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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 3
– Dispersal
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Option 3 – Dispersal
of employment across the Borough.
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- Will provide
additional employment opportunities across the Borough, reducing
the need to travel.
- Will reduce the
impact on the separation of settlements in the Havant and Emsworth
Gaps.
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- Smaller sites
are unlikely to provide a range of additional services and
facilities for businesses and employees.
- Smaller sites
may struggle to attract the employers necessary for a diverse and
knowledge-based economy.
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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 3 – Dispersal
of new housing across the Borough.
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- All options
will deliver homes to meet housing need in the Borough.
- Urban
extensions will provide a balance of market and affordable housing
to help meet the needs of communities throughout the
Borough.
- Will reduce the
impact on the separation of settlements in the Havant and Emsworth
Gaps.
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- Additional
housing more likely to be reliant on the private car.
- More, smaller
urban extensions will be less likely to support new public
transport services.
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- May entail the
loss of land between Havant and Waterlooville currently covered by
nature conservation designations.
- May help to
sustain local facilities and services.
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Option 3 – Dispersal
of new shopping facilities between Havant Town Centre,
Waterlooville Town Centre and the District Centres.
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- Will promote
vitality and viability of the Borough’s town and district
centres.
- Promoting the
retail function of the Borough’s centres reinforces their sense of
place as focal points for local communities.
- Will assist the
regeneration of the Borough’s older urban areas.
- Additional
shopping on Hayling will reduce the need to travel off the
island.
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- Will displace
existing commercial and residential uses.
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- New development
would have to be sympathetic to surroundings in the Borough’s older
shopping centres.
- Larger units
may displace local independent retailers.
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Option 3 – Dispersal
of tourism development across the Borough.
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- Additional
tourism will boost the Borough’s economy and
employment.
- Tourism
development will promote the Borough and build on its history and
distinctiveness.
- Dispersal of
development would promote a wider choice of tourist
facilities.
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- Does not
provide the opportunity to reinforce a sense of place for the
Borough and create a new destination.
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- The location of
new facilities will determine whether sustainable transport is
encouraged.
- Larger units
may displace local independent retailers.
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Option 3 – Cumulative
effects of proposals for employment, housing, shopping and
tourism.
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- Improves equal
access to opportunities, services and employment for the various
communities of the Borough.
- Less likely to
have impact on sites of importance for nature
conservation.
- Lesser impacts
on Havant and Emsworth Gaps.
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- Less able to
reduce the need to use the private car.
- Will not
deliver a change in the perception of the Borough as a destination
for businesses or visitors.
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- The location of
new facilities will determine whether sustainable transport is
encouraged.
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