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Despite the article above by Liberal Democrat Hampshire County Councillor, David Simpson, in their local newsletter, it has emerged that the local Liberal Democrats are split on the issue of a Winchfield New town.
Mr, Simpson opposed a new town at Winchfield in the strongest possible terms. However, Hart District councillor, Graham Cockarill, in an email to another Hart resident has supported the concept of a new town and come out in favour of Winchfield as his preferred option saying, “it does appear to me that, again on balance, Winchfield is the better option”.
Interestingly, at the council meeting last week, Liberal Democrat party leader on Hart District Council, Dave Neighbour denied all knowledge of David Simpson’s article when asked about it by We Heart Hart. Since then neither he nor any other of the Lib Dem councillors we emailed with the article have replied to our question asking if they supported David Simpson’s position.
It looks like a split is opening up in the Lib Dems. It seems quite astonishing that many of the councillors pictured in the newsletter don’t actually agree with the main article published there.
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