Planning and Environment Committee

A meeting of the Planning and Environment Committee will be held on Monday, 2 October 2023 at 7pm at The Municipal Buildings, Dorchester. 

The agenda is available under the Committees tab.

Planning Applications for Comment 

 If you wish to make a comment on any of the applications please email the Clerk to the Committee, Georgina Wakely G.Wakely@dorchester-tc.gov.uk by 9am on Monday, 2 October 2023.

Cost of Living Help and Warm Spaces

Information regarding what cost of living help is available can be found here. This includes useful links to help access food, financial advice and housing.

A list of warm spaces, where you can be assured of a warm and friendly environment, can be found here.

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 Alistair Chisholm will serve as Mayor for the Council year to 20 May 2024. Alistair will be supported by the Mayoress, Kate Hebditch and Councillor Janet Hewitt as Deputy Mayor. His chosen charities for his Mayoral year are Dorchester Poverty Action Group and Mosaic. 

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 Alistair’s Mayor Making Ceremony here

 

       

 

OTHER PUBLIC BODIES

Dorset Council, based at County Hall (01305 221000 or 251010 or visit www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk) has responsibility for Adult Social Care, bins and recycling, Blue badges, Childrens' Services, libraries, roads and Schools, benefits, elections, environmental health, housing, parking, planning and public health.

Dorset's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) is an elected official responsible for the governance and oversight of Dorset Police as well as working more widely with local partners, organisations and communities to improve community safety and criminal justice outcomes across the whole of Dorset. The PCC also acts as the 'public voice in policing' - representing the views of the public in determining the strategic priorities for policing locally during his term of office. For more information visit http://www.dorset.pcc.police.uk/