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Rural Affordable Housing
Boldre Parish Council
Monday 9th December
18.00 – 18.30
Boldre War Memorial Hall
Action Hampshire join the council for a presentation on Rural Affordable Housing.
Action Hampshire will give an introduction to Rural Affordable Housing and local connections criteria and there will be an opportunity to ask our experts any questions you may have about the process of delivering affordable housing.
What do we mean by Rural Affordable Housing?
Rural affordable housing is provided in rural parishes for local people, who would otherwise be unable to find an affordable place to live locally, through the general housing market.
Find out more about Rural Affordable Housing via this link.
What does Housing Enabling involve?
- Supporting and advising communities from initial interest in providing affordable housing, through scheme inception and pre-development phases to completion
- Helping communities to identify local housing need in their area
- Supporting rural communities to choose a delivery option that best suits their capacity
- Assisting communities to identify a deliverable site for development of affordable housing
- Acting as an honest broker between the different parties, providing informed and impartial advice
- Creating a supportive policy and political environment for rural affordable housing by providing training and advice to key stakeholders
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Come along and see us on the 2nd December at 18.30
Join us for refreshments and a chat about what you would like to see in the parish.
We will have on show the plans for the upgraded play area and our plans for 2025.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Monday 2nd December 18.30 - Boldre War Memorial Hall
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Meeting Report November 2024
Christmas Open Evening
Boldre Parish Council will be holding an open evening with refreshments on Monday 2nd December at 18.30. Come along and here first hand about our plans and projects for 2025.
Recreation Ground
A preferred supplier has been selected to install new pieces of play and sports equipment in the older children’s play area. The plan will be communicated out shortly and we envision that the equipment will be installed before spring.
The council would like to remind that both the recreation ground and the play areas are dog free zones. This is to protect our children’s and users of the sports ground health’s.
Is there anything you would like to see at the recreation ground? Do you have any further fundraising ideas? Please get in touch.
Pavilion and Football pitches
Do you have a group that could use the pavilion for an outside exercise class or use it as a base for some outdoor training? Contact the Clerk with your proposals.
The Pavilion is a great location for an event or a class. There are toilets, showers and a basic kitchen area. Do you have an idea for its use? Are you part of a regular group that could do with an occasional or regular venue?
As the future of football is still uncertain on the recreation ground, thoughts are being given to how the recreation ground as a whole could have alternative recreation uses.
Parish Highways
Highways Group Report – November 2024
Hedge Encroachment is a particular problem at this time of year. Please report any instance where hedge growth is interfering with the passage of pedestrians, riders or vehicles to Hampshire County Council, the Highways Authority, on HCC’s website or App. If you wish BPC to be involved, please let a member of the Highways Group know the location and landowner responsible. BPC will seek to visit the landowner, and / or issue a standard letter to them setting out the landowner’s responsibility to remedy the problem.
Potholes are re-emerging as a problem. Please report any potholes to Hampshire County Council as soon as possible. Please refer any local residents raising issues about potholes to the HCC Report a Pothole page on the HCC website. (The exact location of the pothole is required and photos are helpful).
William Gilpin School – Three Governors from the School met with the Highways Group and the Parish Clerk about improving road safety in the immediate vicinity of the school. The school has been advised to seek financial support for changes from the NFDC. BPC advised they apply for improvement monies from the Community Infrastructure Levy. The Governors agreed to identify what measures they are seeking to implement, and to obtain cost estimates. HCC, the Highway Authority, will have to agree the measures. The Highways Group expressed support, in principle, for safety measures. The Governors recognised that BPC has supported outline proposals from the school, on a couple of occasions in recent years.
Road Drainage - Portmore Drainage - 5 residents met on 04/11/2024 with the action taken to remind HCC of an outstanding matter from several years ago in which they agreed to replace a pipe on Main Road, Portmore, B3054 with a larger circumference. The letter has been sent and receipt acknowledged by HCC Highways. Their full response is awaited. The Highways group has also sought to engage with HCC over another drainage issue on Pilley Hill – again response is awaited.
Footpath 502 - it is not clear whether the section, through Pylwell Park, of the Solent Way in South Baddesley is closed. Closure signs are displayed, but no barriers on the broken footbridge are in place. Clarification has been sought from Countryside Services.
Please continue to report Road issues to the Highways Authority – Hampshire County Council – search:
Hampshire County Council Report a Problem and select Road Problem
Hampshire also have an App for ‘Phones – OurHants
Affordable Rural Housing
Two representatives from Action Hampshire and NFDC will be attending the next BPC meeting at 18.00 to talk about rural affordable housing and exploring the opportunities to start a project in the parish.
Speedwatch
The Speedwatch team are looking for new volunteers. Do you have any time to give to this worthy cause? Please get in touch.
Helping hands
As we begin to go into the Autumn/Winter season where the days are shorter, the weather is less fortunate and the likelihood of increased illness, we think of vulnerable residents in the Parish.
Do you know of a service that might help with transportation for medical appointments, to local community groups or a service to check in on your neighbour? Can you offer some time to help local vulnerable residents. Please get in touch.
Boldre Parish Clerk – Victoria Thomas
The next full meeting will be Monday 9th December at 18.30 with a talk on rural affordable housing starting at 18.00.
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Meeting Report October 2024
Christmas Open Evening
Boldre Parish Council will be holding an open evening with refreshments on Monday 2nd December at 18.30. Come along and here first hand about our plans and projects for 2025.
Recreation Ground
It is an exciting time at the council in the amenities team. Final plans are being drawn up for the second phase of the play area.
In addition to the new play and sports equipment some other small improvements will be made. A new patio will be laid underneath the picnic bench, more bulbs will be planted and the arrival of fifteen new trees.
The trees will be planted in two areas: along the play area fence line and in the far corner of the recreation ground. The council will organise a tree planting event and will be looking for volunteers to help out.
Is there anything you would like to see at the recreation ground? Do you have any further fundraising ideas? Please get in touch.
Pavilion and Football pitches
Do you have a group that could use the pavilion for an outside exercise class or use it as a base for some outdoor training? Contact the Clerk with your proposals.
The Pavilion is a great location for an event or a class. There are toilets, showers and a basic kitchen area. Do you have an idea for its use? Are you part of a regular group that could do with an occasional or regular venue?
As the future of football is still uncertain on the recreation ground, thoughts are being given to how the recreation ground as a whole could have alternative recreation uses.
Parish Highways
Highways Group Report – October 2024
‘Encroachment of Hedges’ - please note any significant encroachment issues and let the Highways Group know the location landowner. Our approach will be to encourage a positive response. Initially, as in recent years, we will seek to talk with the property owner, explaining their responsibility. BPC may deliver a letter to the landowner outlining their responsibilities and requesting the issue is addressed; the letter will also indicate that the encroachment problem may be referred to HCC for further action. (Of course, residents may wish to report the problem directly to HCC through their App.)
The group has engaged with Hampshire Police and NFDC to get a ‘turn’ on the stand-alone S.I.D. for Pilley Street. Unfortunately, the Speed Indicator Device seems to have been mislaid, the administrator has said they will look into us having another one, but it will not be until the New (financial) Year.
In Portmore further tree damage from HGVs has occurred at Vicars Hill. The group have persuaded HCC to re-open the original request for ‘Unsuitable for Heavy Vehicles’ signs at both ends of Hundred Lane – one sign on the B3054 is already in place.
The group has also noted and reported temporary road signs that have not been collected, after work has been completed; with most of the signs now removed at last. There also appears to be an issue with the co-ordination of diversion signs with works and the suitability of diversion routes.
We have been in contact with Countryside Services to try and expedite the work on the Solent Way footpath in Pylewell (FP 502). This is currently closed for up to two years, we are hoping that we can have some idea of when the path will re-open. (Recent experience has been that closures have been extended and then completed at the last moment.)
Please continue to report road problems to HCC on their website or app. It would also be useful to emphasise to local residents that the property owner has responsibility for the maintenance of adjacent hedges, drains and watercourses.
Please take the opportunity to report highways problems to HCC – potholes, defects, signage etc – before the section gets swamped by winter weather.
Please, if you notice road signs obscured by vegetation make a note and let the group know.
Please continue to report Road issues to the Highways Authority – Hampshire County Council – search:
Hampshire County Council Report a Problem and select Road Problem
Hampshire also have an App for ‘Phones – OurHants
Speedwatch
The speedwatch team are looking for new volunteers. Do you have any time to give to this worthy cause? Please get in touch.
Helping hands
As we begin to go into the Autumn/Winter season where the days are shorter, the weather is less fortunate and the likelihood of increased illness, we think of vulnerable residents in the Parish.
Do you know of a service that might help with transportation for medical appointments, to local community groups or a service to check in on your neighbour? Can you offer some time to help local vulnerable residents. Please get in touch.
Fibre Broadband
Wessex Internet will soon be rolling out full fibre to properties in the area.
They will be hosting a community evening on 4th November at 18.30.
You can contact them via email
Boldre Parish Clerk – Victoria Thomas
The next full meeting will be Monday 11th November at 18.30
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Meeting Report September 2024
The next full meeting will be Monday 14th October at 18.30
Solent CO2 Pipeline Project
Boldre Parish Council have submitted a response to the consultation. The report can be found on the council website. Details of the proposed project are available at www.solentco2pipeline.co.uk
Fibre Broadband
Wessex Internet attended the start of the last parish council meeting to introduce Project Gigabit. They will soon be rolling out full fibre to properties in the area.
They will be hosting a community evening in early November. Dates and details will be shared ahead of the meeting.
You can contact them via email
Recreation Ground
As the future of football is uncertain on the recreation ground, thoughts are being given to how the recreation ground as a whole could have alternative recreation uses. Do you have a group that could use the pavilion for an outside exercise class or use it as a base for some outdoor training? Contact the Clerk with your proposals.
Is there anything you would like to see at the recreation ground? Do you have any further fundraising ideas? Please get in touch.
Parish Highways
Highways Group Report – September 2024
Hampshire Highways have been active in the locality addressing some of the outstanding issues in Portmore, Boldre Lane, Rope Hill and Pilley Street amongst others. Some of these problems were reported at the beginning of the year (often more than once) but had slipped off the system. HCC have been more responsive in recent weeks to ‘new’ reports; impressively a report on Friday pm of a rotten gatepost in Pilley Street brought a team out to install a new post on Monday, so it can be done!
We have not been able to arrange a meeting with Hampshire Highways to discuss more systematic work on Boldre Lane, Pilley and Rope Hills. We need to engage with Cllr Dunning again.
The Highways Group have contacted NFDC about deploying a speed warning device in Pilley Street at the installation point. It is some time since we have seen this machine.
A number of our footpaths have inevitably become rather overgrown again, some work has been done again in the Shallows ( thanks Adrian). Please let the group know if footpaths need addressing urgently. We have received a report that footpath F18 has disappeared in part at least – will need to check.
Hedge Encroachment is likely to re-emerge as a problem in the coming months – please make a note of problems so that we can progress them.
Please take the opportunity to report highways problems to HCC – potholes, defects, signage etc – before the section gets swamped by winter weather.
Please, if you notice road signs obscured by vegetation make a note and let the group know.
Please continue to report Road issues to the Highways Authority – Hampshire County Council – search:
Hampshire County Council Report a Problem and select Road Problem
Hampshire also have an App for ‘Phones – OurHants
Helping hands
As we begin to go into the Autumn/Winter season where the days are shorter, the weather is less fortunate and the likelihood of increased illness, we think of vulnerable residents in the Parish.
Do you know of a service that might help with transportation for medical appointments, to local community groups or a service to check in on your neighbour? Can you offer some time to help local vulnerable residents. Please get in touch.
Boldre Parish Clerk – Victoria Thomas
