Following the meeting in Bridport Town Hall on 29 June this year, Crystal Johnson has continued work on the project proposal as agreed by the meeting, and this is now virtually complete. Download a copy of the current version – please be aware if you are printing it out that it is 30 pages long.

Top three potential sites for Bridport's waste management centre announced. Dorset County Council has published the results of the final stage of its review of potential sites for Bridport s new waste management centre.

More time is being sought to complete a plan to save the Literary and Scientific Institute, the important Two Star Listed building at 51 East Street, which has been empty and neglected since it ceased to function as Bridport’s Public Library in the 1990s.

BRIDPORT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE at 51 East Street, was founded in 1835 as a Mechanics Institute by Henry Warburton MP. Reconstituted in 1855 as a Literary and Scientific Institute, the artist Fra Newbery was a pupil and teacher at the Bridport School of Art run from the Bridport Literary and Scientific Institute building, finally it served as the town's public Library until the mid-1990s.

Over a period of years efforts have been made by various people to seek a solution to the Two Star Listed Building which is on English Heritage’s Buildings at Risk Register and which has essentially been empty and deteriorating since it's closure.