A few minutes ago, I phoned up North Dorset District Council, so this is a quick post just to say that I was pleasantly surprised about how helpful 2 people at NDDC have just been - it makes a change for a bureaucratic department to actually be friendly, helpful and amiable and to offer extra useful and vital advice, which will now help me avert an unwanted situation (mind you if the 2 said people had been grouchy and mean spirited and I had had an overall negative over the phone conversation, I would have posted to that affect/effect) Well NDDC you now have a public standard to live up to !
