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Andover Town Council is to investigate the future of its offices in the town centre. The council is looking into a range of options, including serviced office space in the town centre or at Test Valley Borough Council’s (TVBC) offices, occupying a shopfront in the high street or becoming fully remote. Officers had prepared a report into some of these options, but have now been instructed by councillors to investigate further possibilities ahead of a decision that needs to be made before October. At present, Andover Town Council occupies offices just off the High Street, which were c...

Councillors have voted against a motion aimed at attracting Hong Kong residents to Test Valley. A motion was brought by Cllr David Coole that would have mandated Test Valley Borough Council (TVBC) to write to the Home Office and Foreign Office to invite residents of the former British colony to the area. The move follows national announcements that former residents of the colony with a British National (Overseas) Passport are being given a path to citizenship in the UK, following the imposition of national security legislation that critics say is eroding Hong Kong’s freedoms. Cllr C...

Town councillors have narrowly approved plans to extinguish a highway so that the county council can sell the land.

Councillors have objected to plans to demolish garages in Bilbao Court and replace them with flats over concerns it will exacerbate parking issues in the local area. Andover Town’s Council lodged an objection to the proposals at a meeting of its Planning Committee on Monday, March 10, where they were addressed by the planning agent behind the housing scheme. If approved, nine flats would be built on the site of 40 vacant garages, which are currently unoccupied due to being too small for modern cars. Speaking at the meeting, Councillor Barbara Long raised concerns that the plans would ...

Andover Town Council will waive its rights to have certain rights of way marked in town after a suggestion by the Andover Ramblers.