Category: Property law and finance

The road to nowhere

Running alongside the Dorset Local Plan consultation is another, almost as important: the Local Transport Plan, a joint plan between Dorset Council and BCP...

Planning isn’t fair – but your views can make a difference

Dorset’s future is being drawn up now – and unless residents speak up, crucial local knowledge and concerns will be left out of the...

Tick-box planning won’t build a future

The email from the developer was intimidating, to say the least.When it popped into my inbox, I thought there might be an opportunity to...

Build, baby, build

The Dorset Insider is a no-holds-barred column pulling back the curtain on local affairs with sharp insight, unfiltered honesty and the occasional raised eyebrow....

Does Labour hate the countryside?

North Dorset CPRE’s Rupert Hardy sees a fight coming as Labour’s rural policies begin to spell trouble for Dorset’s countryside Since Labour entered government it...

Struggling with home repairs? There’s another way

Lendology are providers of low-cost council-funded loans to help you with those much-needed home improvements “When people come to us, they’re often at the end...

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Never been to the races? Me neither…

My first visit to a racecourse – on a windblown and wet November day in Wincanton – wasn’t at all what I expected, says...

From FEI forum to the first centre line

International think tanks, 4* trials … Jess Rimmer’s 2026 season start throws her in the deep end, talking sport one week, riding it the...

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