Bradpole Community

Welcome to the Bradpole Community Website.

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Springtime in Bradpole

Bradpole Parish Council manages this website* to enable readers to be kept up to date with developments and issues facing the Civil Parish of Bradpole, its Council, and its residents.

Bradpole Parish Council represents the views of local people, negotiates and influences the decisions which directly affect the community and aims to improve the quality of life for everyone living and working in the area.

A weekly report on parish council business is published on this site.

* Following a local council re-organisation decision taken by Dorset Council in April 2023 the civil parish will be abolished and the parish council dissolved on 1st April 2024. The parish area will be enlarged and will become a Ward of Bridport Town Council. Elections will be held in May 2024 for an expanded Town Council.

Consequently this website will evolve into a Bradpole Ward Community Website which will be managed by Bridport Town Council and in particular by the Ward councillors chosen by Bradpole ward electors in May 2024 to represent them.

Notices of Election – Dorset Council and Town and Parish Councils within the Dorset Council area – 2 May 2024:

 Dorset Council

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Town and Parish Councils within the Dorset Council area

Interactive Map of the Wards of Bridport Town Council May 2024

 

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

(more information on this defibrillator)

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Bradpole Village Hall

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

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BRADPOLE BUZZWORD

We realise that not all of our residents are able to access either this website or our social media platforms. We therefore produce a quarterly news sheet which is posted on the many notice boards around the parish.

If you have a friend or neighbour who you think would appreciate reading the current issue please download a copy.

Winter 2023-2024 Buzzword

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DATA PROTECTION
This site contains links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that Bradpole Parish Council does not have any control over that other website. Bradpole Parish Council cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites.

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OYEZ! – OYEZ! Read All About It

-LATEST BRADPOLE NEWS

– PARISH RE-ORGANISATION 2024: Visit the Council Re-organisation page for information on the transition to a new Council area at Easter 2024 followed by ward elections in May 2024. 

  PRESS RELEASE – Bradpole Parish Council March 2024

– BRADPOLE WARD ELECTIONS May 2024: Information for both electors and candidates is now available on our Bradpole Ward Election 2024 website page.

– 2024 – 25 COUNCIL TAX CHARGES ISSUED BY DORSET COUNCIL:

Full Dorset Council Tax Charges

Parish Council Tax Charges

BRADPOLE PARISH COUNCILLORS (all of whom live within the future Bradpole Ward Boundaries) approved an INDICATIVE Parish budget/precept for 2024/25. This is for information only, now that the actual council tax rates for 2024/25 (see above links) have been published a comparison may be made had the Parish Council been allowed to continue. “Levelling” of Council Taxes

– FLOODING: Flood Information & Advice

– River Brit Catchment Area Flood Management Project, funding agreed in principle: 13/03/24 Briefing Note

GETTING BRADPOLE BUZZING: volunteers meeting schedule Feb ~ May 2024

CURRENT PROJECTS:

– Lee Lane: Bus shelter refurbishment completed.

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– 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 also been installed adjacent to this equipment.

Arrangements are in place to add additional seating particularly designed for wheelchair users and to improve the access paths both at this site and at the nearby Pageants Field. Heavy rainfall has delayed progress with this but Bridport Town Council has undertaken to ensure that the work is completed and paid for from the “earmarked” funds available for the purpose.

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– BRADPOLE PARISH ARCHIVE PROJECT: We are near completing an Archive of Bradpole Civil Parish. If you have any photos, memories etc. that you can contribute, or if you can help with the preparation please CONTACT US. 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 >

– THE HISTORIC RAILWAY CROSSING GATE located at Railway Gardens was replaced in September 2023 using Parish Council reserves set aside specifically for the project ensuring this historic local landmark is preserved for the benefit of future generations.  

An interpretation board designed by Bradpole Parish Councillors and Clerks has also been installed at Railway Gardens 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.

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