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  • When Fairness Matters: Beaminster Town Council

    When Fairness Matters: Beaminster Town Council

    When Fairness Matters: Why DNHI Is Calling for Beaminster Town Council to Put Things Right On Saturday 25 October, Dorset Natural Heritage Initiative (DNHI) volunteers set up a…

  • When Enabling Development gets … complicated

    Parnham House, a Grade I-listed 16th-century manor in Dorset, has been at the centre of a high-profile planning debate. The house had major improvements by Nash in the…

  • The fine line between Preservation and Renewal

    The application to build a housing estate on the parklands and adjoining meadow at Parnham is live on the Dorset Council Planning portal at P/FUL/2025/06865. However, events at…

  • Planning Development Controversy

    This article is taken from www.propertysurveying.co.uk. Link to the recent article here Historic manor restoration sparks planning development controversy A music industry entrepreneur’s ambitious plan to save a…

  • Parnham Estate’s plan

    Behind the proposal is the neighbouring Parnham Estate. Parnham House, a Tudor mansion with later Nash improvements, was devastated by fire in 2017, leaving much of it a…

  • A landscape written into Hardy

    The land under threat carries deep literary resonance. Hardy drew on it repeatedly, weaving real topography into his fictional Wessex. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), Beaminster appears…

  • Hardy’s Beaminster under threat from luxury housing scheme

    In September, Dorset Council will be asked to approve an extraordinary proposal: to cover 25 acres of open countryside with 83 private houses.  The site lies outside Beaminster’s…