Stubbington Study Centre
I am very pleased to report that Fareham Borough Council's Executive voted unanimously yesterday to list Stubbington Study Centre as an asset of community value, in response to HHRA's application. All members of the Executive spoke very warmly in support of the Study Centre and many of them had watched online the HCC Select Committee meeting last week when, as we reported to you, all members of that committee voted against the proposal to close the Study Centre.
However, all those present yesterday at FBC's Executive were dismayed by a letter received from HCC regarding our application for listing as an asset of community value. HCC drew attention to a statement in the report which went to the Select Committee which said the Study Centre's income was not enough to cover all its costs, plus the future need for repairs. Paragraph 63 of the report for last week's meeting did indeed say that - but there was no such reference in the consultation document, which was the basis upon which comments were invited from the public and upon which our application for listing as an asset of community value was based. An interesting shift in the goal posts!
You will recall that the crunch meeting is HCC's Cabinet this coming Tuesday morning at 10.30 in Winchester. Our member Lynne Murray will make a deputation at that meeting, as will others, doubtless. (Anyone who spoke last week is not allowed to speak on the same subject for six months, so I have had to take a vow of silence). At present, we are far from optimisitc that the Cabinet will do anything other than wave the decision through, ignoring all representations which have been made, including their own Select Committee. But we shall certainly keep trying.
Osborne View P/25/1544/FP
Stop press information from Councillor Kay Mandry that the planning application for the Osborne View was approved by the Planning Committee this afternoon. There is a detailed Decision Notice which you may wish to look at - go into Planning Search on the FBC website and enter the reference above, click on Documents and then on Decision Notice. We will contact Hall & Woodhouse and remind them of our request for some kind of forum whereby those most affected by the building - and interested in its progress - can be kept in touch.
Other planning applications
No news on other applications or appeals, other than that there have been some changes in the application for increasing the beds at Solent Cliffs Nursing Home (P/24/1672/FP).
Scams
A couple of new ones in an all too familiar style:
An email allegedly from Pay Pal (but a very unconvincing address) referring to a payment charged to your account in US$ and offering a phone number you can ring if you wish to query or cancel the payment. Please don't.
An email allegedly from Three suggesting you have an overdue balance on your account and offering various ways to pay it. No.
Members' meeting
A reminder that we have our AGM and the oportunity to listen and speak to FBC Leader Cllr Simon Martin on Monday 24 March 7.30pm at the Catholic church hall in Bell's Lane. (If you think you may not have paid your £3 subscription for 2025 do bring some cash with you in case.... )
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