Dates for the calendar and in the media

Dates for the calendar

Just a quick reminder that the next Councillor's Surgery is not long to go: Thursday 1 August, 7:30pm to 8:30pm, at Hyde Parish Hall.

We are also trying to use our park the best we can before it's full with houses, therefore the Abbotts Barton Community group has the next Picnic & Play event lined up for 11 August! Let's hope for good weather (we are back to normal obviously).

In the Media - July so far

20/07/13: Hampshire Chronicle says Civic chiefs will mitigate lost open spaces but quotes Cllr Tait saying "there will be occasions where the council will consider the loss of open space in favour of the housing". We say: build on the brownfield sites first!

11/07/13, HC (paper edition only): Hundreds sign petition to save green space

07/07/13, DE: 500 sign up to save precious green space at Abbots Barton near Winchester

Other housing related news:

22/07/13, HC: Scouts in plea for more Barton Farm facilities - wouldn't it be nice to have something like that on the land near the Cadet building, possibly combined with a community facility. One can dream!

25/07/13, HC: Concerns over proposed housing development in north Winchester
18/07/13, HC: Winchester is left half a million pounds in will

15/07/13, DE: Developers put Littleton housing plan up for consultation12/07/13, HC: Big interest from developers in Hampshire Police HQ in Winchester
11/07/13, HC: Landowner proposes housing in Winchester green gap
03/07/13, HC: Future of Stanmore's New Queen's Head to be examined by council survey
02/07/13, HC: Winchester's new council homes project on track, officers insist

All of these article links (and many more) can also be found on our Media tab.

Please don't forget to write to the Winchester City Councillors to urge them 
to NOT build on the Abbotts Barton parks!

(Photo taken by one of our neighbours at Octavia's Orchard, see http://www.what-if.info/.)

A new article about our parks in the Daily Echo

This article points out that there are brownfield sites available that could be used instead of open land that would be lost forever:

500 sign up to save precious green space at Abbots Barton near Winchester

Here we are, the result of the photo shoot

Published today in the Daily Echo: Don't build houses on our park, plead residents at Abbotts Barton, Winchester

Good day, lots of people!

Thank you to everybody who turned up to our press photo shoot today!

There were many and there would have been more (giving short notice and organising for a Bank Holiday Monday has its drawbacks: quite a number of people said they were going away for the long weekend when we approached them end of last week).

Press photo shoot - we need YOU!

This Monday (27 May 2013) at 3pm there will be a photo shoot with the press: Hampshire Chronicle are coming to take a photo of the community opposing the building on the main park in Abbotts Barton.

If you can make it, please come along, we need as many people as possible! We'd like lots of banners and placards too, so please try and make one (or get your kids to!) and bring it along!