Blandford St Mary under threat from unwanted speculative development
South-West Region worst affected by affordable housing crisis, CPRE Report warns
28th November 2023
The South West region is worst affected by an acute shortage of genuinely affordable and social housing.
Sad day for local democracy as Wyatt Homes Blandford development approved
26th October 2023
Press Release from North Dorset CPRE, Pimperne Parish Council and Cranborne Chase AONB
Dorset Council Housing Strategy Online Survey
2nd October 2023
Dorset Council is aiming to produce its housing strategy by the end of 2023, setting out their vision for future housing in the Dorset Council area.
Save Pimperne from massive housing development
30th November 2020
This is a view of verdant, unspoilt, rolling downland in the parish of Pimperne which will be desecrated and built over if Wyatt Homes are allowed to build 600 homes north of the Blandford bypass.
Government ‘out of touch’ with own MPs on new planning system and must rethink
22nd November 2020
MP Polling: 55% Conservative backbenchers considering opposing the government’s upheaval of the planning system
Dorset is under threat from excessive house building & Planning White Paper
Updated 29th October 2020
An independent report for Dorset CPRE shows that the Dorset Council and BCP Council could be forced to plan for excessive numbers of new housing.
Rural communities denied affordable housing as developers exploit loophole
3rd March 2018
Housing developers are using a legal loophole to dodge building affordable homes across the countryside, according to data analysed together for the first time by Shelter and CPRE