Have your say on plans for North Quay in Weymouth

Dorset Council is urging you to have your say on its plans for the former offices at North Quay in Weymouth.

The latest proposals will see the old building demolished to make way for 72 new homes.

It’s thought 38% of the new homes could be designated as affordable.

The empty building that's no longer fit for use currently costs Dorset Council £100,000 per year in fees to maintain.

The proposed scheme includes:

• Demolishing the existing building and rebuilding to reflect the historical character of the area and reinstate the old High Street

• 72 housing units and 2 ground floor non-residential units

• Pedestrian walkways and garden areas

• Parking capacity for residents

• An environmentally friendly scheme to minimise carbon impacts

Dorset Council is also proposing the demolition of the former Weymouth Bowl site, and the building of 4 non-residential units for retail, commercial, workshop or office use. 59 flats could be built above those units.

Councillor Tony Ferrari said:

“Weymouth has managed to fall out with itself over all of the previous developments. So what we’re doing at the moment isn’t a plan, it’s a public engagement.

“We’re going to the public and saying ‘what do you want to do with it?’

“So we’ve put a framework together but we’ve also left some very big decisions that we haven’t taken yet so those are for the people of Weymouth to say what they want to do with it.”

Six of the units could be converted into a range of ideas, but Tony wants the public to decide what.

“So we could convert them into more flats, but they could be shops, they could be restaurants they could be museums, they could be any one of a huge number of things.”

Afterwards, he says councillors will compare the ideas against the money that could be generated by tunring them into more flats and make a decision.

If you’d like to have your say on the plans, go to the consultation website.

This part of the consultation closes on the 28 February.