Stop the Super Council

Protect our Community from Portsmouth Merger

A multi-billion-pound restructure that risks handing control of our schools, transport and planning to a distant authority.

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Map showing Portsmouth Super Council swallowing surrounding communities

What is the Super Council?

The Labour Government, supported by local Liberal Democrats, have put forward a plan to abolish all local councils, and Hampshire County Council, and create five new super councils.

That means moving our communities into an expanded Portsmouth super authority.

This plan would fundamentally redraw where our communities belong and would leave rural communities ignored by Portsmouth Labour and Liberal Democrats.

What the merger means for you

Thousands of new developments...

Portsmouth City Council has built only a fraction of its 2020–2040 housing target

13,603

Portsmouth's housing target, 2020–2040

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991

Built in Portsmouth since 2020

12,612

Homes Portsmouth still needs to find space for before 2040

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Planning overridden

Local committees replaced. High-density development forced onto villages and green belt.

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Schools & services

Education, social care and highways restructured under a distant urban authority.

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Your voice, diluted

Representation for rural and semi-rural communities will be substantially reduced. Our voices will count for less, and our priorities more easily ignored.

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Local investment, undermined

Tax revenue pooled centrally. Rural roads, village amenities and the character that protects what your area is worth — deprioritised.

This is Hampshire.
Not Portsmouth.

Our schools, services, transport links and community ties are rooted here. Forcing that change from the top down is completely out of step with what residents are saying.

Stop the Super Council