Following the January 2026 Development Consultation Forum, Bloor Homes’ outline application for the Southleigh site is now live on Havant Borough Council’s planning portal.
For those wanting the headline facts:
- The application seeks outline permission for up to 1,800 homes, together with a local centre, a three-form-entry primary school, and associated open space and infrastructure.
- It was received on 12 May 2026 and validated on 3 June 2026.
- It is currently on track for a delegated decision – in other words, determined by a planning officer under delegated authority, rather than being taken to Planning Committee. The scheduled decision date shown on the planning portal is 23 September 2026.
- Because the application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement, it falls under the Environmental Impact Assessment regulations, which set out specific requirements for how long the application must be publicised before a decision can be made.
As of this post, the application had not yet appeared on HBC’s weekly list of new planning applications, despite having been validated some weeks earlier.
We’re seeking clarification from the Council on the publicity timeline and will update this post once we have it.
What HCS is doing
The planning application is supported by a very substantial technical evidence base – the Environmental Statement and Transport Assessment alone run to many hundreds of pages, before you get to the supporting appendices. We’ve been working through this material in detail since it was published, alongside everything raised at January’s DCF and in the years of Southleigh coverage before it. That review is ongoing, and we intend to submit a full written response before the consultation closes.
We won’t be publishing our detailed technical findings here ahead of that formal submission – partly because the review isn’t finished, and partly because a considered, evidenced submission to the Council carries more weight than a preview of our thinking.
What we can say is that the transport case is, unsurprisingly, the area receiving the closest attention, given everything residents and councillors raised at the DCF about road capacity, the Warblington level crossing, and the cumulative impact of other development in the area.
What you can do now
If you have views on the application – on traffic, on infrastructure, on the loss of the site as open countryside, on anything else – the most effective thing you can do is register them directly with Havant Borough Council through the planning portal, referencing the application number. Press the button below to view the planning application and to make your comment.
When the page opens, look for the ‘Comment’ button and press it.
Comments made now, while the application is live, carry more weight in the decision-making process than views expressed afterwards. If you attended the DCF and haven’t yet turned your feedback into a formal comment on the application itself, now is the time – DCF feedback and the formal planning consultation are treated as two separate things by the Council.
We’ll publish further updates as we have more to report, including when we know the date(s) and once our own submission has gone in. In the meantime, if you spot anything on the planning application that looks like it needs wider attention – documents that seem to be missing, dates that don’t add up, anything of that sort – let us know via the HCS contact form.