Politics

Leftover cash from a Covid pandemic grant is to be spent transforming a New Forest community hall.

A dilapidated New Milton shopping parade looks set to finally be improved after town councillors grew tired of waiting for their county equivalents.

A disabled Lyndhurst man says he’s being “treated like dirt” having to live in a council house likened to a building site as it undergoes renovations.

BCP Council says “urgent work” is being done to plug the remaining £12m blackhole in its 2024/25 budget.

Nominations are being invited in a bid to find Lymington and Pennington’s Citizen of the Year.

New Forest residents are being urged to have their say on police funding before the force sets its annual budgetary charge.

A Barton resident complained after thousands of pounds was spent on resurfacing clifftop car parks off a road littered with potholes.

Calls to introduce a “London Tube” style cycling network between New Forest towns has received the “wholehearted” support of Lymington councillors.

Tributes have been paid to Sway parish councillor and NPA member Stephen Tarling who died at the weekend after a short illness.

An attempt by Lymington and Pennington councillors to receive a share of £1m district council funding for town centre improvements has failed.

Battle lines are being drawn between the main political parties in the New Forest ahead of the next general election.

Shocked New Milton councillors continued to call for more police action after hearing antisocial behaviour and traveller encampments cost it £33,000.

New Milton’s mayor has vowed the threatened closure of a local arts venue would be fought “tooth and nail” amid feared heavy funding cuts.

New garden waste wheelie bins have been unveiled by New Forest District Council as it encourages residents to sign up to its new collection service.

County council sets out financial plans ready to allow for the “bare minimum” of services across the county while axing others.

Lymington’s draft neighbourhood plan has been criticised as “too timid” to meet the town’s future development needs.

Residents are being reminded to have their say on controversial plans which could close a popular care home in Lymington.

A plan by Esso to build a temporary bridge as part of major works at Fawley has been submitted to the county council.

Christmas is not cancelled in Christchurch, the town’s council has promised after BCP slashed its festive funding.

Parish councils in the Forest are facing massive increases in waste collection fees.