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One of Hedge End’s stalwart Town Councillors finally had his chance to chair a meeting of the Full Council this evening. Cllr Shankerlal Sthankiya, a regular attendee at many of the committee meetings that take place in Hedge End during the course of each month, was elected to Vice Chair of the Town Council earlier this year. With...
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Eastleigh’s Conservative councillors have claimed that the Lib Dem ruling party do not want to protect the Leigh Road Recreation ground from development. The allegation followed a stormy meeting of Eastleigh Local Area Committee on Tuesday night after a Conservative motion to protect the Rec from any development was condemned as ‘politically motivated’ by...
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Eastleigh News has learned that Hedge End Town Council have been awarded a cash sum by the Dept for Local Communities and Government, after qualifying to become a Town Team Partner. The news that the £10K lump sum will be used to take forward elements of the Towns original bid to become a Portas Pilot, was revealed at...
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There were fireworks at Monday night’s meeting of the Chandler’s Ford Parish Council (November 5) after Councillor David Pragnell refused to apologise to the council auditor. At a previous meeting of the Parish Council Cllr Pragnell had been referred to the Standards Monitoring Officer over an article he had published in a newsletter entitled:...
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Local residents fighting to save Eastleigh’s Leigh road recreation ground from developers have had their hopes dashed after Council Leader Keith House dismissed a motion opposed to further encroachment as “Political Posturing” and Mayor Rupert Kyrle used standing orders to devolve a debate down to the Local Area Committee. Councillor Judith Grajewski – of Eastleigh’s four member Conservative opposition group...
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Eastleigh’s householders will have to fork out almost 8% more to have their garden waste bags collected from April next year it was revealed at a meeting of the council’s cabinet last Thursday. The cost for a garden waste bag will cost £30 a year – one of a raft of inflation busting rises...
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Liberal Democrat Councillors have failed to show up for Chandler’s Ford Parish Council Meeting for the second time this year. Out of 18 Parish Councillors, nine of the eleven ruling Conservatives turned up but all seven members of the opposition – six members of the Lib Dem group and the single Labour member –...
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A rare meeting of Hedge End Town Council’s Strategy Committee looked to the future this evening. The Strategy Committee includes all of Hedge End’s Town Councillors, but is chaired by Cllr Keith House, leader of Eastleigh Borough Council, instead of by the leader of Hedge End Town Council, Cllr Louise Bloom. Although this evenings meeting should have included all of...
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Nesting dormice could stand in the way of more housing at Woodside Avenue by holding up the planned relocation of the council waste tip to Chandlers Ford. Chandler’s Ford Parish Council met last week to consider EBC plans to open a mega waste recycling centre at Stoneycroft Rise off Chesnut Avenue – a move...
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Hedge End Town Council, keen to take advantage of the festive shopping season, have launched their “Past & Present” calendar for 2013. Developed over the last few months under the direction of the Community & Culture Committee, the A4 spirally-bound calendar is printed on top-quality glossy paper and features photographs of Hedge End Village as it...
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Residents of the Borough of Eastleigh, and more widely across Hampshire (but not Southampton & Portsmouth), have until 30th September to register for a scheme that could see your home insulated for free… The Insulate Hampshire scheme is a council-backed scheme, funded by Scottish Power, that currently offers free cavity-wall and loft insulation to householders living in...
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A Hedge End Town Councillor has suggested that Councillors should consider “digging our own graves”… In a slightly off-guarded moment at this evenings Recreation & Ameneties Committee meeting, a Town Councillor was heard to use that exact phrase. But all was not quite as it may seem. There was a serious point being made. The discussion had started...
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Hedge Ender’s are outraged at the state of the brick planters in the Village centre. Within moments of Eastleigh News arriving to take photo’s of a weed-ridden brick planter outside of Mann Countrywide Estate Agents, passers by were stopping to chat about the poor state of the planters and more generally about the weed-ridden...
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Hedge End Town Council have proudly unveiled the new gate for the Town’s War Memorial. Announcing the completion of the project on their website, Hedge End Town Council say; We are thrilled to finally see the newly installed War Memorial Gate at St Johns Road, in all its splendid colour and glory! The Recreation and...
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Eastleigh Borough Council have confirmed that a glitch in their email delivery stopped some people receiving invitations to comment on amendments to the local plan as part of the latest round of consultations which closed on July 13. The problem of missing emails was reported Botley Parish Councillor Graham Hunter, who never received an...
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