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A CITY council chief has said that a key priority is to "breathe new life and activity" into Kings Walk.

WINCHESTER’S 5,000 council tenants have been given a reprieve of an above-inflation rent rise.

A LONG-STANDING and independently-owned Winchester cookshop is due to close in January as it can no longer afford to pay its rent and business rates.

COUNCIL chiefs have agreed to lease the redundant River Park Leisure Centre (RPLC) site, despite calls for a public consultation over the future of…

COUNCIL chiefs have confirmed that Kings Walk is to be demolished under plans to develop a “vibrant cultural quarter”.

FOUR new homes for rent are in the pipeline at Winchester City Council.

Lib Dem councillor Kelsie Learney, portfolio holder for housing and asset management, speaking at the full Council meeting last Wednesday, said the homes were larger than many private flats in Winchester and would be cheaper. She said: "We have researched this and established these are affordable. They are for people already living in the private rented sector and are paying market rents. "The flats will be 39sqm. Some may consider them small some may consider them ideal. The larger they ...

IT WAS possibly the most attended public forum that Winchester City Council has ever held. More than 150 people joined an online meeting to discuss feedback on the latest Silver Hill proposals – whilst dozens of others likely listened in to the live broadcast. Civic chiefs shared the reaction they had received during a lengthy consultation period over the scheme, now known as Central Winchester Regeneration. Following a 40-minute presentation, members of the public were invited to typ...

Design for new business unts at former council depot at Bishops Waltham. IT HAS been vacant since the spring of 2019. But work at Bishops Waltham Depot has been stalled time and time again – most recently due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ward councillor David McLean expressed his frustration at a Winchester City Council meeting on January 13. He said: "Could the cabinet member please update us on the progress of the depot build here in Bishops Waltham as it appears to have stalled yet...

IMPORTANT progress is being made on the move of the GP surgery in Winchester city centre. The city council has agreed to sell the leasehold of the Upper Brook Street car park to a specialist primary healthcare provider who will build the new St Clements practice which has around 15,000 patients. Final negotiations will be undertaken before the sale goes through, the Cabinet heard. Civic chiefs worked with St Clements and the West Hampshire clinical commissioning group to select the deve...