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: 17th January 2023

 

Village News and Notices

• Parish Council Meeting 9th January - Minutes

• Minutes for the Parish Council Meeting held on Monday 9th January  can be found here.

• Community Soup Lunch Dates

  • Free Community soup lunches are planned for the following dates:

    • Mon 13th February

    • Mon 13th March

  • If you would like to attend please phone Julliette on 838 or send an e-mail to admin@whitsbury.com so numbers can be catered for.

• If you would like to volunteer please contact Julliette via admin@whitsbury.com

• 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

• New Edition of The Courier

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

•  Platinum Jubilee Tapestry

  • A Whitsbury Jubilee Tapestry is being made by Shirley Ellicott, thank you Shirley! If you receive a slip requesting your name please complete and return to Shirley and your family names will be included on the Platinum Jubilee tapestry.

  • The tapestry from the last Jubilee is shown below for reference. This is displayed in the Village Hall above the stage.

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• Knit and Natter Returns !!

  • Knit and Natter is kicking off on the third Thursday in June at 7 p.m. in the Cart Room at the pub

• 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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• Village Newsletter Spring 2020 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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
29th January 2023	Parish Worship	St Leonards	11:00
13th February 2023	Community Soup Lunch	Village Hall	12:30
13th March 2023	Community Soup Lunch	Village Hall	12:30
27th March 2023	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00
15th May 2023	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00
31st July 2023	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00
30th October 2023	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00

Site Updates and Recent Changes

12/12/2022 Coffee morning added

30/12/2022 Events updated, Village Plan added

06/01/2023 PC Agenda added

 

 

 

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