The Conservative Leader of Hampshire County Council has asked the Government for permission to increase Hampshire County Council's share of Council Tax by 15% this year. That amounts to roughly £250 extra on people's council tax bills.
Lib Dem Councillor David Harrison has called on Southern Water to pay compensation to residents and businesses in Totton and the Waterside who have been left without water in the run up to Christmas.
Liberal Democrat Councillors have blasted as "cruel" a decision by New Forest District Council Conservatives to overturn a proposal from one of its own working groups that would help the poorest in the New Forest.
46,264 pensioners in the New Forest at risk of losing the £300 fuel payment this winter.
Households in the New Forest who remortgaged last year face a £29.4 million annual mortgage bombshell amidst spiralling interest rates following Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget, new House of Commons analysis has revealed.
New figures analysing sewage dumped in Council areas have revealed that sewage was dumped into waterways in the New Forest for 17,798 hours in 2023.
