The next litter pick is Sunday 9th April 2017 and as usual we will meet up at Morrisons, Horndean at the far end of the car park. Sally and the regular pickers would welcome new supporters and we gather at 09:30 and pick till 11:30. All equipment is provided!

The remedial works to the village car park have started and this has closed off some of the parking bays while this is underway. Linden Homes are looking to complete most of the work to get the car park to an acceptable standard in the next 4 weeks. This follows planning enforcement action and breach of condition notices from EHDC.

The works  include a lower flint and brick wall with quality railings to the rear and side, finishing the steps to the future surgery building, provision of bins, benches and other improvements.

In the meantime a request – ‘Don’t park like a Dick’ please. There are some 150 spaces where you can park in Horndean and just because the most convenient ones are full it doesn’t make it OK to park on the footpath…

Parking on the footpath is an offence, and also stops people walking safely along the road. From today the EHDC Civil Parking Enforcement Team are going to make regular visits and ticket cars blocking the footpath so please be warned.

Not only is it inconsiderate, it is also dangerous as it blocks the sight lines for cars leaving the car park.

Please, park considerately – unless you want a ticket.

The newly completed car park will also have a 2 hour no return within 1 hour parking control which will stop spaces being blocked by all day users. When open the surgery building has 6 parking spaces allocated to it at the rear of the building for staff and disabled visitors.

For those of you who aren’t aware, there is going to be a County Election on May 4th and I would like to take this opportunity of letting you know that I am standing again as your Conservative candidate.

During the past four years I have worked very hard for you all in Horndean and I will list some of the things that I have achieved.

I started by getting the yellow lines refreshed as in many places they were faint and causing confusion and I have them down to be done again. HCC. Have a new company doing the work for them now, so I am hopeful that things will happen a little faster.

Stonechat Road had been on the books for about ten years and not moving forward, so I started with that, followed by Victory Avenue and White Dirt Lane. All of these were done to try and solve problems with traffic and many people have told me that they are happy with the schemes. Of course, there are some problems still to be solved and I will keep on top of these. When Victory Avenue was done, the footways were also resurfaced along with many side roads.

I worked with the Parish Council to get bus shelters on Downwood Way and managed to get the speed limit reduced on Downhouse Road to 40mph, which will help reduce the speed on Lovedean Lane.

I am now working on getting a refuge in the road so that people can cross to the Lovedean village Hall in safety and hopefully it will pass the feasibility study that is taking place now. This should also help reduce the speed of traffic on this straight piece of road.

Parking around schools is always a problem and I have been working with the police and the schools to try and reduce these problems. Parking around Horndean Technology College was also a problem for residents living on the road leading to the school and a scheme was delivered working with residents and the police and hopefully it has helped.

I drive around my division every month and report anything that I see and also work with residents who have problems where they live.

Your Ward Councillors also contact me with any problems that they have and we work together to try and solve them. Sometimes it takes a long time to get things sorted out, but we usually get there in the end and I report to the Parish Council every month at the Parish meeting in Jubilee Hall about what is happening in Horndean.

At Winchester, I am on the Health and Social Care Select Committee, where we try to solve problems within Hampshire to do with Health and we question  and take health officials to task.

I am also on the Children’s Select committee where we also try to sort out any problems to do with children, which goes very well with me being co chair of the Hampshire Autism Partnership Board where we work very hard to sort out children with Autism and learning disabilities and last but not least I sit on the Regulatory Committee where we discuss and decide upon everything from rights of way to building or extending schools and many other schemes.

If you add to this attending Full Council Meetings at Winchester and my surgery every month in Rowlands Castle I am kept very busy.

I would also like to advise you that I am now attending a surgery at the Blendworth Church Centre on Blendworth Lane with the police and the next surgery is on Wednesday 22nd March from 10-11am, so please come along and visit us.

The layby on Havant Road that was removed some time ago is now going to be reinstated very soon. This has taken a very long time, but I didn’t give up!!

Traffic calming is always on my mind and I know from the messages I receive that it is something that bothers many people right across the County, but it has to be safety led before anything can be done and so I would ask you to let me know of any accidents etc. that happen so that I can log them and use them as evidence as this is the only way to get something done.

I have offered to help pay for speed limit reminders, but to date, the Parish Council have not taken this up. These really do help and I have already paid for some in my division and they are a very useful tool to help slow the traffic.

I am always available to speak to you at any time and if you would like to contact me, my phone number is 02392 413858 or you can e mail me at marge.harvey@hants.gov.uk and I will get back to you quickly.

I do hope that you exercise your right to vote on May 4th and of course would like to think that you might vote for me to continue the work that I have been doing on your behalf for the last four years.

Marge

The next Neighbourhood Policing Team surgery is on Friday 17th March from 16:00 to 18:00 at Five Heads Road Library in Horndean. All are welcome.

Three groups went out spring cleaning Horndean from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th March to support the nationwide ‘Clean for the Queen’ Campaign

On Friday the Catherington WI  litter pickers headed out to the beach woods at the junction of Catherington Lane and White Dirt Lane and collected a number of bags.

Saturday the 4th Horndean Parish Council tackled the village centre with a team led by Matthew Madill and they collected about 30 bags.

On Sunday 5th the Horndean and Clanfield Litter Pick group led by Sally Thomas target their usual hot spots collecting about 25 bags and a selection of used tyres.

Many thanks to Horndean Parish Council who have sponsored the litter pick group with £500 worth of litter pick tools and equipment (photo below)

On 2nd March 2017 at around 17.25hrs two females wearing sari style dresses came into a shop along Drift Road ,Clanfield and distracted member of staff at the till. During this the females managed to steal a large amount of cash from the till whilst the staff weren’t looking.
Please if you have any information relating to these females or have had a similar experience recently then contact the police on 101 and quote 44170080468
Visit the Hampshire Constabulary web site for comprehensive crime prevention advice on http://www.hampshire.police.uk/internet and register personal items of property with Immobilise at https://www.immobilise.com/ which is a national free data base

The South Down Group are holding a talk on The Ecology of Portsdown Hill on Wednesday 15th March at St Wilfrid’s Church Hall from 7:30pm – as usual all are welcome and further details below.