What do you think about HGVs driving through Hedge End?

 

Should HGVs use Hedge End as a through route?

Restricting heavy good vehicles in Hedge End village

As a resident of Hedge End Village living on Lower Northam Road neighbours and I hear heavy lorries running through the village all day and night. 

We would like to petition the council to make restrictions on the types of vehicles that can access the village. We recommend that heavy goods vehicles should avoid using the village as a through route. If there is a delivery needed then this should be permitted. 

The village centre is a hub of activity with children crossing for school and all members of the public. To help us better understand whether this is good suggestion we are asking residents to provide feedback by completing our survey.

This week's blog post comes to you from one of Hedge End Labour Party's campaign team, Andrew Merewether-Helps. Andrew lives on Lower Northam Road so knows about this problem first hand. 

Do you support his idea for a petition to the council? Why not let us know in the comments to this blog or at hedgeendblogger@gmail.com?

Hedge End Area in the News - September

For those with busy lives who find it difficult to keep up with the local news, here are links to stories about and relevant to Hedge End and nearby villages. The two main online media serving Hedge End are Eastleigh News and the Southampton Daily Echo.

First Eastleigh News:

Lib Dem Council website "worst in Hampshire" for people with a disability

Hamble Lib Dem councillor photo opportunity at Southampton General Hospital

Privatised Southern Water in trouble yet again

Boorley Green opportunity for small local hospitality business

Huge greenfield development nears completion

Botley gets two new firefighters

Botley local plan out for consultation

Lib Dem council dire state of finances

Eastleigh car chase ends with crash in Botley

Tory council dire state of finances

Borough residents celebrate Pride 2023

Electric bin lorries to run out of Hedge End depot

Boorley Park school donation funds activities

Boorley Park gets new play area

And from the Daily Echo:

Botley residents asked for views on local plan

Lib Dem Borough Council debt risk

Royal Victoria Country Park festival of food

Celebrating with LGBTQ+ community

West End Master Builder pub open again

Bursledon Brickworks Museum plans for housing

Picture credit: Visitor7

Lib Dem no-shows block Town Council meeting

 

The September meeting of Hedge End Town Council could not go ahead this evening, 20th September. So there is nothing to report this month. 

There have to be at least six councillors present for the meeting to go ahead.

Only five of the 18 Lib Dems elected in May this year turned up. Let's thank and acknowledge them for taking their democratic responsibilities seriously: Councillors Shepherd, Jupe, Hadaway, Mitchell and Nichols.

This would have been just the fourth meeting of the Council elected in May. It's a bit disappointing and embarrassing, not to say disrespectful of the stand-in clerk, that less than one third of councillors were present so early in their term of office. 

Hedge End Labour Party wants to hear from you

 

Hedge End Labour party is keen to hear from you if you live in Hedge End or one of the nearby villages. Just copy and paste these questions with your answers into an email and send it to hedgeendblogger@gmail.com. We can't wait to hear from you.

 

Q1 Whereabouts do you live?

A1 (delete those that do not apply) Hedge End, Botley, Hamble, Netley, Hound, Bursledon, elsewhere

Q2 What single thing could Hedge End Labour Party do to HELP improve life for you, your family, friends and people you live and work with?

A2:

Q3 Which of these do you worry about most?

A3 (delete those that do not apply and number the rest)

Climate change

Cost of living

Wildlife and biodiversity

NHS

Social care

Anything else?

Q4 How do you think you will vote in the next local elections?

A4 (delete those that do not apply)

Labour

Green

Conservative

Lib Dem

Other

Q5 How do you think you will vote in the next general election?

A5 (delete those that do not apply)

Labour

Green

Conservative

Lib Dem

Other

Q6 Would you like us to keep your email on file so we can keep in touch all year round

A6 YES / NO

If you would like to be registered as a Labour supporter, please let us know your address too.

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Eastleigh Borough Council launches first electric bin lorries

 

Botley councillor Rupert Kyrle was on the BBC's Politics South programme this morning (17 September 2023).

Rupert is borough councillor for Botley and cabinet member for the environment at Eastleigh Borough Council.

He was announcing the first all electric bin lorries to work out of the Hedge End depot. 

There are benefits of lower emissions, less noise pollution, better air quality, and claimed financial benefits in the cost of charging the vehicles compared with filling a tank of diesel on the older vehicles. Eastleigh can be rightly proud to have the first of these vehicles operating in the Hampshire County Council area. 

Most of the secondary authorities in Hampshire are Conservative run so it is not surprising they are lagging behind Eastleigh in green initiatives.

However even Eastleigh is two years behind Labour councils in Oxford and Reading where similar vehicles have been on the road since 2021.

Your local Labour campaign team in Hedge End

Hedge End Labour campaigning all year round

Regular readers of this blog will know that as Hedge End Blogger, I (Keith Day) have been keeping in touch via this blog since 2011. That is when I resigned from the Lib Dems and sat as an independent councillor on Hedge End Town Council for a single term.

I am proud to be campaigning for the Labour Party now, and keeping in touch all year round. I have been keeping an eye on local politics for decades, calling both Lib Dems and Tories to account.

In that time the Lib Dems have broken promises about protecting green fields around Hedge End, and hiked charges for council services.

Just as they lied about being opposed to the Conservatives in the 2010 general election and then let themselves be used to prop up Cameron’s austerity government.

Just as they lied about scrapping tuition fees when they got into power.

Even now the Lib Dem leader on Eastleigh Borough Council sided with the Tory government as they tried to scrap vital protections designed to prevent even more pollution in our rivers and water ways.

As Hedge End moves into the new Hamble Valley constituency, experts put the Lib Dems a poor and distant third.

It no longer makes sense in Hedge End to vote Lib Dem to keep the Tories out. A Lib Dem vote is now a wasted vote. 

Keep your eyes open for more news soon about your local Labour campaign team. 

Labour action on road safety

 

Your Labour team are more and more concerned about increased on road parking at the west end of Turnpike Way.

This is mainly during the week, and during working hours.

Traffic heading towards Upper Northam Road is forced onto the right side of the road, and possibly face to face with buses and cars turning into Turnpike Way.

Hedge End Blogger (aka Labour campaigner Keith Day) raised this at a recent Town Council meeting. 

Lib Dem Borough councillors at the meeting admitted that all highway matters had recently been transferred back to Hampshire County Council (so much for not cutting services at Lib Dem Eastleigh).

Your Labour team will keep pressing for action. We will keep you updated on this blog.

If there is a traffic issue in your street, let us know at hedgeedblogger@gmail.com.

We are here to help.