This one is for children in Test Valley aged four to eleven, who are invited to take part in a competition to design a picture which will be made into an Anniversary Card in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee which is being celebrated in June 2022. The card with the winning design will be signed by the Mayor of Test Valley, as first citizen of the borough, and sent to the Queen on behalf of all the residents in Test Valley. Continue reading
We have been asked to seek the views of Chilworth residents on Southampton City Vision, the new Local Plan for Southampton. https://cityvision.southampton.gov.uk/
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After a long hiatus caused by the pandemic, Chilworth Gardening Club is reopening, with a first meeting at Chilworth Hall on Thursday, 10th March. Find out all you need to know on the club’s new dedicated web page here. If you have friends who may be interested please check that they’ve seen this post and forward the link to them if they have not.
A vacancy has arisen on Chilworth Parish Council. An election will be held if ten or more residents request that there be one, otherwise the Returning Officer at TVBC will authorise the position to be filled by co-option. For more details see the notice which has been posted in the usual places, the PDF version of which may be seen here.
Residents wishing to put themselves forward as potential parish councillors should advise Donna Jones, the clerk to the council by e-mail, and consider giving notice in writing to the Returning Officer as detailed in the notice.
The Police & Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones, has circulated the following message. “Happy New Year one and all! I am pleased to have started 2022 with gusto and look forward to meeting as many of you as I can throughout the next twelve months. Continue reading
The Police & Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones, has now launched her annual police budget precept consultation and wishes to hear residents’ views. She is asking local residents to complete an online survey and/or to sign up to a focus group. Continue reading
Here are a couple of local events in the run up to Christmas that you may wish to know about: Continue reading
Work to improve journeys by upgrading the M3 motorway is planned to start later this year. We’ll be installing narrow lanes in both directions between junction 9 at Winchester and junction 14 at Eastleigh, and the hard shoulder will be used as a running lane. This will provide a safe working area in the central reservation, whilst keeping three lanes open during the daytime.
To get the hard shoulder ready for this, preparation work continues under daytime hard shoulder closures, overnight lane closures with some planned carriageway and/or slip road closures. All traffic management for full overnight carriageway and/or slip road closures will usually be rolled out from 9pm and taken off by 6am.
Planned closures for this week are: Continue reading
Hampshire Alert and Action Fraud are jointly pushing a survey on Cyber Crime. Fraud is common, and 85% of frauds have a cyber element to them. If you have two minutes to spare, please complete the survey here. If you don’t wish to do the survey, here are two worthwhile services that you may have learned about otherwise.
Chilworth Moviola has chosen the movies to be shown at the Hall on the next four dates. You may read all about Moviola on