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Annual Council Meeting
The Annual meeting of the Council (Mayor Making Ceremony) will be held on Monday, 23 May 2022 at 7pm in the Corn Exchange in the The Municipal Buildings, Dorchester. The meeting will be adjourned to the the 24 May 2022 following the election of a new Town Mayor and Deputy - this meeting will be held at 7.00pm in the Council Chamber, The Municipal Buildings, Dorchester. An Agenda for the Annual Meeting and adjourned Annual meeting can be found under the 'Committees' tab of this website.
Annual Town Meeting
The Annual Town Meeting will be held on the rising of the Adjourned Annual meeting to be held on 24 May 2022 at 7.00pm. The meeting will be held in the Council Chamber, Municipal Buildings, Dorchester. An agenda for the meeting can be found under the 'Committees' tab of this website.
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 Gareth Jones will serve as Mayor for the Council year to 23 May 2022. Gareth will be supported by wife, Anne, as Mayoress. His chosen charities for his Mayoral year are The GAP project, based on a community garden area off Lubbecke Way, and a new Community Café and Shop which will be based in Trinity Street and is under development by the local team at Mencap Mid Dorset.
If you would like to read Councillor Gareth Jones’ speech read at the Mayor Making Ceremony held in the Borough Gardens please click here.
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
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.
