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Flooding at the Trumpet Major Junction Picture: Trevor Bevins AT LAST – work is to start this week on solving the flooding problems at three locations on Dorchester bypass. Engineers will also install motion sensitive Toucan lights at the Stadium Roundabout to improve safety while crossing five lanes of traffic for cyclists and pedestrian. Other works planned in the area by Highways England and Dorset Council include completing the gaps around Dorchester on the national cycle route which runs from Portishead to Portland and stopping verge parking outside McDonalds. The news was given to a Dorchester town council meeting on Monday evening by Cllr Roland Tarr, who represents parishes south of the county town on Dorset Council.
It ends the temporary pedestrianisation of the street, apart from Thursday market days up until 3pm. The town council say it remains committed to get part-pedestrianisation re-introduced hailing the pandemic changes a great success. It says there has been a tripling of market stalls during the closure to traffic and that 83 per cent of businesses favour making the scheme permanent. It is now waiting for Dorset Council to look at a new permanent traffic order for the street, which could take a year to 18 months to completion.
Shaftesbury High Street. Picture: Trevor Bevins Said a town council spokesman: “Many of the town shoppers and market traders have told us that the temporary pedestrianisation has improved the market shopping experience leading to a tripling in the number of market stalls.
Plans have been submitted to turn a former builder s merchant in Dorchester into serviced apartments PART of a former builder’s merchant site in Dorchester could be turned into serviced apartments – let out for short-term stays. The Maumbury Road site was part of the Gibbs & Dandy complex until the business closed in September 2020. A new ‘in principal’ proposals aims to convert the two former agricultural warehouses and add an extension to create nine apartments on the site. The developers claim it could create seven part-time jobs. “Serviced accommodation attracts commercial business rates and offers flexible rental opportunities, although apartments will be air conditioned there will be no requirement for any other plant or machinery with these proposals,” said developers Limon Homes Ltd, from Luton.