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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 2 – Focus on
mainland
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Option 2 – Focus of employment on the mainland, with some on
Hayling and at Emsworth.
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- Will provide employment opportunities at Emsworth and Hayling,
reducing the need to commute from those areas.
- Will provide a diverse range of sites and locations and improve
flexibility of work.
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- Will entail the loss of land currently separating the
mainland settlements in the Havant and Emsworth Gaps.
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- Loss of countryside could be compensated by development
delivering nature conservation and public access improvements in
mitigation.
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Option 2 – Focus of new housing on Havant, Waterlooville and
Emsworth.
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- All options will deliver homes to meet housing need in the
Borough.
- Will locate housing in areas served by a range of public
transport modes.
- Will reduce the chances of having to develop on sites of
importance for nature conservation.
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- Will reduce the amount of land which separates the mainland
settlements in the Havant and Emsworth Gaps.
- Lack of urban extensions will reduce opportunities for
affordable housing on Hayling Island.
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- 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 2 – Focus of new shopping facilities at Havant Town
Centre, Waterlooville Town Centre and out-of-centre
development.
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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.
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- Out of centre development could damage the viability of
existing centres.
- Will not reduce the need to travel off Hayling Island for
shopping.
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- Public transport may be improved at out of centre sites.
- 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 2 – Focus of tourism development on Hayling Island, the
harbours, Havant Town Centre and Havant Thicket Reservoir.
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- Additional tourism will boost the Borough’s economy and
employment.
- Development on Hayling would promote its history and
environment.
- Development around the harbours would promote the natural
environment.
- Development at Havant Thicket would promote the natural
environment and provide additional recreation facility.
- Development at Havant Town Centre would promote business
tourism and may encourage business growth in the Borough.
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- Transport to Hayling Island is likely to be car-dominated.
- Development along the harbours could potentially have serious
adverse 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.
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Option 2 – Cumulative effects of proposals for employment,
housing, shopping and tourism.
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- Greater employment opportunities on Hayling would reduce
the need to travel off the Island.
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- Out-of centre location for retail least accessible from
Emsworth and Hayling.
- Will entail the loss of land currently separating the mainland
settlements.
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