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Welcome to the Bradpole Community Website your online destination for news, events and information for the residents of the Bradpole Ward of Bridport Town Council.

A change of direction.

Following local council reorganisation the civil parish of Bradpole was abolished and the Parish Council dissolved on 1st April 2024. The parish area was enlarged and is now a Ward of Bridport Town Council.

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News updates will appear on this Home Page.

On other pages you will find information about the Bradpole Ward Area and its community facilities, elected Ward Councillors, planning applications, local history, and a records archive of Bradpole Parish Council dissolved in April 2024.

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 Bradpole Ward Clerk Email: bradpole.ward@bridport-tc.gov.uk

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DEFIBRILLATORS in Bradpole Ward

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A defibrillator is located at the Village Hall, Higher Street, Bradpole DT6 3JA

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Bradpole Forster Village Hall

(more information on this defibrillator)

There are other defibrillators within the Bradpole Ward area with 24/7 public access at;

  • Seals Cove, St Andrews Trading Estate.
  • Turner Build, Pymore.

For other defibrillators near to you go to https://www.defibfinder.uk/  and enter your village/town, postcode or “my location”

LATEST NEWS IN BRADPOLE WARD

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– GORE CROSS & PAGENTS FIELD FOOTPATH WORKS – Footpath improvement and installation works commenced 18th April at Gore Cross Recreation Ground which will then be followed by footpath installation works at Pageants Field.  The works are expected to take a couple of weeks to complete.

– BRADPOLE WARD ELECTIONS May 2024: Statement of Persons Nominated published, this + information for electors and candidates available on our Bradpole Ward Election 2024 website page.

– No 7 COMMUNITY BUS: Timetable & Routes effective from 1st April 2024. DOWNLOAD

– FLOODING: Flood Information & Advice

– PLANNING: Current Planning Applications

CURRENT PROJECTS in BRADPOLE WARD:

– WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE FITNESS EQUIPMENT – a piece of accessible fitness equipment has been added to the Gore Cross Recreation Area Fitness Trail providing wheelchair users with the opportunity to enjoy an upper body workout on the Wheelchair Combi Pull Down Challenger & Power Push.

A wheelchair friendly access gate has been installed adjacent to this equipment and arrangements are in place to add additional seating, particularly designed for wheelchair user,s and to improve the access paths both at this site and at the nearby Pageants Field.

Heavy rainfall has delayed progress with this. Bridport Town Council has undertaken to ensure that the work is completed and paid for from the Parish Council funds “earmarked” or the purpose and now held by the Town Council.

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– BRADPOLE PARISH ARCHIVE PROJECT: We are nearing completion of an Archive of Bradpole Civil Parish. alt="decorative"

Thanks to those members of the Bradpole community who have already contributed items.

 Local Characters from the 1911 Pageant held in the Parish of Bradpole >

RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS:

– LEE LANE BUS SHELTER REFURBISHMENT PROJECT (completed February 2024)

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Originally installed in the early 2000’s the structure was refurbished in 2024, by the original suppliers, and paid for from a Community Infrastructure Levy received in relation to an approved planning development within the Ward.

– RAILWAY CROSSING GATE REPLACEMENT & INTERPRETATION BOARD PROJECT (completed March 2024) 

The Gate was replaced in September 2023 by local firm Aacorn Joinery. An interpretation board, designed by Bradpole Parish Councillors and Clerks, was added in March 2024 to provide visitors with a historical insight into the Great Western Railway (GWR) Maiden Newton to Bridport and West Bay Branch Line which passed through Bradpole until 1975.

COMMUNITY GIFTS & DONATIONS

Parish Council funds have recently been made available:

  • to replace the bench at Bradpole Forster Village Hall 
  • to facilitate a new lifebuoy at the River Brit at Pymore

The following portable assets have been gifted to local organisations to enable their continued use within the Bradpole Community:

  • the former parish Council Gazebo gifted to the Bradpole Village Fete Committee.
  • office furnishings and equipment gifted to the Trustees of Bradpole Forster Village Hall.

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