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Grab a free indoor or outdoor Table Table Kit!

Sport England is giving away indoor and outdoor Table Tennis tables to encourage more uptake of this Olympic Sport.

Village SOS - More Funding Available

Do you have an idea for a social enterprise in your village?

Quality of Rural Life

A survey of all 119 local authority districts has ranked local performance across key indicators covering the labour market, the housing market, the environment, education and health.

New Planning Policy on Traveller's Sites Published

Local councils will be interested in the new Planning Policy published on 27th March 2012, with regard to traveller's sites.

Parish Lengthsman

Parish Lengthsmen were historically locally contracted labourers who walked the highways for 'the length' of the Parish.

The ALC believes that modern parish lengthsmen are a necessary requirement in every parish.

Tackling the little but irritating problems around verges such as sign cleaning, leaf clearing and removing vegetation, the lengthsmen are a resource that supports local quality of life. The Localism Partnership Lengthsmen Scheme 2012 takes in 43 of Hampshire's parishes across five projects. The Hampshire ALC has been proud to be the pivotal agency in gettting this project running through the Hampshire Total Environment Project. With primary partners the Hghways Authority and the ALC, the lead parishes are pushing the project forward in coordinating the resource. It is hoped the resources appended below are useful in administering the scheme. The lead for the project is currently Tristan Meekins at HCC. If parishes have any problems with the scheme, they are welcome to contact the ALC, who will support them with an answer or signpost them appropriately.