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The pandemic has been a very difficult time for businesses across the borough and we would like to thank all those businesses who have helped to prevent the spread of COVID-19 locally by following the latest guidance. As we look ahead to the road out of the latest lockdown, we are committed to continuing our support for businesses to help them adapt. This includes distributing emergency funding support, with over £60 million in grants and rate reliefs delivered since March 2020, and helpin...

TEN members of borough council staff are at risk of redundancy as part of a raft of cuts to services to balance the authority’s budget. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council carried out a review of staffing between December 14, 2020 and January 22, 2021 which includes making 10 members of staff redundant. These would be from seven different departments including Children, Young People and Families; Healthy Communities; Traveller Liaison; and Print Services. The council has also propos...

AN EXCITING new website showcasing the best of Basingstoke and Deane and providing information for residents, visitors and businesses has been launched. The new Love Basingstoke website – www.lovebasingstoke.co.uk – provides a one-stop-shop with lots information and advice for residents, visitors and those looking to move to the area, including the very best of local heritage and stunning views, culture and events, attractions, food and drink, places to stay and much more. For those a...

AN INVESTMENT portfolio held by the borough council is valued at more than a quarter of a billion pounds, it has been revealed.

THE COUNCILS plans to cut free parking for disabled people is set to be scrapped. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council (BDBC) were proposing a raft of cuts to services as it counts the financial cost of the coronavirus pandemic. Among these were plans to scrap free parking for disabled people in council-run car parks. But a report set to be debated on Tuesday by the authoritys cabinet reveals that civic chiefs are proposing to abandon this plan, whilst the senior councillors are set to...

AN ABANDONED building in Basing View is set to be transformed into flexible office space. Grosvenor House, which has been left derelict since Hampshire Constabulary moved out in 2012, has been acquired by a firm that runs eleven other hot desking offices across the south of England. Arena Business Centres plans to turn the building into 56,000 square feet of "exceptional office space", covering eleven storeys. The councillor responsible for Basing Views regeneration, Cllr John Izett, la...

TWO Basingstoke men found with kitchen knives in public have been fined. Richard James Evans, of Cleaver Road, South Ham, was found to be in possession of the blade in Basingstoke on May 1, 2020. Pleading guilty at Basingstoke Magistrates Court earlier this week, the 39-year-old was fined £66, and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £34. In a separate incident, 19-year-old Joshua Melfi was found with a black handled kitchen knife on June 28, 2019. He was given a community order, wher...

DEVELOPERS in Basingstoke and Deane have turned vacant offices into flats on more than 600 occasions in the last five years, using powers to bypass normal planning rules. The Local Government Association warned communities may have lost out on "desperately needed" affordable housing through the use of permitted development rights, allowing certain conversions to be carried out without full planning permission. Data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government reveals the...