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Hedge End Town Council is currently giving away Theatre tickets. The Berry Theatre will be celebrating its first birthday soon, and Hedge End Town Council is sponsoring that anniversary. The full programme of events can be seen in the online brochure Announced by Cllr Louise Bloom at the Community & Culture meeting of 14th February,...
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Hedge End residents are contributing twice towards the Eastleigh Festival of Music & Mela, an annual event that draws large crowds into the Town Centre. At the Community & Culture committee meeting of 14th February, Hedge End Town Council was asked to contribute £500 to the Asian Welfare & Cultural Association, which would be...
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Eastleigh’s Liberal Democrats have claimed that the vacancy in the Shamblehurst ward of Hedge End should not have been filled by an election. One of their recent Standpoint newsletters contains the item pictured above, which reads; Hedge End Conservatives have cost local residents in Hedge End more than £3000 simply by demanding that an...
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Hedge End Town Council are planning to submit a bid for the Town to become a Portas Pilot. The recently announced Portas Pilot scheme follows up last years Portas Review, in which the retail expert Mary Portas considered the future of Britain’s declining High Streets. That review made a number of recommendations. The Portas Pilot scheme is...
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Hedge End’s unreliable Centenary Clock was discussed at the Town Council’s Recreation and Amenities Committee meeting this evening. Presented to the people of Hedge End in 1994, to commemorate the Centenary of the founding of Hedge End Parish Council, the clock has become unreliable in recent years, rarely showing the same time on all...
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A group of Hedge End residents met for a second time this evening, to informally discuss matters of concern in Hedge End. Three Town Councillors, Cllr Jane Welsh, Cllr Sheila Baynes and Cllr Keith Day were also present. The inaugural meeting in November struggled to get going, but did eventually highlight that speeding and traffic...
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Eastleigh Borough Council have published some of the thousands of submissions that were received during their consultation on the draft local plan. The summary document isn’t complete yet, but what has been processed so far can be read by following the hyperlink on the Planning and Building Control page of the Eastleigh Borough Council...
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A by-election has been formally announced, to fill a vacancy on Hedge End Town Council. Announced on 26th January, the election is to fill a vacancy which has arisen due to the resignation of Cllr David Humby, who was returned to that Town Council seat in an uncontested election in May 2011. Many such...
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Hedge End Town Council are currently looking for volunteers to help with a couple of projects. Firstly to form a new committee which will help to develop the green spaces around the Dowd’s Farm development. The Hedge End Town Council website currently contains the following appeal; Hedge End Town Council are hoping to engage with...
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Hedge End’s Town Councillors have voted to allow themselves to claim Travel and Subsistence expenses on official business that is conducted outside of the Town boundaries. Facing the unenviable task of having to vote on this recommendation in times of austerity and with public opinion still less than charitable sometimes, following the MP’s expenses...
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