Good news for everyone who lives along and uses Knighton Lane.  The winter weather had done quite a bit of damage to the road surface along Knighton Lane, in particular the steeper area.  After being contacted by local residents I got onto the Highways repair team and at the end of last week they patched […]

Roads around The Square and St Mary’s Middle School are to be repaired this summer!  After attending a Puddletown Parish Council meeting I was asked to have a look at a some of the road surfaces around the village.  The Square has become very uneven with many pot holes and different older patches – some of which […]

Local Police have agreed to keep an eye on the traffic situation in Dick O’ Th’ Banks Road, Crossways after a number of complaints from local residents.  I have been told about problems with speeding outside school pick-up times, inappropriate and dangerous parking during pick-up times and the use of this road as a short […]

With Nightingale Drive being on the edge of Weymouth but most of it actually in West Dorset the area sometimes gets overlooked by the authorities.  That seems to have been the case recently with a lack of grass cutting and the road not even getting the barely adequate six cuts a year that they are supposed to.  I […]

At last, a long overdue Order to restrict the width of vehicles using Watery Lane and Dark Lane between Puddletown and Higher Woodsford Road is about to be introduced.  The Order was supposed to have been introduced back in 2006 but somehow never happened.  Staff changed and the whole thing got forgotten about until research […]