Meanwhile the documents also include proposals for building on car park land adjoining Southill shopping centre. Dorset Council has stated nothing in set in stone - the sites have been proposed as a way to meet government housing targets. It says that many of the proposals are not new - amid accusations from Weymouth Town Council that many of the plans included in the 2021 Local Plan have been copied and pasted from old documents created by the former borough council in 2015. Resident Brenda Pickett said: Weymouth’s historic centre is already threatened by the rise of internet and out-of-town shopping.