Five Green Flag Awards for Dorset country parks
Flags for Avon Heath Country Park, Stour Meadows, Milldown, Durlston Country Park and Thorncombe Wood, Black Heath and Hardy’s Birthplace sites.
Flags for Avon Heath Country Park, Stour Meadows, Milldown, Durlston Country Park and Thorncombe Wood, Black Heath and Hardy’s Birthplace sites.
More than 500 affordable homes have been provided in towns and villages across Dorset in the last financial year.
The solar project, which is at the 66-hectare Parley Court Solar Farm site in Christchurch, will be the Enviromena company’s largest to date.
Plans to build more than 12,000 solar panels on a site the size of nearly 14 football pitches in the New Forest National Park have been refused.
Students have created artworks for their schoolground drains as part of a project raising awareness about ocean pollution.
Collaboration has been announced between Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council and East Devon District Council.
Dorset Council and Litter Free Dorset have launched a campaign to increase biodiversity in verges and to make more space for wildlife.
New photo exhibition celebrating how organisations are tackling climate change will visit several Dorset locations in the coming months.
Residents who fought against a planning application for the development of a 60-bed care home and church, have another battle on their hands.
Bournemouth Town Centre BID is installing hanging baskets and organising litter picking and graffiti removal to make the town more welcoming.