Report: Full Council March 17th 2026
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
We take a look at the highs and lows, the points of argument, the areas of agreement at Tuesday’s full meeting of Portsmouth City Council.
In the last full council ahead of May’s local elections - which were the agenda items that passed or did not?
11a Cross border taxi licensing & passenger safety (Reform - Strudwick & Madgwick) 🚕
11b (Removing) Council of Sanctuary (Reform - Madgwick & Standen) 🆘
11c Depaving in Portsmouth (Labour - Smyth & Fielding) 🛣
11d Pride in our high sts. (Labour - Fielding & Adeniran) 🛒
11e Supporting our Veterans (Lib Dems - Pitt & Sanders) 🎖
11f Public Health grant for substance misuse support & treatment (Lib Dems - Winnington & Horton) 🏥
12.1 How does the council make sure it doesn't use banking institutions with investments in armaments? (🔴Cllr Smyth to 🔶Cllr Ian Holder - Chair governance & audit & standards Committee)
12.2 Provide update regarding planned traffic & road safety schemes across the city including backlogs. (🔴Cllr Feilding to 🔶Cllr Peter Candlish - Cabinet Member for Traffic & Transportation)
12.3 What progress on improving recycling rates vs the rest of the country? (🔴Cllr Smyth to 🔶Cllr Dave Ashmore - Cabinet Member for environmental services)
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we discuss matters of national, |
| 0:06.4 | international and local importance in a calm, measured and reasonable way to get to the heart of the matter. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury. So welcome back to the show, everyone. |
| 0:20.9 | Today we're inside Portsmouth City Council's latest full council meeting, the last one |
| 0:27.4 | actually before the local elections in May. |
| 0:29.4 | So on the agenda, there's the usual public deputations, the bringing of residents' voices |
| 0:34.5 | straight into the chamber, few key formal businesses like some |
| 0:40.0 | declarations and some reappointments that were from an appointment that was made actually |
| 0:46.5 | in the last meeting and a packed set of emotions and debates tackling local priorities. |
| 0:51.4 | So from the issues residents are raising to the political arguments playing out |
| 0:55.3 | between councillors. This is where the decisions are challenged, shaped and sometimes |
| 1:00.9 | contested, although occasionally harmonious agreement does break out. So this is, this is where we'll |
| 1:07.9 | break down, who spoke, what was said, and what it all means for Portsmouth. |
| 1:11.6 | So welcome to the show. |
| 1:12.8 | Well, indeed, yes. |
| 1:13.9 | And those who might be on the more cynical edge of the political spectrum might wonder whether in the last full council before the election happens, whether there is leaflet fodder in there simon we may have |
| 1:30.7 | seen it before we ask the council to solve world hunger and they voted against it because they |
| 1:38.9 | said they couldn't do it they want the small children to starve so um we will keep half an ear open for that just to see whether anything has a whiff of disingenuousness about it. But no, it's full councils are always worth a look. And let's see whether any questions get asked and whether any get answered. |
| 2:01.9 | Unlike our ill-fated prime ministers, I'm not answering the questions show on Wednesday. |
| 2:10.4 | Well, yeah, we could all be having questions and answers, but you can ask a question |
| 2:14.0 | and I'll answer something completely different. |
| 2:18.9 | If you're watching in portrait and want to watch in landscape, you can. I'll be sharing the links. Likewise, |
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