The deal was secured on Christmas Eve, a week before current trading arrangements expire. A UK source said the deal delivered “everything that the British public was promised during the 2016 referendum”. MP for Romsey and Southampton North, Caroline Nokes, said that the deal was good news . She told the Daily Echo: I have consistently said we needed to leave with a deal and the PM has now secured that. It is good news for local businesses and people. I will certainly be voting for it when Parliament is recalled next week. Caroline Dinenage, MP for Gosport, said that she was relieved to hear of the deal.
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image captionThe cycle lane was initially installed in The Avenue and Bassett Avenue
A cycle lane which cost more than £150,000 to install has been branded a complete waste of money after a third of it was removed three months later.
Southampton City Council spent £152,419.50 on the cycle lane in The Avenue and Bassett Avenue.
However, traffic problems meant a 2km (1.2-mile) stretch in Bassett Avenue, introduced at the end of May, was gone by early September.
The council said the trial scheme had demonstrated benefits and challenges .
In May, the Department for Transport pledged £225m of emergency funding to help councils introduce measures like pop-up cycle lanes and safer junctions in England to take pressure off roads and public transport networks.
A CONTROVERSIAL cycle lane in Southampton has cost more than £150,000 worth of public money, it has been revealed. Civic chiefs have spent a total of £152,419.50 on a temporary cycle lane on The Avenue and Bassett Avenue. The 4.9km stretch of cycle lane on The Avenue remains in place. But as reported, the one on Bassett Avenue - between Winchester Road roundabout and Chilworth Road roundabout - was put in place at the end of May and removed at the start of September. The removal of the two-kilometers-long cycle lane followed an increase in traffic and concerns from local residents and councillors.
Southampton City Council launched CitizEn Energy in 2018. MORE than £190,000 worth of public money has been invested into an energy company which made no net profit and left a Hampshire council with a £86,000 budget black hole.
Southampton City Council invested a total of £192,000 into its own energy company CitizEn Energy, it has been revealed. But according to a Freedom of Information the company never made any net profit, leaving the council face a net deficit budget of £86,500. The authority said the deficit is offset by a saving of tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere and £76,000 worth of savings off energy bills within the city.