We have learnt that sadly Mr Tony Peacock died last week whilst on holiday with his wife Sandra. We are not aware of the full details but it appears that Tony died whilst swimming in the hotel pool.
Tony was a well know Village resident living in Arundell until a couple of years ago when he and Sandra moved to Poundbury to be closer to their daughter (and for some “Grandparenting duties”). Whilst living in the Village Tony had been an active member of our Community having been a Parish Councillor for a few years before leaving the Village. He had also given much time and effort to the Air Pollution problems in Chideock arising from the A35 traffic. He had studied the problems of the Village Air Pollution and had become an amateur “expert” in the causes and effects of this problem. He had been the Village spokesman in dealings with Dorset Council Environmental Team and had been instrumental in developing the early relationship with Bristol University that has now developed into their full scale monitoring of the local air quality.
Tony had also been a member of the Chideock Bypass Working Group when it was most active between 2014 until the early 2020s when our then MP Chris Loder attended a Village Meeting and declared that he would not give his personal support to a local Chideock Bypass. Tony had given much time into the development of a suitable Bypass particularly using his professional expertise to give solid cost analysis of the schemes being considered. George Dunn