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Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England. It is a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The non-metropolitan county is smaller than the ceremonial county of Dorset, which also includes Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The council ...
Dorset is a unitary authority area, existing since 1 April 2019, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It covers all of the ceremonial county except for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole .
In the early 20th century, Shire Hall in Dorchester was the local facility for dispensing justice and the meeting place of Dorset County Council. [1] After deciding the Shire Hall was inadequate for their needs, county leaders chose to procure a new county headquarters: the site selected had previously been open land known as "Colliton Park" which had once been occupied by the monastic ...
Purbeck was a local government district in Dorset, England. The district was named after the Isle of Purbeck , a peninsula that forms a large proportion of the district's area. However, it extended significantly further north and west than the traditional boundary of the Isle of Purbeck which is the River Frome .
Dorset County Council's responsibilities included schools, social care for the elderly and vulnerable, road maintenance, libraries and trading standards. The county council's area was also administered by six smaller authorities that have their own district or borough councils. The responsibilities of these councils included local planning ...
Provision of the service is by the Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority, which has 18 elected members from all four constituent councils. [ 4 ] In September 2016, Ben Ansell was appointed as the service's second chief fire officer, succeeding Darran Gunter with effect from December 2016.
West Chelborough is a village and civil parish 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Dorchester, [1] in the Dorset district, in the county of Dorset, England. In 2001, the parish had a population of 42. [2] The parish touches Corscombe and East Chelborough. [3]
In 1946 Leeming moved to work for Dorset County Council as county surveyor, where he stayed until his retirement in 1964. [1] In this period he pioneered road accident investigation. [5] In 1969 his book Road Accidents: prevent or punish? was published. A 2007 review of a reprint of the book described it as controversial, and as being written ...