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Southampton MPs urge city’s renters to ‘Know your Rights’ as new laws come into force from today

Post author By Satvir
Post date 01/05/2026

Southampton MPs have today hailed a landmark moment for renters in the city as new rights for tenants come into force.

Satvir Kaur, MP for Southampton Test, and Darren Paffey, MP for Southampton Itchen, are encouraging the thousands of renters in the city to make sure that they are aware of their new rights as a result of the government’s Renters Rights Act.

Under the new laws that come into force today:

Landlords will no longer be able to make evictions for no reason with a Section 21 notice, putting an end to revenge evictions for tenants who make legitimate requests for repairs or complaints about conditions.
Tenants cannot be made to pay rent more than one month in advance
Landlords can only put the rent up once a year and they must give at least two months’ notice. Tenants will also be able to go to a rent tribunal if they think the rent is too much.
It will be illegal to refuse tenants just because they receive benefits or have kids.

Councils are also being given new powers to crack down on rogue landlords. Landlords will still be able to get their properties back for clear and justifiable reasons – like selling up, moving in, or dealing with rent arrears and antisocial behaviour.

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What it means to have a Labour Council working with a Labour Government

Post author By Satvir
Post date 30/04/2026

Satvir Kaur MP with Leader of Southampton City Council, Councillor Alex Winning

It’s election time again, with one week to go until Southampton goes to the polls. You may have received your ballot papers already, if you vote by post. This time around, we’ll be choosing who we want representing us on our City Council.

It’s an important choice, and one that should be carefully considered, but it is a choice that I believe should always be made. The opportunity to vote is a fundamental human right and one that has been hard fought for by many. Decisions made by politicians have an enormous impact on our lives, whether taken at a national level – by the Government and by MPs – or at a local level, by councillors and the local Executive.

For the first time in a very long time, we have a Labour Council in Southampton working hand-in-hand with a Labour Government in Westminster. The benefits of this partnership cannot be overstated and, for the first time since 2010 – when Conservative and Lib Dem austerity took a wrecking ball to city coffers – we are seeing local authorities receive funding based on local need. With Labour, money allocated to councils is tied to local levels of deprivation, rather than favouring a particular political stripe, as we suffered previously.

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Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board Chair announced as applications open for Board Members

Post author By Satvir
Post date 21/04/2026

It has been confirmed today that Joanna McNicholas has been appointed as the independent Chair for Redbridge & Millbrook West Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board.

Applications have also opened for local people to apply to be members of the Neighbourhood Board.

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The Pride in Place programme is a ten-year initiative focused on supporting communities to shape priorities for investment and improvement in their neighbourhoods. With £20 million to spend over the ten-year period, the Neighbourhood Board in Redbridge will be established to provide resident‑led investment decisions based on a co‑produced Pride in Place Plan for each area.

Neighbourhood Boards will bring together residents, businesses, grassroots organisations, community and faith groups, alongside local public sector partners, to help shape a shared vision for their area and agree priorities for future investment. Board membership is voluntary.

Applications for Neighbourhood Board membership are open until 11.59pm on Sunday 3rd May. Further information about the role, eligibility criteria and how to apply is available here.

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Southampton MPs join Council Leader in welcoming announcement that Northam Rail Bridge and A326 schemes given green light

Post author By Satvir
Post date 26/03/2026

Heidi Alexander MP, Secretary of State Transport

The Government has announced this morning that funding for schemes to replace the failing Northam Rail Bridge and to improve the A326 Marchwood Bypass corridor have been approved.

Both schemes have now been given the green light to progress as part of the Department for Transport’s third Road Investment Strategy and Major Road Network review, published today. Heidi Alexander, Secretary of state for Transport, gave a statement to the House of Commons this morning, announcing the strategy and setting out details.

The scheme at Northam Rail Bridge will see provision of a new, widened, replacement bridge on the A3024 corridor in Southampton, and the A326 scheme will see improvements made to the Marchwood Bypass corridor, connecting into the M27 at Junction 2 and serving the Waterside area of the New Forest.

Tags a326, alex winning, darren paffey mp, department for transport, heidi alexander, improvements, labour government, leader of the council, major road network review, member of parliament, mp, northam rail bridge, road investment strategy, satvir kaur, southampton, southampton city council, southampton itchen, southampton test

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Satvir welcomes fly-tipping crackdown with Labour’s new Waste Crime Action Plan

Post author By Satvir
Post date 20/03/2026

The Government has today launched its new Waste Crime Action Plan – the toughest ever crackdown on illegal waste – backed by an additional £45 million for the Environment Agency to pursue fly-tippers and organised criminal gangs across England.

Waste crime costs the economy £1 billion every year, with nearly 1.3 million incidents of fly-tipping recorded last year alone.

In Southampton it is a huge problem, with the city recording over 12,000 separate incidents of fly-tipping in the year 2024-25, and areas such as Newtown and Portswood hit particularly hard.

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Southampton small businesses hosted at ministerial roundtable

Post author By Satvir
Post date 19/03/2026

Earlier in March, a group of Southampton small businesses met with Blair McDougall MP, Minister for Small Business and Economic Transformation, at a roundtable meeting hosted in parliament by two of Southampton’s MPs.

The meeting was arranged by Satvir Kaur MP, Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, and Darren Paffey MP, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, in response to conversations had with Southampton small businesses – a number of whom had expressed an interest in speaking directly to ministers about key issues within their sector.

Make it Magic, Mettricks Southampton, and Alaplas Coffee were amongst the businesses attending the high-level meeting, and other attendees included Councillor Alex Winning, Leader of Southampton City Council, and Stephen Mannion, Chief Executive of Go! Southampton.

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Apply to be Chair of the Pride in Place Board

Post author By Satvir
Post date 16/02/2026

Really excited to share that applications are now open for Chair of the Redbridge and Millbrook Estate Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board!

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Deadline for applications: Sunday 1 March

This is an incredible opportunity for someone passionate about the area to help deliver this ground-breaking project, backed by £20 million in funding from the Labour government.

Recruiting our Chair marks a massive step forward as they will be absolutely pivotal to the project, both in driving activity and convening a board that is truly representative of the community and anyone with the experience, vision and local connection should definitely put their name forward and apply.

You’ll be playing a leading role in a transformative project that will ultimately build a stronger, fairer future for Redbridge and the Millbrook Estate.

Good luck to all who apply!

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Southampton Test families see £1,670 drop in annual mortgage costs since the election

Post author By Satvir
Post date 09/01/2026

Families in Southampton Test are more than £1,670better off when taking out a typical mortgage since Labour came to office, new analysis has found.

A household taking out a new, representative, mortgage on a £260,000 house in December 2025 – the median price in Southampton Test – will pay £1,670a year less than they if they took out an identical mortgage in June 2024, at the time of the election.

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Satvir Kaur MP welcomes £84.6 million cash injection for Southampton City Council to boost local services

Post author By Satvir
Post date 18/12/2025

Satvir Kaur MP has welcomed the Labour Government’s announcement that Southampton City Council will get a £84.6 million cash injection for essential services – a 32% increase in the Council’s spending power. Under the Tories, local authorities were starved of investment, with core spending power down by around a quarter since 2010. That put immense pressure on councils up and down the country, including Southampton City Council. But the Labour Government has announced a radical overhaul of how local government is funded, reversing Rishi Sunak’s cheap political efforts to put money into wealthy shires and Tory seats.

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Delivering books to children as part of Christmas literacy campaign

Post author By Satvir
Post date 18/12/2025

Satvir Kaur, Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, joined Business in the Community this week to deliver books to local children as part of BIC’sChristmas Books Campaign, an annual initiative that tackles low literacy rates by ensuring children in deprived areas receive books to enjoy and to help build reading confidence.

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