If you've been traveling into Portsmouth recently - or more specifically around Portsea Island - you cannot fail to have noticed the ongoing work on design and development of new sea defences. While this is well outside our area, the problem of global sea level rise and the rapidly decaying state of sea defences along … Continue reading Langstone Sea Defences
Category: Community
£25 Million Health and Housing Scheme Falls Through
Seven years ago planning consent was given for a new community hospital on the old Oak Park School site in Havant. The new unit would have provided a range of services including older people’s beds, replacing those at the Emsworth Victoria Cottage Hospital and Havant War Memorial hospital after they both closed. Despite planning consent … Continue reading £25 Million Health and Housing Scheme Falls Through
Litter vandals are on the loose in Havant Town Centre!
On most days, purple bags of litter are stacked for collection by Norse, Havant Borough Council's operations management organisation. Sometimes up to twenty bags are stacked against the Bulbeck Wall, near Santander Bank, often left overnight. Regularly, paper, food and other detritus of all sorts, is strewn across the grass verge, pavement and road. In … Continue reading Litter vandals are on the loose in Havant Town Centre!
Development Consultation Forum on Housing to the north of Bartons Road
Today's Development Consultation Forum at the Havant Plaza gave us the first sight of an outline proposal for around 90 new homes on land immediately west of The Oaks crematorium. The presentation, by planning consultants engaged by the land owner, White Farming Ltd., aka Southleigh Estate, highlighted the fact that a considerable amount of work … Continue reading Development Consultation Forum on Housing to the north of Bartons Road
39 West Street – Shouldn’t HBC practice what they preach?
One of today's responses to the HSBC / Pizza takeaway planning application had me running for the search engines to find the source, and here it is. Dating from as recently as November 2017, the HBC 'Healthy Borough Assessment' is well worth a read. The whole of Section 3 - Planning and Health - is … Continue reading 39 West Street – Shouldn’t HBC practice what they preach?
Havant Park – in the News
Following on from our earlier piece, the parlous state of the children's recreation area in Havant Park is covered in the Portsmouth News today. Take this link to read the article. For the latest response from Havant Borough Council, take a look at the online petition which can be found here.
Havant Park – Children’s play area
The Civic Society is concerned about the length of time it is taking to sort out the issues caused by tree roots in the play area in Havant Park. It is now likely that the play area will now have to be relocated. Part of the play area is now closed off and will not … Continue reading Havant Park – Children’s play area
The story behind the ‘new’ HCS logo
A few years ago, there was much soul searching among the committee members in our search for a new logo. The public were consulted, external branding expertise was sought and three designs were shortlisted for consideration. For some reason, lost in the mists of time, the one selected at an AGM never made it into … Continue reading The story behind the ‘new’ HCS logo
June 23rd celebrations in Havant
Saturday June 23rd was a day to remember in Havant, not just for us local residents, but also for two young residents of Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Tom (aged 5) and William (aged 3) landed at Heathrow at 7:00 am with their journalist mum ( a Fairfield School pupil from the era of Mrs. … Continue reading June 23rd celebrations in Havant
HCS response to recent News coverage
Reading the recent series of town centre articles in the local newspaper was very interesting, but in our opinion, The News had reported preconceived views of 'no hope' for Town Centre High Streets. That is unfortunate because there are successful shops and town centres. In Havant, for instance, Astares menswear in East Street, and Button … Continue reading HCS response to recent News coverage
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