If you’re a patient, or the carer for a patient of the Bosmere Medical Practice in Solent Road, the post below applies to YOU.
In the past few days, many of you will have received a copy of the first letter shown below. It is a letter from HBC Planning Services which, in effect, announces their intention to bring this unfortunately long-drawn-out planning saga to a decision.
The letter on the left refers to the fact that there has been further information added to the planning application file. The two letters on the right are included in that further information and represent the most recent attempt to get recognition for the Bosmere Medical Centre as an interested and affected party. You can read the two letters below, but first we give a little background information.
Portsmouth Water’s intended planning application was first reported by HCS on 23 October 2019 – click the image below to read the report. This will set the scene since little has changed in the intervening five years, other than further growth in the list at the Bosmere Medical Practice which now stands at 20,000 patients.
(To read all previous HCS reports on this planning application, take this link to open the full set.)
Please do take the time to read through the two letters from the Bosmere Medical Practice Patient Participation Group (PPG) to Hampshire County Council Highways. The first is in response to a letter from Hampshire County Council Highways which focussed primarily on cycle and pedestrian access on and around Solent Road to new housing developments on other former Portsmouth Water land holdings. Click the image below to read the letter:
The Hampshire County Council Highways planning officer replied with a dismissive email, completely ignoring the important questions raised. The email text is quoted in the second letter from the PPG which you can read by clicking the next image:
Needless to say, the second letter went unanswered.
If the points raised in those two letters give you cause for concern about the process being followed by Havant Borough Council’s Planning Services and their transport planning peers at Hampshire County Council Highways, then press the button below to make your point clearly as a comment on the planning application file. You have until 13 November to do this.
For the avoidance of doubt, we have no particular objection to the proposed building but we have consistently expressed our deep concerns regarding the proposal for site access.
Those concerns were first presented to HBC Planning Services and Portsmouth Water’s agents at the pre-application Development Consultation Forum on 22 October 2019, seven months before the planning application was submitted and ten months before it was ‘Validated‘.
The question, which we’ll return to in future posts, is this:
“How is it that a planning application can be declared ‘Valid’, when the supporting documentation provided is neither ‘Sound’ nor ‘Accurate’?”
Havant Civic Society 