FURTHER delays on Dorchester Town Council’s corporate plan have been caused by the pandemic.
The authority had paused work on the project to consider what ought to be included in the light of the Covid 19 emergency. It had originally been hoped to publish the plan for consultation at the start of this year, but that was delayed by the December 2019 General Election. Now the pandemic has delayed it again. Policy committee chairwoman Susie Hosford said at this week’s town council meeting: “When we were drawing up the plan we had no concept of what was steaming down the tracks towards us so we have had to amend it slightly to incorporate some elements of responses to the Covid pandemic,” she said.
The next phase will be a public consultation on the plan’s proposals before being adopted by the town council, possibly in the New Year.
Town clerk Adrian Stuart said that other changes might yet have to be considered with a review currently underway by Dorset Council on discretionary grants for community groups.
He said the latter could affect the town council because the organisations it also dealt with might see their Dorset Council funding effected, putting more pressure on the town council to try and help those groups.
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