City Councillors’ News

Proposals for changes to the Local Plan remain open for public comment until 14th December. There are some significant changes in the policies that we would encourage you to consider commenting on. These include requirements to build more efficient homes with more sustainable travel arrangements, improved arrangements for delivering affordable homes and continued focus on town centres for retail development. Many of the measures will make building new homes more expensive, so may discourage building of the homes that are needed rather than enabling them. The draft Local Plan requires new homes to be built on brownfield land wherever possible, which we welcome, but most of the land allocated for new housing is on rural sites that has not been developed previously, such as in South Wonston. We are also greatly concerned by the on-going threat that Winchester will be required to provide land for many thousands of homes that are needed by areas in South Hampshire that cannot accommodate them. The current version of the plan could make it easier for land around Micheldever Station to be allocated to meet this need. We are pressing for the Local Plan to be tightened up to make this unwelcome prospect less likely. Your comments – which can be made through the City Council website – will influence the content of the new Local Plan. The Hampshire Cultural Trust have launched a new visitor attraction in the upstairs of the Brooks Centre. 878AD provides a mixture of interactive performance, video projection and immersive technology to bring Anglo-Saxon Winchester to life. It will provide many hours of fun for all the family, but you may want to book your visit on the 878ad.co.uk website to avoid the queues.

You can contact your City Councillors at any time or you can catch us at any of the Parish Council meetings. Their next meetings are on:

Micheldever PC

Wonston PC

Wednesday 7th December

Wednesday 14th December

South Wonston PC Monday 12th December

Stephen

Cllr Stephen Godfrey

119 Downs Road

South Wonston

SO21 3EH

Tel: 01962 884477 sgodfrey@winchester.gov.uk

East Stratton Village Hall.

Victoria Hall, Sutton Scotney.

South Wonston Pavilion.

All meetings start at 7.30pm.

Caroline

Cllr Caroline Horrill

Wheatlands

Woodman Lane

Sparsholt

SO21 3SH

Tel: 01962 776844 chorrill@winchester.gov.uk

Patrick

Cllr Patrick Cunningham

The Corner House

North Drive

Littleton

SO22 6QA

Tel: 07866 367897 pcunningham@winchester.gov.uk