The Open Spaces & Amenities

Committee is responsible for maintaining and developing key recreational facilities and open spaces within Swanmore parish as well as monitoring the biodiversity of its conservation areas.

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The Committee supports:

• Sports: football pitches, "multi use games area' (MUGA), BMX track, skate park, and running tracks.

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• Recreational: play equipment, play areas, open spaces, Marsh’s Meadows and Green’s Wood.

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• Village amenities: car park, benches, litter/dog refuse bins, and some village signage.

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• The environment: tree maintenance, tree, habitat and biodiversity surveys, hedges and ditches, gates and fences, ponds and footpaths and all other environmental issues.

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MEMBERS

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Councillor Alex Graft 

Councillor Ladd-Jones

Councillor Pete Ansty

Councilor Chris Newhouse

Councillor Andy Rankine

The Planning and Highways Committee meets each month and is kept busy with a range of responsibilities including: 

• commenting on planning applications,

• highways maintenance – in conjunction with Winchester and Hampshire councils,

• road safety,

• footways,

• street lighting, and

• street environment

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MEMBERS

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Councillor David Newberry - Chairman

Councillor Gautier

Councilor Penny Clive

Councillor Jon Woodman