We visited the Bloor Homes event at the Stride Centre at lunchtime yesterday (Saturday) and were pleased to see the Stride Centre bustling with local folk. The potential developers had a good turnout for the Denvilles' leg of their two-day event, with similar feedback heard from the previous day's session at Emsworth Baptist Church. For … Continue reading First thoughts from the Bloor Homes Southleigh drop-in event
Category: Planning Services
The 2017 Southleigh Masterplan – For reference
Before you visit the Bloor Southleigh events - see previous post - you may want to familiarise yourself with the masterplan produced for Havant Borough Council in 2017. The document predates the slightly more recent 'preferred design' for a significantly descoped A27 link, which was published in 2018 and covered in this previous HCS post. … Continue reading The 2017 Southleigh Masterplan – For reference
Pre-planning News – Bloor Homes is forcing the pace at Southleigh
Bloor Homes, the Derbyshire based national house builder, is now pushing ahead with HBC Planning Services in the notorious 'Pre-planning' stage, the stage at which HBC typically dig themselves and the town into a large hole. Take note of the 'BloorSouthleigh' website, which will open in a new browser tab if you click the image … Continue reading Pre-planning News – Bloor Homes is forcing the pace at Southleigh
Planning Consultants and the TRICS of their trade
If you're a regular reader of the HCS blog, you'll be aware that major commercial planning applications invariably come with supporting documents from planning consultants. For large applications, transport-related documentation forms the core of the supporting material. Recent experience has suggested that this documentation is often used to argue, through countless densely printed pages and … Continue reading Planning Consultants and the TRICS of their trade
Havant Borough Council’s online data mapping service
While looking for the exact ward boundaries recently, I was surprised to come across a useful, but unpublicised, web service from Havant Borough Council. The post which follows gives a few examples of the views which can be constructed using the HBC implementation of Astun Technology's iShare service. Scroll on down and you'll be taken … Continue reading Havant Borough Council’s online data mapping service
New planning application puts Burger King back on the map
This week's planning list contains a seemingly innocuous planning application submitted by BKUK Group Limited, applying for an extension of trading hours to allow for 24 hour operation of its drive in/collection operation at Burger King in Park Road South. Google Streetview The company is also requesting that the operating hours for its restaurant be … Continue reading New planning application puts Burger King back on the map
Unadopted roads, ransom strips and the question of disputed ownership
A few weeks ago, we reported on the Planning Committee decision to approve Foreman Homes' proposal for the development of 120 homes on former Portsmouth Water land at Kingscroft Farm. Throughout that Planning Committee meeting, ‘ransom strips,’ ‘unadopted roads,’ and ‘disputed ownership’ were frequently mentioned, so we believe an explanation might be helpful. The task … Continue reading Unadopted roads, ransom strips and the question of disputed ownership
Crossland Drive residents – Frontline casualties of Planning Services failures
The brief video below was sent to Havant Civic Society by a resident of Crossland Drive. We passed it on to the management team at Amazon DPO1, the local ward councillors and the Hampshire County Council cabinet member for Highways, on 1 February 2025, for review and response as a matter of urgency. More than … Continue reading Crossland Drive residents – Frontline casualties of Planning Services failures
Portsmouth Water’s plan for 120 homes at Kingscroft Farm approved, despite opposition from Southern Water
You couldn't really make that headline up. To be fair, Portsmouth Water sold the land by auction a few years ago, leaving Foreman Homes with the challenge of building 120 homes in one of the least hospitable corners of Havant. Set between Flood Zone 1 and Flood Zone 3, alongside the constant road roar of … Continue reading Portsmouth Water’s plan for 120 homes at Kingscroft Farm approved, despite opposition from Southern Water
Public consultation on the controversial Campdown development site – Tuesday 11 March
We gather from Dandara's public relations consultant that his client is pushing to get the latest Campdown development proposal through Havant Borough Council's Planning Committee before May, taking advantage of the many global, national and local distractions to hide the news. Havant Borough Council, no doubt, will also want to get spades into the ground … Continue reading Public consultation on the controversial Campdown development site – Tuesday 11 March