Our East Street traders are featured once again in tonight's Portsmouth News. "More businesses on East Street would be brilliant, because at the moment , there is not enough to walk down here for - and often when people come in they say they didn't even know we were here in the first place." For … Continue reading East Street – ‘There is not enough here’
Author: HCS Editor
June 23rd – Heritage at your feet
Since 2013 a group of volunteers has been looking after the cemeteries in New Lane, Eastern Road and Warblington. They are now the Friends of Havant Cemeteries (FoHC) and meet on the morning of the last Tuesday of each month to work on clearing and tidying the cemeteries, managing weeds, sowing wild flowers, and they also have … Continue reading June 23rd – Heritage at your feet
WDRA ‘The big lunch’ event
A very big 'thank you' to Jan Jenkins and the rest of the team at the Warblington and Denvilles Residents' Association for the invitation to a terrific community event today at the Stride Centre in Denvilles. The HCS stand attracted a lot of attention from a lot of friends, old and new. We never cease … Continue reading WDRA ‘The big lunch’ event
Website changes
With an increasing level of enthusiasm for the Society following the public meeting of April 26th, we've been looking at sharpening up our communications. First in line is the website, the old version of which had served well for a few years but has recently been showing its age. For this refresh, we've stuck with … Continue reading Website changes
Bedhampton Forty Acres – the former ‘Strawberry fields’
While this is outside the immediate town centre area of Havant, this is a new planning application that will concern many residents of the Havant area. For those of us who have lived in the town for many years, the site is the former Bedhampton Fruit Farm, home of the PYO Strawberry fields that our … Continue reading Bedhampton Forty Acres – the former ‘Strawberry fields’
HCS Committee Meeting – 23rd May 2018
A committee meeting was held on May 23rd, the minutes can be found at this link.
Havant Signal Box – inaugural meeting, 18th May, 2018
A meeting of committee and members interested in the potential project to restore the signal box took place on May 18th. The minutes of this meeting can be found at this link.
Havant Retailers in the ‘News’
Havant town centre retailers voice their comments on the increasingly derelict state of the town centre in this Portsmouth News article.
St Faith’s Church landscaping project
At the public meeting on April 26th, Rev'd David Morgan, assistant curate from St Faith's Church, gave an introduction to the intriguing proposal to redevelop the grounds of the church at the heart of the town. The intention, currently still at an early draft stage, is to open the use of the churchyard, not just … Continue reading St Faith’s Church landscaping project
Colt site, New Lane
This outline application is for the Colt site, which isn’t in St Faiths and is more of general interest, though it may well have some effect on the southern end of New Lane. To view the planning application, please take the following link: APP/18/00244
Havant Civic Society 