We are pleased to report that our local County Councillor for Emsworth & St Faith's, Cllr Lulu Bowerman, has approved our application for a grant to support Havant Civic Society’s work to maintain and enhance the Havant Gazebo Garden. A total of £1,000 has been received, which will be used to update and reprint visitor … Continue reading The Gazebo Garden receives a grant from Hampshire County Council
An unexpected end to ‘Shaping the Future’
The uncomfortable relationship between East Hants District Council (EHDC) and Havant Borough Council has come to an end, it seems. The two local authority regions always made strange bedfellows and the 'non-merger' resulted in some questionable deliverables, the converged constitution, the Shaping our Future initiative being just two recent examples. Quite what it will mean … Continue reading An unexpected end to ‘Shaping the Future’
The HCS Website – An introduction
Havant Civic Society has maintained an online presence since 2012, and since the website was re-written in 2018 has become our main medium for communication with our loyal members and contacts. With new posts published on average once a week, most also broadcast on the Society's Facebook page. There is a rich archive of over … Continue reading The HCS Website – An introduction
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
Havant Regeneration, another year goes by
In the last twelve months, HCS has had little or no productive engagement with the HBC Regeneration Team and general frustration with the programme is starting to turn to disillusionment. It seems barely a year since we posted this account of the Regeneration Update from November 2020. Listening again to the recordings in that post … Continue reading Havant Regeneration, another year goes by
Kingsbridge attempts to strip Havant Borough Council of control over the traffic generated by its widely rumoured Amazon distribution centre
Kingsbridge Estates have raised another planning application in an attempt to remove or cripple key planning conditions placed on the approval for its proposed Amazon Delivery Centre at the former Pfizer site at 32 New Lane. The conditions in question are those deliberately drafted by Havant Borough Council's planning officers to enable them to manage … Continue reading Kingsbridge attempts to strip Havant Borough Council of control over the traffic generated by its widely rumoured Amazon distribution centre
Langstone Park – Pre-planning consultation available
As part of "their commitment to community engagement", the project team has arranged a virtual public exhibition to provide you with an opportunity to view their draft masterplan for Langstone Park and provide your comments, prior to the submission of a planning application to Havant Borough Council. What the new master plan appears to be … Continue reading Langstone Park – Pre-planning consultation available
The reasons why HBC must stick to its guns over the New Lane ‘last mile delivery centre’
A new planning application has been raised for the former Pfizer site at 32 New Lane: APP/21/01244 | Variation of condition No's 4 (Operational Management Plan), 9 (Livery/Branding), 10 (Traffic Monitoring) and 28 (Employment and Skills Plan) of planning permission APP/21/00200 and the introduction of a new Community Liaison Strategy Condition. | 32 New Lane, Havant, PO9 2NG The … Continue reading The reasons why HBC must stick to its guns over the New Lane ‘last mile delivery centre’
32 New Lane – An important update
If you made a comment on the contentious Planning Application for the 'last mile delivery centre' at New Lane, you will have received a letter in the past couple of days from HBC notifying you of a new planning application for the site. This is because Kingsbridge Estates have submitted a new application to make … Continue reading 32 New Lane – An important update
Stop Press ‘The Local Plan’: The Planning Inspector has spoken
"It is clear that the consultation did not comply with the Act and there is an unknown possibility that some party or parties could have been prejudiced. Consequently, there is a risk that the plan could be vulnerable to legalchallenge at adoption. The way to lessen this risk, by reducing the risk of prejudice, would … Continue reading Stop Press ‘The Local Plan’: The Planning Inspector has spoken
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