Portsmouth to get a new country park
We are really pleased that Portsmouth is getting a new country park with over 50,000 trees.
The Horsea Island Country Park will be built near Port Solent, on the old landfill site to the north west of the M275.
Portsmouth Sea Defences
The Southsea Coastal Scheme is responsible for delivering new flood defences along 4.5km of seafront, from Old Portsmouth to Eastney. The aim is to create new defences that embrace everything we all love about the seafront, whilst reducing the risk of flooding to over 8000 homes and businesses in Southsea.
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Portsmouth City Council to finally pay Living Wage
We're thrilled to announce that after 4 years of a Conservative pay-freeze for the lowest paid council workers, we are now bringing in the living wage (as defined by the living wage foundation).
Council leader demands Government save Airbus jobs
The Leader of Portsmouth City Council, Lib Dem councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, has written to the government’s Business Secretary, Greg Clark MP, following the news that Airbus could pull out of the UK after Brexit.
He is demanding that the Business Secretary acts to save the 1400 highly skilled jobs in Portsmouth which are at risk. Airbus said they may be forced to relocate out of the UK, if the government negotiates a Brexit bad deal.
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New wheelie bins from Lib Dem council will protect weekly bin collections, encourage recycling & make streets cleaner
Residents across Portsmouth are set to receive new wheelie bins as part of a move by the new Lib Dem run council to protect weekly rubbish collections, encourage recycling and help make streets cleaner.
This follows trials across the city where the use of the new bins saw the amount of rubbish being disposed of reduce in some areas by around 20 per cent.
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Lib Dems Take Control of Portsmouth
After four years of Conservative and UKIP councillors running the council, today the Liberal Democrats took over the running of Portsmouth City Council.
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Party Leader Backs Portsmouth Campaign
Vince Cable MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, recently visited Portsmouth to show his support for the Portsmouth Liberal Democrats' bid to take back control of Portsmouth City Council at the local elections on Thursday 3rd May.
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40 Days To Go
With 40 days to go, we have launched our manifesto for the 2018 local elections in Portsmouth.
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Southsea lap dancing club bid bites the dust as people power wins
A bid for a lap dancing club in Southsea's Albert Road has been thrown out after a majority vote by a panel of Portsmouth City Councillors. At an all day hearing, residents, businesses and local Councillors worked together to explain to the city's Licensing Committee how the venue would be inappropriate in the heart of Albert Road shops surrounded by dense residential housing and close to local schools, churches and community centres - keeping residents awake until the early hours of the morning. In a majority 2-1 vote Councillors agreed and decided not to grant a Sexual Entertainment Licence.
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100 Days To Go
With just 100 days to go, the Lib Dem team is hitting the ground running with candidates in place across the city.
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Albert Road Lap Dancing Club
2018 Sea Defences Consultation
Following the engagement events at the end of last year, the Southsea Coastal Scheme team are going to be out and about across the city in February & March holding a new series of consultation events on their emerging designs.
Bring the Bayeux Tapestry to Portsmouth
'Bring the Bayeux Tapestry to Portsmouth!' That is the cry today from our Culture, Leisure and Sport Spokesperson, Cllr Steve Pitt.
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Update: Queens Hotel
The new owners of the Queens Hotel in Southsea have put in a planning application to turn most of the Queens Hotel into flats leaving just 28 hotel bedrooms. They also want to build two blocks of flats adjacent to the current building; one facing the sea between the Queens hotel and Homeheights block and the other would be facing Osborne Road.
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1862 Ambulance Delays So Far This Winter
1862 patients in Portsmouth have faced waits of half-an-hour of more in ambulances outside A&E so far this winter, Liberal Democrat analysis has revealed. Of these, 665 faced waits of over an hour.
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