The consultation on future services from Hampshire County Council (HCC) www.hants.gov.uk/future-services-consultation will close 31 March 2024. Here are some details from HCC :

Hampshire County Council launched a public consultation on 8 January to understand people’s views across Hampshire on options to change and reduce some local services and help the Authority address a £132 million budget shortfall faced by April 2025.

The options within the consultation include proposals to change the following services:

• Adult social care charges
• Adult social care grant schemes
• Competitive (one-off) grant schemes
• Hampshire Cultural Trust grant
• Highways maintenance
• Highways winter service
• Homelessness Support Services
• Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs)
• Library stock
• Passenger transport
• Rural countryside parking
• School Crossing Patrols
• Street lighting

How to have your say

The consultation runs until 11:59pm on 31 March 2024.

Views can be provided on some, or all of the 13 service change proposals presented in the consultation.

Complete the consultation online

Feedback can be provided by using the consultation Response Form, available online via the consultation webpage: www.hants.gov.uk/future-services-consultation

Responses can also be emailed directly to Hampshire County Council via: insight@hants.gov.uk or write to Freepost HAMPSHIRE. (Please also write PandO, IEU, FM09 on the back of the envelope).

Copies of the information packs and the consultation Response Form, along with Easy Read versions of these documents, are available to view, download and print on the consultation webpage: www.hants.gov.uk/future-services-consultation. The documents are compatible with ‘read aloud’ and screen reader technology

Additionally, each Hampshire library holds a standard reference copy of the Information Packs and a number of paper Response Forms.

Web: www.hants.gov.uk