Bridport's desperate need for social housing
Richard Nicholls, chairman of Mid and West Dorset Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) and former Bridport town councillor, gives his view on the rural housing crisis TO the young couples staring in the estate agents' windows there is not much evidence of the credit crunch affecting property prices in Bridport. The decade-long boom in house prices may have finally come to a halt but it will be of little comfort to hard-pressed families with even the most modest of homes remaining out of reach.
