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Economy

Alarming increase in mortgage repossessions

There’s been an alarming increase in mortgage repossession claims at Winchester Crown Court.

The Ministry of Justice published figures on August 15, 2008 showing that the number of mortgage possession claims between January and June 2008 at Winchester Crown Court were 68% higher than a year earlier. Possession orders were 15% higher.

The 60% year-on-year growth in mortgage repossession orders from April-June at Winchester Crown Court is the 8th highest increase in the country.

It’s an extremely worrying trend. We look set to see the highest level of repossessions at Winchester Crown Court for at least 10 years.

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Colden Common & Twyford County Council Speeding

Church Lane: nearly there…

New speed limit signs in Colden Common

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. I’ve also reported it at FixMyStreet and the County Council website.

Peter has also requested a flashing sign to help clearly establish the new speed limit in the mind of regular users of Church Lane.

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Housing Planning

City Council’s survey totally misleading

There’s a big problem with the Winchester City Council survey which they’ve used to conclude that people locally want step-change growth or to build on Barton Farm.

The problem is that their survey doesn’t include enough people from the city itself. As a consequence, the results are totally misleading.

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Cost of living Mark Oaten

Cost of living survey

I’ve been working with Mark on an online version of the cost of living survey that he recently put in the Hampshire Chronicle.

Surveys are still coming in and we are still collating the full results, but Mark already used the early results in a debate on the cost of living on July 9th.

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Environment WinACC

Nudging behaviour

Nudge – and similar books of behavioural economics are getting a lot of attention at the moment.  I’m particularly interested to see if they can provide any help to the work of the Communications Team of Winchester Action on Climate Change.

If you’re interested in getting a copy, here are some links:

Here’s a link to the Cabinet Office paper titled Personal Responsibility and Changing Behaviour referenced in the Guardian article on ‘Nudge’.

Other works on behaviour change relating to climate change worth looking at… WinACC recently highlighted ‘Weathercocks and Signposts: The environment movement at a crossroads”. DEFRA’s Framework for pro-Environmental Behaviours is also useful reading.