A Jubilee “Big” lunch is being held for all Preston Candover village residents on Sunday 5 June on the field beside the village hall. Tables will be set out around the field, but people are encouraged to bring their own or use picnic blankets to help create the festive atmosphere. A menu of pulled pork with rolls and apple sauce will…read more →
Lady Anya Sainsbury will be lighting Preston Candover’s jubilee beacon which will be sited at a high spot on the Preston Farms estate on a line with several other beacons, making an illuminated chain across Hampshire. Lady Sainsbury will light the beacon at 9.45pm on Thursday, 2 June, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II….read more →
Activities, events and places in the Candover Valley and surrounding area. Many of the organisations active in the Candover Valley and the surrounding area are listed below along with a wide range of places to visit, and activities to enjoy. There are many public footpaths giving you access to the countryside and its teeming wildlife which can be seen here. Many of the 2021 events…read more →
Residents of Nutley, Axford, Preston Candover and Wield are experiencing a repeat performance of the sudden increase in tractor traffic through the villages this week A fleet of tractors with tanker trailers have for the last few days each been on a twenty-mile circuit to carry liquid waste from the bio-digester at Dummer to be sprayed as fertilizer over fields…read more →
The developer behind the plans to build a large warehouse complex at Dummer has now come up with a new scheme after Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council refused permission for the earlier proposal. The company, Newlands Developments Limited, had initially lodged an appeal against the Council decision, but subsequently withdrew the appeal and has now submitted new plans to build a…read more →
Residents of Nutley, Axford, Preston Candover and Wield may be wondering if some elements of Britain’s climate change policy is actually working. They may be questioning the sudden increase in tractor traffic through the villages this week. A fleet of tractors with tanker trailers have for the last five days each been on a twenty-mile circuit to carry liquid waste…read more →
As Hampshire ended another year dominated by covid the number of new cases daily was rising rapidly across all the council districts. The county hit a new record of 3701 new cases a day on the last day of 2021 and most of the districts also reached new peaks. Hampshire recorded 18,322 new cases in the last week of the year,…read more →
Parishioners at the Candover Valley’s three principal churches will not be encouraged to attend Sunday services this year by the joyful sound of church bells echoing through the Valley. The bells at Preston and Brown Candover and Northington churches will be silent this year from a serious lack of ringers! It is unlikely that bells will be rung again for normal services at any…read more →
Preston Farms are moving ahead with its plans to develop a vast new solar farm near Preston Candover, and have submitted an application for full planning permission to Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. A decision is expected at the end of January; a year to when the plans were first revealed. Preston Farms are seeking to develop a solar farm across…read more →
Preston Farms are expected to press ahead with plans to develop a vast new solar farm near Preston Candover, following a so-called public consultation exercise, held on a midweek afternoon and early evening at the start of the main holiday season, and on an appointment only basis. The proposal for a 28 megawatt solar site is now in the final…read more →