Bridport’s Trick Factory “loses a lot of money”
The Trick Factory in Bridport “no longer gets close to breaking even… the number of local users in recent times doesn’t even amount to double figures, much to the dismay of myself and the disbelief of those that travel to use The Trick Factory.”
New plans for Bridport’s South West Quadrant
NEW plans for the redevelopment of Bridport’s historic South West Quadrant are to go on show on Friday, December 10. People are invited to view landowners Haywards’ latest proposals for the St Michael’s Trading Estate area in the Red Brick Café between about 11am and 2pm. Haywards’ last scheme – for a mix of 175 new homes and commercial “regeneration” opportunities – was intensely controversial.
Birdmen to help bikeboys
A FILM about the heights and frights of paragliding is to be shown at Bridport’s Electric Palace to raise funds for Dorset’s only indoor skate and cycle park. The Trick Factory on St Michael’s Trading Estate in Bridport has seen countless risky moves tried out, but probably none that can really compare with chucking yourself off [...]
Bridport: South West Quadrant inquiry closed
(Teatime write-up) SO, AS looked increasingly likely all morning, the planning inquiry into Bridport’s biggest development scheme for 30 years was stopped before it ever got properly going. Late on in the afternoon, planning inspector Simon Rawle decided that landowners Haywards did not have the right to appeal against West Dorset district councillors’ refusal to allow [...]
Revealed: Bridport Domesday Book
THE EXTRAORDINARY range and number of people working in Bridport’s South West Quadrant can today be revealed for the first time. Officially, the number of full-time jobs in and around St Michael’s Trading Estate is 112. That is the figure previously used in planning applications to redevelop the estate. But foot-slogging research by the Friends [...]
Major Bridport planning appeal could be over before it’s even begun
SHOULD the inquiry into the biggest proposed development in Bridport for 30 years be allowed to go ahead? That is the question that will – unexpectedly – be decided when landowners Haywards’ launch their appeal into the future of the South West Quadrant, at the Park Dean Holiday Park in West Bay on January 26. Costly preparations for [...]
South West Quadrant: Top West Dorset Lib Dem Sue Farrant backs protestors
LESS than three weeks to go until the start of the appeal into the biggest development in Bridport for 30 years, and Dr Sue Farrant is backing the campaign against plans to redevelop St Michael’s Trading Estate. Dr Farrant, the Liberal Democrats’ contender for West Dorset at the forthcoming General Election, says she is unhappy with the way [...]