Take the Great Cable Challenge on 14 October
Monday 14 October is International E-Waste Day and the theme this year is the Great Cable Challenge - encouraging all of us to recycle those out of date or broken cables we've got lying around the home.
Almost all of us have unwanted, broken cables clogging up our drawers, or have considered binning that flimsy cable when it broke. That’s thousands of kilograms of precious copper going to waste, that could be recycled into anything from lifesaving hospital equipment to electric vehicles.
Cables contain copper which is one of the most precious materials on our planet and essential to our everyday lives. We use copper in our phones, transport, clean energy, lifesaving equipment and the green technology revolution.
So, ahead of International E-Waste Day on 14 October why not grab all your old unwanted and broken wires and take them to the Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) or a shop which sells electrical goods so they can be recycled?
From
Tuesday 1 October 2024, household glass collections will double from every four
weeks to fortnightly. The new calendars include these additional collections.
Collection changes over Christmas
and New Year
Refuse, recycling and glass collections will change over the Christmas and New Year period. These are marked in orange on your calendar.
There are no other changes to collections for bank holidays.
The Christmas and New Year dates shown in your calendar may be subject to change. If this happens we will send another bulletin.
Garden waste collections will be suspended from Monday 23 December 2024 to Friday 3 January 2025 with normal collections resuming on Monday 6 January. We will take real Christmas trees on the first collection of the new year.
Household Waste Recycling Centres, passenger transport services, School Crossing Patrols, and homelessness support services have all been carefully considered in final decisions this autumn on the future of some local services delivered by Hampshire County Council.
After considering feedback from the public and examining every possible alternative option to help balance residents’ needs against the Council’s future financial pressures, the Council’s Cabinet has opted to withdraw some of the changes and reductions originally put forward in these four areas from within a package of 13 services recommended for change to help towards closing a £175 million annual budget shortfall predicted from April 2025 onwards.
Which services will remain
All household waste recycling centres and school crossing patrols across Hampshire will be retained.
Current contracts for homelessness support, which is not a legal responsibility of the County Council, will continue to also be honoured to protect funding to March 2026, and the Council will bring together its passenger transport service – maintaining vital support to many older residents with disabilities – with the provision of school transport for eligible children, to make better use of existing vehicles across the day to serve children and adults at different times.
Where there will be changes
Like many councils nationally, Hampshire’s budgets are under considerable pressure now and into the future because of rising costs, and growing demand for key local services like social care for higher numbers of vulnerable children, older people and adults with complex needs and disabilities. These pressures have resulted in the originally predicted annual budget gap of £132 million from 2025/26 onwards, rising to at least £175 million if there is no further grant funding announced by central Government for adult social care this autumn.
Therefore, in some service areas, including road maintenance, street lighting, adult social care charges, rural countryside parking and library stocks, unavoidable changes and reductions will have to be made to help the County Council try and keep balancing its budget in future – which is a legal requirement.
The decisions made will inevitably impact on Hampshire communities, and changes will be taken forward carefully and sensitively over the coming year with a view to maximising the savings that can be achieved by April 2025. We’ll keep people informed of changes well before they come in.
Other ways we’re driving down our costs
In the meantime, we continue to press the case to Government
for crucial extra funding and greater decision-making powers so local
government can keep serving local communities, and we continue our work to keep
driving down costs across all areas – working differently and more efficiently
across services, streamlining back-office functions and business structures,
generating income, and sharing resources with other public sector
organisations, as well as disposing of land and buildings that we no longer need.
We are also exploring the potential impacts and savings that might be possible
if we focused on delivering just those services that form our core provision as
a local authority, so the County Council can live within its means and
prioritise providing the essentials when serving the people of Hampshire.
All on-street parking enforcement and traffic management functions will be undertaken directly by Hampshire County Council (HCC) from 1st April.
HCC has issued the following information -
https://documents.hants.gov.uk/parking/new-arrangements-april2023.pdf
In addition to this, the traffic management functions, as detailed below, will no longer be undertaken by East Hampshire District Council.
Therefore, any requests for these services should be directed to HCC traffic management team via their website www.hants.gov.uk/roads or via email to traffic.management@hants.gov.uk
It should also be noted that HCC officers have indicated that any future requests for parking restrictions should be directed to them through your local County Councillor
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Please click on the download button to view the presentation from Clifford Jones who has been working in Newton Valence, discovering what lies beneath our soil from an archaeological perspective. The presentation took place in the Village Hall 16th November 2022.
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