holes in the structure and bits fall off it into the road. Town planning chairman Cllr Robin Potter says both look tatty and should be improved, or replaced, by Network Rail. Said Cllr Jones: “The one on Allington Avenue is in much worse condition. Two years ago the Heritage Committee got in touch Network Rail but they didn’t want to know about it …it’s now in such a bad way that it could be a danger as well as being ugly,” she said.