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What do you think of the Brewery Square developments?

Stephen Hammond
650 flats, Where will all the people come from?Can we have a big park instead :)

Rob Turner
I worked at this site for over 16 years for Eldridge Pope and while it is quite sad it is about time sleepy Dorchester discarded the boring image and moved into the 21st century. It will be great for employment and bring in vast amounts of tourism and make this town talked about worldwide.

Andrew Wadsworth. Director: Brewery Square Ltd
To Barbara Pettard; we are not tearing down any of the listed buildings; they are all being restored and converted to new uses! And there are no downtown Chicago skyscrapers. To everyone else; thanks for your very positive comments; much appreciated. Apartments tend not to attract those with children so the impact on schools should be minimal. About 200 affordable homes are planned of various tenures; Low Cost Market, Shared Equity, Key Worker and Social Rented. The Open Market housing is also designed with a range of sizes to appeal to all. Look forward to seeing you at the Marketing Suite when it opens in April; register on the the web site and we'll send you an invite: www.brewerysquare.com.

Colin D Jury
it is about time we had some healthy competition in Dorchester looking to see it completed

Barbara Pettard
I think it looks like something from downtown Chicago Illinois, or perhaps Dallas Texas. it appears to be a type of thing we do here in the states, which works here,as we are not tearing down beautiful old buildings to build some thing "MODERN" & NEW" I live in Dorset part of the year & I love it. and to see it turned into a FACSIMILE OF ONE OF THE UGLY American cities, is appaling. and sad.

Keith Horn
So many more apartmenst but still no extra school. Thomas Hardye does a great job but needs to be expanded and modernised to cope with this

Paul Brewer
Totally agree that it's an opportunity for Dorchester to go forward so let's not have another toy town like we've ended up with at Poundbury!

joshua thorpe
really good idea... lets make it better than the horrible eye-sore that is Poundbury! just what dorchester needs.

Chris Byrne Dorchester
Very nice – but will anyone from Dorchester be able to afford to buy accommodation of any sort?

baker
keep the old brewery as it is .

cecilia mcIntyre
Great, especially a theatre. Please, please, please don't ape the architecture from Poundbury. It is out of character for Dorset and its' influence is beginning to filter into villages, spoiling them. Let's have something tasteful to go with the character of Dorchester

jack greaves
Yes this offers a great opportunity, let it not be wasted like Poundbury has which is now a scar on the landscape of Dorset, a pathetic cobbled together fragments of Gloucestershire and poor imagination which should never have been given planning permission, please do not make a similar mistake in central Dorchester