Fareham
Fareham Library Move Backed, but County Sets Conditions
Hampshire has backed moving Fareham Library within the shopping centre, in principle only. Nothing is binding, and the old building is the fallback.
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Fareham
Fareham Christmas lights: Sat 21 Nov, on at 5.30pm
Fareham's lights come on at 5.30pm on Saturday 21 November 2026 under the West Street bandstand, with the day's event from 10am. Whiteley's is 5 December.
Fareham
Fareham panto 2026: Jack and the Beanstalk, from £16
Fareham Live's panto runs 11 December to 3 January, with Anne Hegerty as the villain. The £16 seats cover three performances only. Every date and price.
Food
Fareham Food Hygiene Ratings: No Zeros in 804 Venues
Not one food business in Fareham borough holds a zero rating. 618 of 721 rated venues have five stars, and 12 sit at two or below. The full list is here.
Planning
Warsash Affordable Homes Dropped for £452,285 Payment
No housing association would buy the five affordable homes at 75 Church Road, Warsash. Councillors are asked on 9 September to take £452,285 instead.
Fareham
Fareham Remembrance Sunday: 8 Nov, five roads shut
Remembrance Sunday 2026 is 8 November. Fareham's parade and service at the war memorial, the five roads that shut until noon, and when the council confirms.
Business
Fareham Christmas Pop-Up: Local Makers in Vacant Unit
A vacant unit in Fareham Shopping Centre becomes Flo's Pop-Up, trading every weekend from November to Christmas. The council's own footfall data explains why.
Fareham
Fareham Civic Offices: £4.7m Patch-Up, Not a £25m Fix
Fareham's council HQ needs £4.73m of repairs, decided on 7 September. A full refurbishment would exceed £25m, so the failed cooling plant stays on hire.
Fareham
Fareham Freedom March: £30,000 Farewell Set for Summer 2027
Fareham Borough Council decides on 7 September whether to spend £30,000 on a Freedom March and a free heritage day in summer 2027, before the borough ends.
Planning
Fareham Local Plan 2044: Have Your Say by 2 October
Fareham's new Local Plan to 2044 is open for comment until 2 October, and the Call for Sites until 31 October. What the council's own evidence shows.
Fareham
Fareham House Prices Rise 0.8% as Flats Fall £1,858
The average Fareham home hit £328,364 in June, up £2,623 in a year. Flats fell £1,858, detached houses ended the year £29 down, and Havant is closing the gap.
Titchfield
Fareham traveller site refused at 221 Titchfield Road
A retrospective traveller caravan site at Chestnut Paddocks, Titchfield, was refused on 14 August. Fareham's own plan owes three pitches, and the one site it allocated needed an appeal to get permission.
Fareham
Oast and Squire: Fareham pub refurbishment approved
Planning permission and listed building consent were both granted on 14 August for a full refit of the Grade II listed Oast and Squire on Peak Lane, inside and out.
Fareham sits at the top of Portsmouth Harbour, between Southampton one way and Portsmouth the other, with Portchester and its castle to the east, Titchfield and Warsash on the Meon and the Solent shore, and Stubbington and Hill Head facing the water. Waterlooville is inland to the north east, and Emsworth and Hayling Island are further round the coast again.
Fareham News covers that stretch. Not all of it is one council: Fareham Borough Council answers for the town and the villages around it, while Waterlooville, Emsworth and Hayling Island come under neighbouring districts, and we name the right authority in every story. Everything we publish comes from the published record, with a link to the document each time.
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- Fareham house prices: the middle home sold for £343,000, from £455,000 in Hook-with-Warsash down to £250,000 in Fareham Town ward, worked out sale by sale from the Land Registry.
- Trains to London: about 1h47 direct to Waterloo, £6,860 a year for a season ticket, and the last train home.
- Roadworks and travel: what is closed now, and where the £100m M27 junction 10 rebuild has got to.
- Planning news: the borough can show 2.99 years of housing land against a five-year requirement, and what that changes.
- Things to do in Fareham: verified prices and opening times, from free Fort Nelson to £12 Portchester Castle.
- News and What’s On for the week.
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