Local housing

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.

I am opposed to the building of mass developments in West Dorset, such as 'Norchester' - the 4000 houses planned for the outskirts of Dorchester.

In a Press Release today Chris Loder condemns in Parliament the proposed development north of Dorchester