Portsmouth: Changing City
Portsmouth Society 28 February 2024 7pm
Royal Maritime Club Queen Street Portsea
Celia Clark PhD
David Brice BA FRPS
Climate Emergency
Solent Nitrate Pollution
held up development
Beach moving inland
Heavy rain floods the Common
Sea defences broken
Rising sea levels/storm surges
Flood risk Great & Little Morass
New sea defences
Southsea
New drainage
Loss of green edge to
Rock Gardens
Loss of vital seafront shelter
Rediscovery of De
Gomme’s bastion
Historic shelters and lamp
standards into storage
New bund:
Norwegian rock
Long Curtain Moat
Old Portsmouth
Spur Redoubt
Minimal Interpretation panels
Planting
Locked access
to beach
Seating
Loss of historic paving
Spur Redoubt
Marker sculpture
Miniscule plantig
TIPNER LINEAR PARK
HILSEA LINES
What is the Naval Base’s
response to rising sea levels?
Portsmouth Ferry Port
The Greenest in the UK
Portsmouth Society 1973-2024
* Green spaces, trees, landscaping
* Saving old buildings from demolition - and
finding them new sustainable future –
working with Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust,
Historic England, SAVE Britain’s Heritage,
Twentieth Century Society
New Theatre Royal
Saved by Cllr. Roger James
St. Agatha’s Church Market Way
Portsmouth Society’s 1st Public Enquiry
Architect A H Ball; Heyward Sumner Sgraffito; loss of mosaic
Collection of church furnishings and filltings
Early successes - 1970s
European Architectural
Heritage Year 1975
Portsmouth
Society
Successes
Rivers Street Hall Somerstown
Winner: SAVE Britain’s Heritage Award 1977
Portsmouth & Southsea
Station
St. Mary’s Workhouse
+ HCC, HBPT Saved at Public Inquiry
St.Jude’s Church
Southsea
No. 4 Boathouse
+ SAVE Britain’s Heritage
Astoria/Palace Cinema
Astoria/Palce cinema
Precious Green Space
Rock
Gardens
Highland Cemetery
Hilsea Lines
Rose Garden
Playing fields
Paulsgrove
Southsea Common
Milton Common
Milton Common
Portsmouth Society’s �Trees and Streets Committee�Counting all the city’s street trees�
January 1975
White mulberry Milton Park 2013
Pauline Powell
Tree Wardens Co-ordinator
Geoffrey Broadbent Denis Mort
Percy Clark Celia Clark Joy Smart
John Goodall
Planting new trees
Somerstown
Adventure
Playground
Landscaping
Award
Paulsgrove
Landscaping
Award
Somerstown
Community Wildlife Garden
Omega Centre
Greening School
Grounds
Portsmouth Society Design Awards Criteria:
“Commodity, Firmness & Delight” Vitruvius c.27BC +Sustainability
Ivy Street
Somerstown
Award
Newbuild
Client:
Portsmouth City Council
Architects: Re-Format;
Ken Scadden Associates
Structural Engineers
ARCH Consultants
Builder PMC Construction
& Development
Stepped up block heights westward
Energy generation
The Coach House
Old Portsmouth
Award
Castle View Academy
Paulsgrove
The Parade Pre-School Nursery
Doyle Avenue North End
Crown Place
City Centre
Unilife Student Hall
Middle Street
Award
BAR Camber
Award
St Edmund’s School
Commendation
Buildings we’ve looked at in previous years
Premier Inn
Queen Street
Travelodge
Stanhope Street
Craneswater School
New classroom
Portsmouth Cricket Club St. Helens Southsea
New Buildings
Previous years
The Hub Somerstown
Award
Award
Reuse
St. Margaret’s
Community
Church
Eastney
Architect: Studio BAD Architects
Builder: Peter Grant Construction
Manager
Clare Carabutt
Ross Fairbrother
Next Design Awards 2024?
New Buildings: Education
Ravelin Sports Centre
University of Portsmouth
The Wymering School
Paulsgrove
Alexandra House
Northern Parade
Henrietta Place Somerstown
Housing
New build & conversion
Conversion to flats: Brewery House Hambrook Street Southsea
Henrietta Place
Somerstown
Admiral Jellicoe House
Lockway Road
Somerstown
Health
New A & E
Rehabilitation Centre
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Re - Used
Buildings
Kingston
Prison
Maritime and Industrial Heritage
Historic England
Historic Ships
Block Mills
Grade 1 Heritage at Risk
On-going traditional
shipbuilding training
No. 6 Boathouse
Marc Brunel.
Goodrich
Blockmaking machinery
What future for Block Mills?
BEST RESTORATION Award
1 The Parade
HM Naval Base
Naval Pay Office 1798
Cast iron columns Fireproof construction
Dockyard Heritage Area
Sustainable Conservation Trust
Royal Naval Academy
(Buildings No.1/14, 1/16-19) College Road
Grade II* 1732
AT RISK
Empty and decaying
since c.2006….
because of proximity to
Admiralty House
(Building No. 1.20)
Grade 11*
No. 6 Dock
Portsmouth Naval Base
Building at Risk
Old Naval Academy
Empty and decaying since 2006
Ropery, No. 15 Store
(Building No. 1/62)
Anchor Lane
Grade II* Listed
Empty, dry rot
Fire Station
1843
Building No.1.77
Corrugated
and cast iron
No.5 Boathouse
Heritage Area
Empty
Dockyard
Naval Architecture
School
HM Naval Base
Empty
No. 6 Boathouse
Action Stations, Cinema > Royal Marines Museum?
Treadgolds
Bishop Street Portsea
Shop
Strong Island
Eastney Pumping Station
Brunel’s Bridge……
Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s first surviving bridge
Designed to span railway & canal Paddington
Stored in Fort Cumberland for 20 years
Reassembly?
Wymering Manor Cosham
Grade 11* Building at Risk
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Beneficial School Kent Street Portsea
Charity school 1784 and 1836 Grade II*
Dance-drama school/theatre
Groundlings Theatre Trust
NatWest Bank
Palmerston Road
Southsea
Historic England
refused to List it
Solaglass/EE Glass factory
Limberline Spur Hilsea
List/Demolish?
The News Centre Demolished 2023-4
Sculptures by William Mitchell
Neglected/derelict
Pub Somers Road North
Tipner Magazines
Former City Records Office
Milton Locks
Conservation Area
Interpretation board
Canal side hedge
Decay
Original Engine house
Lock gates disappeared
Portsmouth Society’s interpretation board
St. John’s College Owen’s Southsea
Owen villa
Music block
demolish
Classroom block –
convert to flats
Tower house - flats
Sports Hall
Insert floors
Add new storey
Listed Owen villa
Interior joinery
gonv
St. James’s Hospital Milton
Portsmouth Lunatic Asylum
1879 Architect George Rake
Therapeutic Landscape
Chapel
‘Town Green’
Public inquiry
Demolition? Refurbishment?
Central Post Office Arundel Street
Civic Offices
Northern Quarter Commercial Road – Due for demolition?
Northern Quarter redevelopment
27 October 2023
Tipner West
Visit of Tipner Heritage Forum
Locals using the foreshore
Firing Range
Old stone quay
Rising city scale – Gunwharf
Student housing
Spinnaker Tower
Horatia and Leamington
House demolished
‘Lipstick’ tower Gunwharf
“Somers Orchard”
New housing and open space
Somerstown
University of Portsmouth Campus Development Consultation 20 February 2024
University House
Wiltshire Building
Replacement for University House
Milton Campus
Law School Victoria Park
Multistorey carpark
behind Eldon Building
Water companies are making
huge profits
whilst filling our water with sewage…
Southern Water is set to increase its
Water & Sewerage bills by 10% next year,
costing a typical affected home an extra
£37/year.
For years, Southern Water has pumped raw
sewage onto our beautiful beaches and harbours
and failed to update its crumbling infrastructure.
The neglect of sewage reflects a long-term
failure of regulatory oversight by
Governments since privatisation.
Over to you!
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