The Society was founded in 1944 to serve the people of Weymouth, Portland and surrounding areas.
We aim to stimulate public interest in the environment within the Weymouth & Portland area, particularly the built environment, and to promote high standards of planning and architecture in the area. We work to secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic, public or natural interest in the area.
The Society monitors local planning applications and makes observations and offers opinions to the local authorities, based on the views of representative groups of members.
More details are to be found on the information and planning pages. We hold regular monthly meetings, and a Newsletter is issued three times a year which includes topical articles and summarises our recent activities and future programme. The most recent Newsletter may be downloaded from the members page of this site.
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Please Join Us - Become a Member
To join the Society, please come along to one of our meetings, or download an an application form (click the button below) and return it by post to the address on the form.
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2019 Awards - Certificate of Merit awarded to Beresford House
Programme of Meetings and Covid
The Board have decided to postpone all public and Board meetings for the foreseeable future due to Corona virus issues. We hope to resume these soon.
Click the symbol above to take an aerial journey across Weymouth and Portland
Click the symbol above to view Stuart Morris’s video “Portland - Story of an Island”
Planning applications
The Council’s “Dorset-for-You” website pages include full details of all recent and current planning applications, with easy to follow instructions which enable you to locate and view them.
Please click the button below to go there.
( The YELLOW buttons on this site usually take you direct to pages on a Local Authority website)
Planning
Our Planning pages include reports, opinions and links to key pages of the Local Authority and other websites.
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