Weymouth and the great divide…

Planned demolition will split the town in two.

Weymouth’s North Quay council building is to be demolished and redeveloped in to around 72 dwellings that will ‘enhance’ the town’s harbour.

Weymouth and Portland Borough Council’s planning and traffic committee approved the outline planning application for the redevelopment of the offices.

The council is set to transfer to its new premises in Commercial Road later this year after members voted to sell the building.

Councillors were shown illustrative material to demonstrate how the floorspace of North Quay could be reconfigured.

The layout is predicted on re-establishing the line of the Old High Street that ran through the site before it was cleared in the late 1960s for the development of the council offices.

The re-establishment of this route effectively divides the site in two.

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