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.

How we listened to local residents

Drop in sessions 52%
Door Knock 17%
Post 17%
Email 14%
Phone call 0%
Social media 0%

Responses

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

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

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

Please tell us if there is anything else that you would like us to take into account when we are putting together plans for this site.

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

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

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

1

Near museum

Too close to attractive museum

1

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

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

Detailed responses

Category

Response

Number

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

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

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