Category Archives: County Council

COVID-19 and our local streets

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Martin

I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenges and opportunities that COVID-19 offers to the way we use our streets and roads here in Winchester.

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Hampshire’s cuts to hit Winchester hard

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Martin

Yesterday’s meeting of Hampshire’s Conservative cabinet confirmed that they will go ahead with their reckless £140 million cuts

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Lib Dems beat 2005 results to win 6 out of 7 seats in the new Winchester constituency

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Martin

On Friday, we found out that we had won 6 out of 7 seats in the new Winchester constituency. Across the new constituency, the Lib Dem team got 48% of the vote. The Conservative vote slumped to 38%. Labour collapsed …

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Church Lane: nearly there…

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Martin

After all the work getting Church Lane’s speed limit in place and approved, and putting up the signs, you’d think the trees could have been cut back so that people could actually see them! Peter Mason is on the case. …

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Tories divided amongst themselves

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Martin

After three back-to-back meetings in Westminster, down to Winchester to a full meeting of the city council. It was particularly interesting to see the Tories tieing themselves in knots about establishment of 20 mph traffic zones. While most of those …

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