COUNTY COUNCIL – 24 NOVEMBER 2016 QUESTION FROM COUNCILLOR JACKIE PORTER TO THE LEADER: “Regarding the current plans to deliver broadband to residents extending to Autumn 2018, what is the real future for the last 4% of residents for the universal offer of faster broadband?” Response: Hampshire County Council is investing £12.95m to extend superfast […]

Two of our residents took our pleas for Make it Safer-make it 40 campaign to the County Council yesterday, Thursday 24th November. There had been an accident requiring the Emergency Services to attend on the evening of the 23rd, and at the time of our deputation, we had no idea of the circumstances or the […]

Even last week Martin Tod (county councillor for the Weeke area) and I were fighting for the Pound Road Doctors’ surgery to remain open but the CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group) did not accept that the money needed to refurbish the current surgery would be value for money- and they wanted all the doctors in one […]

The Liberal Democrats in Winchester are fighting hard for local people. Your local councillors, campaigners and an army of volunteers work hard to make sure our district is well maintained and its unique heritage cared for. However, over and over again, the Conservative run City council has failed local people when it comes to doing […]

The surgery in Kings Worthy has been in Pound Road for over two decades and is looking rather tired, but Doctors in Winchester are looking at what could be done for Worthys residents, following our strong support to keep primary care in the Worthys after the (temporary) closure last year. Their forward plans for primary […]

Tories proposed ‘Right to Buy deal’ cannot be delivered as promised in their manifesto The Government has signalled it could be prepared to drop plans to force housing associations to sell homes to tenants and pursue a voluntary programme instead. Alternatives to the plan have been drawn up by the National Housing Federation, who could […]

This article from RSN online tells us that Hampshire is one of six rural authorities that can access a new fund of £500,000 to tackle flooding. Although not a great deal of money, it does aim to cut the bureaucracy behind the bids so we ashould see more of it as improvements on the ground-and […]

Plans for A33 and the Cart & Horses junction to be confirmed at a Decision Day on 9th Sept.#tinyurl.com/A33B3047 You can see the background-and the proposal to spend over £100K here using developer contributions.http://tinyurl.com/A33B3047 Why is this scheme important? Over the years many residents on both sides of the A33 have complained about it. To […]

Jackie reports back… I have had the opportunity to discuss the proposals with the city councillors for the area and I have made the following comments (plus other details too complicated to describe without the diagrams here.. ) I will refer to the description of each plan for ease if you want to come back […]

The good news today is that the number of people in jobs has increased. This increase also applies to the number of women in work, and young people. You can see more details on this in the attached link. http://bit.ly/1huBK4L If you click on the map at the bottom RHS of the link, you can […]