Whitsbury Village Hampshire

 

Welcome to Whitsbury Village Website

Here you will find information about our community. This website is intended to be a resource and knowledge hub for residents and visitors and anyone else who has an interest in Whitsbury. The Tabs on the left of this page will take you to sub pages of interest.

 

Latest Update: 5th November 2025

 

Village News and Notices

• Whitsbury Parish Council Meeting

  • A Whitsbury Parish Council Meeting will be held on Monday 10th November in the Village Hall commencing at 19:00

  • The agenda for this meeting can be found here

• ROYAL BRITISH LEGION BRANCH COFFEE MORNING – 8^TH NOVEMBER

  • The RBL supports serving and ex-serving personnel and their families all year round, every day of the week. The RBL provides much-needed financial assistance, help with housing and independent living, care homes for older veterans, support for carers, and assistance for people in crisis. Our local branch, The Damerham and Western Downland Branch, will hold its annual Coffee Morning from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon on Saturday 8th November in Damerham Village Hall; their primary fundraising event of the year. The branch would welcome offers of assistance in running the event. They have requested home-baked cakes or biscuits, used or new books and bric-a-brac, all to sell.

  • If you can help at all, please contact the Chairman, Mike Richardson, by email at: rbldamerham.chmn@btinternet.com with the details.

  • In any event, do go along on the day and join in. There will be a raffle with some high-quality prizes and a variety of stalls. Background music will be provided by Penwood Brass. Entrance is only £2 and all proceeds will go into the RBL Hampshire Welfare Fund, supporting urgent cases in our own county. Bring your friends!

• New Contact for Village Hall Bookings

  • A new e-mail address has been set up for village Hall bookings so if you would like to make a booking the contact point is hallcaretaker@whitsbury.com

• New Edition of The Courier

  • The Oct/Nov edition of The Courier can be found on the St Leonards Church page or click here

• Draft Minutes for Parish Council Meeting Available

  • Draft minutes for the Parish Council Meeting held on 28th July can be found here.

• Village Newsletter Spring 2025 available

• We hope you enjoy the latest village newsletter it will be delivered to all houses in the village as a paper version.

• If you would prefer an electronic version a PDF version can be downloaded here.

• Please be considerate over bonfires!
  • We continue to receive complaints of some residents burning their waste on bonfires. We would ask that residents be considerate to their neighbours and avoid having garden bonfires at this time.
  • Smoke from bonfires can aggravate health issues for vulnerable residents, cause additional stress to those trying to enjoy their outside space, and the risk from uncontrolled fires could impact on an already stretched fire service.  
  • If you are subjected to the above; then, to maintain good neighbour relations, you may wish to discuss the matter with your neighbour(s) or the manager etc. of the neighbouring premises if it is a business, as they may not be aware that there is a problem.
  • NFDC advise residents to store their waste until it can be collected or composted. Should frequent bonfires which impact on another property continue to occur, residents may wish to make a formal complaint see http://www.nfdc.gov.uk/bonfires if it is a constant problem.

• Village Broadband

  • Wessex Internet are our fibre internet provider. There are three phases as follows:

    • Garden Install - where the Wessex Internet engineers run the fibre cable across your garden to your house and get the fibre ready for connection.

    • House Install - The fibre is terminated and a connection box installed within your house at your chosen location.

    • House Commission - The installation is checked and the router installed to provide the superfast broadband.

  • The best method is to call the sales line on 0333 240 7997 or you can apply onine via www.wessexinternet.com

  • 4 levels of service are available as shown below:

• Whitsbury Problem Reporting

  • If you see a problem in Whitsbury regarding roads, potholes, footpaths, trees, flooding or drainage there are a number of ways of getting the problem logged and resolved. Hampshire County Council (HCC) has various reporting systems which we can connect into to report issues and get help.

  • Individuals can independently report items through the HCC online system or you can raise something at admin@whitsbury.com  and we will make sure it gets reported.

  • A new web page has been added to show what has been raised in the village and what is awaiting resolution.

• Whitsbury Village Plan -2022

  • We have now published the revised Whitsbury Village Plan. (Click title above)

  • Many thanks to everyone who responded we have collated the resuts and devloped a revised village plan which will be used to guide activities at Parish Council level. M

  • any thanks to the plan committee that pulled it all together.

  • An action plan has been developed as part of the plan and this will be worked through in the coming months.

  • The main items raised by the community are as follows:

    • Speeding Vehicles

    • Digital Connectivity (Mobile Phones and Broadband)

    • Road Maintenance

    • Amenities

    • Community Integration

  • The Village Plan is available electronically here, there are some hard copies in the Village Hall and if you wish to have a hard copy then please contact admin@whitsbury.com

• Pilates Classes at the Village Hall

  • Pilatues classes are now running on a Tuesday evening (18:30 to 19:30) and Wednesday morning (09:30 to 10:30) at the village Hall.

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• Speed Limits In Whitsbury

  • The Parish Council has passed a motion as follows:

    • Supports the 20’s Plenty for Hampshire campaign;

    • Calls on Hampshire County Council to implement 20mph in Whitsbury; and

    • Will write to Hampshire County Council to request that the county

      • (1) makes 20mph the default speed limit in places where people live, work, shop, play or learn, throughout Hampshire leaving 30mph as the exception on those roads where full consideration of the needs of vulnerable road users allows a higher limit; and

      • (2) allocates a ring-fenced amount from public health, sustainability and transport budgets to enable 20mph to be implemented county-wide within three years

• Events and Activities

  • If anyone wants to share an event please send an e-mail to admin@whitsbury.com with details and we can publish via these pages.

• Viewing tips: Recent site changes are shown at the foot of this page if you go to a page and it doesn't seem to have updated if you 'Refresh' your browser the changes should become visible.

 

Upcoming Events

Date	Description	Location	Time
2nd November 2025	Patronal Parish Communion	St Leonards	09:30am
10th November 2025	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00
14th November 2025	Harvest Supper	Village Hall	TBD
23rd November 2025	Parish Worship	St Leonards	11:00am
7th December 2025	Holy Communion (1662)	St Leonards	09:30am

Site Updates and Recent Changes

25/08/25 Village Hall page updated, Council Standing Orders added

26/08/25 PC Minutes added

31/10/25 Hall contact added, courier added, events updated

7/11/25 RBL Coffee morning added

 

 

 

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