The BV Magazine - March 2023

In this issue

The fast-burgeoning rate of new housing developments in Dorset is a hot topic for many local Facebook groups. Rachael Rowe has been looking at who they really serve – and discovered one which is bucking the developer trend for providing genuinely affordable social housing.
Behind every rubbish lorry is a sophisticated team of recycling experts – Rachael had a weirdly fascinating chat with the Queen of the Bins, Cllr Laura Beddow
Rupert Hardy, Chairman of North Dorset CPRE , makes use of his opinon column to share his very frank thoughts on the current planning applications for two huge solar farms in Dorset
West End star Joanna Woodward answers the Random 19 questions – she grew up just over the border in Somerset, and is set to play Clare in The Time Traveller’s Wife – The Musical this autumn.
As event organiser at the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show, shepherd Bonnie Cradock is facing a doubly-busy spring (thanks mostly to one over-excited fun-loving ram). Her Dorset Island Discs is joyous.
Edwina Baines had an exclusive tour of the exciting art inside the UK’s best new architect-designed house, The Red House.
Roger Guttridge has personal memories of the fire which destroyed Harding’s newsagent’s shop at Sturminster Newton in 1956. Do you remember it too?
Toby Hoad’s Dorset Horse Logging is featured in this month’s A Country Living – and I’ll be honest, it’s an absolutely glorious feast for your eyes. Don’t miss it.
Plus all the usual – local politics, gardening, wildife, books, the local hike (this month it’s a rather marvellous 8 miles from Pilsdon Pen), the stunning reader’s photography (as always) … Really, why wouldn’t you have a flip through?