Updated - 11 February 2022Updated - 17 February 2022 - Added link to Planning Committee decision analysisUpdated - 18 February 2022 - Added discussion of 'new' Amazon delivery model By the time you've finished reading this, you should be much better placed to judge whether or not the Officers and elected representatives of both Havant … Continue reading Amazon Havant – HCS brings you the facts that HBC considered irrelevant
That New Lane planning application – In the News today
There's a double bill of content in today's print edition of the News. Firstly Toby Paine's article, which has unfortunately been edited for the print edition and in the process, has lost a significant sentence from the original online edition published on 27-1-2022. (See HCS post from the same day) To read the full text, … Continue reading That New Lane planning application – In the News today
Latest update on Amazon from ‘The News’
There's a good piece by Toby Paine in Today's News - online edition. (Click the image to read) When the original planning application was approved in September 2021, regular readers will recall that HBC Planning Services attached a number of carefully worded planning conditions. The most significant of these required that traffic counters be placed … Continue reading Latest update on Amazon from ‘The News’
An Extraordinary Cabinet meeting with a lot of added boosterism
At this afternoon's brief Extraordinary Council Meeting, Cllr. Satchwell likened the split with East Hants District Council (EHDC) to "a de-coupling, a divorce, or 'other things'", but suffice to say, in less than ten minutes, we witnessed an extraordinary degree of upbeat boosterism from the Leader as the Cabinet listened attentively, debated in 'the usual … Continue reading An Extraordinary Cabinet meeting with a lot of added boosterism
Amazon’s* white vans, parking on a street near you next year
On 9 September last year, the Planning Committee approved the demolition of the Pfizer site at 32 New Lane and its replacement by an Amazon distribution centre. HCS and the New Lane Residents had argued long and hard that the traffic numbers on which the application was based were completely unsound, a fact that any … Continue reading Amazon’s* white vans, parking on a street near you next year
The Gazebo Garden receives a grant from Hampshire County Council
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
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