A pledge to the residents’ of Winchester ensures the city’s quality of life will remain a key focus to the county council.

Winchester County Council are continuing to promote the need for a much greener and environmentally friendly city in order to reduce the threat to the cathedral city’s history heritage and setting.

Councillors’ want Winchester to remain a natural destination for visitors and shoppers.  They want visitors and residents of Winchester to focus on keeping noise to a minimum, putting their litter in one of the many available bins and find ways to decrease pollution by becoming more environmentally friendly.

Winchester resident Deborah Kelly commented: ‘‘Winchester is beautiful and I love living in this environment, however, recently I have noticed more litter, but more importantly youths creating trouble in the evenings which is beginning to give the city a bit of a bad night-time reputation.  I’ve lived here for 30 years and want to see some things change!’’

The council have created a list of ‘things-to-do’ in order to raise Winchester’s reputation: ‘improve the pedestrian environment and gateways into the town; manage our public open spaces to keep them clean and green; create a green town of top quality parks, gardens and open spaces.’’

‘Tackle anti-social behaviour by investing in Neighbourhood Wardens, CCTV, Shopwatch and Pubwatch schemes; tackle graffiti and flyposting quickly; remove street clutter to enhance the town’s appearance; give a lead role of Neighbourhood Wardens in maintaining the local environment and street scene.’

‘Establish ourselves as a “fair trade” town; manage our environment in a sustainable way; encourage the use of public transport to reduce space lost to the care;   encourage sculpture and art in the town.’

The vision sets out how Winchester is to evolve and in order for the movement to take place a number of organisations and individuals will discuss the overall change and outcome to make these changes possible.

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