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Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation Sincs Hampshire.Pdf
Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs) within Hampshire © Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre No part of this documentHBIC may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recoding or otherwise without the prior permission of the Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre Central Grid SINC Ref District SINC Name Ref. SINC Criteria Area (ha) BD0001 Basingstoke & Deane Straits Copse, St. Mary Bourne SU38905040 1A 2.14 BD0002 Basingstoke & Deane Lee's Wood SU39005080 1A 1.99 BD0003 Basingstoke & Deane Great Wallop Hill Copse SU39005200 1A/1B 21.07 BD0004 Basingstoke & Deane Hackwood Copse SU39504950 1A 11.74 BD0005 Basingstoke & Deane Stokehill Farm Down SU39605130 2A 4.02 BD0006 Basingstoke & Deane Juniper Rough SU39605289 2D 1.16 BD0007 Basingstoke & Deane Leafy Grove Copse SU39685080 1A 1.83 BD0008 Basingstoke & Deane Trinley Wood SU39804900 1A 6.58 BD0009 Basingstoke & Deane East Woodhay Down SU39806040 2A 29.57 BD0010 Basingstoke & Deane Ten Acre Brow (East) SU39965580 1A 0.55 BD0011 Basingstoke & Deane Berries Copse SU40106240 1A 2.93 BD0012 Basingstoke & Deane Sidley Wood North SU40305590 1A 3.63 BD0013 Basingstoke & Deane The Oaks Grassland SU40405920 2A 1.12 BD0014 Basingstoke & Deane Sidley Wood South SU40505520 1B 1.87 BD0015 Basingstoke & Deane West Of Codley Copse SU40505680 2D/6A 0.68 BD0016 Basingstoke & Deane Hitchen Copse SU40505850 1A 13.91 BD0017 Basingstoke & Deane Pilot Hill: Field To The South-East SU40505900 2A/6A 4.62 -
Current Management Plan
Portsdown Hill and Portchester Common S.S.S.I. 5 year Higher Level Stewardship Management Plan for Portchester Common 2018 - 2022 Commenced February 2018 Next review Jan 2022 Contents 0.1 Preamble 4 0.2 Summary 4 DESCRIPTION 5 1.1 General information 5 1.1.1 Location 5 1.1.2 Tenure 6 1.1.3 Management Infrastructure 6 1.1.4 Compartments 6 1.2 Environmental Information 6 1.2.1 Physical 6 1.2.1.1 Climate 6 1.2.1.2 Geology 7 1.2.1.3 Soil 7 1.2.2 Biological 7 1.2.2.1 Flora 7 1.2.2.2 Fauna 8 1.2.2.2.1 Invertebrates 8 1.2.2.2.2 Vertebrates 9 1.2.2.3 Communities 9 1.2.3 Cultural 10 1.2.3.1 Archaeology/past land use 10 1.2.3.2 Past Conservation management 11 1.2.4 Environmental relationships which may have implications for management 11 1.2.4.1 General considerations of calcareous grassland Error! Bookmark not defined. 1.2.4.2 Coarse grassland 11 1.2.4.2.1 Grazing - summary of ecological considerations 16 1.2.4.3 Scrub 16 1.2.4.3.1 Hedges 17 1.2.4.5 Species considerations 18 1.3 Bibliography 19 PART 2 EVALUATION AND OBJECTIVES 21 2.1 Evaluation of features 21 2.1.1 Evaluation 21 2.1.1.1 Size 21 2.1.1.2 Diversity 21 2.1.1.3 Potential 21 2.1.1.4 Intrinsic value 22 2.1.3 Summary of Important Features 22 2.1.4 Long-term /Ideal Management Objectives 23 2.2 Factors influencing the achievement of long term management objectives 23 2.2.1 Owners objectives Error! Bookmark not defined. -
Urban Characterisation Study
# Urban Characterisation Study March 2011 www.portsmouth.gov.uk You can get this Portsmouth City Council Information in large print, Braille, audio or another language by calling 023 9283 4322 Portsmouth City Council Planning Services Guildhall Square Portsmouth PO1 2AU www.portsmouth.gov.uk Portsmouth City Council provides the Ordnance Survey Mapping included within this publication under licence from the Ordnance Survey in order to fulfil its public function as a planning authority. Persons viewing this mapping should contact Ordnance Survey copyright for advice where they wish to licence Ordnance Survey map data for their own use. Photographs: ‘Sea Lavender’ by Louise Maccallum - courtesy of the Langstone Harbour Board, 2011 ‘Aerial view of Portsmouth Harbour’ - courtesy of Crest Nicholson Regeneration, 2009 ‘Langstone Harbour (Farlington Marshes) by Nat Rogers - courtesy of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, 2011 Contents Page Page Page 1.0 Introduction 4 Character areas continued… 4.0 Character types 161 The study area 4 Cosham 49 Historic core 162 Objectives of the study 5 Craneswater 56 Early Victorian expansion 163 Methodology 5 Drayton & Farlington 62 Pre-war terraces 164 Structure of report 6 Eastney 68 Inter and post-war housing 165 Fratton 73 Post-war estates 166 2.0 City overview 7 Gunwharf Quays 78 Mixed-use 167 Historic development 7 H.M. Naval Base 83 Civic / University core 168 Topography 8 Hilsea 88 Harbours 169 Land use 8 Landport 94 H.M. Naval Base 170 Density 11 Milton East 101 Movement 12 Milton West 106 Heritage and Conservation 14 Old Portsmouth 112 Paulsgrove 119 3.0 Character areas 15 Port Solent & North Harbour 124 Anchorage Park 16 Portsea 130 Baffins 21 Somerstown 136 Buckland 26 Southsea 142 Civic core 32 Southsea East 149 Copnor 39 Stamshaw & Tipner 155 Copnor North 44 1.0 Introduction 1.1 The city of Portsmouth is home to approximately 203,500 The study area people spread across a land area of just over 4000 hectares. -
AQUIND INTERCONNECTOR Environmental Statement – Volume 3 – Appendix 15.4 Landscape Character
AQUIND Limited AQUIND INTERCONNECTOR Environmental Statement – Volume 3 – Appendix 15.4 Landscape Character The Planning Act 2008 The Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 – Regulation 5(2)(a) The Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 Document Ref: 6.3.15.4 PINS Ref.: EN020022 AQUIND Limited AQUIND Limited AQUIND INTERCONNECTOR Environmental Statement – Volume 3 – Appendix 15.4 Landscape Character PINS REF.: EN020022 DOCUMENT: 6.3.15.4 DATE: 14 NOVEMBER 2019 WSP WSP House 70 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1AF +44 20 7314 5000 www.wsp.com AQUIND Limited DOCUMENT Document 6.3.15.4 Environment Statement – Volume 3 – Appendix 15.4 Landscape Character Revision 001 Document Owner WSP UK Limited Prepared By M. Boden Date 9 October 2019 Approved By A. Follis Date 31 October 2019 AQUIND INTERCONNECTOR PINS Ref.: EN020022 Document Ref: Environmental Statement Appendix 15.4 Landscape Character November 2019 AQUIND Limited CONTENTS APPENDIX 15.4 – LANDSCAPE CHARACTER 1 REFERENCES TABLES Table 1 – Landscape Character (National Character Areas) 1 Table 2 – Landscape Character (South Downs National Park) 13 Table 3 – Landscape Character (County – Hampshire County Council) 27 Table 4 – Landscape Character (County – West Sussex County Council) 43 Table 5 – Landscape Character (Local – East Hampshire District Council) 50 Table 6 – Landscape Character (Local – Winchester City Council) 74 Table 7 – Landscape Character (Local – Havant Borough Council) 101 Table 8 – Landscape -
Strongisland.Pdf (8.692Mb)
Strong Island Portsmouth’s History in Brick and Stone Portsmouth and its districts. The city has grown from an original nucleus in Old Portsmouth to encompass a patchwork of distinctive districts, each of which grew up around what had originally been a rural hamlet or village. Strong Island Portsmouth’s History in Brick and Stone Paul L. Knox First published 2020 Text, design and layout copyright © 2020 Paul L. Knox Photographs copyright © 2019 Paul L. Knox, except as noted on page 197 Cover image: Dr A. Velez All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author is pleased to acknowledge the support of Virginia Tech in the preparation and publication of this volume. Thanks also to Chris Knox, Sue Smith, and Anne-Lise Velez for their enthusiastic support and assistance in undertaking fieldwork, and to John Burden for helpful comments and suggestions on drafts. Any remaining errors are of course my own responsibility. Contents Introduction: Changing Cityscapes 6 1. Pre-Modern Traces 14 2. Company Town 30 3. Pax Brittanica 56 4. War ... War 122 5. Reconstruction 148 6. Regeneration 175 Further Reading 196 Photo Credits 197 Index 198 6 Introduction: Changing Cityscapes The history of Portsmouth was writ large across the city’s face – street after street of tightly-packed terraced houses pushing outward from 1 the naval dockyard ... 1 Hurley, G., The Take. London: Orion, 2010, p. -
THE BUILDING of the PORTSDOWN HILL FORTS with Special Reference to Forts Nelson, Widley and Southwick Geoff Salter
Palmerston Forts Society The Redan THE BUILDING OF THE PORTSDOWN HILL FORTS With special reference to Forts Nelson, Widley and Southwick Geoff Salter The Royal Defence Commission Report including the barracks etc.. regarding the defence of Great Britain was given Royal Assent in August In the Portsmouth area, work began 1860, this began a new era of with the purchase of land across reinforcing and building new Portsdown hill to the bottom of its fortifications throughout the country. northern boundary, to give the forts Many more were planned than “Free-fire zone!” actually built, some were not built because of a need to keep costs down The largest landowner on Portsdown and others abandoned because of was the Thistlethwayte Estate of problems with foundations. Southwick. Together with 20 other freeholders, including the Deverell The Commission was very concerned family of Purbrook Park, they owned about possible enemy attack in the most of the hill. Just over 2,167 acres very near future and they suggested were purchased for £300,000, this that at Portsdown Hill the contracts included land for Fort Fareham. [This were split in two. worked out at about £150 per acre!] The first stage to be completed in 2 or 3 In August 1860, the leader article in months; that was to dig the ditches the PORTSMOUTH TIMES expressed and throw up the ramparts. Then, at local concern under the headline “OUR least if the forts were attacked, guns VERY LUNGS!”. They said, "..until could be put up on the ramparts to proved, the forts should not be built on defend Portsmouth.