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So which particular trees & fields do we want to bulldoze...?

By TGRWorzel at 19:00 on 26/07/11

Eastleigh Borough Council are in the process of consulting on whether a green-field site at Allington Lane or an alternative green field site at Boorley Green should be bulldozed to make way for 1400 new homes. You may have received a leaflet through your letterbox by now, if not look out for it, but the consultation is also available online at http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/localhomes You can also see what I think about this...
Introducing .. Your New Town Council

By Keith_Day at 11:18 on 28/05/11

With more than half the seats being unopposed, there was little election publicity about the Town Council in much of Hedge End. My blog report about the first meetings of the new council is at http://hedgeendblogger.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-your-new-town-council.html
A curious election result in Eastleigh

By TGRWorzel at 19:14 on 06/05/11

Media headlines today, across the board, have been about the kicking that the electorate have given the Lib Dems and Cleggy in particular. So why then have the Lib Dems maintained their stranglehold over Eastleigh Borough Council..? It is entirely inconsistent with what is being seen elsewhere, across the rest of the UK. It is really very hard to understand at the moment. One possible explanation is the questionable tactic used by the...
3 days to go

By TGRWorzel at 05:31 on 02/05/11

There are only 3 days to go now until the local elections and the AV referendum. Things are getting interesting.... I had promised my local Tory candidate that I was going to vote for him in the Borough elections, but his last flyer alienated me a bit. I find it very hard to beleive that a true-blue Tory could ever be independent-minded and promising lots of 20mph speed limits is completely the wrong thing to do to a van driver,...
Beware cold-calling mobility scooter salesmen posing as council staff in Hedge End

By Caroline_W at 13:04 on 04/10/10

Hampshire County Council Trading Standards officers are warning people in Hedge End to beware of doorstep callers selling high-priced mobility scooters, bathing and other aids and claiming to be from Social Services. Various reports have been received by Trading Standards and in each case the Hedge End resident has been telephoned prior to a visit, with the male caller stating he's from either Social Services or occupational therapy,...

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Please write to the Returning Officer

By TGRWorzel

Many thanks Carling91. The more people that write in the better. Thanks for taking the trouble to do...

By TGRWorzel at 22:46 on 22/12/11

Hedge End Town Council currently has a vacancy for a Councillor, following the resignation on 21/12/2011 of Cllr David Humby. How this vacancy is filled depends entirely upon what happens over the next couple of weeks. If enough citizens of Hedge End contact the Returning Officer at Eastleigh Borough Council, requesting that the post be filled by an election, a by-election will be called. The threshold is quite low, only 10 such...
Improving Local Government

By TGRWorzel

For an end of year update on the petition to "Prevent Councillors form serving on several...

By TGRWorzel at 15:13 on 29/09/11

Not satisfied with the state of Local Government in the Borough of Eastleigh...? I'm certainly not, but what can be done I hear you ask...? Please read on. I have just created an e-petition using the Governments new system. My e-petition has now been approved, it is online and is available for you all to sign if you would like to do so. There's no pressure. It is entirely your choice. Sign if you feel you would like to. My petition...
Eastleigh Borough local plan - consultation

By Pete_M4

Hedge End looks secure as far as I can make out, it would be nice to see some proposals for widening...

By TGRWorzel at 21:09 on 28/10/11

Eastleigh Borough Council have today (28th October) launched a consultation exercise on their draft local plan for the Borough. The plan and a link to an online consultation form can be found here on the Eastleigh Borough Council website. The documents are quite large and are proving difficult to download on my PC. You may find it equally difficult to access the plan, but it is important to persevere... There will also be a...
Leave this Laburnum alone...!

By Peter_Stewart

Keith. You said (14:29 on 18/06/11) (QUOTE): "The tree issue came up at the Finance and...

By TGRWorzel at 08:11 on 12/06/11

At the local elections I thretened to write "You must be joking right!" alongside the UKIP candidates name on the ballot paper. My argument being that they make a lot of sense nationally, but are irrelevant locally... Well they've just proven me wrong, by being out and about delivering campaign leaflets which concentrate on the issue of the Village Laburnum that the Lib Dem Councillors want to fell, to facilitate a new play...
Greta Park row raises a bigger question....

By sla100

Apologies Ive posted on the Greta issue not the charging for facilities will re-post.

By TGRWorzel at 23:06 on 30/05/10

The issue of temporary car-parking on Greta Park has generated more than the usual level of discussion on this site, which is pleasing, but it occurs to me that we're losing sight of another issue. Keith House has come in for a bit of flak here recently (reasonably so), for having a finger in too many pies, but I do recognise there are times when we can only get things done by having somebody in a position of power who is...