New Forest District Council

BUILDING work has begun at a site near Totton to construct 80 affordable homes – which will go to people with a local connection.

MEMBERS of a drug recovery group alleged a heroin dealer targets a parade of Poulner shops at a bid by Tesco to get an alcohol licence.

A PUBLIC inquiry will be held into plans for 44 new retirement apartments at one of the gateways into Lymington.

FORMER NFDC leader, Cllr Barry Rickman, has been ejected from the ruling Tory group and is now sitting as an independent member.

A Fordingbridge woman has escaped eviction from her cottage home after proving she had broken planning rules for at least a decade.

The bloodied body of a dead deer was left lying along a busy pathway to Milford school used by parents and young children for three days.

MAJOR design changes will not be made to the £1.2m plan to revamp the toilets at Lymington's Town Quay, NFDC has said, despite criticism.

FEARS for a protected New Milton tree have led district councillors to throw out a second bid to build on the garden of a Mount Avenue property.

SOUTHAMPTON Football Club has won its bid to install new analytical cameras at its Marchwood training ground.

The new chairman of New Forest District Council has been accused of being a "self professed climate change denier" by opposition members.

Plans to improve the Shell petrol station at Pennington have been given the go-ahead by NFDC.

PLANS to build a £600m desalination plant near Fawley have been met with criticism from New Forest District Council.

PEOPLE’S views are sought over a major quarter-of-a-million-pound New Milton Town Council scheme to enhance Ashley Recreation Ground.

A CONTROVERSIAL plan for 400 homes on the edge of Ringwood will be debated by town councillors.

THE new leader of New Forest District Council has been named as Cllr Edward Heron - promoted from the deputy role.

CHILDREN could move schools in a plan to deal with pressure on class sizes from the proposed construction of hundreds of new homes across Ringwood, it has been claimed...

A NEW £5.5m waste and services council depot has been given the go-ahead to be built on the Waterside, freeing up a site in Totton to be developed for housing...

A LICENSING bid for a two-day music festival near Lymington has been withdrawn so the organisers and police can hold crunch talks over crime and disorder concerns...

PLANS have been unveiled for five new “21st century eco-homes” next to woodland in Everton...

PLANS have been unveiled by a developer to build nearly 500 homes over fields on the edge of Ringwood ...