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. Photo - courtesy Ann Buckley 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 … Continue reading Portsmouth Water’s ‘new HQ’ planning application nears decision after five years
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Posts relating to Portsmouth Water and its Havant landholdings
HCS Public Forum – 25 March 2024
On Monday evening, 25 March, HCS held a 'Public Forum' in St Faith's church with two invited members of Havant Borough Council's new executive management team, Alex Robinson, Director of Place, and Wayne Layton, Exec Head of Finance and Regeneration. We were all given a warm welcome by the Rector, Tom Kennar to whom Havant … Continue reading HCS Public Forum – 25 March 2024
Portsmouth Water’s recurring threat to Bosmere medical staff and patients
Various iterations of this same planning application have been causing concern for Bosmere Medical Centre staff and their nineteen thousand registered patients since October 2019, long before the Covid pandemic. The original planning application was submitted in partnership with Chancerygate, whose commercial incentive was the development of industrial / warehouse units sited to the west … Continue reading Portsmouth Water’s recurring threat to Bosmere medical staff and patients
The Portsmouth Water ‘New HQ’ planning application
It's back on the table - the Portsmouth Water 'New HQ' planning application proposed for Solent Road. Background - The original planning applicationThe changes published on 6 July 2023To comment on the amended planning application The wider picture Background - The original planning application On 18 May 2021, Chancerygate (Erdington) Limited, submitted a planning application … Continue reading The Portsmouth Water ‘New HQ’ planning application
Southern Water’s ‘water recycling’ proposal
Update - 23 January '23 If you missed the segments on today's BBC Radio Solent morning programme covering the Southern Water Water Recycling Proposal, you can find them, edited together, at this post. If you're keeping your eye on the local press at the moment, you will probably have seen news stories referring to Southern … Continue reading Southern Water’s ‘water recycling’ proposal
Havant Borough Council vs Southern Water?
As Havant Borough Council takes the gloves off, Solent Protection Society has been looking at what really should be done by the many regulatory bodies overseeing Southern Water, in order to demonstrate and monitor in real-time the scale of unauthorised effluent discharges from the 300+ CSOs across the wider Solent region. Please take a few … Continue reading Havant Borough Council vs Southern Water?
HCS ‘Open Community Forum’, 3 November at St. Faith’s church
Introduction This was the first, post-Covid HCS public meeting and given the audience response, we're considering making this a regular twice-yearly event. The meeting was held in St Faith's church, depicted in the HCS logo and located at the heart of the historic town centre. This beautiful Havant landmark offers the perfect space for a … Continue reading HCS ‘Open Community Forum’, 3 November at St. Faith’s church
‘Land at Palk Road’ Development Consultation Forum
The Development Consultation Forum is a platform for a developer to share their proposal with the council and interested community groups along with the public before moving onto the planning application stage. For further details of the objective of the Development Consultation Forum, look at the Havant Borough Council DCF page here. The good news … Continue reading ‘Land at Palk Road’ Development Consultation Forum
The Portsmouth Water and Southern Water plans to tear up Havant, beginning in 2022
[Updated January 7, 2022: Minutes of PW/Bosmere Medical Centre meeting now available on Planning Portal] This post gives an update on three major water utility projects which will be digging up the streets and fields near you in the coming months and years. The Havant based water utility companies both have major new development programmes … Continue reading The Portsmouth Water and Southern Water plans to tear up Havant, beginning in 2022
Portsmouth Water – Flooded with objections?
It seems that when we wrote this piece back on August 5, we were not alone in questioning the 'evidence' provided by Portsmouth Water's 'consultants'. Almost two weeks later, on August 17, the Environment Agency made the same point as a mandatory consultee: (Note*: It took a further week before this letter was loaded to … Continue reading Portsmouth Water – Flooded with objections?