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Volume 42, Issue 3
VERWOOD RINGWOOD FORDINGBRIDGE WEST MOORS WIMBORNE FERNDOWN ASHLEY HEATH ST IVES, ALDERHOLT
Two U-turns favour Future Dorset merger plan, but Christchurch says “no” At the end of last year, Dorset appeared to come a step nearer to reducing its nine councils to two in a major cost-saving reorganisation. In U-turns last month, councillors of Purbeck District Council and East Dorset District Council, two of three authorities that were opposed to council reorganisation, withdrew their opposition to the Future Dorset proposal. But Christchurch, the third council to originally oppose the reorganisation has said “no” to merging with Bournemouth and Poole as part of the proposal. See report on page 34
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