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: 8th December 2021

 

Village News and Notices

• Village Broadband Update Dec 2021

  • At the end of 2020 an approach was made to Openreach to explore the cost of upgrading village broadband to provide fibre to property connectivity. The objective being to achieve a faster more reliable service in an age when more and more is done over the internet. At the time of the approach to Openreach government funding and a top up from Hampshire Council made provision of £3,000 per each residential property that was prepared to sign up to provision of the new service.  

  • After canvassing the village just over 30 households expressed an interest and these details were forwarded to Openreach to start the costing process. The cost from Openreach came back at just over £140,00 meaning we were in the region of £40 -50,000 adrift. Uncertainty over the continuity of the funding due to local elections led to a delay in the application process.  

  • When funding was confirmed an item was placed in the summer village newsletter to try and increase the number of people interested and this led to a small increase but nowhere near enough to reach the quoted cost.  

  • The situation now is that Hampshire Council has been successful in securing significant government funding from the national Project Gigabit Scheme which could see between £148 and £251 million spent on improving services to in excess of 150,00 uncommercial (for service providers to install) or difficult to reach premises in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Hampshire has been identified as being in Phase 1 of the procurement process. The installation will be subject to a procurement process which will start in February – April 2022 and end in September with a contract commencement date of early 2023. While this procurement process takes place there will be a moratorium on some of the initial grant funding This makes any separate approach to installation by the village unfeasible. In order to further speed up the process of UK wide connectivity the Building Digital UK unit with the Department of Culture, Media and Sports will become a Government Executive Agency in April 2022 to enhance the rollout of digital support and expand its operations.  

  • With this in mind we will have to see what the results of the procurement process are. It is my understanding that our area falls within the ‘difficult to reach or uncommercial category’.   Any update will be placed on the village website.

• Thusday 16th December Coffee Morning CANCELLED

  •  The coffee morning that was scheduled for thursday 16th December has now been cancelled.

• Church Path Cleared

  • The path from Minors Cottage to the church is now clear. Thank you to the Farm and Stud !!

• Beware of Lottery Scams - Hundreds Fall Victim in Just Seven Months

  • Criminals will contact unsuspecting victims informing them they have won a lottery or prize draw. The victim is then informed that they will need to pay an advance fee in order to receive their winnings. In reality, the winnings are non-existent and it is an attempt to steal the victims money, personal or financial information.

• See Whitsbury Watch for full Neighbourhood Watch article here

• Parish Council Meeting Minutes

  • Minutes for the recent Parish Council meeting can be viewed here.

• New Edition of The Courier

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

• Village Hall Events Cancelled due to COVID

  • The Christmas Concert scheduled for 3rd December has been cancelled

    • It is with much regret that we have taken the difficult decision of cancelling the above two events. The need to create additional space and distancing does not allow them to be held.

• Summer Newsletter 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.

• Support as we Resume Normality

  • If anyone in the village needs any support during this latest lockdown such as shopping, prescription pick up, or a phone chat etc then please let us know contact a Whitsbury Helper or contact us through admin@whitsbury.com and we will help as we can. it's great to be in such a close community so we are here to help each other.
  • Whitsbury Helpers are Steve Husher, Charlotte Thompson, Andy Foreman, Arabella Tregoning and Juliettte Knibbs

• 2022 Village Show - TBD August 2022

  The 2020 Village Show has now been rescheduled for TBD August 2022.

  Following the cancellation of the 2021 Village Show because of corona virus we are delighted to announce a new Village Show date of TBD August 2022. The show normally runs bi-annually so this moves it into the year we would normally not hold a show.

  We plan to run the same programme as we were intending to run in 2020/1 so any preparation is not wasted! Watch out for more news in coming months as we prepare for the new date date.

  We obviously hope that coronavirus will be behind us by then

  Keep safe everyone

  The Show Committee

  See Village Show page for more information and the initial programme.

• All of the Covid 19 Help information has been moved from this page to it's own page which can be accessed on the Covid 19 Help tab and here
• Somerley Recycling Centre
  • The Somerley recycling centre now requires pre-booking before arrival. A time slot can be booked here, click the link
    • https://www.hants.gov.uk/wasteandrecycling/recyclingcentres/book-appointment
• 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.
• Household Waste Recycling Centre - Car Registration
  • Hampshire County Council are changing the ways that we are allowed to use Household Waste Recycling Centres such as Somerley. The centres will be installing Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems which will automatically check the council database for your registration. There is a need to pre-register your car. If your car is not registered there will be a £5 charge per visit. The £5 charge will apply to all those not registered or visiting from outside the Hampshire catchment area.
  • The link to register vehicles is
    • https://www.hants.gov.uk/wasteandrecycling/recyclingcentres/vehicle-registration

• Whitsbury Calendar

  With the cancellation of the Village Show we will defer the calendar until 2022. The calendar will be for the calendar year 2022. So we would like to ask everyone in the village to get involved and submit a photograph or two taken around the village that encompasses something of the village feel, a village landmark or favourite village view. A flyer as shown below has been circulated to all houses in the village and a new e-mail account set up at calendar@whitsbury.com to send entries or ask questions.

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• 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
10th January 2022	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00
28th March 2022	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00
23rd May 2022	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00
25th July 2022	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00
31st October 2022	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00

Site Updates and Recent Changes

31/10/21 Parish Council Minutes added, Events updated

08/11/2021 Coffee morning added

25/11/2021 Events Updated. lottery scams added

 

 

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