Havant Borough Townscape, Landscape and Seascape Character
Assessment (
LCA
)
| 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 Havant Borough. The study also
looks at the forces that
will be driving change in the Borough and the sensitivity of the
Borough’s landscape, townscape and seascape to change. |
 |
| Kirkham Landscape Planning Consultants (
KLPC
), Wessex
Archaeology and Countryscape consultants undertook a detailed
assessment and identified 16 landscape character types and 41
landscape character areas across the Borough
which included an
historic landscape character assessment, an analysis of the
principal settlements and settlement pattern and an assessment of
the ecology and biodiversity of the borough. |
 |
| The
LCA
is
a background document for the Local Development Framework
(
LDF
) and the
upcoming borough-wide Urban Design Guide which will be subject to
formal public consultation in due course. |
 |
| Click on the following links to view pdf maps of
the detailed assessments, the main report and appendices.
Please note some of these file are large and may take some time to
download. Acrobat reader required. |
 |
Historic Landscape Character
The Historic Landscape Character
Assessment identifies, at a detailed level, both
landscape and townscape historic
character types.
Landscape Character Types (
LCTs
)
The study classifies the Borough
into sixteen district landscape character types which
are defined by the overriding
geology, land form, and landscape, townscape and
seascape pattern.
Landscape Character Areas (
LCAs
)
The Borough is classified into forty
one distinctive landscape character areas.
SECTION 1:
SECTION 2:
FORMATIVE INFLUENCES ON THE
LANDSCAPE pdf - 2.6MB
SECTION 3:
PRESENT FORCES FOR CHANGE – BOROUGH
WIDE pdf - 323KB
SECTION 4:
A Pasture and Woodland (Heath
Associated)
B Lowland Settled Wooded Farmland
C Urban Lowlands
D Settled Chalk Ridge
E Urban Upper Harbour Plain
F Open Upper Harbour Plain
G Urban Lower Harbour Plain
H Open Lower Harbour Plain
I Enclosed Lower Harbour Plain
J Harbour Basin
K Harbour Mouth
L Broad Inlets
M Minor Inlets
N Lowland Coastal Settlement
O Lowland Open Coastal Plain
P Open Coast
SECTION 5:
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER
AREAS (
LCAs
)
TABLE pdf - 2.4MB
LCAs 1 -
7ii pdf - 13MB
LCA1 Waterlooville and historic
route
LCA2 Waterlooville western suburbs
LCA3 Woodcroft Farm
LCA4 Waterlooville Business Park
LCA5 Purbrook and Waterlooville – eastern
suburbs
LCA6 Purbrook
LCA7i Plant Farm south eastern
fields
LCA7ii Purbrook Heath
LCA8 A3 (M) corridor residential
area
LCA9 Waterlooville Golf Course
LCA10 Blendworth Common and
woodlands
LCA11 A3 (M) Eastern corridor
LCA12 Portsdown Hill
LCA13 Historic Bedhampton
LCA14 Havant historic core
LCA15 Bedhampton and Havant – north
western suburbs
LCA16 Leigh Park
LCA17 West Leigh
LCA18 West Leigh Industrial Estate
LCA19 Denvilles
LCA20 Staunton Country Park
LCA21 Southleigh Forest
LCA22 Southleigh agricultural plain
LCA23 New Brighton
LCA24 Emsworth – historic core
LCA25 Emsworth – western suburbs
LCA26 Warblington and Wade Court
LCA27 Langstone
LCA28 Brockhampton industrial area
LCA29 North Hayling
LCA30 Stoke and north west Hayling
LCA31 Central Hayling plain
LCA32 Langstone harbour
LCA33 Chichester harbour
LCA34 Sinah Common and the Kench
LCA35 West Town, Hayling Island
LCA36i South Hayling
LCA36ii Eaststoke
LCA37 Black, Sandy and Eastoke
Points
LCA38 Langstone harbour mouth
LCA39 South coast Hayling Island
LCA40 Chichester harbour mouth
LCA41 South Moor and Broadmarsh coastalpark
Appendices
Appendix A.pdf - 7.3MB
Methodology
Ecological Report
Historic Landscape Characterisation
Bibliography and References
List of Consultees
Glossary
Community Consultation Workshop Report
Developing Shared Values and Visions of the Havant Borough
Landscape
Countryscape May 2006
A consultation workshop was undertaken in follow-up to a
review of the characterisation phase of the Havant Borough
Landscape Character Assessment (
LCA
).