Test Valley News Edition 72 Spring 2017
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Test Valley Borough Council Spring 2017 | Issue 72 Test Valley News In this issue... Have your say on new ward boundaries 3 Visitor Guide welcomes tourists to borough 8 Romsey Cycle Hub launched 7 Andover charities could see their name in flowers 9 Sandra Dodd, Chief Executive at Places for People Leisure Revamp for leisure facilities said: “We are extremely pleased to have been awarded the contract and are looking forward to working closely with Test Valley Borough Council to ensure we offer a leisure Test Valley Borough Council has courts, adventure play, and café. The impressive service that meets and exceeds community needs and new centre will also offer a splash area for children announced that Places for People aspirations. Our mission at Places for People Leisure is and a climbing wall to encourage more young Leisure Management Ltd will manage to ‘create active places and healthy people’ and we are people to adopt healthy habits for life. its leisure facilities from 1 April 2017. excited to be able to offer a range of leisure activities and Places for People Leisure currently partners 35 opportunities for all members of the local community to Significant investment is planned to improve local authorities, managing 112 leisure centres adopt more active lifestyles.” the borough’s leisure facilities, which will help to across England. Its sites attract over 30 million Community and Leisure Portfolio Holder, Councillor Tony Ward, provide a brand new Andover Leisure Centre, on visits every year and in the past ten years the added: “I am absolutely delighted that Places for People has the current site, and a number of improvements award-winning organisation has built 14 new been awarded the new contract to continue to deliver top to the other leisure centres including the Romsey leisure facilities. Rapids, Romsey Sports Centre, Knightwood class leisure facilities in the borough. The process to award Enhancements to the existing leisure centres will the contract has taken the best part of 18 months and has Leisure Centre and Charlton Lakeside Pavilion. soon be underway with extensive refurbishment involved a huge amount of work to get the best possible The new Andover Leisure Centre will feature a work planned, including a new state-of-the-art outcome for our residents. I am looking forward to working 165-station fitness suite including a virtual cycling fitness suite at Romsey Rapids and Knightwood with the Places for People team over the coming years and studio, 25m six-lane pool with 15m learner pool, Leisure Centre. The new fitness suites will include ensuring that we carry on delivering the high quality leisure dance studios, an eight-court sports hall, squash the latest equipment and fitness trainers. facilities that our residents deserve and expect.” We’ll collect your garden waste Spring is just around the corner and we’ll soon 01794 527700. If you’d like more than one subscription, it’s be back in our gardens enjoying the outdoors. just £17.50 for each additional subscription. When you’ve cut back your overgrown trees and mowed If you’re already a garden waste subscriber, we will contact the lawn again, don’t forget that Test Valley Borough you shortly before your subscription is due for renewal - so Council’s Environmental Services team is here to help you you won’t need to do a thing. with your unwanted garden waste. All the garden waste we collect is composted to produce We offer a fortnightly garden waste collection service for Pro-Grow, a high-quality, organic soil conditioner produced just £31 for the whole year, and it’s easy to sign up. Just locally in Hampshire by Project Integra. Pro-Grow can be visit www.testvalley.gov.uk/mytestvalley or phone our purchased at any Household Waste Recycling Centre, or customer services team on 01264 368000 or bought online. You can buy a 240-litre green bin for £25, or a reusable green sack for just £1.75. Visit www.testvalley.gov.uk/orderabin for more details. Test Valley Borough Council T 01264 368000 E [email protected] W www.testvalley.gov.uk Keeping waste and recycling simple In Test Valley, we like to keep things simple when it comes to what can and cannot be recycled. Please only put the following items in your brown bin: Paper Cardboard A typical Sparkle Day involves Plastic sweeping roads and paths, cutting Sparkle Days Bottles The Council’s Environmental back shrubs, clearing litter and Services team continues to clean cleaning signs. The team is also and tidy different parts of the on hand to help residents with any borough throughout the year to questions they may have about keep it looking fresh. managing their waste and recycling. If you would like to request a Sparkle Day in your area, visit www.testvalley.gov.uk/love. Be wise about your waste Householders are required by law to 03708 506506 or visiting check that anyone removing waste from www.gov.uk their property is authorised to do so. • check where your contractor is Social media is a popular way to proposing to take your waste. Tins and Cans Aerosols advertise waste removal services, so if make a note of the registration number you choose a private contractor you’ve • Items must be placed loose in your bin and not in plastic bags. Plastic bags and of any vehicle removing waste from seen online, we recommend that you: their contents cannot be recycled. your home. • check that they are a registered waste carrier. If in doubt, you can check with • pay by cheque, if you can, and request A guide to recycling and waste collections in Test Valley can be downloaded from the Environment Agency by phoning a receipt for the work carried out. the Council’s website at www.testvalley.gov.uk/recyclingguide. Meet our latest Recycling Stars! ROOKWOOD SCHOOL Co-educational | Day & Boarding | 3-16 Years A school with a “strong vision for providing excellent educational opportunities for all pupils” ISI Olivia Sacree and Amy Ellis Amy Ellis, from St Francis CE Primary are two new Recycling Stars School, won first place in the south. who have won a competition Olivia and Amy received a surprise visit to design a banner for the from the Recycling Star, who unveiled Council’s waste collection their colourful designs on the side of the vehicles. waste collection vehicles which service The Council received almost 350 the areas around the schools. entries to its drawing competition, The winning designs were also printed which asked children to come up with a on the bin collection calendars which design to help encourage more people were sent to all residents in the to recycle their glass bottles and jars. borough. Olivia and Amy received Celebrating 100% of pupils achieving five a framed copy of their artwork, a Olivia, who goes to Portway Infant or more GCSEs grades A* to C School, submitted the winning design Recycling Stars goodie bag and tickets for the north of the borough, while to watch a show at The Lights theatre. To arrange a private tour or for more information contact Mrs V Ball on 01264 325910 The two winning designs, as well as nine highly commended entries, can be Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire SP10 3AL viewed on the Council’s online gallery at www.testvalley.gov.uk/recyclingstars. www.rookwoodschool.org 2 test valley news • 01264 368000 • [email protected] Have your say on new council Community project ward boundaries for Test Valley is an award winner The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England is asking local people for their help to draw up a new pattern of council wards for Test Valley Borough Council. ‘Ward’ is the term used to describe a The Commission now wants information geographical area whose residents are from people and groups across Test represented by one or more elected Valley to help it to produce a new pattern Test Valley Partnership’s Information, period of their life and who are at risk of borough councillors. of wards to accommodate 43 councillors. Communication, Education (ICE) making bad choices. The project offers The consultation is the first part of an In drawing up new boundaries, the project was awarded runner up in the workshops that discuss actions and electoral review which will re-draw ward Commission aims to deliver electoral Resolve National ASB awards in the consequences relating to topics such as fire safety, cyber bullying, hate crime boundaries across Test Valley. equality for voters in council elections so ‘Best Project Award 2016’ category. that each councillor represents roughly and criminal damage. ICE also provides The Commission has also announced These awards profile the excellent the same number of voters. one-to-one sessions that promote good that it is minded to recommend that the work of organisations, residents and citizenship, safer communities and Council should have 43 councillors in The review also aims to ensure that community partnerships in tackling increased school attendance. the future - five fewer than the current the new council wards reflect, as far as antisocial behaviour effectively. They The project was highly commended by arrangements. This follows a proposal possible, the interests and identities of are the most prestigious of their type. from Test Valley Borough Council which communities across Test Valley. the judges for its innovation, sustained was based on extensive review. ICE is an early-intervention partnership impact and community engagement project for young people in a difficult processes. Professor Colin Mellors, Chair of the between communities in your part of Commission, said: “We are asking Test Valley, then this consultation is Test Valley Borough Council’s Community and Leisure Portfolio Holder, Councillor Tony Ward, said: local people and organisations for you.