Wilf Forrow, HIRA member and campaigner for Cycle Hayling, provides these notes following HIRA's Public Meeting last night when we held an impromptu meeting to share coastal erosion concerns. Anne Skennerton, Chair of HIRA, invited Andy Pearce and Adam Sennitt, 2 Coastal Engineers from Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership to the Meeting in order for them to hear and answer residents' concerns on this issue. ESCP speakers invited to respond to questions on ESCP & HBC current po

Wilf Forrow, HIRA member and campaigner for Cycle Hayling, provides these notes following HIRA's Public Meeting last night when Mark Cubbon, CEO of NHS Portsmouth Hospitals Trust presented to and answered questions from a 100 strong audience. 2020-02-12 HIRA Public Meeting 7:30-9pm Hayling Island: Mark Cubbon. Chief Exec NHS Portsmouth Hospitals Trust. His Presentation notes as follows: QA is Portsmouth’s largest employer, 7,700 people, including Engie, PFI services company o

There is a free online Planning Portal News service editorial@planningportal.co.uk from which you can select the information you want. It recently drew attention to DEFRA's (Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) new 'Natural Capital Tool' online resource published 22 January 2020 to "guarantee 'better' environmental decision-making”. You can find it online: Gov.uk then type in DEFRA ENCA (enabling a natural capital approach - i.e. recognizing and ma

Last week HBC presented their re-vamped Regeneration strategy with a video for guests at a launch for Havant Town Centre. The Havant Civic Society (see their website) met with the Regeneration Team, headed up by Clare Chester. The main focus currently is the development on the car park near the Plaza and the Meridian Centre. It is important for all residents to visit HBC's website, input ‘Have with Havant’ with further links. Also click on this link’s top image ‘The Vision

For those of you who wish to 'show you care' the above gathering will take place outside HBC Plaza this coming Friday Feb. 14th 11am-2pm. Apparently this action is triggered by concern for: Havant's low percentage tree canopy, losing more than we plant each year ; poor comparative recycling levels down to 9,531 tonnes from previous 2 years (24,754 tonnes 2018-19); residential carbon emissions of 3.5 tonnes per resident; low level of sustainable local transport apparently Hav

At HBC Operations and Place Shaping Board's January 28th meeting, the problematic issue was discussed of how the Council can respond to the legal decisions about the need for Nutrient 'Neutrality' now affecting planning decisions. The following are the notes taken by me and another member of a mainland Havant Borough Resident's Association. HBC will of course publish their own Minutes - together with those Councillors & HBC staff present -and please note that the Board's d

Our forthcoming open Public Meeting gives you the opportunity to listen to and ask questions of our local NHS Hospitals Trust Chief Executive, Mark Cubbon. Please join us at the United Reformed Church, Hollow Lane 7:15 for 7:30pm sharp start; we conclude once all questions have been put or at the very latest 9:40pm. Those of us who regularly visit and value Hayling’s shorelines cannot help but notice their ever-increasing coastal erosion. Together with Eastern Solent Coastal