Council Offices
Forest Community Centre
Pinehill Road
Bordon
Hampshire GU35 0BS
Tel: 01420 473123
Dear Resident,
Welcome to the Whitehill Town Council website. which I hope you will find useful.
Our Town Council covers the Parish of Whitehill which includes both Bordon and Whitehill.
Being Leader is a difficult juggling act in terms of working with other third parties in a proactive way to achieve results through cooperation, whilst knowing when to robustly challenge on behalf of the community. I hope the Town Council will have a good working relationship with third parties moving forward, but they need to deliver on expectations and we must have the infrastructure that comes with development.
The Town Council is the First Tier of Local Government – operating at “grass roots” level.
Our key roles are to:
- Manage many of our town’s amenities, namely
- 12 areas of parks and open spaces, including 3 play areas, the BMX track and the skate park.
- Mill Chase Pavilion, sports pitches and the fitness trail.
- 2 Allotment sites
- The War Memorial
- Much of the town’s street furniture (a responsibility shared with EHDC) including benches, bus shelters, litter bins, gates and fencing.
- Savile Crescent Boardwalk and Hollybrook Pond and dipping platform.
- Bordon Inclosure and The Deadwater Valley Nature Reserve.
Please do get in contact with the office if you notice a problem with any of these amenities.
- Review planning applications and report our view back to the planning authority. The majority of the area falls within East Hampshire District Council, but there is a small pocket within the South Downs National Park.
- Represent your views to other third-party organisations e.g East Hampshire District Council through XChange group, NHS via Clinical Commissioning Group and Police through Community Partnership Meeting.
- Communicate effectively with residents across Whitehill & Bordon e.g. through Social Media, newsletters and our face-to-face meetings.
We relish the challenges ahead and please do get in touch if you need anything.
Cllr Andy Tree
Leader of the Council
Deputy Leader
The Deputy Leader of the Council is Cllr Catherine Clark.
The 2023-2024 Town Mayor is Cllr Leeroy Scott and the Deputy Mayor is Cllr James Fryer
From Left to Right: Leader of the Council Cllr Andy Tree, Town Mayor Cllr Leeroy Scott, Deputy Mayor Cllr James Fryer, Deputy Leader of the Council Cllr Catherine Clark.
Photo courtesy of Marlon Bunday Photography: https://www.marlonbundayphotography.co.uk/
The Leader’s New Year Message 2023
Cllr Andy Tree, Leader of the Council, New Year Message
It has been another year of ups and downs! The Covid situation thankfully became much better but we have seen national issues such as War in Ukraine, inflation and ‘cost of living crisis’ directly affecting local matters. I remain cautiously optimistic that the new Morrisons will start being built this year but still fighting for adequate Health Facility proposals to come forward, as we understand having excellent Health Services is a number one priority for residents and I will continue to lobby those in power to deliver.
I am proud that we as a town council made some real ‘grassroots’ community differences this year, such as funding the Platinum Jubilee Festival at Mill Chase Recreation Ground and creating ‘Woody’s Walk’ in honour of Brian Wood MC.
I am pleased to say that we have frozen our share of council tax per household for the second year running for 2023-24, whilst supporting valuable local organisations that benefit residents with grants, including: Phoenix Theatre, Citizens Advice, Community Association (Town Partnership) and Homestart. We also continue to protect the Greenspaces we control including Bordon Inclosure and Deadwater Valley Nature Reserve, where a new ten-year service contact awarded to Deadwater Valley Trust to manage them has started positively.
The Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was a very strange time, given the continuity of her reign for the vast majority of us. I went to Buckingham Palace and laid flowers on behalf of Whitehill & Bordon residents in our parish.
I see regular posts on social media asking for help or advice, with many kind offers of assistance that follow. I still speak regularly to the police about vandalism and anti-social behaviour, but the positive thoughtfulness of our community far outweighs the negatives and I love living here.
I thank all fifteen town councillors who have served and all our council employees, who implement the policies of the council on a day-to-day basis as the backbone of our operation! My friend and colleague Councillor Leeroy Scott has been a superb Town Mayor, representing our Council and Community and I very much look forward to his Charity Valentine Gala is on Thursday 16 February 2023 at the Forest Community Centre. Tickets can be booked using this link: https://bit.ly/leeroygala
I remain committed to representing our community, trying to work with third party decision-makers to achieve results but never shying away from robustly standing up for you when required!
Best wishes to all residents for 2023!
