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Dorchester Town Council
We are the parish authority for the county town of Dorset. There has been a history of local government in the town since Anglo Saxon times and Dorchester has been the county town since 1305. It has elected a mayor since 1629. The Town Council was created in 1974.
The town has a population of around 20,000, which continues to grow quickly with the expansion of Dorchester at Poundbury and Brewery Square. The Town Council provides a range of community and recreational facilities, and promotes the town's interests with the other statutory bodies that operate in the town, notably the Dorset Council.
The Town Council has 20 members in five wards, elected for a period of 5 years. Elections to the Town Council took place on 2 May 2019, - results for each ward.
Mayor of Dorchester
Councillor Janet Hewitt will serve as Mayor for the Council year to 22 May 2023. Janet will be supported by Husband, David as Mayor’s Consort and Councillor Gareth Jones as Deputy Mayor. Her chosen charities for her Mayoral year are Wessex Life Saving, Cancer Research, Research into Parkinson’s Disease, and support to Ukrainian families living in our Town.
If you would like to invite the Mayor to an event that you are organising please download a Mayoral Engagement Form or contact Georgina Wakely, the Mayor's Secretary.
- Mayor's engagements for the forthcoming week
Watch Janet's Mayor Making Ceremony here.
Weymouth Avenue Cricket Pavilion
In a bid to reduce Dorchester Town Council’s carbon footprint we have installed Ground Source Heating and a water bore hole at the Weymouth Avenue Cricket Pavilion.
Our project has been part funded by Low Carbon Dorset as part of the European Regional Development Fund and it increases the capacity of renewable energy deployed in Dorset (output C30) by 15kW. It reduces Dorset’s greenhouse gas emissions (output C34) by 16.5 tCO2e/yr. It reduces the import of primary energy into public buildings (output C32) by 31,700 kWh/yr.
