Landscape

A selection of local woodlands and areas maintained by conservation volunteers in the borough

Link to external site to Chichester Harbour Conservancy AONB guidelines. The council consults the conservancy on all planning applications within the AONB boundary and also those applications on, or just outside, of the boundary that are visible from within the AONB.

The Gazebo Garden in Havant is a listed building. This page has details of the garden, it's plants and history

The report contains an analysis of the landscape character of the proposed strategic and local gaps in the borough; their function, selection criteria and boundaries. Potential development sites are also identified within the gaps and their suitability for development evaluated

Terra Firma landscape consultants were commissioned to undertake a masterplanning exercise for Hayling Island Seafront. Responses to the consultation are now available here

Previous environmental enhancement schemes in the borough

The Hampshire Landscape Checklist is a developer's guide to submission requirements.

Havant Borough Council, jointly with Hampshire County Council and the Countryside Agency, appointed consultants to undertake an integrated landscape character assessment of the borough. This study is part of an initiative to foster a better understanding of the variety of historic, landscape, ecological, social, economic and cultural factors that have created the distinctive character of the borough

The council designed and implemented a number of strategic projects and schemes as part of the £3.7m Liveability Fund grant awarded to the council in 2004

The study is a report on the relative sensitivity of 15 landscape character areas outside of the urban areas of the borough's mainland and Hayling Island. It forms part of the landscape evidence base for the Local Development Framework