Ashford Hill

SHOCK waves reverberated around a borough council chamber last Wednesday after an Ashford Hill councillor used his casting vote in favour of a controversial housing development in the village – just five minutes after he had voted against the scheme.

Boos rang out at a borough council meeting on Wednesday night after an application to build 34 houses in Ashford Hill was controversial approved. Chairman of the authority's development control committee Cllr Donald Sherlock dramatically reversed his ...

A controversial planning application to build 35 homes on land in Ashford Hill will go before councillors tonight. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has received 105 letters of objection to the application, with 41 of them coming since last ...

The chairman of the Ashford Hill Community Action Group, David Henning, said he received a letter before Christmas from the borough council, confirming the committee meeting on January 13 in Basingstoke. Mr Henning pointed out that the period between ...

A woman was taken to hospital with suspected back injuries this evening (Saturday) following a single vehicle accident in Ashford Hill. Two fire engines from Newbury and a third from Hampshire were called at 5pm to Ashford Hill Road, to a collision on ...

A £200,000 project to restore the roof and spire of an Ashford Hill church could be in line for a huge boost, thanks to the promise of £40,000 in match funding from Greenham Common Trust. The Ashford Hill Church Roof and Spire Appeal was launched last ...