Published in the Portsmouth News on the 27th October 2018
Story by Byron Melton
CAMPAIGNERS have vowed to fight controversial plans for housing on land historically placed off-limits by the council.
It comes as the future of Southmere Field is thrust into uncertainty after its owner confirmed they are in talks with residential developers.
The nine-acre Langstone Road site, between Havant and Hayling Island, is protected by a no-build covenant imposed by Havant Borough Council in 1980.
Its owner Fasset Limited said no sale of the land is being advertised but admitted it is trying to get the site included in the council’s local plan.
Havant campaigner and historian, Ann Griffiths, said any development on the site would be a ‘disaster for the wider community’.
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