Recycling centre closure
Dorchester Household Recycling Centre (Louds Mill) is closed for the remainder of the day (10 September 2026). Please use alternative sites or visit another day.
Over 1,100 people and organisations responded to the consultation on the Mineral Sites Plan, raising a range of different issues to be taken into consideration.
A summary of the issues raised for each of the nominated sites published in the Mineral Sites Plan (December 2013) has been prepared. We have provided an officer response to each issue raised.
The site issue summaries are available below, grouped by mineral type.
Aggregates Site Nominations
- AS01 Binnegar
- AS06 Great Plantation
- AS08 Horton Heath Clump Hill
- AS09 Hurn Court Farm extension
- AS10 Moreton Plantation
- AS11 Parley Court Phase 3
- AS12 Philliols Farm
- AS13 Roeshot
- AS15 Tatchells
- AS19 Woodsford
- AS21 Came Home Farm
- AS22 Trigon Hill extension
- AS23 Gore Heath
- AS24 Purple Haze south
Ball Clay Site Nominations
Purbeck Stone Site Nominations
- PK02 Blacklands
- PK08 Quarr Farm
- PK10 Southard
- PK15 Downs Quarry extension
- PK16 Swanworth Quarry extension
- PK17 Home Field
- PK18 Quarry 4
- PK19 Broadmead Field