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Options
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Likely Positive Impacts
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Likely Negative Impacts
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Uncertain Impacts
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Option 1 – Concentration on Havant and
Waterlooville
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Option 1 – Concentration of employment at a single location in
the Havant Gap.
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- Should provide a range of additional services and facilities
for business and employees.
- Likely to have greatest impact in delivering new,
knowledge-based employment.
- Will maximise new employment opportunities next to areas with
highest levels of deprivation.
- Will minimise localised emission effects by ensuring traffic
uses the strategic road network.
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- Will do nothing to reduce commuting off Hayling Island or from
Emsworth.
- Will reduce the Havant Gap and separation of Havant and
Waterlooville.
- Likely to affect land currently covered by nature conservation
designations.
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- Loss of countryside could be compensated by development
delivering nature conservation and public access improvements in
mitigation.
- Larger developments could provide the opportunity for a
decentralised energy supply from renewables or low carbon energy
sources which could also be used by existing and proposed
developments.
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Option 1 – Concentration of new housing on Havant and
Waterlooville.
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- All options will deliver homes to meet housing need in the
Borough
- Will maximise the new market and affordable housing in greatest
area of housing need.
- Will locate housing in areas closest to main services and
facilities.
- Concentration makes it easier to provide new public transport
services.
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- Concentration of development will affect the Havant Gap and the
separation of Havant and Waterlooville.
- Lack of urban extensions will reduce opportunities for
affordable housing in other communities.
- Would almost certainly entail the loss of land between Havant
and Waterlooville currently covered by nature conservation
designations.
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- Loss of countryside could be compensated by development
delivering nature conservation and public access improvements in
mitigation.
- Larger developments could provide the opportunity for a
decentralised energy supply from renewables or low carbon energy
sources which could also be used by existing and proposed
developments.
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Option 1 – Concentration of new shopping facilities at Havant
and Waterlooville Town Centres
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- Development in the town centres will promote their vitality and
viability.
- Will provide a wider range of facilities within the town
centres.
- Will promote development on brownfield land, improving
efficiency in land use.
- Promote high quality design and enhance the built
environment.
- Will maximise development at locations best served by public
transport.
- The west of Waterlooville Major Development Area will improve
the vitality and viability of Waterlooville Town Centre.
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- Development may shift the centre of gravity of both centres
impacting on existing businesses.
- Will displace some existing employment uses.
- Will not reduce the need to travel off Hayling Island for
shopping.
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- Development may lead to more traffic congestion in the town
centres
- Larger units may displace local independent retailers.
- Infrastructure will be required to support public and private
transport to the enlarged town centres
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Option 1 - Concentration of tourism development on Hayling
Island and the harbours.
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- Additional tourism will boost the Island’s economy and
employment.
- Development on Hayling would promote its history and
environment.
- Development around the harbours would promote public enjoyment
of nature conservation sites.
- Development based on Hayling’s windsurfing heritage could
encourage sporting and recreational events.
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- Transport to Hayling Island is likely to be car-dominated.
- Development along the harbours could potentially have serious
impacts on European designated sites of nature conservation
importance.
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- The nature of public access and recreation provision along the
coast will be changed.
- Development will need to be carefully managed to minimise the
risk of flooding.
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Option 1 – Cumulative effects of proposals for employment,
housing, shopping and tourism.
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- Will concentrate jobs and housing in broad area most in need of
regeneration.
- Provides best opportunities to secure decentralised energy
supply from renewables or low carbon energy sources which could
also be used by existing and proposed developments.
- Most likely to secure infrastructure by way of mitigation.
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- Likely to affect the separation of Havant and Waterlooville and
the retention of their identities as separate settlements.
- No new retail or employment opportunities in Emsworth or
Hayling Island, increasing the need to travel.
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- Requirements may exceed transport infrastructure
capacity.
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