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• ► 2020 (5)
  • ► May (3)
    • • Closure of the seafront. Fine for now, but the council may make it permanent, which would push a thousand cars on to surrounding streets
    • • COVID cases in Portsmouth
    • • Traffic levels now back to half regular level
  • ► March (2)
    • • Coronavirus: the local response
    • • Leaflets
• ► 2019 (10)
  • ► October (3)
    • • Water refill stations
    • • Painting the Spinnaker
    • • Council set to benefit from government cash
  • ► June (2)
    • • Kings Theatre-area residents’ parking scheme likely to be rubberstamped on Monday
    • • Blank wall of student tower
  • ► March (5)
    • • Planning application for Fraser Range
    • • 480 responses to MD consultation
    • • Council’s local plan can no longer be used to refuse planning applications
    • • Citywide parking petition
    • • parking petition
• ► 2018 (48)
  • ► December (3)
    • • New emergency department for hospital
    • • Mixed news from Charlotte Street
    • • Pub numbers bearing up
  • ► October (3)
    • • Botched residents’-only schemes to bring new parking problems
    • • Social care grant
    • • Lighting in Guildhall Square
  • ► September (3)
    • • Annual beach clean tomorrow (Saturday)
    • • Damaging residents’ parking schemes move forward
    • • Police station flats plan revealed
  • ► August (6)
    • • Flood defences – last chance to comment
    • • Micropubs – a possible new use for old shop buildings
    • • Decision over power interconnector to be taken out of the council’s hands
    • • Plug pulled on energy company
    • • New country park might finally be about to be built
    • • Court ruling takes some of the pressure off social care
  • ► July (1)
    • • Residents’ parking debacle: how we’re going to get the short end of the stick
  • ► June (3)
    • • Planning update: new use for old cinema and shared living proposed in Old Portsmouth
    • • Residents’ groups should be consulted on flood defences
    • • Portsmouth on leaked list of Mothercare stores set to close
  • ► May (7)
    • • Phone boxes to go to appeal
    • • Rail replacement works
    • • Redundant office block set to become student accommodation
    • • Election results
    • • Boost for Southsea shelter project
    • • Sunday opening at Southsea library
    • • CCTV in allotments
  • ► April (4)
    • • New butcher’s shop in Albert Road
    • • New water feature proves popular
    • • New signs at Canoe Lake
    • • Fruit importer enters new market
  • ► March (8)
    • • D-Day Museum reopens
    • • The homeless shelter
    • • Possible redevelopment option for the Royal Mail sorting office put forward
    • • Cumberland House gets funding boost
    • • Decking application for pier
    • • Fire service to stay separate from the Police and Crime Commissioner – at least for now
    • • Affordable housing around the country
    • • University's only bookstore closed today
  • ► February (7)
    • • Apprenticeship numbers up again
    • • New special school nears completion
    • • Business rates and the High St
    • • New environmentally friendly lighting now being installed
    • • Congestion likely as Network Rail replaces bridge
    • • Exercise group for people with breathing problems benefits from lottery cash
    • • Housing scheme for Fraser Range published
  • ► January (3)
    • • Mountbatten Centre gets a new look
    • • Portsmouth one of a handful of areas to get electric car cash
    • • Church initiative on homelessness
• ► 2017 (62)
  • ► December (5)
    • • New French electricity link may come ashore at Eastney
    • • Ice rink proving a hit
    • • A Christmas dinner for a hundred older people
    • • The 12 Days of Giving
    • • Views of experts on the costs of social housing
  • ► November (6)
    • • Bus usage in Portsmouth  
    • • Eastleigh – a cautionary tale
    • • Mayfield School rebuild
    • • Work starts on new Police Investigation Centre
    • • A bright future for the Outdoor Centre
    • • Southsea flood defences and the government grant
  • ► September (11)
    • • Business rate relief scheme moves forward
    • • New council housing construction continues apace
    • • Changing the funding model for QA hospital
    • • Tightening the rules on Houses in Multiple Occupation
    • • Successful lottery bid for last landing craft
    • • Churches Homeless Action
    • • Guildhall ice rink for the Christmas period
    • • Local plan consultation
    • • Victorious clean up
    • • Hotel planning consent
    • • GPs practices to merge
  • ► August (3)
    • • Coastal path plan unveiled
    • • Pop-up food venues to open this week
    • • Council buys shop to expand King’s Theatre
  • ► July (6)
    • • Free opera this Wednesday
    • • Phone box advert plan defeated
    • • Rough sleepers in Portsmouth
    • • Free bandstand events off to a flying start
    • • New learning disability housing to open
    • • Exciting new proposals for Moneyfields football club
  • ► June (4)
    • • Election result
    • • New shower to be installed in Canoe Lake
    • • Rewarding volunteers
    • • The causes of delayed discharges from hospital
  • ► April (4)
    • • Public access to the pier and licensing hours
    • • Marks and Spencer closure
    • • Cumberland House museum reopens
    • • University launches new nursing training centre
  • ► March (8)
    • • Broadcasting council meetings
    • • Another new hotel in the pipeline
    • • Eastern Road improvements move forward
    • • French exchange opportunity
    • • Pro tennis tournament coming to Southsea
    • • New hotel planned for Old Portsmouth
    • • Good news for local government in the budget
    • • The Housing White Paper and its local implications
  • ► February (7)
    • • Shocking tactics as LibDems falsely accuse council for the moving of the Yomper
    • • City centre redevelopment plans
    • • Council budget
    • • Anstey hotel planning appeal passes
    • • Big boost for capital projects
    • • Seafront shelter to be restored and a boost for the pier
    • • Working with charities
  • ► January (8)
    • • Fire services in Portsmouth
    • • Secondary school rolls rise again
    • • Portsmouth's economy grows
    • • Police and the council tax
    • • Interaction saved
    • • Housebuilding stats
    • • Eastern Road waterbridge
    • • Four-year funding settlement for local government
• ► 2016 (25)
  • ► December (4)
    • • Request for funding for South Parade Pier
    • • New housing to help the disabled
    • • Consultation on changes to the health and care system
    • • Generating income to offset budget reductions
  • ► October (7)
    • • Prison land deal will make city just a little more attractive
    • • Limiting the numbers of Houses in Multiple Occupation
    • • Last wartime landing craft coming to Portsmouth
    • • Helping the traders in Commercial Road
    • • New student tower for city centre is good news
    • • New student tower for city centre is good news
    • • Planning application for road at Fraser Ranges
  • ► August (4)
    • • Best ever GCSE results in Portsmouth, even while the pass rate falls across the rest of the country
    • • Inside the new Greetham St student tower
    • • University numbers are not rising
    • • New hovercraft arrive
  • ► July (7)
    • • Sharing senior management with other councils
    • • Wild flowers in Milton Park
    • • Building new affordable housing through a council-owned company
    • • New movable café planned for seafront
    • • Council embraces new technology to improve social care
    • • Miltoncross probably won't be able to expand
    • • Thoughts on Kingston Prison
  • ► May (2)
    • • Resurfacing of the esplanade
    • • Election 2016
  • ► April (1)
    • • Mobile blood donor vans to be withdrawn