Council Elections May 2024

Dorset Council’s Electoral Services department, part of their Legal and Democratic Services division have now published the official notifications of elections to Dorset Council and to Parishes within the Dorset Council area.

The notifications can be accessed on the following links but they include confirmation that there will be a vacancy on the Dorset Council of one councillor for our ward (Winterborne and Broadmayne), for up to seven councillors for the Broadmayne Parish Council and up to five councillors for West Knighton Parish.

Notice of election – Parish and town areas – 2 May 2024. v110324

Notice of election – Dorset Council – 2 May 2024 v110324

Where elections are “contested”, i.e. there are more nominated candidates than vacancies, an election will take place on the 2nd May at which the new rules about needing photo ID to vote will be applied.

See Voter ID | Electoral Commission 

There are full details about the nomination process on the Notices of Election and you can read more on our Elections page. Election 2024 – 2nd May – BROADMAYNE – A DORSET VILLAGE

 

Dorset Council Latest News

Latest news – Dorset Council (click here)

                • Extra funding for road maintenance
                • Providing Supported Lodgings has been a great choice for our family
                • Third government funding bid secured to help house the homeless
                • A new fun and safe space thanks to the #WillDoesBus
                • New specialist accommodation for adults with autism opens in Dorchester
                • Dorset Council proposes moving to new system for preparing its Local Plan
                • Round 4 of the Household Support Fund has now closed

Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority – Consultation of draft Community Safety Plan 2024-28

This message is from
The Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority
THEY ARE ASKING FOR YOUR VIEWS

We are consulting on our draft Community Safety Plan, which sets out the key challenges and risks facing us over the coming years. This is our high-level strategic plan.

With future financial uncertainty, the plan details what we intend to carry on doing and what we intend to review and do differently, in order to continue to provide a high level of service to our communities.

Working with others is central to how we deliver our services, and this will continue to be at the heart of everything we do. For that reason, we invite you to view our draft plan www.dwfire.org.uk/draft-csp-2024-28-consultation and the accompanying video, which provides a short overview.

The consultation period runs from 9 February until 3 May 2024, and we would welcome your feedback, through a short set of questions on our website. Alternatively, you can call our freephone 0800 0213022 or scan the QR code.

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Dorset Council Newsletters

Dorset Council and some other organisations regularly circulate various newsletters. I would like to know if you would find it useful to have them passed on through the community website.

Below is our first trial, please email me with your comments on its usefulness. Mail to contact@broadmayne.org

You will find below links to various newsletters that may be of interest.
To access, click on each main heading.

 

Dorset Council Latest News

        • Celebrating Commonwealth Day 2024
        • Voters encouraged to get their ID ready ahead of this year’s local elections
        • Dorset’s Bike It Plus project gets more children cycling to school
        • Dorset pupils get their first pick of secondary school
        • Future flood risk study for Weymouth published
        • Maintenance works set to start at Greenhill on Weymouth seafront
        • 20mph approved for five Dorset communities

Dorset Council Climate News

        • Helping create a greener, cleaner Dorset
        • More electric vehicle chargers on the way
        • Helping make nature bigger and better
        • Dorset takes the lead in recycling
        • Lighting the way with low energy streetlights
        • Taking a closer look at Dorset’s electricity network
        • Touring climate exhibition

Latest round-up of news from
Dorset Council’s Countryside and Greenspace Teams

        • Ground nesting bird season
        • Coastal path closure
        • Helping make nature bigger and better
        • Reinstated pond at Castle Hill
        • Rushy Pond
        • The Dorset Heaths Partnership
        • Celebrating 15 years of Dorset Dogs
        • ‘Sea Change’ art exhibition
        • A Guide to Wildlife Friendly Watersports
        • Dog-friendly health walks in Weymouth
        • Beginners Golf Lessons – Moors Valley Golf Course

BROADMAYNE  –  PARISH COUNCILLOR VACANCIES

There is an opportunity and an urgent need for new members to join
the Broadmayne Parish Council.

For various personal reasons several Broadmayne Parish Councillors will not be standing for re-election in May when the current council’s term of office comes to an end.

Ask yourself “Doesn’t Broadmayne deserve to continue with an active, involved, and caring council?

Parish Councillors play a vital role in many aspects of village life including:

  • listening to and representing the community,
  • initiating, facilitating, and sponsoring community projects,
  • maintaining various aspects of our community’s facilities,
  • acting as the village’s interface with Dorset Council at all levels, such as highways, planning, etc.

Ask Parish Councillors what they get out of the role, and they will tell you that it’s rewarding to be closely involved in the smooth running of the village, and that they are pleased to have a chance to contribute, to “give something back”, to the community.

A Parish Council should be representative of the whole community, of all ages, all backgrounds, and all circumstances.

Now ask yourself, “Could I give some of my time so that Broadmayne continues to have the council it needs and deserves?

Contact Steve Diamond, stevediamond1947@gmail.com 01305 852285, or any councillor, or the Parish Clerk broadmayne@dorset-aptc.gov.uk 07824 829491

To find out more about the role, the nomination process, and the election, see the election page on the community website https://broadmayne.org/parish-council/election-2024/

 

 

A musical evening “guaranteed to enthral, educate and entertain” – 24th March

Julian Gaskell & His Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Broadside Bangers
Sun 24 March, 7:30pm. Broadmayne Village Hall. 07443 659912. £12, £5 u18s, £30 family

Cornwall’s premium post-ragtime, rembetika punk, swing polka klezmer blues trio present an anthology of some of the most melodramatic, gruesome and supernatural broadside ballads from the 17th to 19th centuries, covering everything from funeral arrangements to cat food and rural insurrection!

 Printed and sung in the Georgian and Victorian eras, many of these tunes have lain unrecorded and largely unperformed for the last 100 years. Indeed, many of their tunes have been lost to time, and so the words have been rearranged and re-fitted with newly composed music on piano, accordions, violin, drums, bouzouki, bass, banjo and guitar. Expect a wild, haunting journey through a murky past to a dark future, guaranteed to enthral, educate and entertain!

Touring Dorset with Artsreach, the county’s rural arts charity. Suitable 12+

Blending folk, punk, klezmer, cabaret… rooted and anchored by Gaskell’s powerful rasp of a voice” R2

“a gorgeous folky voice”  – BBC Introducing