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TESCO in Fareham The criterion for consideration of the modification to the roundabout was that conditions should be no worse after the development than they were before the development. This will not measure up the expectations of the local population and particularly for those whose daily commute takes them through this junction. The South East Plan promised that infrastructure developments would keep pace with housing and industrial/commercial development. This scheme will not support those promises, so easily made and apparently so difficult to provide. The modifications to the layout of the roundabout does not represent an improvement that is so desperately needed for current traffic flows and ignores completely the increased traffic that will result from the completion of the 10,000 houses to the north of Fareham and any developments on the Daedalus site There was, throughout the planning meeting, a feeling that Tesco’s application would inevitably receive the approval of Fareham Borough Council and that this application was the best that could be expected. The objections from neighbours of the proposed store about noise from early morning and late evening deliveries were dismissed out of hand. The planning committee spent most of the time devoted to the consideration of this important application to a debate about staff car-parking facilities and a residents’ parking scheme, and at no time was any evidence presented to the committee that demonstrated the need for a food store in the town centre. Many of the objections presented to the planning committee were well researched and deserved more than the cursory attention that was given to them.
July
5th 2008 June 20th 2008 The Boxtree Plaque
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The Summary
Friday June 20th 2008 More litter picking in Portchester, April 25th 2008
Picking up
litter in Portchester is not an exciting pastime but the weather was
again kind for this our second litter-picking exercise.
Our 'Care of the Environment Award'
Another Meeting for Litter Picking Friday April 25th, 10am-12noon. Assemble in the car park behind the Methodist Church Hall.
Clean and tidy streets - Litter picking in Portchester on Tuesday 18th. March 2008 10-12pm The Portchester Society has been urging Fareham Borough Council to fulfil its duty to Council Tax Payers and to take a more responsible attitude toward clearing our streets of litter. In January 2007, the Society submitted a selection of photographs to the Council depicting the appalling state of some of our streets and public spaces. Regrettably the Council has done little to even recognise the problem and still less to acknowledge that it has a duty to clear litter from the streets. In September 2007 the Council introduced Community Action Teams (CAT) and ear-marked a fund of £100,000 which would be available for communities to bid for in respect of capital projects. Immediately £30,000 was reserved for borough-wide cleaning schemes. There is presently no evidence of how any of that money has been spent. In January of the current year the Society again presented a series of photographs to the Council illustrating the unacceptable amounts of litter in our streets. The amounts of litter shown by this second set of photographs was indistinguishable from the first set thus illustrating quite clearly that there has been no discernable improvement in litter-clearing activities in the past 12 months. Members of the Portchester Society are organising a litter-picking day to be held on Tuesday 18th. March 2008. If you are interested in helping, contact 02392 381539. The starting place will be in the car park behind the shopping precinct and we will assemble there at 10.00 a.m. March 12th 2008 Portchester Community Action Team (CAT).
Following the first meeting of the CAT in Portchester last September, the Portchester Society registered a proposal with Fareham Borough Council for the re-furbishment of the shopping precinct. At the third meeting of the CAT, held on Friday 7th. March 2008, in the Parish Hall it was announced that this proposal had been approved by the Council and that £12,000 had been allotted to the scheme. Few details about the extent of the scheme (i.e. what £12,000 would buy) were given and no information about when the project would begin. Subsequently, it has been confirmed that this will provide for new benches, some levelling of the paving slabs and the painting of the lamp posts. It is the Society’s view that this work should be included under the Council’s general maintenance programme. It does not represent the scale of improvement that the Society expected when it made a bid for funding under the CAT scheme. Nor does it go nearly far enough toward materially improving the shopping precinct. The residents of Portchester deserve better than this! Additionally, the CAT scheme was intended to be geared toward the identified needs of the community, by the community. There is no evidence that members of the community have been engaged in assessing and reviewing this project. March 12th 2008
New Book! Two Eight Whiskey Tango, Firefighters of
Portchester now available from The Carpet Gallery Portchester Precinct,
price £10. All proceeds to Entry Affected, the last in a series of life
sized statues commemorating firefighters over the last 100years on
display outside fire and rescue headquarters at Eastleigh. March 12th 2008
February
12th 2008
Date added June 15th 2007
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