Corfu Blues and Global Views

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Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Dorchester Town Council: Unanimous vote to object to the development of 3,500 houses north of Dorchester.

Various viewpoints:

From Dorchester Voice - Town Vows to Fight Plans

Stand Up for Dorchester

Alistair Chisholm

My own blog comments, 1st September

Residents express concerns over proposed Dorchester north housing scheme, Dorset Echo

Minutes, Dorchester Town Council Special meeting of Planning and Environment Committee 10 September 2018 (pdf)

Local Plan Review: "Myth busting North Dorchester", Dorset for You/West Dorset District Council

Strong feelings: a letter to Dorset Echo - "Homes plan is greatest threat to Dorchester since the Roman era"

Jim at 17:15:00

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Jim: Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.

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