Local residents

Hand-delivered flyers

We hand delivered a flyer including all of the questions and our contact details to everybody living or working within 500m of the site.

Drop-in sessions

We ran an all day public open drop-in session at Portsmouth Museum, which we invited everybody living within 500m of the site to.

Response

Do you agree that the records office site is a suitable site for brand new housing and why?

Yes / No

  • Yes 52%
  • No 48%

Grouped reasons residents said the site was suitable

Housing need 3
Brownfield 2
Depends what is built 2
Good facilities 2
Site green 1

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Detailed reasons residents said the site was suitable

Category Response Number
Good facilities
Good local facilites 3
Brownfield
Make use of empty building 2
Depends what is built
Depends on what is built 2
Housing needs
Need for housing 5
Good facilities
Good transport connections 1
Good local facilities
Site green
Site is green 1

Grouped reasons residents said the site was not suitable

Traffic 13
Climate change 5
Lives of current residents 4
Overcrowding 4
Conservation area 3
Site small 1
Site green 1
Near museum 1
Access 1
Infrastructure 1

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Grouped reasons residents said the site was not suitable

Category Response Number
Traffic
Congestion 5
Parking 4
Isle of Wight ferry 3
Roundabout concerns 1
Climate change
Air quality 2
Climate change 2
Flooding 1
Lives of current residents
Would block view 2
Security 1
Access to doctors/GPs 10
Overcrowding
Overcrowding 2
Too much housing being built 2
Conservation area
Demolishing of historic buildings 3
Site small
Site too small 1
Not suitable for housing or flats 1
Site green
Site green 1
Near museum
Too close to attractive museum 1
Access
Access 1
Infrastructure
Too little infrastructure near 1

What type of housing do you think would be best for the records office site?

Grouped responses

Green 19
Good design 17
Elderly 9
Low/medium rise 7
Affordable 7
Family 4
Mixed 2
Access 2
Houses 2
Flats 1
Student 1
Respect Pembroke Park 1
High rise 1
Other 1

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Detailed responses

Category Response Number
Green
Save existing green space and trees 9
Preserve trees 7
Include garden 1
Eco friendly design 1
Use technology e.g. solar panels 1
Good design
Sympathetic to design of surroundings 6
Sympathetic to museum design 4
Build with bricks 4
Sympathetic to Pembroke Park design 1
Make architecture exciting 1
Use the shell of the records office 1
Elderly
Elderly accommodation 6
Mixed generation living 2
Retirement home 1
Low/medium rise
Low rise 3
Max 3 storeys 2
Lower than museum 1
Same footprint as records office 1
Affordable
Affordable housing 3
Social housing 3
Starter homes 1
Family
Family units 4
Mixed
Mix of houses and flats 2
Access
Get access right 1
Pedestrian access 1
Houses
Houses not flats 1
Large houses 1
Flats
Luxury apartments 1
Respect Pembroke Park
Close gate from museum to Pembroke Park 1
Student
Student accommodation 1
High rise
Military/veteran 1
Other
Rent to buy 1

What kind of housing would you not like to see and why?

Grouped responses

High rise 13
Students 8
Affordable 6
Flats 5
Families 2
Poor design 2
Bad access 1
Other 1

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Detailed responses

Category Response Number
High rise
High rise 13
Students
Student housing 8
Affordable
Social housing 5
Affordable housing 1
Flats
Luxury flats 4
Flats 1
Families
Family units 2
Poor design
Modern 1
Steel and chrome 1
Bad access
No open access to Pembroke Park 1
Other
Buy to let 1

Is there anything else that you would like us to take into account when we are putting together plans for this site?

Grouped responses

Parking 6
Save building 3
Use another site 2
PCC complaints 1
Protect museum 1

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Detailed responses

Category Response Number
Parking
Provide enough parking 6
Save building
Save records office 3
Is building listed? 1
Use another site
Use Cascades car park instead 2
Protect museum
Move museum store to this site 1
PCC complaints
Annoyed about HH tree issue 1