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Christchurch Loos Awards

Christchurch has been voted the third best local authority in the UK for the standard of its public toilets, in the Loo of the Year Awards.

Christchurch has now gone up from seventh place last year to third place in the Premier League and has also recieved a Standard of Excellence Award in the Champions League.

In addition to these accolades, Two Riversmeet Leisure Centre was named Category Winner for England in the Leisure Recreation category and Highcliffe Castle also gained a 5 star award.

News item dated 15 January 2010

Return of the Highcliffe Weekly Market

The Highcliffe weekly market makes a welcome return on Friday 16th October. The market will be every Friday 9am - 3pm in the Globe Inn car park, Lymington Road, Highcliffe and will be a general market with an emphasis on local produce.

News item 12 October 2009

Results of the Prize Raffle Draw held on Saturday 26th September 2009 at 1pm at Place Mill:

Throughout the season raffle tickets have been sold to win a piece of beautiful embroidery that has been on display at Place Mill. The draw was held on Sat 26th Sept and attended by the Mayor. The lucky winning ticket was No.65 belonging to a Mrs S Lonergan of Preston, Lancs. Many thanks to all those who took part in the draw in helping to raise funds for The Mill.

News item 30 September 2009

Good Result for Christchurch Tourism Information Centre

The CIC recently took part in the Enjoy England Official Partner Mystery Shopper Programme 2009 and did particularly well scoring 86%. The programme is carried out by assessors from VisitEngland's Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Scheme and is conducted between mid May and the end of July. They assessed responses to: telephone enquiries; email enquiries and a visit to each TIC.
A summary of their findings showed: "This TIC was clearly signed....a well run centre....busy on the day of the visit, there were no actual queues....staff, polite and courteous, displayed a good level of local knowledge and were helpful, going out of their way to help visitors....there was a real attempt to sell the benefits of the area.... an excellent display of events taking place in the area in July.....email reply was received promptly by lunchtime on the same working day, offering the potential visitor the encouragement to proceed straightaway. The email was professional in all respects - well laid out, clear, easy to read and understand, and most importantly, provided specific answers to the questions raised. Web links provided were relevant to the enquiry......".

News item 16 September 2009

STANPIT MARSH INFORMATION CENTRE WINS INTERNATIONAL AWARD

The information centre at Stanpit Marsh, opened in September 2008, has won an International Green Apple Award for the built environment and architectural heritage. Designers of the Centre, White Design, entered the building for the awards and were delighted to receive the Gold Award in the Support Services category. This is the second major award for the Information Centre, having been named Best Sustainable Development at the Local Authority Building Control South West Regional Building Excellence Awards earlier this year. The Centre provides information and displays about wildlife on the marsh. Environmental features include wind and solar power, a filtered water supply from rainwater and a composting toilet. The Council commissioned the building and funded it, along with contributions form the Friends of Stanpit Marsh.

News item 1 September 2009