Local housing

Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, visited Stonewater’s Young Peoples Service in Fordington on Friday 20th October. The Service provides accommodation in the form of nine private rooms alongside shared facilities for 18- to 25-year-olds in need of additional support.

Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, has welcomed a new £80 million fund to upgrade social housing in England. Eligible landlords in West Dorset can apply for a share of the funding to upgrade the heating and energy efficiency of their social housing stock.

Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, visited Northcombe Lea, Drimpton on the 15th September to see the completed development delivered in partnership by Broadwindsor Group Parish Community Land Trust (CLT), Abri, and C G Fry & Sons.

Chris Loder MP has lobbied the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt for additional funding in his West Dorset constituency.

On the 31st July, Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, visited Hazelmead, the UK’s largest cohousing development, situated in Bridport.

Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, attended a roundtable discussion on nutrient neutrality at 10 Downing Street on the 7th June. The local MP was joined by fellow parliamentarians affected by the management of nitrates and phosphates in Special Protection Areas in their constituencies.

West Dorset’s MP Chris Loder held a summit with Rebecca Pow MP, Minister for Environmental Quality and Resilience, on Friday 12th May. The pair convened at a farm near Puddletown, along with representatives from DEFRA, the Environment Agency, Dorset Council, and Natural England.

West Dorset MP Chris Loder has hailed a ‘major step forward’ as the Department for Levelling Up, Communities and Housing and Communities has allocated Dorset Council £135k to rewrite the local plan only weeks after a crunch summit the MP held in Dorchester with the Levelling Up Secretary Michael

West Dorset MP Chris Loder has urged Housing Secretary Michael Gove to instigate an urgent review of the Dorset Local Plan in order to discontinue the proposed 4,000 home North of Dorchester development proposal at a meeting in Dorchester on Friday afternoon.

West Dorset MP Chris Loder has lobbied Chancellor Rishi Sunak for a clampdown on absentee landlords who exploit tax loopholes for holiday lets.