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Dorset Council are consulting on the admissions arrangements for the academic year 2024 to 2025 for Wyke Regis Infant School.

Dorset Council are consulting on the admissions arrangements for the academic year 2024 to 2025.

Dorset Council carried out a Community Governance Review of parishes in the Dorset Council area during 2021 and spring/summer 2022 but draft recommendations relating to Weymouth and surrounding areas and Vale of Allen were withdrawn so that further public consultation could be carried out. A Community Governance Review is now being undertaken for those areas.

In this second phase of public consultation on our libraries, we are calling upon residents, businesses, employees, partners and stakeholders to help us prioritise and explore what delivery could look like in our communities

The draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) 2022 has been produced by Public Health Dorset for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Health and Wellbeing Board and Dorset Health and Wellbeing Board.

The Bus Service Improvement Plan will be refreshed annually, and the Council is launching a survey to seek further input from the public on their priorities for better bus services while understanding that funding is limited

Dorset Council would like to know your thoughts and suggestions on how to get the best use from the playing fields between the Westgate housing development and the rear of Wareham St Mary primary school, off Worgret Road in Wareham.

Dorset Council is seeking views on two new documents relating to Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO)

A 4 week consultation on our School Transport Policies for 2022 to 2023. From Monday 7 March to Sunday 3 April

Dorset Council is carrying out a Community Governance Review of parishes in the Dorset Council area during 2021 to 2022.

Work is underway on the next Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment for Dorset. As part of this, we would like to know more about how people use Pharmacies (some people call them Chemists).

The Dorset Community Safety Partnership is reviewing its Community Safety Plan for the coming year.

In response to the government’s National Bus Strategy, 'Bus Back Better', we are working closely with our partners and local groups to develop a long-term vision to transform local bus services across the council area.

We are inviting comments on limited Further Proposed Main Modifications

A draft Air Quality Action Plan has been published and Dorset Council is asking for your views on the plan.

Email your comments or objections to the proposed arrangements and schemes to us at: schoolorganisation@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

In autumn 2021, we commissioned an independent research agency to conduct the first residents’ survey for Dorset Council. This was a closed sample survey.

We have launched a public consultation to seek views on eight proposed Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs). Most orders revolve around anti-social behaviour.

The purpose of this consultation is to seek views on our draft Dorset Domestic Abuse Strategy 2021 - 2024. The strategy describes how we will tackle and meet the challenges posed by domestic abuse in Dorset

We want to understand your needs when it comes to childcare provision for children aged from 0 to 14 years. What would you like to see more of? Are childcare options suitable for you and your family? Tell us about your needs and experiences of childcare in Dorset. Complete our survey.

We have launched a public consultation to inform how we develop and deliver our library service in the future.

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Dorset Council is looking at how people travel to and from school and college.

Consultation on the Proposal to Increase the capacity at Beaucroft Foundation Special School by 80 places from September 2022

Queen Elizabeth Leisure Centre in Wimborne, Dorset is owned by the Queen Elizabeth School Foundation Trustees. Through a dual-use agreement, we manage the site. This agreement lets both the school and community have access to the facilities at set times. Queen Elizabeth School receives funding from the Education and Skills Funding Agency for their use of the facilities and we fund the community usage. We have the right to give 2 years notice to withdraw from the management agreement.

The council's objective is to have one parking offer for Blue Badge holders across the Dorset Council area that is easy to understand and consistent.

Dorset Council is developing an ambitious Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) for improving our local bus services and encouraging more people to use them

The Garden Waste service is available to all Dorset residents as a fortnightly kerbside collection. It is an optional paid for service with nearly 50,000 subscribers. We want to ensure that customer satisfaction levels remain high, so we ask current and potential customers for their feedback every two years to help shape and improve the service.

Having asked broadband networks operators for their current and planned broadband infrastructure coverage at the OMR stage, BDUK and Dorset are offering a further opportunity to comment and validate the information collected during the Public Review across Dorset.

We want to find out what people think about our proposed new Taxi Licensing Policy, which has been created to update and replace all the different licencing policies that were in place while Dorset’s Borough and District councils were in operation.

Dorset Council is reviewing the way it provides Tourist Information Services in the area

We are reviewing our polling district and polling place arrangements for elections.

Dorset Council is currently developing an equality, diversity and inclusion strategy and action plan and would like your views on the draft documents.

The Dorchester Article 4 Direction is to prevent loss of further features which contribute to the character of the Dorchester Conservation Area.

The garden waste service is available to all Dorset residents as a fortnightly kerbside collection. It is an optional paid for service with nearly 50,000 subscribers. We want to ensure that customer satisfaction levels remain high, so we ask current and potential customers for their feedback every two years to help shape and improve the service.

Have your say on our draft Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy

Dorset Council are inviting Weymouth and Portland residents to have their say in the relocation of a local Registration Service Ceremony room.

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP Council) and Dorset Council are jointly consulting on the ‘The Dorset Heathlands Planning Framework Supplementary Planning Document’ (SPD). The SPD covers the period 2020-2025 and supports the interpretation and implementation of statutory development policies set out in local plans. We are consulting for a 4 week period from Friday 3 January to Monday 3 February 2020. This is not a survey, click the link to find out how to have your say.

Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) - a legal mechanism for introducing new traffic and parking restrictions. New restrictions are proposed on a rolling basis

Each year Dorset Council is required to consult on its admissions arrangements for schools, nurseries and sixth forms that are under the control of the local authority as well as the proposed coordinated admissions scheme for the allocation of places across all schools in Dorset. This is for the allocation of school places for the start of the academic year in 2022. Email us your comments or objections to the proposed arrangements and schemes, or call us to get a paper copy.

The former Weymouth and Portland Borough Council is considering the introduction of a Selective Licensing Scheme under the Housing Act 2004 in parts of the Melcombe Regis ward in Weymouth. If introduced landlords of all privately rented property within the area will need to be licensed.

We are running a paper based survey in our libraries asking people about their experience of your visit..

Dorset Council is looking for feedback on its plans to construct a modern waste management centre for Blandford, which will also include a new household recycling centre (HRC, or “the tip”) for residents.

We want people to give their views on a draft policy for how Dorset Council sets park home license fees.

The survey asks for views on the future of the Shoppers Parking Permit. previously provided by the former West Dorset District Council in their area.

There is clear scientific evidence to show that climate change is happening and is due to human activity. Whilst this is a huge global challenge, many solutions are local.

The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Travel Survey is designed to monitor long-term trends in personal travel and to inform the development of policy and to try and improve travel in the area. This survey will help understand how people who live and work in the area travel around and their reasons for travelling in that way.

We are asking members of the public about their experience of community safety issues and what’s important to them.

Have your say on the proposed changes to the working age Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme from April 2019 for the new Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council.

The Community Safety Partnership Strategic Assessment 2019/20 proposes priorities for the coming year.

The Purbeck Local Plan was submitted for examination in January 2019.The council is now consulting on proposed Main Modifications.

As part of the council’s wider aim for developing a support package for the voluntary and community sector, Dorset Council is considering introducing a Community Lottery.

Do you, or anyone you know ever look for information online about help and support for adults? We are working on a new Adult Social Care website and need your help to test it.

We would like to hear what you think about these proposals. Due to the Coronavirus the survey has been extended by 8 weeks and will now close on 20 July 2020. If you need a paper copy of this survey or know someone who cannot participate without one please call 01305 221000.

The Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty stretches across almost half of the county – giving many of us a nationally important landscape right on our doorstep. During August and September, local people are being asked to pitch in their views about what they think is special and what needs to be done to keep it so. The question comes from the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership, which is reviewing the 5-year Management Plan for the area.

Tell us what you think about where you live and how you feel about Dorset Council. This year there are some extra questions about the impact of COVID-19 and what access you have to the internet. Your responses will be used to inform improvements to council services. The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete.

Local planning authorities are also required to have a Statement of Community Involvement. The Statement of Community Involvement outlines how the council will involve the community on all planning matters. This includes producing a Dorset Local Plan, plans for minerals and waste, working with Neighbourhood Plan groups, and processing planning applications.

Weymouth residents are being asked to have their say on proposals to enhance the harbour area for families, hospitality businesses and active travel.

We have been considering a proposal for a new Park. This will continue the improvements primarily made to the recreation area at Stanpit as part of a Master Plan adopted in 2013/14, expanding this into what is currently the 9 hole pitch and putt course to the south of Two Riversmeet Leisure Centre. The new Park does not include Stanpit Marsh.

A review of the Residents’ Parking Permit Policy affecting Zones A and C in the area known locally as the Park District of Weymouth.

Dorset Council is looking for your thoughts on the future of the Lyme Regis Tourist Information Centre (TIC). This service is currently run by Dorset Council and based in a building owned by Lyme Regis Town Council.