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: 26th May 2023

 

Village News and Notices

• Jim Dyer Bequest Village Meeting

  • Jim Dyer lived in Well House Close for many years and sadly passed away in 2019. Jim's widow very kindly left a bequest of £20,000 to the village. Whitsbury Parish Council would like to hold an open meeting in the Village Hall on the 12th June 2023 at 19:00 to discuss how this money should be wisely spent for community benefit. If you have ideas and suggestions please pass them to a Parish Councillor or better still come along to the meeting and give your opinion. Please do come along - Thank You.

  • Your Parish Councillors are:

    • Graham Thompson, Geoff Dominey, Chris Harper, Steve Husher and Hillary Sutton

• Village Broadband Update May 2023

  • Well we are getting closer to fibre Gigabit broadband thats the super fast fibre to house.

  • NFDC have announced that the tender process is now complete and Wessex Internet have been awarded the contract to connect harder to reach rural areas including Whitsbury. No dates are confirmed as yet but we will keep you posted as we get an idea of when we will be connected.

  • See the NFDC announcement here

  • See www.wessexinternet.com for more information on the company

• New Edition of The Courier

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

• Village Newsletter Spring 2023 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.

• Upcoming Parish and Council Elections

  • As part of the election process Hampshire County Council, New Forset District Council and Parish Councils were all up for re-election. Candidate nominations closed on 4th April. NFDC have published the following documents which impact Whitsbury

    •  The Whitsbury Parish Council notice shows an uncontested election as there are five candidates for the five seats. The NFDC notification can be found here.

    • The New Forest district of Downlands and Forest North Ward will be contested in the election on 4th May 2023. The NFDC notification can be found here

• 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.

• Community Soup Lunch Dates

• These will return in October

• If you would like to volunteer please contact Juliette 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

•  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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• 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

• 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
11th June 2023	Holy Communion (1662)	St Leonards	09:30
31st July 2023	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00
29th September 2023	Harvest Supper	Village Hall	TBA
30th October 2023	Parish Council Meeting	Village Hall	19:00

Site Updates and Recent Changes

17/02/2023 General update, events added, courier added

07/04/23 Parish Council Items added

12/04/23 Newsletter and Courier added, events updated

 

 

 

 

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