Pressure from residents finally pays off as City Council acts over local alleyways in part of city centre.
Pressure from residents finally pays off as City Council acts over local alleyways. Another example of City and County “working together and delivering” for local people says Conservative leader of Winchester.
Years of campaigning by residents has finally paid after a deal was struck to fully re-surface local alleyways.
Representatives from across the political parties combined to see action from Winchester City and Hampshire County Council.
City Council Leader George Beckett and his counterpart at HCC (Ken Thornber) hammered out the deal and met last Thursday, alongside some local residents, to confirm it.
Cllr Beckett said today; “I have been lobbied hard on this one, going back several years, by Steve Brine and by the local County Councillor (Cllr Dickens), among others. There are difficult issues of ownership as we all know but joint working by HCC and WCC, alongside the political will to get this sorted has brought forward a solution.
“I am really pleased the strong relationship that now exists between the two councils is able to bear real fruit for the benefit of residents in Winchester and this is a classic example of that in action!”
Prospective Winchester MP Steve Brine added; “I first met with the ‘Alleywise’ group of local residents last year and was hugely impressed by their organisation and determination to find a solution. All credit to them - and to the two local councils - for finally grabbing the issue by the scruff of the neck and making change happen.”
Work is expected to start early in 2010.
Contact Steve Brine via this website or Cllr George Beckett – Leader Winchester City Council [email protected]
Pictured above; Cllr George Beckett (left) with Prospective Winchester MP Steve Brine in the alley between Brassey & Owens Road.