Hampshire County Council Future Services Consultation

The consultation featured 13 service change proposals. Together these could contribute around £17.5 million towards the overall required savings while ensuring that the Local Authority continues to meet the statutory duties it is required by law to carry out. Respondents could share their views on some, or all of them, as they preferred.

You can read more about each proposal:

• Adult social care charges
• Adult social care grant schemes
• Competitive (one-off) grant schemes
• Hampshire Cultural Trust grant
• Highways maintenance 
• Highways winter service 
• Homelessness Support Services
• Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs)
• Library stock
• Passenger transport
• Rural countryside parking
• School Crossing Patrols
• Street lighting

Consultation analysis

The consultation received almost 14,000 responses via the consultation response form, and over 400 emails and letters.

Of the responses submitted 13,952 were from individuals, 86 were from democratically Elected Representatives, and 275 from groups, organisations or businesses. The remaining respondents did not provide this information.

Insight Summaries

Written narratives of the key consultation findings for each proposal. They incorporate responses received via the response form, letters, emails and at the Hampshire Youth Forum workshop. Read these to help understand the overall view towards the proposal and its impacts, the drivers of agreement and disagreement, and what people feel we should be doing differently in each area.

Browse the Insight Summary documents

Data report

Visual high-level view of data submitted via the consultation response form in charts and tables, incorporating the closed tick box questions, the high level (macro) themes arising from the comments and data on who responded. The data is shown for each proposal at both an overall level and organised by key demographic groups.

View the Data Report

Data tables

An Excel file containing all the response form data in table format. Tables drill down to even more detail than the data report for both quantified comments (including sub-categories (micros)) and demographic comparisons. Counts (actuals) and percentages are provided.

View the Data Tables

Unstructured responses

Detail of the key themes arising from responses submitted via email or letter, and the views of the Hampshire Youth Forum gathered via a workshop held to gather feedback from local young people aged 11 to 18.

View the Unstructured Responses document (Microsoft PowerPoint file)

Decision process

The consultation findings were carefully considered alongside other relevant factors, including operational, financial, policy and legal considerations.

A total of seven Select Committee meetings were held in September 2024 where elected Members from across the County Council’s political parties reviewed the consultation results and officer recommendations, together with reports from the County Councillor task-and-finish groups on the consultation process and documents.

On 14 October 2024, Cabinet carefully considered the officers’ recommendations in the context of the consultation responses, the feedback from the Select Committees and deputations before making a collective final decision on each proposal.

Our press release summarises the Cabinet decisions, and the papers from each of these meetings are also available to view via the links provided below.