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Crimestoppers Update
Portsmouth Roads Update
New Council Homes in Portsmouth
Crimestoppers Update
Community Warden Update: Portsmouth City Council Community Wardens work to help keep the city safe, clean and tidy, while providing support and advice when needed. We can help with:
Reports of Anti-social behaviour
Fly tipping
Graffiti
Dog nuisance and Dog Control Orders
Littering
For further information or to report an issue, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone us on 0800 085 3840 between 10am and 10pm – at all other times please leave a message on the answerphone.
Please use the online form to report a street issue such as graffiti, or fly-tipping.
Trading Standards Update: Fraudsters pose as COVID marshals: Criminals are posing as COVID marshals and medical professionals to gain access to people's homes, according to reports received by CTSI. The scam is similar to earlier incidents this year in which fraudsters pretend to be healthcare workers offering fake COVID-19 testing kits. More info on https://www.journaloftradingstandards.co.uk/crime/fraudsters-pose-as-covid-marshals/
New HMRC scam targets public: The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has uncovered another telephone scam from individuals pretending to represent HMRC. The caller claims the recipient has underpaid their council tax, due to a supposed change in their tax band under COVID-19 measures. One caller threatened a target with a visit from the police and arrest if they did not consent to have their payment details taken.
More info on https://www.journaloftradingstandards.co.uk/crime/new-hmrc-scam-targets-public/
Trouble with Cold Callers? To request a 'no cold calling' sticker pack please email with your full address to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Suspected scam emails can be simply Forwarded to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and then delete.
If you feel that you or someone you know has been or is currently suffering from falling victim to a scam then contact;
Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/reporting-fraud-and-cyber-crime
or alternatively;
Citizens Advice on 03444 111 444 or https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/scams/reporting-a-scam
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers,
from the Portsmouth NW Association, the Portsmouth Police, Portsmouth Community Wardens and the
PortsmouthTrading Standards Team
Call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111
Portsmouth Neighbourhood Watch Association
Phone: 023 9284 1461 E-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Facebook: portsmouthneighbourhoodwatch Twitter: portsmouthnwa
Website: www.hinwa-nw.org.uk.
Portsmouth Roads Update
| New speed restrictions on M275 from 1 January From 1 January 2021, there will be new speed restrictions on the M275 southbound with speed limits of 40mph on the motorway and 30mph on slip roads. This is to manage potential congestion caused by lorries travelling to the EU via Portsmouth International Port. There will also be a short-stay lorry triage facility at Tipner West, which will see an increased amount of traffic using junction 1 (Tipner) on the M275. Temporary traffic management measures will be in place here and at junction 2 (Rudmore roundabout). Traffic management for freight vehicles travelling to the EU
Road closures to enable social distancing (until further notice)
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From 6 Jan 2020 - Installation of noise barrier M27 Port Solent, Cosham (Highways England). Various road and lane closures. M27 westbound carriageway at Port Solent from Cosham Link at junction 12 of the M27 to the bridge carrying the M27 over the railway line near Paulsgrove. The works will include:
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New Council Homes in Portsmouth
From an email to local residents sent by Cllr. Darren Sanders, Cabinet Member for Housing & Preventing Homelessness:
One of the really humbling parts of my role as Cabinet Member for Housing & Preventing Homelessness is getting to share actions this Liberal Democrat Council is taking to improve the lives of Portsmouth residents.
While continuing to invest in building new homes like at the award-winning Ivy Close, we're also buying back homes to help address the need for council housing in this city.
By March 2021 we'll have purchased 230 homes, nearly doubling the number of council properties outside housing estates. This would put us on track to purchase nearly 600 homes by April 2024 - representing homes for over a quarter of the people on the waiting list.
Sometimes we need to sell older properties, those with dysfunctional layouts or requiring too much work to reach modern housing standards. If we can't bring a property up to scratch, or renovate it into the type of properties we need, selling it on to fund purchasing suitable properties that are is absolutely the right thing to do.
The housing team are doing fantastic things to continue to provide homes Portsmouth people can afford. I'm immensely proud and want to thank them for their work.
I hope you agree with me that purchasing or building new homes is a much better way to answer the housing problems people are facing in this city
