Hampshire County Council Future Services Consultation
Hampshire County Council will launch a public consultation at midday today (8 January) to understand people’s views across Hampshire on proposals to change and reduce some local services and help the Authority address a £132 million budget shortfall faced by April 2025.
The Future Services Consultation runs from 8 January to 31 March 2024, and signals the next stage in the County Council’s plans to ensure it can focus key support to the most vulnerable people in Hampshire – such as protecting children from harm, social care for older people, and supporting adults and children with disabilities and additional needs – while meeting its legal duty to deliver a balanced budget in 2025/26.
Hampshire is in a better position than many other councils, but in the absence of a national funding solution to address the higher costs and demand pressures facing the whole of local government, tougher decisions and deeper savings are needed in Hampshire to ensure the local authority can keep providing critical services after April 2025 for those people who need its help the most.
Covering various local services, the consultation sets out 13 detailed options to help lower costs in future – by doing things differently and moving towards providing only those services that the County Council is legally required to deliver.
The consultation also provides the opportunity for working more innovatively to maximise, for example, environmental benefits such as encouraging people to reduce their waste through the creation of a more sustainable Household Waste Recycling Centre network and lowering Hampshire’s carbon footprint by a more intelligent use of streetlights.
To read more about the Future Services Consultation and how to have your say please click on the links below:
Future Services Consultation 2024
Future Services Consultation – Poster
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Audit of Accounts – 2022-23
I declare that the Audit of Accounts for North Baddesley Parish Council for the year ended 31st March 2023 has been completed and the accounts have been published.
NOTICE OF CONCLUSION OF AUDIT
CERTIFIED AGAR SECTION 1,2 and 3
Joan Harrington
Parish Clerk
30 September 2023
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Test Valley Borough Council has issued two Extensions to Public Spaces Protection Orders,
one for Dog Control and one for Consumption of Alcohol:
Dog Control
Consumption of Alcohol
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Cost of Living Support
Test Valley Borough Council is aware that people in Test Valley are facing rising goods and energy prices, inflation and cost of living pressures. By clicking on the link below you can find services and support that you can access:
www.testvalley.gov.uk/cost-of-living
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TVBC Grounds maintenance of North Baddesley
The following information has been provided by TVBC:
The intended grass cutting frequencies are as below.
- Close mown TVBC open space land for recreational use will be cut every 2 weeks.
- HCC verges will be cut approx. every 3 -4weeks. Subject to weather and operational constraints.
The thing to remember with the HCC verges (Agency Agreement) we are only contracted to carry out 4 cuts per year to satisfy the contract and HCC requirements . We endeavour to substitute this with more frequent mowing but this is at our discretion. The frequency of every 3-4 weeks therefore exceeds the agency agreement.
The above is the same whether you live in North Baddesley , Valley Park, Nursling and Rownhams or even Romsey main Town area. Some areas are laid out very differently and require extra or different methods and may need a return visit to complete all necessary actions . For example, a higher level of strimming.
Last year saw unprecedented weather conditions which contributed to a delayed and slow start to the mowing season and saw fast growth rates between cuts that we have not experienced before which led to areas looking like they had not been cut before or for a long time. We hope that this year will be kinder, and we have made some minor changes to our wider mowing and support teams to help with any unprecedented growth. We hope that residents will appreciate that everything within our specifications and commitments are being completed.
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HOE LANE DEVELOPMENT
(Soon to be renamed MOUNTBATTEN PARK DEVELOPMENT)
Please click on the link below to the Ashfield Partnership’s website which provides background details and up-to-date information on the above development.
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Unity – Transport Available to and from Vaccination Clinics
Connect4communities Briefing Pack
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Use of Recreation Ground
The football pitches on the pavilion side of the Recreation Ground are undergoing works set out in a 6-year plan of improvements using grant funding from the Football Association and are therefore out of use for the foreseeable future.
There are other areas available but, due to the large number of teams already using the grounds, space is very limited.
All facilities at the Recreation Ground have to be booked, through the Parish Clerk, well in advance.
Email: clerk@northbaddesley-pc.gov.uk
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Information and Guidance on Home Adaptation Needs for Older People
Environment Agency – Flooding Advice for the Public
Your area is using 10 million litres per day more water than normal –
Southern Water – Tips for Saving Water
For more information from Hampshire Councillors’ Briefings, Local Government Association Updates, Citizen’s Advice and Mind (Andover), please see the “NEWS” section of this website.
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North Baddesley covers 794 hectares in the south-east of Test Valley, between Valley Park to the east, and the town of Romsey, to the west, and has a population of approximately 7,000.
The village is the 9th most densely populated ward in Test Valley and the main residential area is in the south-western corner.
The remainder of the ward is dominated by countryside with a few houses and small hamlets.
Find out more about North Baddesley here
What does the Parish Council do for the community of North Baddesley?
Find out by following this link