Cllr Rob Dabbs - Chickerell Town Council

14/12/2025

12/12/2025

Dorset Council's Waste Services Team have shared the following information with us about changes to your collections over the Christmas period. Full collection calendars and more details can be found on their website (link in comments):

As well as your collection date changing over the Christmas period, the crews might pick up your waste at a different time of day than usual. Therefore, please put your containers out on the correct day by 6am to ensure collection.

There are no garden waste collections from Thursday 25th December until Thursday 8 January.

If you have extra recycling that won't fit in your bin, you can put it in a sturdy box (not a bag) - that can be lifted by one person - and put it by the side of your recycling bin. Please put paper, card and cartons in your bin to ensure it doesn't get wet. Keep glass separate.

You can also put out two extra sacks of black bin rubbish on your first scheduled rubbish collection after Christmas.

12/12/2025

29/11/2025

✨ It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! ✨

The festive season is almost here, and there’s plenty happening across our community. Here’s a snapshot of what’s coming up:
📅 29 Nov – Christmas Bazaar & Christmas Fayre
📅 04 Dec – Santa Float
📅 06 Dec – ‘Hats Off’ Festive Workshop
📅 12 Dec – Carols for Chickerell
📅 18 Dec – Christmas Bingo Night
📅 Dec – Twinkle Challenge (Christmas Lights Competition). MORE INFO COMING SOON.

🎄 These events are organised by a mix of local groups, organisations, and the Town Council – all working together to make this Christmas special.

📣 Hosting a festive event?
We’d love to include it! Visit link in comments for details on how to share your event with the community.

03/11/2025

This is brilliant Chickerell Town Council 🫡👏🏻

29/10/2025

09/10/2025

PROPOSED TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF NOTTINGTON LANE, BUCKLAND RIPERS

Dorset Council has received an application from Wessex Water to close Nottington Lane, Buckland Ripers from its junction with Church Lane for a distance of approximately 1215 metres in an easterly direction. The closure has been requested to allow Wessex Water to install new water main in carriageway by means of Horizontal Directional Drilling. These works are programmed to
commence from 1 December 2025 until 27 February 2026. Please note the road will be open between 22 December 2025 and 5 January 2026.

If you have any concerns about this proposal, please contact Samantha Paulley,
([email protected]) by 3 November 2025.

09/10/2025

🎃👻 CHICKERELL HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR IS BACK! 👻🎃

Getting ready to have the spookiest, creepiest, or most creative Halloween house in town?

Whether your decorations go up early or just on the day — you can still enter!

Join the Best Dressed House Competition and let your outdoor Halloween displays shine - windows, gardens, porches, and paths. If it’s visible from the street, it counts!

Deadline to enter: Thursday 30 October, 12:00 noon
Judging night: Friday 31 October – the Mayor and panel will be touring Chickerell

WIN:
🏆 The Mayor’s Annual Cup
🐟🍟 £50 voucher from Daniels Fish & Chips

Entry is FREE and open to all Chickerell residents.

📥 Entry form and full details can be found using the link in comments below.

Let’s light up Chickerell with pumpkins, eerie lights, and ghostly surprises.

Tag your neighbours, spread the word, and help make this Halloween spooktacular.

06/10/2025

Dorset Local Plan Consultation

Dorset Council is currently consulting on its draft Local Plan (Options) this includes several new housing site proposals in and around Chickerell.

These are proposals, not decisions, but it’s important that everyone takes the opportunity to review and comment before 13 October 2025.

From my personal perspective, it’s vital that infrastructure must come first including GP capacity, school places, and roads as we have experienced significant growth in Chickerell in recent years.

The map below shows the proposed sites for Chickerell, identified by Dorset Council.

Each site has its own reference number, you can comment on individual plots through the online consultation.

1,172 homes proposed across 8 sites all bar one on greenfield land. That equates to a 40% increase in Chickerell’s population.

Everyone can view all proposals and comment on individual sites through the online consultation:

https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/dorset-is-changing

Comments on Facebook don’t count, so please use the link.

07/09/2025

⚠️📢

The UK government is testing the Emergency Alerts system at 3pm today, Sunday 7 September 2025. Compatible mobile phones and tablets will receive an alert, make a loud siren-like sound and vibrate. You will not need to take any action.

The Emergency Alerts system is used to warn if there’s a danger to life nearby, including extreme weather. Regular testing ensures the system is functioning correctly, should it need to be used in a life-threatening emergency. If you need to turn off the alerts (including the test), visit https://orlo.uk/k3eRE for step-by-step instructions.

For more information visit: https://orlo.uk/f8RdY

02/09/2025

Echoing Cllr Alex Fuhrmann - Weymouth Town & Dorset Council concern, it would be a great shame if Wessex Golf Centre and Toptracer Driving Range and community facilities were taken away.

Dorset Council’s Local Plan and Travel Plan consultation is now open until 13 October 2025. It’s crucial that everyone comments, these are only proposals, and without community feedback our needs risk being overlooked.

I’ve emphasised that infrastructure must come first. Chickerell has seen significant growth without essential services such as a GP surgery so any further development must be backed by the infrastructure we need.

Please take a moment to read, reflect, and respond:

Take part in the consultation (online, with maps and documentation available):
https://consultation.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/spatial-planning/dorset-council-local-plan-consultation-2025/consult_view/
consultation.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

'It would be a great shame if it is taken away'