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Archive of posts from Eastleigh News which feature Louise Bloom, Lib Dem councillor and member of Eastleigh Borough Council’s cabinet.
Hedge End Town Council’s Community & Culture Committee returned to business as usual this evening, after failing to raise a quorum in December. Present this evening were Cllr Lousie Bloom, Cllr Daniel Clarke, Cllr Cynthia Garton and Cllr Stan Sthankiya, which was sufficient to form a quorum. Apologies were formally received from Cllr Hicks,...
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A lively meeting of Hedge End’s Town Council, saw discussion of Eastleigh’s draft local plan stifled once again this evening. Cllr Jane Welsh, who was chairing the meeting, reminded the Council that the closing date for comments on the draft local plan was 3rd January 2012 and she hoped that everybody would respond. Once...
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Representatives from Hedge End Town Council visited the German town of Möckmühl last weekend, at the invitation of Ulrich Stammer, the Mayor of Möckmühl. The Hedge End Town Council website reports that this trip was personally funded, rather than at the Council Taxpayers expense, and that the purpose of the trip was to discuss twinning...
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The council has announced it will be introducing inflation busting rises to parking charges in Eastleigh of up to 20% from January 2012. Street parking charges will go up from 50p for 30 minutes to 60p (20%) and the hourly charge goes up by 9% to £1.20 from £1.10 while car park charges for...
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Hedge End Town Councillor Keith Day was forced to vote against his own proposals after the motion he had forwarded was amended beyond recognition. The sole opposition member on the Lib Dem council, Cllr Day had tabled a motion objecting to Eastleigh Borough Council’s decision to designate land at Woodhouse lane as a preferred...
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Chris Huhne has once again come under pressure yesterday as a leading Lib Dem called for his resignation and Hedge End Councillor Lousie Bloom wrote to The Guardian in protest over the Energy Secretary’s Nuclear strategy. Cllr Bloom, Eastleigh’s cabinet member for the environment co-signed a letter to The Guardian arguing that the proposals...
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Independent Hedge End Town councillor and local blogger Keith Day has helped to secure the future of the laburnum tree which became the centre of a village war after a local pre-school tried to have it felled to make way for a second play area. Tempers flared when local WI Chairperson, Jill Borrows, objected...
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The latest local election results show support for the Liberal Democrats in Eastleigh is slipping. Although Eastleigh Lib Dems scored a notable result last week gaining seats in both Borough and Parish council elections despite the parties fortunes elsewhere in the country, overall their support has dipped from 51% of the vote in 2010...
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As many of Eastleigh’s councillors face the polls tomorrow, Eastleigh News can reveal that our borough representatives collectively failed to show up for 20% of their expected attendances over the last electoral year. Information on the council website show the total number of meetings each councillor was expected to attend and how many they...
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At a recent council meeting, Eastleigh Borough Councils new Head of Communications, announced that as part of a revamp of the way the council communicates its ‘good news’ to the borough it will introduce of the use of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to get enable Eastleigh residents to hear firsthand...
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