{ "dataVersion": "817e2793c68a", "ukCommit": "2ca93f7", "exportedAt": "2026-09-23T20:39:41.151Z", "schema": 1, "geographyCode": "E06000044", "records": [ { "id": "homes.hdt", "type": "indicator", "topic": "homes", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Homes delivered vs required, Housing Delivery Test", "value": 11, "display": "11%", "period": "Housing Delivery Test, 2025 measurement", "comparison": "Any council below 45% loses the presumption against unwanted development. Portsmouth is at 11%.", "trend": "worsening", "definition": "Homes built as a share of the government's own target for Portsmouth. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "MHCLG", "title": "Homes delivered vs required, Housing Delivery Test", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-delivery-test", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-12-31" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/housing-supply", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[housing-delivery]" }, { "id": "schools.severe_absence", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Pupils missing 50%+ of sessions", "value": 3.55, "display": "3.55%", "period": "2024/25", "comparison": "England 2.39%", "trend": "worsening", "definition": "Pupils missing half or more of school, vs Southampton and England. Portsmouth state-funded schools.", "source": { "publisher": "Department for Education", "title": "Pupils missing 50%+ of sessions", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-03-26" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[severe-absence]" }, { "id": "schools.ehcp_20wk", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "New EHC plans issued within 20 weeks", "value": 42.9, "display": "42.9%", "period": "2025", "comparison": "England 45.5% — now almost level", "trend": "improving", "definition": "EHC plans issued inside the 20-week legal deadline. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "Department for Education", "title": "New EHC plans issued within 20 weeks", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-06-15" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[ehcp-timeliness]" }, { "id": "schools.gcse_5plus", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Pupils achieving grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE", "value": 35.2, "display": "35.2%", "period": "2024/25 GCSE cohort", "comparison": "England reached 45.4% and Southampton 38.9%, so Portsmouth trails its closest comparable city by 3.7 percentage points.", "trend": "flat", "definition": "Pupils passing English and maths GCSE at grade 5+, vs Southampton and England. Portsmouth state-funded schools.", "source": { "publisher": "DfE", "title": "Pupils achieving grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-15" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[gcse-attainment]" }, { "id": "schools.ehcp_rate", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Pupils on a school roll holding an Education, Health and Care plan", "value": 7.17, "display": "7.17%", "period": "January 2026", "comparison": "Southampton is at 6.72% and England at 6.04%. Portsmouth sat below Southampton for six years and overtook it this year.", "trend": "unknown", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Share of Portsmouth pupils holding an EHC plan, vs Southampton and England. Portsmouth schools, all types.", "source": { "publisher": "DfE", "title": "Pupils on a school roll holding an Education, Health and Care plan", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-06-15" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[ehcp-rate]" }, { "id": "schools.neet", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "16 and 17 year olds not in education, employment or training", "value": 5.5, "display": "5.5%", "period": "2026", "comparison": "England stands at 3.4%. The widely-quoted Portsmouth figure of 11.5% adds in a further 6.05% of young people whose destination is simply not known.", "trend": "unknown", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "16-17 year olds not in education, employment or training. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "DfE", "title": "16 and 17 year olds not in education, employment or training", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/participation-in-education-training-and-neet-age-16-to-17-by-local-authority", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-06-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[neet]" }, { "id": "streets.flytipping", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Recorded fly-tipping incidents", "value": 937, "display": "937 incidents", "period": "2024/25", "comparison": "Incidents of fly-tipping in Portsmouth have fallen by 14.2%, while incidents across England have risen by 9.1%.", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Fly-tipping incidents recorded by the council each year. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "Defra", "title": "Recorded fly-tipping incidents", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england-2024-to-2025", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-12-15" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/fly-tipping", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[fly-tipping]" }, { "id": "water.southsea_east.class", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Bathing water classification", "value": "Poor", "display": "Poor", "period": "Southsea East, 2025 classification", "comparison": "Eastney, the other Southsea site, is rated Good", "trend": "flat", "definition": "Environment Agency annual rating for Southsea East beach. Southsea East sampling point.", "source": { "publisher": "Environment Agency", "title": "Bathing water classification", "url": "https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/profile.html?site=ukj3100-16600", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual (November)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/sewage-water-quality", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[bathing-water]" }, { "id": "health.preventable_u75", "type": "indicator", "topic": "health", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Under-75 deaths from preventable causes, age-standardised", "value": 192.1, "display": "192.1", "period": "per 100,000, 2022–24", "comparison": "England 151.2 — Portsmouth worse in every period on record", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Deaths before 75 that could have been avoided by treatment or prevention. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "OHID", "title": "Under-75 deaths from preventable causes, age-standardised", "url": "https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/93721#page/4/gid/1/pat/15/ati/502/are/E06000044", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/health-access", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[preventable-mortality]" }, { "id": "health.dental_la", "type": "indicator", "topic": "health", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist in 24 months", "value": 30.22, "display": "30.2%", "period": "seen in 24 months, to March 2026", "comparison": "England 40.0% — a 10-point gap", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist in the past two years. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "NHS BSA", "title": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist in 24 months", "url": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202526", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-08-26" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/health-access", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[nhs-dentistry]" }, { "id": "work.pay_resident", "type": "indicator", "topic": "work", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Median gross annual pay, full-time residents", "value": 36022, "display": "£36,022", "period": "resident median full-time pay, 2025", "comparison": "Jobs located in Portsmouth pay £38,815 — England residents £39,243", "trend": "unknown", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "What Portsmouth residents earn, against what jobs in the city pay. Portsmouth residents (not workplaces).", "source": { "publisher": "ONS ASHE", "title": "Median gross annual pay, full-time residents", "url": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/ashe", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-28" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/jobs-and-pay", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[resident-earnings]" }, { "id": "streets.no2_background", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "NO2 annual mean", "value": 12, "display": "12 µg/m³", "period": "NO2, urban background, 2025", "comparison": "Down from 27 in 2001; zero streets in breach at the Jan 2026 assessment", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Roadside nitrogen dioxide at the city's monitored streets. Hilsea urban background monitor.", "source": { "publisher": "Defra UK-AIR", "title": "NO2 annual mean", "url": "https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-06-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/air-quality-and-transport", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[air-quality]" }, { "id": "streets.bus_journeys", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Local bus passenger journeys", "value": "11.9m journeys", "display": "11.9m journeys", "period": "year to March 2025", "comparison": "Above the 11.0m of 2019 — England is still ~10% below", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Bus journeys taken across Portsmouth each year. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "DfT", "title": "Local bus passenger journeys", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus-statistics-data-tables", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/air-quality-and-transport", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[bus-use]" }, { "id": "council.social_care_share", "type": "indicator", "topic": "council", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Share of service budget on adult and children's social care", "value": "~60p in every £1", "display": "~60p in every £1", "period": "2025/26 service budgets", "comparison": "Children's services and adult social care combined", "trend": "worsening", "definition": "Share of council service spending taken by adult and children's social care. Portsmouth City Council.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council budget reports", "title": "Share of service budget on adult and children's social care", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/budgets-and-finance/", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual (February budget)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-02-28" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/council", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[social-care-share]" }, { "id": "council.reserves", "type": "indicator", "topic": "council", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "General fund working balance", "value": "£22.3m", "display": "£22.3m", "period": "2026/27 forecast", "comparison": "Against a minimum of £12m", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Usable general-fund reserves against the minimum the council must hold. Portsmouth City Council.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "title": "General fund working balance", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/budgets-and-finance/", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual (February budget)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-02-28" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/council", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[reserves]" }, { "id": "council.lgr", "type": "status", "topic": "council", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Local government reorganisation status", "value": "Decision withdrawn", "display": "Decision withdrawn", "period": "7 Sept 2026 · programme under government review", "comparison": "Was to merge with Gosport, Fareham and Havant", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Status of the government-directed merger that would have abolished the city council. Portsmouth and neighbouring authorities.", "source": { "publisher": "MHCLG", "title": "Local government reorganisation status", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton-local-government-reorganisation", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "On change", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-30", "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/local-government-reorganisation", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[lgr]" }, { "id": "streets.crime_trend", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Police-recorded crime, all offences, year-on-year change", "value": -1.4, "display": "-1.4%", "period": "year to March 2026 against year to March 2025", "comparison": "Sexual offences fell 5% over the same period. Knife crime is published only for the whole Hampshire force, where it was flat.", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Change in police-recorded crime year on year. Portsmouth community safety partnership area.", "source": { "publisher": "ONS Police Force Area data tables, year ending March 2026 (Tables C3, C4)", "title": "Police-recorded crime, all offences, year-on-year change", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual (July)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-07-22" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/claims-vs-evidence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[recorded-crime-trend]" }, { "id": "streets.empty_shops", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Vacant retail units, city centre", "value": 16.4, "display": "16.4%", "period": "Retail Study Update 2024", "comparison": "Southsea Centre, by contrast, is 10.2% vacant against a national average of 14.0%.", "trend": "flat", "definition": "Empty retail units as a share of the city-centre survey area. Portsmouth city centre survey boundary.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "title": "Vacant retail units, city centre", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-policy/", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Irregular (retail studies)", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[high-street-vacancy]" }, { "id": "streets.cycling", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Residents in employment cycling to work", "value": 5.2, "display": "5.2%", "period": "Census 2021", "comparison": "Across England, 2.1% of workers cycle to work — Portsmouth is two and a half times that rate.", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Residents in work who travel by bicycle. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "ONS / Portsmouth City Council LCWIP", "title": "Residents in employment cycling to work", "url": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Every 10 years (Census)", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/air-quality-and-transport", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[cycling-to-work]" }, { "id": "homes.hmo", "type": "indicator", "topic": "homes", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Licensed houses in multiple occupation on the council register", "value": 3158, "display": "3,158", "period": "council licensing register, August 2026", "comparison": "Planning policy tests each new application against a 10% threshold within 50 metres — a decision rule, not a cap on the total.", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Licensed houses in multiple occupation on the council register. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "title": "Licensed houses in multiple occupation on the council register", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-sector-housing/", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "On change", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/housing-supply", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[hmo-stock]" }, { "id": "streets.asylum", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support", "value": 733, "display": "733", "period": "receiving support, September 2024", "comparison": "Of those 733 people, 656 were in dispersal accommodation rather than hotels.", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "People in Portsmouth receiving Home Office asylum support. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council / Home Office", "title": "Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Quarterly (Home Office)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-26" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/claims-vs-evidence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[asylum-accommodation]" }, { "id": "work.defence_share", "type": "indicator", "topic": "work", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Public administration and defence share of employee jobs", "value": 7.7, "display": "7.7%", "period": "of employee jobs, 2024", "comparison": "Across England the same sector accounts for 4.5% of employee jobs, so Portsmouth's share is nearly double.", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Share of city jobs in public administration and defence. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "ONS BRES", "title": "Public administration and defence share of employee jobs", "url": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/bres", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-31" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/jobs-and-pay", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[defence-employment-share]" }, { "id": "schools.utc", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Pupils on roll against capacity, UTC Portsmouth", "value": 491, "display": "491", "period": "pupils on roll", "comparison": "The school is approved for 600 places, so roughly one place in six is unfilled.", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Pupils on roll at UTC Portsmouth against its approved capacity — one part of the skills picture, shown because it is the only 14-19 technical route with published local data. UTC Portsmouth.", "source": { "publisher": "Ofsted", "title": "Pupils on roll against capacity, UTC Portsmouth", "url": "https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "On change", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/jobs-and-pay", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[utc-capacity]" }, { "id": "people.population", "type": "indicator", "topic": "people", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Population", "value": 211475, "display": "211,475", "period": "Mid-2025", "comparison": "Up 2.9% since 2011; England up 10.8%", "trend": "unknown", "directionMeaning": "Neither good nor bad in itself", "definition": "Usually resident population, ONS mid-year estimate.", "source": { "publisher": "ONS", "title": "Mid-2025 population estimates (MYE4)", "url": 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winner January 2027", "definition": "Status of Portsmouth's bid in the DCMS UK City of Culture 2029 competition.", "source": { "publisher": "DCMS / Portsmouth Creates", "title": "Portsmouth longlisted for UK City of Culture 2029", "url": "https://portsmouthcreates.co.uk/portsmouth-celebrates-being-longlisted-as-uk-city-of-culture-2029/", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "On change", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-30" }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-30", "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "registryRef": "portsmouth-headline-facts.PORTSMOUTH_HEADLINE_FACTS" } ], "collections": { "local-government-reorganisation": { "LGR_PANEL_CONTENT": { "status": "decision_withdrawn_under_review", "statusLabel": "Decision withdrawn; reorganisation under government review", "statusSummary": "On 25 March 2026 the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government decided, subject to Parliamentary approval, to replace the current two-tier structure across Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight with five new unitary councils from 1 April 2028. On 7 September 2026 the Secretary of State withdrew that decision following updated legal advice, and government launched a review of the whole reorganisation programme. Councils have been asked to stop implementation work, and the May 2027 local elections go ahead on existing boundaries. The existing 13 Hampshire authorities covered by this site continue to operate unchanged.", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-30", "geographyHeading": "Geography decided in March 2026 — decision since withdrawn", "selectedBadge": "Selected Mar 2026 · withdrawn", "timeline": [ { "date": "5 Feb 2025", "label": "Government invitation letter to councils to submit reorganisation proposals (final proposals deadline 26 Sept 2025)." }, { "date": "19 Nov 2025", "label": "Written ministerial statement; statutory public consultation opens on the submitted proposals." }, { "date": "11 Jan 2026", "label": "Statutory consultation closes (ran seven weeks from 19 Nov 2025)." }, { "date": "25 Mar 2026", "label": "Secretary of State issues decision letter selecting the \"Option 1A\" five-unitary proposal." }, { "date": "31 Mar 2026", "label": "Implementation letter sent to council chief executives." }, { "date": "7 Sep 2026", "label": "Secretary of State withdraws the March decision following updated legal advice; government launches a review of the whole reorganisation programme and asks councils to stop implementation work." }, { "date": "May 2027", "label": "Local elections go ahead on existing council boundaries (confirmed in the 7 September 2026 withdrawal letter)." } ], "optionsConsidered": [ { "id": "hcc-easthants", "label": "Four unitaries (Hampshire County Council / East Hampshire District Council proposal)", "proposedBy": "Hampshire County Council and East Hampshire District Council", "unitaryCount": 4, "summary": "Mid North, West and South East Hampshire unitaries on the mainland, with the Isle of Wight unchanged.", "outcome": "not_selected" }, { "id": "option-1", "label": "Five unitaries (\"Option 1\")", "proposedBy": "Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, New Forest District Council and Test Valley Borough Council", "unitaryCount": 5, "summary": "North, Mid, South East and South West Hampshire unitaries on the mainland, with the Isle of Wight unchanged.", "outcome": "not_selected" }, { "id": "option-1a", "label": "Five unitaries (\"Option 1A\") — selected in March 2026, decision since withdrawn", "proposedBy": "Eastleigh Borough Council, Fareham Borough Council, Hart District Council, Havant Borough Council, Portsmouth City Council, Rushmoor Borough Council and Southampton City Council", "unitaryCount": 5, "summary": "North, Mid, South East and South West Hampshire unitaries on the mainland (with parish-level boundary modifications to the \"Option 1\" geography — see below), with the Isle of Wight unchanged.", "outcome": "selected" }, { "id": "option-2", "label": "Five unitaries (\"Option 2\")", "proposedBy": "Winchester City Council", "unitaryCount": 5, "summary": "North, Mid, South East and South West Hampshire unitaries on the mainland (different boundary detail from Option 1/1A), with the Isle of Wight unchanged.", "outcome": "not_selected" } ], "selectedGeography": { "optionId": "option-1a", "councils": [ { "name": "North Hampshire Council", "composition": "Basingstoke and Deane, Hart and Rushmoor." }, { "name": "Mid Hampshire Council", "composition": "East Hampshire, New Forest, Test Valley and Winchester, less 11 parishes reassigned from those four areas to neighbouring new councils." }, { "name": "South East Hampshire Council", "composition": "East Hampshire (part), Fareham, Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth, plus 3 parishes from East Hampshire and 1 parish from Winchester." }, { "name": "South West Hampshire Council", "composition": "Eastleigh and Southampton, plus 4 parishes from New Forest and 3 parishes from Test Valley." }, { "name": "Isle of Wight Council", "composition": "Remains a separate unitary authority, unchanged by this decision." } ] }, "claimedBenefits": [ "Proposers argue a move from two-tier (county + district) to unitary structures removes duplication between Hampshire County Council and the district/borough councils, reducing the number of councils involved in local decision-making.", "Proposers argue unitary councils can offer a single point of contact for residents across services currently split between county and district responsibilities.", "Government and proposing councils have argued reorganisation supports the wider devolution agenda for the area." ], "risks": [ "Reorganisation of this scale carries significant one-off transition and implementation costs; this panel does not state a specific cost figure because no single verified official total was found during this task (see \"Cost: not yet published\" convention used elsewhere on this site).", "Independent commentary and some non-selected proposers questioned whether the selected boundaries are the best fit for existing service footprints (e.g. health, police, education) that will not automatically realign with the new council boundaries.", "Parish-level boundary splits within Option 1A (e.g. East Hampshire and Winchester parishes reassigned to different new councils) create local uncertainty for the specific communities affected until implementation detail is finalised.", "The March 2026 decision was withdrawn on 7 September 2026 and no replacement timetable has been published, so councils and residents face a period of uncertainty about the future structure while the review runs." ], "uncertaintyNote": "This panel reports the Secretary of State’s decision of 25 March 2026, and its withdrawal on 7 September 2026, as facts. It does not predict what the government’s review will conclude, and this site’s own authority pages, maps and data continue to reflect the current 13 authorities. Cost figures, exact final boundary maps and transitional governance detail were not found from a verified official source during this task and are deliberately left unstated here rather than approximated.", "sources": [ { "name": "GOV.UK — Programme review and decisions withdrawal letter to council leaders (7 Sep 2026)", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders", "desc": "Minister for Local Government letter withdrawing the March 2026 decision for Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton and launching a programme review." }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Review of local government reorganisation launched (7 Sep 2026)", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/review-of-local-government-reorganisation-launched", "desc": "Government announcement of the review and the withdrawn decisions." }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Local government reorganisation in Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton: proposals", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/local-government-reorganisation-in-hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton/proposals-for-local-government-reorganisation-in-hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton", "desc": "Official consultation page listing the four submitted proposals and consultation dates (19 Nov 2025 – 11 Jan 2026)." }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Summary and analysis of consultation responses", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/local-government-reorganisation-in-hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton/outcome/hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton-summary-and-analysis-of-consultation-responses", "desc": "Official outcome page summarising consultation responses ahead of the decision." }, { "name": "East Hampshire District Council — Local government reorganisation", "href": "https://www.easthants.gov.uk/lgr", "desc": "Council-official page setting out the decided Option 1A geography, including the parish-level composition of each new council." }, { "name": "Rushmoor Borough Council — \"New unitary council for northern Hampshire\" (March 2026)", "href": "https://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/your-council/news-and-your-views/council-news/news-releases/march-2026/new-unitary-council-for-northern-hampshire", "desc": "Council-official news release confirming the Secretary of State’s decision and the North Hampshire Council composition." }, { "name": "Local Government Lawyer — \"Secretary of State makes final decisions on local government reorganisation in four areas\"", "href": "https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/396-governance-news/100073-secretary-of-state-makes-final-decisions-on-local-government-reorganisation-in-four-areas", "desc": "Independent trade-press report corroborating the Option 1A decision and five-council composition." } ], "lastUpdated": "2026-09-23" } }, "portsmouth-action-plan": { "ACTION_PLAN_DISCLAIMER": "Suggested Portsmouth Action Plan — this is UK Stat Pack's own evidence-led analysis of what the data suggests could help, not Portsmouth City Council policy, a government commitment, or anyone's funded programme unless \"Current status\" says so explicitly. Costs are order-of-magnitude estimates, not costed bids, and are labelled as such throughout. See each item's sources for the underlying evidence, and the Development Plan for what is actually official, funded or underway.", "PORTSMOUTH_ACTION_PLAN": [ { "id": "clt-housing", "title": "A Community Land Trust for island housing", "problem": "Portsmouth cannot expand outward — it is an island — so every new home competes with employment land, green space and flood defence. Ordinary market housing delivery alone has not kept pace with need, and short-term/holiday letting further inflates prices in an already-constrained market.", "evidence": "The Portsmouth Local Plan 2024–2040 sets a 17,700-home target with essentially no fallback land beyond the sites named in the Development Plan. Portsmouth City Council's own Skills and Labour Market Strategy (March 2026) separately notes graduate retention pressure partly linked to cost of living and housing in the city.", "intervention": "A Community Land Trust (CLT) that acquires land and builds homes sold or rented permanently below market value — the land is never resold, so affordability is locked in for good, not just for one sale. Target: several hundred CLT homes on Portsea Island by the early 2030s.", "whyItMightWork": "CLTs are an established UK model (e.g. London CLT, St Clements) precisely for constrained urban land where conventional \"affordable\" percentages get eroded by viability negotiations. Because the land is permanently removed from the open market, affordability doesn't decay over time the way section 106 discounts sometimes do.", "cost": "Tens of millions in initial land acquisition and build costs, offset over time by below-market rents/shared-ownership receipts rather than being a pure grant cost — treat any total figure as a rough order of magnitude, not a costed bid.", "fundingRoute": "Homes England grant funding; possible surplus MOD/Crown Estate land in the area; Portsmouth City Council land contribution.", "responsibleBody": [ "Portsmouth City Council", "Homes England", "A newly-formed or partner CLT body", "MOD (as a potential landowner)" ], "timescale": "Medium-term (3–7 yrs)", "currentStatus": "Not proposed officially", "successMeasures": [ "Number of CLT homes completed and let/sold below market value", "Whether affordability is genuinely locked in at re-sale (not eroded over time)" ], "tradeOffs": "CLT delivery is typically slower and smaller-scale than conventional private development, and depends on finding a willing landowner (public or MOD land) rather than relying on the open market.", "relatedDevelopmentPlanProject": { "label": "Tipner West & City Centre North (Development Plan)", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, "sources": [ { "name": "Portsmouth Local Plan 2024–2040 (Pre-Submission Addendum)", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-policy/portsmouth-local-plan", "date": "2025-11" } ] }, { "id": "apprenticeship-hub", "title": "A shared port and naval-base apprenticeship pipeline", "problem": "Portsmouth's naval base and port are major employers, but the local graduate/apprentice retention rate is low — Portsmouth City Council's own Skills and Labour Market Strategy (March 2026) puts graduate retention at roughly 19%, well below what the city's anchor employers would need to build a durable local skills pipeline.", "evidence": "BAE Systems runs a genuine, if fluctuating in scale, apprenticeship and graduate programme at its Portsmouth Naval Base site. UTC Portsmouth exists specifically as an employer-partnered technical sixth form with BAE Systems, Royal Navy, QinetiQ, NATS and DSTL among its named partners. But there is no single shared, city-wide pipeline coordinating these separately-run schemes.", "intervention": "A formally coordinated apprenticeship hub linking QA Hospital, BAE Systems, the naval base, the port and Portsmouth City Council into one shared pipeline, deliberately targeted at wards with the highest youth unemployment rather than left to individual employer recruitment.", "whyItMightWork": "Employer-partnered technical education already works at small scale in Portsmouth (UTC Portsmouth's Ofsted results are strong); the constraint is scale and coordination, not a lack of any working model to build on.", "cost": "Set-up cost in the low millions; a large share of ongoing running cost would typically come from the Apprenticeship Levy the anchor employers already pay.", "fundingRoute": "Apprenticeship Levy contributions from anchor employers; Department for Education T-Level/skills funding.", "responsibleBody": [ "BAE Systems", "Royal Navy / MOD", "University of Portsmouth", "City of Portsmouth College", "Portsmouth City Council" ], "timescale": "Medium-term (3–7 yrs)", "currentStatus": "Not proposed officially", "successMeasures": [ "Apprenticeship starts per year across the coordinated pipeline", "Graduate/apprentice retention rate in Portsmouth (tracked against the Council's ~19% baseline)" ], "tradeOffs": "Coordinating multiple large, independent employers (private sector, MOD, NHS, further/higher education) is a genuine governance challenge, not just a funding one.", "sources": [ { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Skills and Labour Market Strategy 2026–2030", "href": "https://media.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/skills-and-labour-market-strategy-march-2026-aa-accessible.pdf", "date": "2026-03" } ] }, { "id": "pupil-premium", "title": "Sustained, targeted literacy/numeracy tutoring in the highest-deprivation wards", "problem": "Portsmouth's most deprived wards (Charles Dickens, Paulsgrove and others) show persistent educational underachievement gaps that compound over a child's schooling.", "evidence": "Portsmouth City Council's Public Health Needs Summary 2025 records Charles Dickens ward with the highest child poverty rate in the city (35.9% of children in relative low-income families) and Paulsgrove second-highest (27.5%).", "intervention": "Structured small-group literacy and numeracy tutoring, sustained over multiple years rather than a single-year programme, targeted specifically at the highest-deprivation wards.", "whyItMightWork": "The Education Endowment Foundation's own evidence base rates structured small-group tutoring among the higher-impact, evidence-backed interventions for closing a disadvantage gap — the case for it rests on that established evidence base, not a Portsmouth-specific study.", "cost": "Estimated in the low millions per year if run at meaningful scale across the highest-deprivation wards — a genuine ongoing cost, not a one-off.", "fundingRoute": "Pupil Premium grant; National Tutoring Programme; Education Endowment Foundation partnership funding.", "responsibleBody": [ "Department for Education", "Portsmouth schools/multi-academy trusts", "Portsmouth City Council (as local authority)" ], "timescale": "Medium-term (3–7 yrs)", "currentStatus": "Not proposed officially", "successMeasures": [ "KS4 disadvantage attainment gap in the targeted wards, tracked over multiple years" ], "tradeOffs": "Evidence-based tutoring only works if sustained for years, not as a single-year pilot — a genuine risk is funding being time-limited while the gap it addresses is not.", "sources": [ { "name": "Portsmouth City Council, Public Health Needs Summary 2025", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk", "date": "2025-11" }, { "name": "Education Endowment Foundation — Teaching and Learning Toolkit", "href": "https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/teaching-learning-toolkit", "date": "ongoing" } ] }, { "id": "health-tech-cluster", "title": "A formally designated QA Hospital–University of Portsmouth health innovation zone", "problem": "Portsmouth has two genuine anchor institutions for health research — Queen Alexandra Hospital and the University of Portsmouth — but no formal structure to commercialise research locally, contributing to the city's low graduate-retention rate.", "evidence": "The University of Portsmouth has delivered 100+ Knowledge Transfer Partnerships over two decades (£9.2m in grants, £4.9m in matched business funding) and has produced real spin-outs (RevoNA Bio; Spirogen, sold to AstraZeneca in 2013). But the university's own incubator space (formerly including Portsmouth Technopole, sold to The Trafalgar Group in May 2025 and rebranded Ocean House) has historically lacked follow-on space for companies that outgrow early-stage premises.", "intervention": "A formally designated health innovation zone co-locating QAH clinical research, University of Portsmouth academic research, and scale-up commercial space for health-tech spin-outs — explicitly including the follow-on/scale-up space the university's own documentation says is currently missing.", "whyItMightWork": "The underlying research relationship already works (KTPs, real spin-outs) — the gap is specifically the follow-on commercial space that lets a growing company stay in Portsmouth rather than relocate to Southampton Science Park or London.", "cost": "A dedicated cluster facility is typically a mid-single-digit-million capital cost; treat as an order of magnitude pending an actual costed proposal.", "fundingRoute": "Innovate UK; NHS innovation funding; University of Portsmouth commercial development budget; Solent Freeport innovation incentives.", "responsibleBody": [ "University of Portsmouth", "NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight / Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust", "Innovate UK" ], "timescale": "Medium-term (3–7 yrs)", "currentStatus": "Not proposed officially", "successMeasures": [ "Number of health-tech spin-outs remaining and scaling within Portsmouth (not just formed here)", "Follow-on commercial space actually delivered" ], "tradeOffs": "Portsmouth competes directly with Southampton Science Park and London for exactly this kind of scale-up tenant — space alone does not guarantee retention without a genuinely competitive offer.", "sources": [ { "name": "University of Portsmouth — economic and societal impact", "href": "https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/university-of-portsmouths-economic-and-societal-impact-ranked-highly-in-national-assessment", "date": "2025-09-23" }, { "name": "The News (portsmouth.co.uk) — Ocean House / Portsmouth Technopole sale", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/ocean-house-portsmouth-technopole-trafalgar-group-8652987", "date": "2025" } ] }, { "id": "sewage-timetable", "title": "A public, dated delivery timetable for the remaining worst Portsmouth/Langstone sewage outfalls", "problem": "Southern Water's Three Harbours Partnership is a genuine £170m investment, but residents have no published, site-by-site schedule for the specific outfalls with the worst spill records — so progress cannot easily be checked against a promise.", "evidence": "Portsmouth Harbour recorded 124 storm-overflow spills totalling 234 hours in the most recent EDM reporting year (Rivers Trust \"Top of the Poops\", aggregating Environment Agency data); Southsea East remains classified \"Poor\" for bathing water by the Environment Agency.", "intervention": "A published, dated, site-level delivery plan for the remaining worst outfalls — modelled on the Stanley Road, Stamshaw bottleneck, which has reportedly already been fixed under this same programme.", "whyItMightWork": "The programme has already delivered at least one concrete, named fix — the ask here is transparency and pace, not a new mechanism.", "cost": "No new cost — this is a transparency/reporting ask on an already-funded (£170m) programme, not a new spending request.", "fundingRoute": "Already funded — Southern Water's existing Three Harbours Partnership / Clean Rivers and Seas Plan.", "responsibleBody": [ "Southern Water", "Environment Agency", "Ofwat" ], "timescale": "Short-term (1–3 yrs)", "currentStatus": "Underway", "successMeasures": [ "A published site-by-site timetable existing at all", "Spill count/hours falling at the named worst outfalls year-on-year" ], "tradeOffs": "None significant — this is a transparency ask on an existing programme rather than a new intervention with its own trade-offs.", "sources": [ { "name": "Southern Water — Portsmouth Harbour £170m storm overflow scheme", "href": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/latest-news/work-underway-on-170m-portsmouth-harbour-storm-overflow-reduction-scheme/", "date": "2024–2026" }, { "name": "Top of the Poops (Rivers Trust) — Portsmouth Harbour", "href": "https://top-of-the-poops.org/waterway/southern-water/portsmouth-harbour", "date": "2025 data year" } ] }, { "id": "waste-carrier-awareness", "title": "A visible local campaign on the registered waste-carrier database, alongside enforcement", "problem": "Portsmouth fly-tipping incidents rose from 751 to 1,092 in a single year, while only 17 Fixed Penalty Notices were issued over the same period — a large gap between incidents and enforcement capacity.", "evidence": "Government-commissioned research (NatCen, for Defra) found fewer than 3 in 10 people nationally know the registered waste-carrier database exists, and only 11% know fly-tipping can lead to a criminal conviction.", "intervention": "A local, visible awareness campaign on the waste-carrier register — letting residents check in seconds whether whoever they're paying to take waste away is legally allowed to — run alongside (not instead of) continued enforcement and the incoming 2027 licensing reform.", "whyItMightWork": "This targets a documented awareness gap directly, at very low cost, rather than relying solely on an enforcement capacity that current numbers show is already stretched thin.", "cost": "Low — primarily a communications/campaign cost, not new infrastructure.", "fundingRoute": "Portsmouth City Council communications budget; potential Defra local-authority engagement funding.", "responsibleBody": [ "Portsmouth City Council", "Environment Agency" ], "timescale": "Short-term (1–3 yrs)", "currentStatus": "Not proposed officially", "successMeasures": [ "Awareness of the waste-carrier register among residents (survey-based)", "Fly-tipping incident count trend" ], "tradeOffs": "Awareness campaigns alone will not stop determined rogue commercial operators — this is a complement to enforcement and the 2027 licensing reform, not a replacement for either.", "sources": [ { "name": "NatCen Social Research — \"Fly-tipping: drivers, deterrents and impacts\" (for Defra)", "href": "https://natcen.ac.uk/publications/fly-tipping-drivers-deterrents-and-impacts", "date": "2022-06-06" } ] }, { "id": "tipner-marine-jobs", "title": "Insist Tipner West's marine employment space is built alongside the housing, not after it", "problem": "Portsmouth's island geography means there is no fallback development land beyond the sites already in the Local Plan — if Tipner West delivers homes but the marine employment floorspace slips or shrinks, the city loses one of its few remaining chances to grow permanent, high-wage jobs on the island.", "evidence": "The Portsmouth Local Plan allocates Tipner West for up to 1,000 homes plus 58,000 sqm of marine employment space — but housing and commercial floorspace on mixed-use sites nationally do not always deliver in the proportions originally allocated once a scheme reaches viability negotiations.", "intervention": "Portsmouth City Council and the Local Plan examination process should treat the marine employment floorspace as a delivery condition tied to the housing phases, not something that can be quietly reduced later for viability reasons.", "whyItMightWork": "This is a planning-conditions ask, not a new funding request — it uses a lever the council already has (planning obligations) rather than asking for new money.", "cost": "No direct public cost — this is a planning-policy/conditions ask, not a spending proposal.", "fundingRoute": "N/A — planning conditions, not a funding ask.", "responsibleBody": [ "Portsmouth City Council (planning)", "Homes England", "The Tipner West developer(s)" ], "timescale": "Short-term (1–3 yrs)", "currentStatus": "Under discussion", "successMeasures": [ "Marine employment floorspace actually delivered vs the 58,000 sqm allocation, tracked phase by phase" ], "tradeOffs": "Tying housing delivery to commercial floorspace conditions can slow down urgently-needed housing if a developer argues the employment space is not viable — a genuine trade-off between speed of housing delivery and the jobs objective.", "relatedDevelopmentPlanProject": { "label": "Tipner West (Development Plan)", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, "sources": [ { "name": "Portsmouth Local Plan 2024–2040, PCC Regeneration", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-policy/portsmouth-local-plan", "date": "2025-11" } ] }, { "id": "cycle-circuit", "title": "Complete a signposted cycle circuit of Portsea Island", "problem": "Portsmouth has several genuinely good cycling infrastructure fragments (Hilsea Lines, the Southsea Coastal Scheme's promenade diversions) but they do not currently connect into one continuous, safe route.", "evidence": "The Development Plan's own \"what's still missing\" assessment for Green Infrastructure names the Hilsea Lido–Eastney–Southsea Castle seafront cycle routing as incomplete and unsafe at several junctions.", "intervention": "A fully signposted cycle circuit of Portsea Island (roughly 12km) connecting Hilsea Lines, Eastern Road, Eastney, the Southsea seafront, Old Portsmouth and Tipner, resolving the specific dangerous junctions rather than treating each green-space project's cycle path as a standalone amenity.", "whyItMightWork": "Most of the individual segments already exist or are being built as part of other funded schemes (Hilsea Lines restoration, Southsea Coastal Scheme) — the missing piece is junction treatment and continuity, not building a route from scratch.", "cost": "Mid-single-digit millions, primarily for junction upgrades, surfacing and wayfinding rather than new route construction.", "fundingRoute": "Active Travel England; Solent Transport capital programme; developer contributions from Tipner West and City Centre North.", "responsibleBody": [ "Portsmouth City Council (highways)", "Active Travel England" ], "timescale": "Medium-term (3–7 yrs)", "currentStatus": "Not proposed officially", "successMeasures": [ "Number of dangerous junctions resolved", "Cycle trip counts on the connected route" ], "tradeOffs": "Junction redesigns that favour cyclists can reduce motor-vehicle capacity at pinch points on an island with only one main road in and out — a real trade-off given Portsmouth's existing traffic congestion.", "relatedDevelopmentPlanProject": { "label": "Green Infrastructure Investment (Development Plan)", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, "sources": [ { "name": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth Development Plan, Green Infrastructure Investment", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan", "date": "2026-08-26" } ] } ] }, "portsmouth-areas": { "AREAS_METHODOLOGY": "Ward-to-constituency allocation follows the current (2024) Westminster boundaries. Portsmouth North and Portsmouth South did not change shape in the 2023 boundary review. Where a statistic exists only for Portsmouth as a whole, that is stated rather than split across the two seats — apportioning an authority-level figure by population would produce a number that looks local but is not measured.", "PORTSMOUTH_AREAS": [ { "slug": "portsmouth", "name": "Portsmouth", "kind": "City", "summary": "The whole city — Portsmouth unitary authority. Almost all official statistics are published at this level, so this is where the fullest picture is available.", "wards": [ { "name": "Baffins" }, { "name": "Central Southsea" }, { "name": "Charles Dickens" }, { "name": "Copnor" }, { "name": "Cosham" }, { "name": "Drayton & Farlington" }, { "name": "Eastney & Craneswater" }, { "name": "Fratton" }, { "name": "Hilsea" }, { "name": "Milton" }, { "name": "Nelson" }, { "name": "Paulsgrove" }, { "name": "St Jude" }, { "name": "St Thomas" } ], "localFacts": [ { "label": "Population", "value": "211,475", "period": "Mid-2025", "source": "ONS mid-year estimates" }, { "label": "Population density", "value": "5,236 per km²", "period": "Mid-2025", "source": "ONS" }, { "label": "Median age", "value": "36.9 years", "period": "Mid-2025", "source": "ONS" }, { "label": "Land area", "value": "40.4 km²", "period": "Jan 2025", "source": "ONS Standard Area Measurements" }, { "label": "Licensed HMOs", "value": "3,158", "period": "August 2026", "source": "Portsmouth City Council combined HMO register" } ], "cityLevelOnly": [] }, { "slug": "portsmouth-north", "name": "Portsmouth North", "kind": "Constituency", "summary": "The northern half of the city — Portsea Island north of roughly Fratton, plus Cosham, Paulsgrove, Drayton and Farlington on the mainland side.", "wards": [ { "name": "Baffins" }, { "name": "Copnor" }, { "name": "Cosham" }, { "name": "Drayton & Farlington" }, { "name": "Hilsea" }, { "name": "Nelson" }, { "name": "Paulsgrove" } ], "mpName": "Amanda Martin", "mpParty": "Labour", "mpHref": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/mp/portsmouth-north", "electorate": 70446, "turnoutPct": 59, "majority": 780, "localFacts": [ { "label": "Electorate", "value": "70,446", "period": "2024 general election", "source": "UK Parliament" }, { "label": "Turnout", "value": "59.0%", "period": "2024", "source": "UK Parliament" }, { "label": "Majority", "value": "780", "period": "2024", "source": "UK Parliament" } ], "cityLevelOnly": [ "Employment, earnings, house prices and rents — published for Portsmouth as a whole only.", "Crime rates — published by police force area and local authority, not by constituency.", "Health outcomes including life expectancy — published at local authority level.", "School attainment and absence — published by local authority and by individual school, not by constituency." ], "localProjects": [ { "title": "Hilsea Lido", "status": "Reopened 2 May 2026 after a refurbishment funded from the £20m Levelling Up award for North Portsmouth", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "title": "Hilsea Lines moat restoration and sea defences", "status": "Underway — dredging began September 2025, sea-defence work runs to end of 2026. Funded by the North Portsea Coastal Scheme, NOT the Levelling Up award", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "title": "Foxes Forest woodland restoration, Hilsea Lines", "status": "Underway", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "title": "Tipner West", "status": "Allocated in the Local Plan — marine employment space and housing", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "title": "Northern Quarter — Cosham and Lakeside North Harbour", "status": "Allocated in the Local Plan", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" } ] }, { "slug": "portsmouth-south", "name": "Portsmouth South", "kind": "Constituency", "summary": "The southern half of the city — Southsea, Old Portsmouth, the city centre, the naval base and the dockyard, plus Fratton, Milton and Eastney.", "wards": [ { "name": "Central Southsea" }, { "name": "Charles Dickens" }, { "name": "Eastney & Craneswater" }, { "name": "Fratton" }, { "name": "Milton" }, { "name": "St Jude" }, { "name": "St Thomas" } ], "mpName": "Stephen Morgan", "mpParty": "Labour", "mpHref": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/mp/portsmouth-south", "electorate": 73711, "turnoutPct": 52.8, "majority": 13155, "localFacts": [ { "label": "Electorate", "value": "73,711", "period": "2024 general election", "source": "UK Parliament" }, { "label": "Turnout", "value": "52.8%", "period": "2024", "source": "UK Parliament" }, { "label": "Majority", "value": "13,155", "period": "2024", "source": "UK Parliament" }, { "label": "Charles Dickens child poverty", "value": "35.9%", "period": "2025", "source": "PCC Public Health Needs Summary" } ], "cityLevelOnly": [ "Employment, earnings, house prices and rents — published for Portsmouth as a whole only.", "Crime rates — published by police force area and local authority, not by constituency.", "Health outcomes including life expectancy — published at local authority level.", "School attainment and absence — published by local authority and by individual school, not by constituency." ], "localProjects": [ { "title": "Southsea Coastal Scheme", "status": "Underway — flood defence for 10,000 homes and businesses, rebuilding the seafront as it goes", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "title": "City Centre North — former Tricorn and Sainsbury's sites", "status": "Allocated in the Local Plan; the single largest regeneration site in the city centre", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "title": "Fratton Park and Pompey Centre", "status": "Allocated in the Local Plan (policy PLP7)", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "title": "St James' Hospital campus and Langstone", "status": "Allocated in the Local Plan", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "title": "Bransbury Park leisure hub", "status": "New leisure facility", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "title": "Hotwalls Studios, Old Portsmouth", "status": "Operating — creative workspace quarter", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" } ] } ], "WARD_CHILD_POVERTY": [ { "ward": "Charles Dickens", "pct": 35.9 }, { "ward": "Paulsgrove", "pct": 27.5 } ], "WARD_CHILD_POVERTY_NOTE": "Superseded by the full DWP series for all fourteen wards. Retained only to explain why the council's own published rates differ: Portsmouth City Council's Public Health Needs Summary quotes Charles Dickens at 35.9% and Paulsgrove at 27.5%, which sit alongside DWP's BEFORE housing costs figures (Paulsgrove 27.8% in FYE25, 27.6% in FYE23) rather than its after-housing-costs ones. The council appears to be using a before-housing-costs measure. Charles Dickens cannot be reproduced exactly from any published DWP year — the closest are 37.3% to 38.7% — so the difference there is stated, not explained away." }, "portsmouth-assets": { "ASSETS_AS_OF": "Register as released 11 August 2026 (EIR2026/02586)", "ASSETS_CAVEAT": "Disposal receipts are understated: 26 of the 38 entries record no price, pointing instead to HM Land Registry. The £2.35m is therefore a floor for disposals just as £16.1m is a floor for City Centre North. Neither figure should be quoted as a total, and the two floors are not directly comparable to each other.", "ASSETS_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth City Council has been buying property, not selling it. At least £16.8m of acquisitions since 2020 against £2.35m of recorded disposal receipts — and nearly all the buying is a single street.", "ASSETS_INTERPRETATION": "Fifteen of the 38 disposals are leasehold enfranchisement claims, where a leaseholder exercises a statutory right to buy their freehold. Those are not the council choosing to sell. Strip them out and 23 discretionary disposals remain over six years, against 34 acquisitions. This is not an authority disposing of its estate.", "ASSETS_QUESTIONS": "The questions this raises are answerable and not currently answered anywhere published. What is the holding cost — the rent foregone, business rates and security on 31 properties? What is the total actually spent, given 20 of the 31 prices are withheld? Is a development partner appointed, and if not, by when? And what happens to these assets on 1 April 2028, when the council that bought them ceases to exist and they transfer to a new unitary whose priorities are not yet set?", "ASSETS_SOURCES": [ { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — register of acquisitions and disposals, EIR2026/02586", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/be-informed/freedom-of-information/", "date": "2026-08-11" }, { "name": "HM Land Registry — title register search (for prices withheld from the register)", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry", "date": "ongoing" } ], "ASSETS_SO_WHAT": "The council has bought a high street and has not yet developed it. That is not in itself a criticism — site assembly is how large regeneration actually starts, and buying incrementally is usually cheaper than a compulsory purchase order later. But it has consequences that are visible elsewhere on this site: some of the 16.4% city-centre retail vacancy we report is the council's own newly-acquired stock standing empty while it waits for a development partner.", "ASSETS_VALUATION_NOTE": "The council confirmed in its response that all transactions were valued by its own RICS-qualified staff. No independent District Valuer assessment is recorded for these disposals.", "ASSETS_WHAT_WOULD_IMPROVE_IT": "Three things would make this defensible rather than merely explicable: publish the full acquisition cost including the prices currently withheld; publish the annual holding cost; and publish a dated milestone for appointing a development partner. None requires new money. All three are within the council's gift, and all three would be normal disclosure for a private developer assembling a site of this size.", "CCN_ASSEMBLY": { "properties": 31, "pricedTotal": 16079057, "pricesWithheld": 20, "headline": "The council has bought 31 properties for City Centre North regeneration, spending at least £16.1m. Prices for 20 of them are not in the register.", "largest": "315 Commercial Road, the former Sainsbury's, at £6.2m", "addresses": [ "191 Commercial Road", "205 & 205A Commercial Road", "225 Commercial Road", "239–241 Commercial Road", "257–259 Commercial Road", "261 Commercial Road", "263 Commercial Road", "265 Commercial Road", "267 Commercial Road", "277 Commercial Road", "279 Commercial Road", "285 Commercial Road", "287 Commercial Road", "291 Commercial Road", "295 Commercial Road", "299 Commercial Road", "315 Commercial Road (former Sainsbury's)", "335–343 Commercial Road", "6 Market Way", "7–9 Market Way", "10 Charlotte Street", "12–18 Charlotte Street", "4 Frederick Street", "City Buildings (ground floor units)", "Former Job Centre, Lake Road", "St Wilfred's Church, George Street", "The Bridge Centre, Fratton Road", "Tipner Lane — Pounds Yard" ] }, "DISPOSALS": { "count": 38, "pricedTotal": 2352520, "pricesNotStated": 26, "byMethod": [ { "method": "Leasehold enfranchisement claim", "count": 15, "note": "A leaseholder exercising a statutory right to buy the freehold. Not a council decision to sell." }, { "method": "Sale", "count": 12, "note": "Negotiated sale." }, { "method": "Auction", "count": 8, "note": "Open market auction, largely former residential properties." }, { "method": "Transfer", "count": 1, "note": "Includes community asset transfer." }, { "method": "Not stated", "count": 2, "note": "" } ], "byYear": [ { "year": 2020, "count": 4 }, { "year": 2021, "count": 6 }, { "year": 2022, "count": 7 }, { "year": 2023, "count": 5 }, { "year": 2024, "count": 12 }, { "year": 2025, "count": 2 } ], "commonReason": "Too expensive to maintain is the most frequently recorded reason for sale." }, "OTHER_ACQUISITIONS": { "count": 3, "value": 718000, "note": "Acquisitions outside the City Centre North programme, including the New Theatre Royal under a sale and leaseback arrangement recorded as protecting the asset." } }, "portsmouth-child-poverty": { "CHILD_POVERTY_AS_OF": "Financial year ending 2025, published 26 March 2026", "CHILD_POVERTY_COMPARISON_NOTE": "Portsmouth City Council's Public Health Needs Summary quotes lower ward rates — Charles Dickens 35.9% and Paulsgrove 27.5%. Those sit with the BEFORE housing costs series, not the after-housing-costs one: DWP puts Paulsgrove at 27.8% BHC for FYE 2025 and 27.6% for FYE 2023, either of which rounds to the council figure. The council therefore appears to be quoting a before-housing-costs measure. Charles Dickens does NOT reconcile exactly against any published DWP year — the BHC series runs 37.3% to 38.7% — so a difference of roughly two points remains unexplained there, most likely a different age range or an earlier vintage. That is stated rather than smoothed over. Any figure quoted from this page should carry its measure and its year.", "CHILD_POVERTY_HEADLINE": "Just over half the children in Charles Dickens ward — 2,122 of them — are in relative low income after housing costs. In Drayton and Farlington it is 12.6%. Both wards are in the same city, four miles apart.", "CHILD_POVERTY_HOUSING_NOTE": "The gap between the two measures is what housing costs do to family income. Across Portsmouth's wards, deducting rent and mortgage moves child poverty by between 5 and 14 percentage points. Charles Dickens goes from 38.7% to 51.6%; Nelson from 23.4% to 37.4%. That is not a change in earnings — it is the same families, measured after they have paid to keep a roof over their heads.", "CHILD_POVERTY_SOURCES": [ { "name": "DWP — Children in low income families: local area statistics, 2022 to 2025 (Tables 3, 4, 9, 11)", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-2022-to-2025", "date": "2026-03-26" }, { "name": "DWP — Background information and methodology", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-background-information-and-methodology/background-information-and-methodology-children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics", "date": "2026" } ], "CONSTITUENCY_CHILD_POVERTY_FYE25": [ { "constituency": "Portsmouth North", "childrenAHC": 5499, "rateAHC": 27.1, "childrenBHC": 3614, "rateBHC": 17.8 }, { "constituency": "Portsmouth South", "childrenAHC": 6395, "rateAHC": 35.5, "childrenBHC": 4300, "rateBHC": 23.9 } ], "UK_RATE_AHC": 26, "WARD_CHILD_POVERTY_FYE25": [ { "ward": "Charles Dickens", "childrenAHC": 2122, "rateAHC": 51.6, "childrenBHC": 1591, "rateBHC": 38.7 }, { "ward": "St Thomas", "childrenAHC": 938, "rateAHC": 42.8, "childrenBHC": 694, "rateBHC": 31.7 }, { "ward": "Paulsgrove", "childrenAHC": 1161, "rateAHC": 38.2, "childrenBHC": 845, "rateBHC": 27.8 }, { "ward": "Nelson", "childrenAHC": 1302, "rateAHC": 37.4, "childrenBHC": 815, "rateBHC": 23.4 }, { "ward": "Fratton", "childrenAHC": 1292, "rateAHC": 37.1, "childrenBHC": 811, "rateBHC": 23.3 }, { "ward": "Central Southsea", "childrenAHC": 698, "rateAHC": 28.2, "childrenBHC": 409, "rateBHC": 16.5 }, { "ward": "Cosham", "childrenAHC": 769, "rateAHC": 26.1, "childrenBHC": 515, "rateBHC": 17.5 }, { "ward": "Copnor", "childrenAHC": 603, "rateAHC": 24, "childrenBHC": 380, "rateBHC": 15.2 }, { "ward": "Milton", "childrenAHC": 642, "rateAHC": 23.9, "childrenBHC": 355, "rateBHC": 13.2 }, { "ward": "Baffins", "childrenAHC": 703, "rateAHC": 23.7, "childrenBHC": 458, "rateBHC": 15.4 }, { "ward": "St Jude", "childrenAHC": 320, "rateAHC": 23.5, "childrenBHC": 217, "rateBHC": 15.9 }, { "ward": "Hilsea", "childrenAHC": 640, "rateAHC": 23.2, "childrenBHC": 398, "rateBHC": 14.4 }, { "ward": "Eastney and Craneswater", "childrenAHC": 381, "rateAHC": 22.4, "childrenBHC": 227, "rateBHC": 13.3 }, { "ward": "Drayton and Farlington", "childrenAHC": 324, "rateAHC": 12.6, "childrenBHC": 197, "rateBHC": 7.6 } ] }, "portsmouth-contracts": { "CONTRACTS_ANNUAL_TOTAL": 414572532, "CONTRACTS_AS_OF": "Contracts register as released 10 August 2026 (FOI2026/02585)", "CONTRACTS_COUNT": 2326, "CONTRACTS_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth City Council holds £414.6m a year in contracts. £71.8m of it — 17.3% — is with businesses registered in the city. £238.6m, well over half, goes to suppliers registered elsewhere in the UK.", "CONTRACTS_INTERPRETATION": "Whether 17.3% is low depends on what the council buys. Highways maintenance, social care placements and energy are national markets where no Portsmouth-registered firm bids. The useful question is not the headline share but which expiring contracts could plausibly be won locally — which is why the expiry pipeline below matters more than the percentage above.", "CONTRACTS_SOURCES": [ { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — contracts register, FOI2026/02585", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/be-informed/freedom-of-information/", "date": "2026-08-10" } ], "CONTRACT_EXPIRY": [ { "year": 2026, "annualValue": 76067969 }, { "year": 2027, "annualValue": 78281296 }, { "year": 2028, "annualValue": 57836247 }, { "year": 2029, "annualValue": 142014841 }, { "year": 2030, "annualValue": 6038175 }, { "year": 2031, "annualValue": 5013228 }, { "year": 2032, "annualValue": 5998865 } ], "EXPIRY_NOTE": "Contracts reaching their current expiry date, by annual value. £212m a year — roughly half the council's contracted spend — reaches expiry before April 2028, and a further £142m falls in 2029. The March 2026 reorganisation decision would have moved the 2029 decisions to a new South East unitary; it was withdrawn on 7 September 2026, so for now they remain Portsmouth's.", "LGR_TAKES_EFFECT": null, "SO_WHAT": "The headline 17.3% is flattered by one company. Ensign Highways is Portsmouth-registered and holds the highways PFI — £25.3m of the £71.8m local total. Strip that single contract, locked until 2032, and local share falls to roughly 11%. The real finding is construction: £147.1m a year, the largest category by far, with only 10.3% going to Portsmouth-registered firms on work physically done in the city. That is about £132m a year leaving Portsmouth on buildings inside it.", "SO_WHAT_ACTION": "Not all of it can be spent locally, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest: energy is a national wholesale market, agency staffing runs through national frameworks, and specialist care placements go where the place exists. Roughly half is structurally non-local. But construction, maintenance and professional services together are over £150m a year with a real local supplier base, and the spend recurs annually rather than being one-off — which is precisely the condition under which building local capacity repays. The usual barrier is contract size: a £13m facilities contract cannot be bid by a twenty-person firm. The Procurement Act 2023 permits both smaller lots and social value weighting.", "SO_WHAT_COMPARISON_GAP": "Whether 17.3% is good or bad cannot be answered yet, because no comparison exists. No authority publishes local supplier share as a matter of course, and Southampton's and Hampshire's contract registers have been requested but not yet received. Until they are, this figure stands alone — which is why the category breakdown and the expiry pipeline are more useful than the headline percentage.", "SPEND_CATEGORIES": [ { "category": "Construction, repairs & facilities", "annual": 147105873, "localShare": 10.3, "addressable": "High", "why": "Work physically carried out in Portsmouth by firms mostly registered elsewhere. The largest category and the most obviously localisable." }, { "category": "Social care placements & support", "annual": 68300184, "localShare": 12.2, "addressable": "Partial", "why": "Specialist placements go where the placement exists. Domiciliary and supported living are more localisable than residential specialist care." }, { "category": "Highways & infrastructure", "annual": 28284509, "localShare": 89.4, "addressable": "Low", "why": "Already 89% local, but only because the PFI holder is Portsmouth-registered. Locked until 2032 and not a repeatable win." }, { "category": "Agency & temporary staffing", "annual": 13136652, "localShare": 0, "addressable": "Partial", "why": "Bought through national neutral-vendor frameworks. The workers are often local; the contract never is." }, { "category": "Energy & utilities", "annual": 11496309, "localShare": 1.5, "addressable": "Low", "why": "A national wholesale market. No local supplier exists to buy from." }, { "category": "IT, software & digital", "annual": 8661906, "localShare": 26.4, "addressable": "Low", "why": "Software licensing is bought from the vendor. Little is genuinely contestable locally." }, { "category": "Transport & fleet", "annual": 7349584, "localShare": 10.8, "addressable": "Partial", "why": "Vehicle supply is national; passenger and home-to-school transport is local by nature." }, { "category": "Professional & consultancy", "annual": 4058836, "localShare": 13, "addressable": "High", "why": "Legal, survey, valuation and engineering work with a real local supplier base." }, { "category": "Waste & environment", "annual": 3966821, "localShare": 0.1, "addressable": "Low", "why": "Dominated by a single long-term disposal contract." } ], "SPEND_CATEGORIES_CAVEAT": "Categories are assigned by keyword against contract descriptions and are ours, not the council's. 1,130 contracts worth £122.2m a year matched no category and are excluded rather than forced into one. \"Addressable\" is our judgement of whether a local supplier base plausibly exists, not a procurement assessment.", "SUPPLIERS_NOTE": "Two of the ten largest suppliers are not private companies: Solent NHS Trust and the Society of St James, a homelessness charity. Council contract spend is not the same thing as outsourcing to the private sector, and reading it that way would be wrong.", "SUPPLIER_BANDS": [ { "key": "portsmouth", "label": "Portsmouth (PO1–PO6)", "contracts": 413, "annualValue": 71783477, "share": 17.3 }, { "key": "widerPO", "label": "Havant, Fareham, Gosport, Isle of Wight", "contracts": 304, "annualValue": 48393044, "share": 11.7 }, { "key": "southampton", "label": "Southampton", "contracts": 253, "annualValue": 55822301, "share": 13.5 }, { "key": "restOfUK", "label": "Rest of the UK", "contracts": 1356, "annualValue": 238573710, "share": 57.5 } ], "TOP_SUPPLIERS": [ { "supplier": "VolkerStevin Infrastructure Ltd", "annualValue": 98815813 }, { "supplier": "Solent NHS Trust", "annualValue": 25317100 }, { "supplier": "Ensign Highways Limited", "annualValue": 25000000 }, { "supplier": "Swan Advocacy Network", "annualValue": 20068514 }, { "supplier": "Comserv (UK) Ltd", "annualValue": 13000000 }, { "supplier": "Mountjoy Ltd", "annualValue": 13000000 }, { "supplier": "Comensura Limited", "annualValue": 11830289 }, { "supplier": "Liberty Group", "annualValue": 7000000 }, { "supplier": "The Society of St James", "annualValue": 5930526 } ] }, "portsmouth-council-finance": { "AUDIT_POSITION": { "auditor": "Ernst & Young LLP", "history": [ { "year": "2021/22", "opinion": "Unqualified", "weakness": "None" }, { "year": "2022/23", "opinion": "Disclaimed", "weakness": "None reported" }, { "year": "2023/24", "opinion": "Disclaimed", "weakness": "None" }, { "year": "2024/25", "opinion": "Qualified", "weakness": "One — governance" } ], "disclaimerNote": "The 2022/23 and 2023/24 disclaimers were NOT a finding about Portsmouth's finances. They resulted from the national local-audit backstop: auditors did not have the resources to complete detailed procedures before a statutory cut-off, and disclaimed opinions across many councils. The 2024/25 qualification flows directly from those prior disclaimers leaving opening balances unverified.", "weakness": "The one significant weakness identified for 2024/25 is on GOVERNANCE, not financial sustainability: \"Weaknesses in the quality and safety of council housing and the Council's arrangements to address this.\" It follows the council's own September 2024 self-referral to the Regulator of Social Housing and a January 2025 regulatory judgement grading Portsmouth C3 — \"serious failings in the landlord delivering the outcomes of the consumer standards\". The regulator noted the council \"has engaged constructively and acted transparently\".", "noWeaknessOnFinance": "No significant weakness has been reported against the financial sustainability criterion in any year examined. No statutory recommendation, public interest report or advisory notice has been issued." }, "COUNCIL_TAX": [ { "year": "2017/18", "bandD": 1279.12, "increasePct": 4.99, "ascPreceptPct": 3 }, { "year": "2018/19", "bandD": 1336.61, "increasePct": 4.49, "ascPreceptPct": 1.5 }, { "year": "2019/20", "bandD": 1396.68, "increasePct": 4.49, "ascPreceptPct": 1.5 }, { "year": "2020/21", "bandD": 1452.4, "increasePct": 3.99, "ascPreceptPct": 2 }, { "year": "2021/22", "bandD": 1524.87, "increasePct": 4.99, "ascPreceptPct": 3 }, { "year": "2022/23", "bandD": 1570.46, "increasePct": 2.99, "ascPreceptPct": 1 }, { "year": "2023/24", "bandD": 1648.87, "increasePct": 4.99, "ascPreceptPct": 2 }, { "year": "2024/25", "bandD": 1731.15, "increasePct": 4.99, "ascPreceptPct": 2 }, { "year": "2025/26", "bandD": 1817.62, "increasePct": 4.99, "ascPreceptPct": 2 } ], "COUNCIL_TAX_NOTE": "Portsmouth City Council's own precept only — the bill also includes separate precepts for the Police and Crime Commissioner and for Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire. Band D rose 42% between 2017/18 and 2025/26. In seven of those nine years the increase was at or just below the referendum threshold, and a portion was the ring-fenced adult social care precept, shown separately.", "DSG_POSITION": { "headline": "Portsmouth carries no accumulated SEND deficit — it has a surplus", "detail": "Unlike many authorities, Portsmouth has no accumulated Dedicated Schools Grant deficit. Its carry-forward was a surplus of £11.5m at March 2024, £11.1m at March 2025 and £8.0m at March 2026 (draft). The absence of a \"DSG Adjustment Account\" in its unusable reserves independently corroborates this — that negative reserve is what every deficit authority must carry.", "turningPoint": "That is now changing. For the first time, the council is budgeting a DSG deficit of £4.5m in 2026/27. The surplus has fallen by £3.1m in a single year.", "override": "A statutory override currently keeps DSG deficits off councils' main budgets, but it ends on 31 March 2028 (Regulation 30L, Local Authorities (Capital Finance and Accounting) (England) Regulations 2003). Government has confirmed that in-year deficits from April 2028 become its responsibility, but has made no commitment to fund accumulated deficits existing at that date.", "notInSafetyValve": "Portsmouth is not in the DfE's Safety Valve intervention programme — consistent with a council that has been in surplus. The Isle of Wight, a likely reorganisation partner, is." }, "FINANCE_SOURCES": [ { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Budget & Council Tax 2026/27 and Medium-Term Budget Forecast, Full Council", "href": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/documents/s61498/Budget%20and%20Council%20Tax%20202627%20Medium%20Term%20Budget%20Forecast%20202728%20to%20202930%20Capital%20Strategy%2020.pdf", "date": "2026-02-24" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Statement of Accounts 2024/25 (audited)", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/statement-of-accounts-feb-2026-aa-accessible.pdf", "date": "2026-02" }, { "name": "Regulation 30L, Local Authorities (Capital Finance and Accounting) (England) Regulations 2003 — DSG override", "href": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3146/regulation/30L", "date": "current" } ], "FINANCIAL_POSITION": { "verdict": "Sound", "quote": "The Council's financial health is currently sound, but future risks remain relating to inflation volatility, accelerating cost and demand for Care Services, SEND and Homelessness as well as the uncertainty arising from Local Government Reorganisation.", "attribution": "Director of Finance & Resources (Section 151 Officer), Budget 2026/27 report, Full Council, 24 February 2026", "mtfsGap": "£3m to 2029/30", "mtfsNote": "The medium-term forecast improved sharply — the previous forecast was a £9m gap, now £3m, largely because the Fair Funding Review landed better than assumed. The council itself calls the forecast \"finely balanced\" and says it could vary by plus or minus £6m.", "s114": "Portsmouth has never issued a Section 114 notice and its S151 officer has not warned that one may become necessary. The only references in the budget report are the standard statutory description of the power, and an observation about the national picture." }, "NET_REVENUE_BUDGET": [ { "year": "2017/18", "total": 161643000 }, { "year": "2018/19", "total": 164776000 }, { "year": "2019/20", "total": 165327000 }, { "year": "2020/21", "total": 174588400 }, { "year": "2021/22", "total": 161334100 }, { "year": "2022/23", "total": 173501200 }, { "year": "2023/24", "total": 201586700 }, { "year": "2024/25", "total": 221698100 }, { "year": "2025/26", "total": 240526500 }, { "year": "2026/27", "total": 256733200 } ], "RESERVES": [ { "year": "2017/18", "balance": 19810930, "minimum": 7000000 }, { "year": "2018/19", "balance": 20949734, "minimum": 8000000 }, { "year": "2019/20", "balance": 20239860, "minimum": 8000000 }, { "year": "2020/21", "balance": 20421981, "minimum": 8000000 }, { "year": "2021/22", "balance": 21333124, "minimum": 8000000 }, { "year": "2022/23", "balance": 21504001, "minimum": 8000000 }, { "year": "2023/24", "balance": 21615398, "minimum": 10000000 }, { "year": "2024/25", "balance": 21167209, "minimum": 10000000 }, { "year": "2025/26", "balance": 22083305, "minimum": 10000000 }, { "year": "2026/27", "balance": 22300000, "minimum": 12000000 } ], "RESERVES_HEADLINE": "The working balance has been remarkably flat — around £20–22m for nine years. What has moved is the floor beneath it: the minimum the Director of Finance will allow has been raised twice, from £8m to £10m and now to £12m for 31 March 2027. The balance is not falling; the assessed risk against it is rising.", "SOCIAL_CARE_GROWTH": [ { "year": "2017/18", "adultName": "Health & Social Care", "adult": 45432879, "childrenName": "Children's Social Care + Education", "children": 48090157 }, { "year": "2018/19", "adultName": "Health & Social Care", "adult": 45052279, "childrenName": "Children & Families + Education", "children": 49199257 }, { "year": "2019/20", "adultName": "Health & Social Care", "adult": 47682279, "childrenName": "Children & Families + Education", "children": 53604757 }, { "year": "2020/21", "adultName": "Health, Wellbeing & Social Care", "adult": 51013400, "childrenName": "Children & Families + Education", "children": 57097000 }, { "year": "2021/22", "adultName": "Health, Wellbeing & Social Care", "adult": 54446000, "childrenName": "Children, Families & Education", "children": 56428700 }, { "year": "2022/23", "adultName": "Health, Wellbeing & Social Care", "adult": 57264100, "childrenName": "Children, Families & Education", "children": 59409200 }, { "year": "2023/24", "adultName": "Health, Wellbeing & Social Care", "adult": 58656700, "childrenName": "Children, Families & Education", "children": 66372400 }, { "year": "2024/25", "adultName": "Community, Wellbeing, Health & Care", "adult": 64910100, "childrenName": "Children, Families & Education", "children": 70886500 }, { "year": "2025/26", "adultName": "Community, Wellbeing, Health & Care", "adult": 74323900, "childrenName": "Children, Families & Education", "children": 77802100 } ], "SOCIAL_CARE_HEADLINE": "Adult social care spending rose 64% between 2017/18 and 2025/26, from £45.4m to £74.3m. Children's services and education rose 62%, from £48.1m to £77.8m. Total net revenue spending rose 49% over the same period — so both are growing faster than the budget as a whole, squeezing everything else.", "SPENDING_SPLIT": [ { "service": "Children, families & education", "amount": 77802100, "perHundred": 30.33 }, { "service": "Adult social care, wellbeing & health", "amount": 74323900, "perHundred": 28.98 }, { "service": "Central & corporate services", "amount": 39155100, "perHundred": 15.27 }, { "service": "Transport", "amount": 28411700, "perHundred": 11.08 }, { "service": "Environmental services (waste, streets)", "amount": 18380500, "perHundred": 7.17 }, { "service": "Community safety, leisure & sport", "amount": 11498800, "perHundred": 4.48 }, { "service": "Housing & tackling homelessness", "amount": 6796100, "perHundred": 2.65 }, { "service": "Climate change & greening the city", "amount": 114900, "perHundred": 0.04 } ], "SPENDING_SPLIT_HEADLINE": "Almost 60p in every £1 of service spending goes on two things: children's services and adult social care. 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Cabinet Member decision meetings, sub-committees and joint bodies). This list covers Full Council, scrutiny, the main regulatory committees and the Health & Wellbeing Board.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCommittees", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCommittees" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 6: Scrutiny (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-6-%E2%80%93-Scrutiny.pdf" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 8: Regulatory functions (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-8-%E2%80%93-Arrangements-to-Perform-Regulatory-Functions.pdf" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "COMPLAINTS_AND_ESCALATION": [ { "route": "Council complaint — Stage 1", "appliesTo": "General complaints about council services, staff or contractors (not statutory social care, councillor conduct, council-housing landlord services or matters with their own appeal route).", "howToUse": "In person, phone, letter, email, online form, social media, via a councillor or a representative (with consent).", "timescales": [ "Complaint logged within 5 working days of receipt.", "Written acknowledgement within 5 working days of logging.", "Response within 10 working days of acknowledgement for straightforward complaints; complex complaints up to 20 working days, extensions beyond 10 working days exceptional.", "Complain within 12 months of the issue occurring or becoming apparent." ], "nextStep": "Council complaint — Stage 2", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Complaints policy (applies from 1 Nov 2024)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/policies-and-strategies/complaints-policy" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Policy in force for complaints received from 1 Nov 2024. Constitution Ch 1.7 (11/2019 footer) still describes an older three-step scheme (service, director, Chief Executive’s office)." }, { "route": "Council complaint — Stage 2 (final council stage)", "appliesTo": "Customers unhappy with the Stage 1 response.", "howToUse": "Ask the council to escalate to Stage 2, ideally saying why.", "timescales": [ "Acknowledgement within 5 working days of the escalation request.", "Response within 20 working days of acknowledgement; any extension normally no more than a further 20 working days.", "Investigated by the appropriate Director, or a senior manager with Director review." ], "nextStep": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Complaints policy (applies from 1 Nov 2024)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/policies-and-strategies/complaints-policy" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "route": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO)", "appliesTo": "Most council services and privately funded adult social care, after the council’s process is complete.", "howToUse": "Online complaint form at lgo.org.uk or phone 0300 061 0614. Free.", "timescales": [ "Normally will not look at a complaint if more than 12 months have passed since the person first knew of the problem.", "Can come to the LGSCO if the council has not responded within a reasonable time — \"in most cases… up to 16 weeks\"." ], "nextStep": null, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman: How to complain", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain" }, { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Complaints policy (applies from 1 Nov 2024)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/policies-and-strategies/complaints-policy" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "route": "Council housing (Portsmouth Homes) landlord complaint", "appliesTo": "Tenants, leaseholders, shared owners, former tenants and others affected by Portsmouth Homes landlord services.", "howToUse": "Phone, email, in writing, online, in person or through a representative.", "timescales": [ "Stage 1: acknowledged within 5 working days; response within 10 working days.", "Stage 2: acknowledged within 5 working days; response within 20 working days.", "Normally complain within 12 months." ], "nextStep": "Housing Ombudsman", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth Homes: Landlord complaints policy", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/housing-policies-and-privacy-notices/portsmouth-homes-policies-strategies-and-reports/landlord-complaints-policy" }, { "title": "Landlord Complaints Policy – Quick Guide V1.3 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Quick-Guide-Landlord-Complaints-Policy-accessible-aa.pdf" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Follows the Housing Ombudsman Complaint Handling Code. Advice can be sought at any stage from the Housing Ombudsman, the Building Safety Regulator (building safety) or the Energy Ombudsman." }, { "route": "Housing Ombudsman", "appliesTo": "Residents of member landlords (including council landlords) about housing management: repairs, charges, estate management, complaint handling, antisocial behaviour affecting the home.", "howToUse": "Online complaint form at housing-ombudsman.org.uk after completing the landlord’s process, or if the landlord is not responding.", "timescales": [ "No time limit stated on the page opened; see the Ombudsman’s scheme." ], "nextStep": null, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Housing Ombudsman: Bring your complaint to the Housing Ombudsman", "url": "https://www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/residents/bring-your-complaint-to-the-housing-ombudsman/" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "route": "Complaint about a councillor’s conduct", "appliesTo": "Alleged breaches of the Members’ Code of Conduct only.", "howToUse": "Complete the complaint form and email monitoringofficer@portsmouthcc.gov.uk. An assessment sub-committee of the Governance & Audit & Standards Committee considers it against published criteria.", "timescales": [ "Not stated on the page opened." ], "nextStep": null, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Complaints about a councillor", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/complaints/complaining-about-a-councillor" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 1: Summary and explanation (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-1-%E2%80%93-Summary-and-Explanation-of-the-Constitution.pdf" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "route": "Freedom of Information / Environmental Information request", "appliesTo": "Anyone requesting recorded information held by the council (EIR for environmental information).", "howToUse": "Email foi@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or write to Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth PO1 2AL with name, address and the information wanted. Check the publication scheme and disclosure log first.", "timescales": [ "Response within 20 working days (subject to exemptions).", "Internal review: ask within 40 working days of the response; council aims to reply within a further 20 working days.", "If still unhappy after internal review: Information Commissioner’s Office." ], "nextStep": "Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Making an FOI request", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/transparency/freedom-of-information/making-an-foi-request" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "route": "Petition (paper or e-petition)", "appliesTo": "People living, working or studying in Portsmouth, on matters the council or its partners are responsible for. Not accepted: planning or licensing matters, matters with an appeal route, duplicates, abusive petitions.", "howToUse": "Register on the ModernGov e-petition system, or hand/post a paper petition to Democratic Services or a ward councillor.", "timescales": [ "Acknowledgement within 3 working days; relevant Head of Service responds within 10 working days.", "Thresholds: 500 signatures for a Full Council debate on a matter not considered in the previous 24 months; 1,000 if it was; 500 for a senior officer to give evidence at the Scrutiny Management Panel.", "Submit at least 12 days before the relevant meeting; lead petitioner gets 6 minutes to present.", "If unhappy with how it was handled: ask the Scrutiny Management Panel to review (process only, not outcome); result within 5 working days of the review." ], "nextStep": "Scrutiny Management Panel review (process only)", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Petitions and e-petitions", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions" }, { "title": "Full details of our petition scheme (PDF, uploaded 2020)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Full-details-of-our-petition-scheme.pdf" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 3A: Standing Orders, approved July 2020 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Part-3A-Standing-Orders-approved-July-2020.pdf" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "The petition scheme PDF was uploaded in 2020; the page linking to it was live on 23 Sep 2026." }, { "route": "Statutory social care complaints (adults; children and families)", "appliesTo": "Adult social care and children’s social care complaints, which follow separate statutory procedures.", "howToUse": "See the council’s dedicated statutory complaints pages linked from the complaints policy.", "timescales": [ "Not captured in this module." ], "nextStep": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Complaints policy (applies from 1 Nov 2024)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/policies-and-strategies/complaints-policy" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Out of scope of the corporate policy (policy s2.1). Timescales not researched here." } ], "COUNCIL_BASICS": { "name": "Portsmouth City Council", "authorityType": { "value": "unitary", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "GOV.UK local authority lookup API (Portsmouth: tier \"unitary\")", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/api/local-authority/portsmouth" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Single-tier council: provides all local council services in the city. Local government reorganisation (LGR) proposals for Hampshire were withdrawn on 7 Sep 2026 and the programme is under government review; Portsmouth’s status is unchanged meanwhile. LGR is separate from devolution (HSCCA)." }, "wards": { "value": 14, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Electoral areas in Portsmouth", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/voting-and-elections/electoral-areas-in-portsmouth" }, { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCouncillorsByWard", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "councillorsPerWard": { "value": 3, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Electoral areas in Portsmouth", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/voting-and-elections/electoral-areas-in-portsmouth" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 2: Members of the Council (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-2-%E2%80%93-Members-of-the-Council.pdf" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "totalCouncillors": { "value": 42, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCouncillorsByWard", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 2: Members of the Council (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-2-%E2%80%93-Members-of-the-Council.pdf" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "ModernGov lists 42 sitting councillors (14 wards x 3); no vacancies shown on 23 Sep 2026." }, "electoralCycle": { "value": "By thirds: one councillor per ward is elected in three years out of every four; councillors serve four-year terms.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Portsmouth City Council: Electoral areas in Portsmouth", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/voting-and-elections/electoral-areas-in-portsmouth" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 2: Members of the Council (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-2-%E2%80%93-Members-of-the-Council.pdf" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "seatsByParty": { "value": { "Liberal Democrat": 23, "Reform UK": 12, "Conservative": 3, "Labour": 3, "Independent": 1 }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCouncillorsByWard", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Counted from the politicalpartytitle field for all 42 councillors. Matches the figures on the Pompey site (\"LD 23 · Reform 12 · Con 3 · Lab 3 · Ind 1\"). The 2026 results record the Drayton & Farlington winner as \"Local Conservatives\"; ModernGov lists him as Conservative." }, "politicalControl": { "value": "Liberal Democrat majority (23 of 42 seats; 22 is a majority).", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCouncillorsByWard", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard" }, { "title": "ModernGov: Cabinet membership", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=126" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Derived arithmetically from the ModernGov seat counts; the Leader and all nine other Cabinet members are Liberal Democrats. No council page stating the word \"majority\" was found." }, "leader": { "value": { "name": "Steve Pitt", "party": "Liberal Democrat", "ward": "Milton", "keyPost": "Leader of the Council (with portfolio responsibility for Culture, Regeneration & Economic Development)" }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCouncillorsByWard", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard" }, { "title": "ModernGov: Cabinet membership", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=126" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "deputyLeader": { "value": { "name": "Darren Sanders", "party": "Liberal Democrat", "ward": "Baffins" }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCouncillorsByWard", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard" }, { "title": "ModernGov: Cabinet membership", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=126" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "civicHeads": { "value": { "lordMayor": "Abdul Kadir (Liberal Democrat, Baffins)", "deputyLordMayor": "Suzy Horton (Liberal Democrat, Central Southsea)" }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCouncillorsByWard", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "The Lord Mayor chairs Full Council and cannot sit in the Cabinet (Constitution Ch 7.4)." }, "groupLeaders": { "value": { "Reform UK": "Emily Strudwick (Hilsea)", "Conservative": "Simon Bosher (Drayton & Farlington)", "Labour": "Charlotte Gerada (Central Southsea)" }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCouncillorsByWard", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "From ModernGov \"Group Leader\" key posts. The one Independent councillor (Cal Corkery, Charles Dickens) sits as \"Independent Member\"." }, "lastElection": { "value": { "date": "2026-05-07", "seatsContested": 14, "seatsWon": { "Liberal Democrat": 8, "Reform UK": 5, "Conservative": 1 } }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetElectionResults (City Council Elections 2026, ID 20)", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetElectionResults?lElectionId=20" }, { "title": "ModernGov: election results list", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgManageElectionResults.aspx?bcr=1" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "One seat per ward. There was also a Paulsgrove by-election on 23 Oct 2025 (won by Joe Standen, Reform UK, per ModernGov election results ID 19)." }, "nextScheduledElection": { "value": { "when": "May 2027", "seats": 14, "termEndRecordedByModernGov": "2027-05-06", "boundaries": "existing ward boundaries" }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "GOV.UK: LGR programme review and decisions withdrawal letter to council leaders (7 Sep 2026)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders" }, { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetCouncillorsByWard", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 2: Members of the Council (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-2-%E2%80%93-Members-of-the-Council.pdf" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "The 7 Sep 2026 GOV.UK letter says elections scheduled for May 2027 \"will go ahead to existing council boundaries\" while LGR is reviewed. The 14 councillors elected in May 2023 have terms ending 6 May 2027 on ModernGov; the constitution sets ordinary elections on the first Thursday in May (6 May 2027). The poll date itself is not yet formally notified — reviewBy applies." }, "lgrContext": { "value": [ "Cabinet on 23 Jun 2026 resolved to start a judicial review of the Secretary of State’s March 2026 LGR decision for Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight (decision 1785).", "Cabinet on 23 Jun 2026 appointed council representatives to the \"new unitary authority Joint Committee\" (decision 1791).", "On 7 Sep 2026 the Secretary of State withdrew the March 2026 decisions for four areas, including Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton, and began a review of the LGR programme." ], "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Decision 1785: LGR judicial review (Cabinet 23 Jun 2026)", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1785" }, { "title": "Decision 1791: PCC representatives to the new unitary authority Joint Committee (Cabinet 23 Jun 2026)", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1791" }, { "title": "GOV.UK: LGR programme review and decisions withdrawal letter to council leaders (7 Sep 2026)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Context only. LGR (council structures) is separate from devolution (the HSCCA, which is operating)." }, "nextFullCouncil": { "value": { "date": "2026-10-13", "time": "2.00 pm", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=5980" }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "ModernGov web service: GetMeetings (per committee)", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgWebService.asmx?op=GetMeetings" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-10-14" } }, "DECISION_FLOW": [ { "step": 1, "stage": "Notice of a key decision (forward plan)", "who": "Leader (plan), Democratic Services (publication)", "whatHappens": "Executive decisions that are \"key\" must be announced in the forward plan before they are taken. A key decision is one likely to involve spending or savings of £250k or 25% of the relevant budget (whichever is greater), or to have a significant effect on communities in two or more wards.", "rules": [ "Key decision thresholds: £250k or 25% of relevant budget, whichever is greater; or significant effect on 2+ wards (Constitution Ch 13.3.2).", "Statutory notice: at least 28 clear days before a key decision is made (SI 2012/2089 reg 9).", "The constitution’s Access to Information Rule 13 still says \"at least 5 clear days\" after forward-plan publication; this text pre-dates the 2012 Regulations (see NOTES).", "Urgent exceptions: general exception (Rule 15) and special urgency (Rule 16)." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 13: Decision making (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-13-%E2%80%93-Decision-Making.pdf" }, { "title": "SI 2012/2089 (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) Regs, reg 9", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2089/regulation/9/made" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 3: Access to Information Procedure Rules (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Access-to-Information-Procedure-Rules.pdf" }, { "title": "ModernGov: Forward Plan 20 August to 20 November 2026", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgListPlanItems.aspx?PlanId=218&RP=400" } ] }, { "step": 2, "stage": "Officer report and agenda published", "who": "Officers (report author, Director); Democratic Services", "whatHappens": "Officers write a report with options and recommendations, including legal (City Solicitor) and finance comments. The agenda and reports are normally published 5 clear days before the meeting on ModernGov.", "rules": [ "Agenda and papers normally available 5 clear days before the meeting (Constitution Ch 1.6)." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 1: Summary and explanation (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-1-%E2%80%93-Summary-and-Explanation-of-the-Constitution.pdf" }, { "title": "Cabinet 22 Sep 2026: Revenue Budget Monitoring Q1 report (signed by the Director of Finance & Resources)", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/documents/s64396/Revenue%20Budget%20Monitoring%2020262027%20First%20Quarter%20to%20end%20June%202026.pdf" } ] }, { "step": 3, "stage": "Public participation at the meeting", "who": "Residents; Local Democracy Manager / meeting contact officer", "whatHappens": "Anyone may make a deputation (speak) on an item where a decision is to be taken, at Full Council, Cabinet, Cabinet Member decision meetings and regulatory committees. At Full Council residents can also ask written questions.", "rules": [ "Deputation request in writing (email accepted) by 12 noon on the working day before the meeting, stating the item and purpose (Standing Order 24(a); Cabinet, Cabinet Member and Full Council agenda frontsheets).", "Maximum 6 minutes per deputation; 12 minutes in total for those in favour and 12 for those against (Standing Order 24(d)).", "Public questions at Full Council: notice by 12 noon eleven days before the meeting; 15 minutes in total per meeting; asked in person; one supplementary question; none at the Budget or Annual meetings (Standing Order 25).", "Petitions of 500+ signatures (1,000+ if the matter was considered in the previous 24 months) can trigger a Full Council debate; submit at least 12 days before the meeting; lead petitioner gets 6 minutes (Standing Order 13(vi); petition scheme)." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Constitution Part 3A: Standing Orders, approved July 2020 (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Part-3A-Standing-Orders-approved-July-2020.pdf" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 3: Residents’ responsibilities (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-3-%E2%80%93-Residents-Responsibilities.pdf" }, { "title": "Cabinet 22 Sep 2026: agenda and decisions (frontsheet deputation wording)", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=6290" }, { "title": "Cabinet Member for Environmental Services 24 Sep 2026: agenda (frontsheet deputation wording)", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=6308" }, { "title": "Extraordinary Full Council 23 Sep 2026: agenda frontsheet (signed by the Chief Executive)", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/documents/g6361/Agenda%20frontsheet%2023rd-Sep-2026%2017.30%20Full%20Council.pdf?T=0" }, { "title": "Full details of our petition scheme (PDF, uploaded 2020)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Full-details-of-our-petition-scheme.pdf" } ] }, { "step": 4, "stage": "Decision taken", "who": "Full Council (budget and policy framework); Cabinet or an individual Cabinet Member (executive decisions); regulatory committees (planning, licensing); officers (delegated powers)", "whatHappens": "The decision-maker considers the report and any deputations and decides. Executive decisions outside the budget and policy framework must be referred to Full Council. Officers make operational decisions under the scheme of delegation and are answerable to the Chief Executive.", "rules": [ "Cabinet is responsible for most day-to-day decisions; Full Council sets overall policies and the budget (Ch 1.2–1.3).", "Planning and licensing matters go to regulatory committees (Ch 1.2, Ch 8).", "Officer decision-making (Ch 13.8; Part 2 s5B scheme of delegation)." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 1: Summary and explanation (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-1-%E2%80%93-Summary-and-Explanation-of-the-Constitution.pdf" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 13: Decision making (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-13-%E2%80%93-Decision-Making.pdf" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 8: Regulatory functions (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-8-%E2%80%93-Arrangements-to-Perform-Regulatory-Functions.pdf" } ] }, { "step": 5, "stage": "Decision published", "who": "Democratic Services", "whatHappens": "Decisions by the Cabinet, an individual Cabinet Member, or key decisions by officers are published within 2 working days (ModernGov decision register / decision sheet).", "rules": [ "Publication within 2 working days of the decision (Scrutiny Procedure Rules r15(a))." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Constitution Part 3: Policy and Review Panels (Overview and Scrutiny) Procedure Rules (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Policy-and-Review-Panels-Overview-and-Scrutiny-Procedure-Rules.pdf" }, { "title": "ModernGov: decision register", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgDelegatedDecisions.aspx?bcr=1&DM=0&DS=2&K=0&DR=&V=0" } ] }, { "step": 6, "stage": "Call-in (scrutiny)", "who": "Any five councillors; City Solicitor validates; Scrutiny Management Panel hears it", "whatHappens": "Before implementation, at least five councillors can \"call in\" an executive decision for the Scrutiny Management Panel to examine. The panel either takes no action (the decision stands) or refers it back to the decision-maker with written concerns. A called-in Cabinet decision that is contrary to the budget and policy framework is referred to Full Council.", "rules": [ "Request within 5 working days of publication, by not less than five councillors, on the form or by email to the Local Democracy Manager (r15(b)–(d)).", "Grounds: inaccurate/incorrect information; inadequate information; or contrary to the budget and policy framework (r15(c)).", "Special SMP meeting expected within 10 working days of a valid call-in (r15(f)).", "Not callable: urgent decisions; regulatory and other committee decisions; resolutions that only note a report; recommendations to Full Council; decisions already called in for the same reasons (r15(f)(i)–(vi))." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Constitution Part 3: Policy and Review Panels (Overview and Scrutiny) Procedure Rules (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Policy-and-Review-Panels-Overview-and-Scrutiny-Procedure-Rules.pdf" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 1: Summary and explanation (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-1-%E2%80%93-Summary-and-Explanation-of-the-Constitution.pdf" }, { "title": "Constitution Part 1 Ch 6: Scrutiny (PDF)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chapter-6-%E2%80%93-Scrutiny.pdf" } ] }, { "step": 7, "stage": "Implementation and follow-up", "who": "Officers; scrutiny panels; Governance & Audit & Standards Committee", "whatHappens": "Once the call-in period passes (or scrutiny concludes), officers implement. 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"ref": 1809, "date": "2026-07-21", "decisionMaker": "Cabinet Member for Children, Families and Education", "title": "Local Authority Maintained School Balances on 31 March 2026", "outcome": "Recommendations Approved", "keyDecisionAsPublished": false, "subjectToCallInAsPublished": false, "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1809" }, { "ref": 1808, "date": "2026-07-21", "decisionMaker": "Cabinet Member for Children, Families and Education", "title": "Children and Families Feedback February Report", "outcome": "Recommendations Approved", "keyDecisionAsPublished": false, "subjectToCallInAsPublished": false, "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1808" }, { "ref": 1807, "date": "2026-07-21", "decisionMaker": "Cabinet", "title": "Property Investment Fund", "outcome": "Recommendations Approved", "keyDecisionAsPublished": false, "subjectToCallInAsPublished": false, "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1807" }, { "ref": 1805, "date": "2026-07-21", "decisionMaker": "Cabinet", "title": "City Centre North regeneration", "outcome": "Recommendations Approved", "keyDecisionAsPublished": false, "subjectToCallInAsPublished": false, "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1805" }, { "ref": 1803, "date": "2026-07-21", "decisionMaker": "Cabinet", "title": "Treasury Management Outturn Report 2025/2026", "outcome": "Recommendations Approved", "keyDecisionAsPublished": false, "subjectToCallInAsPublished": false, "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1803" }, { "ref": 1802, "date": "2026-07-21", "decisionMaker": "Cabinet", "title": "Education, Children & Young People Scrutiny Panel review \"Increasing accessibility in Portsmouth's play parks\" - Response report", "outcome": "Recommendations Approved", "keyDecisionAsPublished": false, "subjectToCallInAsPublished": false, 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First-year survival was close to normal at 93.4%.", "rulesOut": "It is not a generic port-city or naval-city effect. Plymouth — comparable in size, also a naval city — is ABOVE the England average at 39.8%. Southampton is lower still than Portsmouth at 26.2%, so there may be a south-coast city pattern, but Plymouth breaks any simple maritime explanation.", "caveat": "A five-year rate exists only for the 2019 birth cohort — later cohorts are not yet mature and ONS publishes them as unavailable rather than estimating." }, "CLAIMANT_COUNT": [ { "period": "Dec 2015", "portsmouth": 1.4, "england": 1.7 }, { "period": "Dec 2017", "portsmouth": 1.6, "england": 1.8 }, { "period": "Dec 2019", "portsmouth": 3, "england": 2.8 }, { "period": "Dec 2020", "portsmouth": 7, "england": 6.2 }, { "period": "Dec 2021", "portsmouth": 5.2, "england": 4.4 }, { "period": "Dec 2022", "portsmouth": 4.4, "england": 3.6 }, { "period": "Dec 2023", "portsmouth": 4.4, "england": 3.7 }, { "period": "Dec 2024", "portsmouth": 4.6, "england": 4 }, { "period": "Dec 2025", "portsmouth": 4.5, "england": 3.9 }, { "period": "Jul 2026", "portsmouth": 4.4, "england": 4 } ], "CLAIMANT_NOTE": "Claimants as a proportion of residents aged 16–64. This is NOT an unemployment rate — it counts people claiming unemployment-related benefits, which since Universal Credit includes some people in work. Two structural breaks matter: the 2013–2018 Universal Credit rollout widened who is counted, and April 2020 combined COVID with a further widening of eligibility. Portsmouth peaked at 7.4% in May 2020.", "EARNINGS": [ { "year": 2015, "resident": 26528, "workplace": 28186, "england": 27838 }, { "year": 2016, "resident": 25861, "workplace": 28660, "england": 28500 }, { "year": 2017, "resident": 26655, "workplace": 28942, "england": 29085 }, { "year": 2018, "resident": 27402, "workplace": 29576, "england": 29849 }, { "year": 2019, "resident": 28569, "workplace": 30996, "england": 30692 }, { "year": 2020, "resident": 27197, "workplace": 32877, "england": 31780 }, { "year": 2021, "resident": 29215, "workplace": 31851, "england": 31445 }, { "year": 2022, "resident": 32343, "workplace": 34136, "england": 33279 }, { "year": 2023, "resident": 32638, "workplace": 35073, "england": 35194 }, { "year": 2024, "resident": 35112, "workplace": 38613, "england": 37636 }, { "year": 2025, "resident": 36022, "workplace": 38815, "england": 39243 } ], "EARNINGS_CAVEAT": "ASHE figures carry a coefficient of variation rather than a confidence interval. 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That contrast is the single most informative earnings fact available for Portsmouth — and it is a far better answer than attributing the gap loosely to \"the public sector\".", "ECONOMY_SOURCES": [ { "name": "ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings via Nomis (resident and workplace analyses)", "href": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/ashe", "date": "2025-11-03" }, { "name": "ONS Business Register and Employment Survey via Nomis", "href": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/newbrespub", "date": "2025-10-28" }, { "name": "ONS Business Demography reference tables", "href": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/businessdemographyreferencetable", "date": "2025-11-20" }, { "name": "ONS Claimant Count via Nomis", "href": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/ucjsa", "date": "2026-08-18" } ], "PUBLIC_PRIVATE": [ { "year": 2015, "publicPct": 21.2, "englandPublicPct": 16.7, "privateJobs": 79881, "publicJobs": 21513 }, { "year": 2018, "publicPct": 22.2, "englandPublicPct": 16.3, "privateJobs": 82584, "publicJobs": 23538 }, { "year": 2020, "publicPct": 23.5, "englandPublicPct": 16.8, "privateJobs": 77476, "publicJobs": 23770 }, { "year": 2022, "publicPct": 24, "englandPublicPct": 16.9, "privateJobs": 80853, "publicJobs": 25506 }, { "year": 2023, "publicPct": 25.5, "englandPublicPct": 17.6, "privateJobs": 78974, "publicJobs": 26963 }, { "year": 2024, "publicPct": 26.9, "englandPublicPct": 17.9, "privateJobs": 75689, "publicJobs": 27920 } ], "PUBLIC_PRIVATE_HEADLINE": "More than a quarter of Portsmouth's employee jobs are now public sector — 26.9% against 17.9% across England, and the gap is widening. Private-sector employee jobs peaked in 2018 at 82,584 and stood at 75,689 in 2024, down 8.4%, while public-sector jobs rose 18.6%.", "PUBLIC_PRIVATE_NOTE": "Shares are derived by division from published counts, because Nomis returns a blank percentage field for this dataset. The counts themselves are as published.", "SECTORS": [ { "sector": "Human health & social work", "portsmouth": 17.3, "england": 13.8 }, { "sector": "Wholesale & retail", "portsmouth": 13.5, "england": 13.7 }, { "sector": "Education", "portsmouth": 10.6, "england": 8.6 }, { "sector": "Accommodation & food", "portsmouth": 8.7, "england": 7.7 }, { "sector": "Administrative & support", "portsmouth": 8.7, "england": 8.8 }, { "sector": "Manufacturing", "portsmouth": 7.7, "england": 7.1 }, { "sector": "Public administration & defence", "portsmouth": 7.7, "england": 4.5 }, { "sector": "Professional, scientific & technical", "portsmouth": 4.3, "england": 9.6 }, { "sector": "Transportation & storage", "portsmouth": 4.3, "england": 5.1 }, { "sector": "Information & communication", "portsmouth": 4.3, "england": 4.8 }, { "sector": "Construction", "portsmouth": 3.8, "england": 4.9 }, { "sector": "Financial & insurance", "portsmouth": 1.7, "england": 3.4 } ], "SECTORS_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth has less than half England's share of professional, scientific and technical jobs — 4.3% against 9.6%, the single biggest gap in its economy. Financial services are half the national share. Public administration and defence, by contrast, is nearly double: 7.7% against 4.5%.", "SECTORS_NOTE": "Employee jobs, 2024. This is the concrete answer to \"where are the high-value jobs?\" — the deficit is not in manufacturing, which is slightly above the national share, but in professional and financial services." }, "portsmouth-education-comparators": { "A8_COMPARE": [ { "year": "2018/19", "portsmouth": 40.8, "southampton": 44.1, "england": 46.7 }, { "year": "2021/22", "portsmouth": 43.4, "southampton": 46.1, "england": 48.8 }, { "year": "2022/23", "portsmouth": 38.4, "southampton": 42.9, "england": 46.3 }, { "year": "2023/24", "portsmouth": 39.5, "southampton": 41.3, "england": 45.9 }, { "year": "2024/25", "portsmouth": 39.5, "southampton": 41.9, "england": 46 } ], "ABSENCE_INTERPRETATION": "Persistent absence is falling everywhere as the post-pandemic peak recedes. Severe absence is not: it has risen every single year in all three areas, and Portsmouth is highest of the three. Portsmouth's severe absence has more than doubled since 2018/19, from 1.69% to 3.55%.", "EBSA_EVIDENCE_GAP": "There is no official EBSA statistic. Emotionally based school avoidance is not a DfE absence category, is not recorded in the school census, and no national or Portsmouth-level count exists. Absence codes capture whether a pupil was absent and whether it was authorised — not why. The nearest measured proxy is severe absence, shown above, and it is only a proxy: it includes children absent for reasons that have nothing to do with anxiety. Any figure presented elsewhere as \"the number of EBSA children\" in Portsmouth is an estimate, and should be treated as one.", "EDU_COMPARE_SOURCES": [ { "name": "DfE — Key stage 4 performance (LA and pupil characteristics data)", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance/2024-25", "date": "2026-04-23" }, { "name": "DfE — Pupil absence in schools in England (persistent and severe absentees)", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england/2024-25", "date": "2026-03-26" }, { "name": "DfE — Special educational needs in England (pupils by type of SEN provision)", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england", "date": "2026-06-25" } ], "EHCP_COMPARATOR_NOTE": "Hampshire County Council is included because it is the other education authority Portsmouth families move between, and because it would matter more if reorganisation proceeds: the March 2026 decision — withdrawn on 7 September 2026 and now under government review — would have merged Portsmouth into a South East unitary alongside Fareham, Gosport and Havant, all currently Hampshire.", "EHCP_JUMP_NOTE": "Portsmouth's rate rose 1.35 percentage points in a single year, from 5.82% to 7.17% — a bigger one-year jump than Southampton (+0.50) or Hampshire (+0.96). That is consistent with the assessment backlog clearing rather than with need suddenly appearing: timeliness collapsed to 1.6% in 2023 and recovered to 42.9% by 2025, and plans delayed out of one year land in the next. It is consistent with, not proof of — DfE publishes no explanation.", "EHCP_RATE_COMPARE": [ { "year": "2018/19", "portsmouth": 3.64, "southampton": 3.63, "hampshire": 3.17, "england": 3.07, "portsmouthN": 1063 }, { "year": "2021/22", "portsmouth": 4.48, "southampton": 4.88, "hampshire": 4.49, "england": 3.95, "portsmouthN": 1333 }, { "year": "2022/23", "portsmouth": 4.53, "southampton": 5.22, "hampshire": 5.1, "england": 4.29, "portsmouthN": 1362 }, { "year": "2023/24", "portsmouth": 4.7, "southampton": 5.69, "hampshire": 5.78, "england": 4.78, "portsmouthN": 1427 }, { "year": "2024/25", "portsmouth": 5.82, "southampton": 6.22, "hampshire": 6.41, "england": 5.34, "portsmouthN": 1757 }, { "year": "2025/26", "portsmouth": 7.17, "southampton": 6.72, "hampshire": 7.37, "england": 6.04, "portsmouthN": 2121 } ], "EHCP_RATE_DERIVATION": "Rates are the published EHCP headcount divided by the published total pupil headcount for the same geography, year and school-type total. DfE publishes both figures; the division is ours.", "EHCP_RATE_INTERPRETATION": "One Portsmouth pupil in fourteen now has an EHC plan — 7.17%, up from 3.64% in 2018/19. Against its neighbours the pattern is not the one usually assumed: Portsmouth had the LOWEST rate of the three local areas from 2021/22 to 2024/25, below both Southampton and Hampshire, and only overtook Southampton in 2025/26. Hampshire is now highest at 7.37%.", "GCSE4_COMPARE": [ { "year": "2018/19", "portsmouth": 56, "southampton": 57.8, "england": 64.6 }, { "year": "2021/22", "portsmouth": 61.2, "southampton": 61.9, "england": 68.8 }, { "year": "2022/23", "portsmouth": 52.4, "southampton": 58.1, "england": 65.1 }, { "year": "2023/24", "portsmouth": 55.9, "southampton": 56.3, "england": 65 }, { "year": "2024/25", "portsmouth": 55.8, "southampton": 57.2, "england": 64.8 } ], "GCSE5_COMPARE": [ { "year": "2018/19", "portsmouth": 35, "southampton": 35.6, "england": 43.2 }, { "year": "2021/22", "portsmouth": 41.3, "southampton": 42.1, "england": 49.8 }, { "year": "2022/23", "portsmouth": 31.6, "southampton": 38.1, "england": 45.3 }, { "year": "2023/24", "portsmouth": 34.4, "southampton": 38.3, "england": 45.9 }, { "year": "2024/25", "portsmouth": 35.2, "southampton": 38.9, "england": 45.4 } ], "GCSE_HEADLINE": "Just over a third of Portsmouth pupils — 760 of 2,157 — left school in 2024/25 with a grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Nationally it is 45.4%. Southampton, the closest comparable city, manages 38.9%.", "GCSE_INTERPRETATION": "Portsmouth trails England on every GCSE measure, and has done for the whole published period. But it also trails Southampton — a city with a very similar population profile — by 3.7 percentage points on the strong-pass measure. That second gap is the more useful one, because it is not explained away by Portsmouth being poorer or more urban than the national average.", "KS4_COHORT": [ { "year": "2018/19", "portsmouthPupils": 1647, "portsmouthAchieving5": 576 }, { "year": "2021/22", "portsmouthPupils": 1917, "portsmouthAchieving5": 792 }, { "year": "2022/23", "portsmouthPupils": 2031, "portsmouthAchieving5": 641 }, { "year": "2023/24", "portsmouthPupils": 2160, "portsmouthAchieving5": 744 }, { "year": "2024/25", "portsmouthPupils": 2157, "portsmouthAchieving5": 760 } ], "NEET_COMPARATOR_GAP": "A Southampton comparator for 16-17 NEET is not included. That series is published by DfE as a local-authority release but is not exposed through the statistics API used for the other measures on this page, and no figure is shown here that has not been retrieved from the primary source.", "PERSISTENT_ABSENCE_COMPARE": [ { "year": "2018/19", "portsmouth": 13.35, "southampton": 12.72, "england": 10.86 }, { "year": "2021/22", "portsmouth": 24.06, "southampton": 24.15, "england": 22.51 }, { "year": "2022/23", "portsmouth": 22.46, "southampton": 23.26, "england": 21.22 }, { "year": "2023/24", "portsmouth": 20.56, "southampton": 22.51, "england": 19.95 }, { "year": "2024/25", "portsmouth": 19.74, "southampton": 21.4, "england": 18.14 } ], "SEND_REFORM_STATUS": { "whatChanged": "The Schools White Paper \"Every Child Achieving and Thriving\" was published on 23 February 2026. It shifts SEND support towards inclusion in mainstream settings, introduces a four-tier model (universal, targeted, targeted plus, specialist), and requires settings to create digital Individual Support Plans for children with identified SEND.", "whatCouncilsMustDo": "Local authorities are required to sign a written agreement with government to prioritise increasing SEND places in mainstream schools, including reducing how far children with SEND travel to school and ensuring every child who needs an Inclusion Base place can get one. Portsmouth's local area inclusion arrangement is to be known as an Inclusion Hub.", "portsmouthPublished": "No Portsmouth plan responding to the February 2026 White Paper has been identified. The most recent SEND strategy published on the council's own site dates from 2020, and the Special Provision and Alternative Provision Place Strategy ran 2019-2024 and has now expired without a published successor being located.", "whyItMatters": "Portsmouth is carrying 2,121 pupils with EHC plans on school rolls, a rate that jumped more in the last year than either neighbour, and an EHC plan timeliness rate of 42.9% — below the England average. The reforms change what the council is obliged to provide and where. A published plan is how residents and schools find out what is intended.", "caveat": "This is an absence of evidence from a public search, not proof that no work is under way. Planning may be in progress, or held in committee papers not surfaced by search. If Portsmouth has published a plan, this entry should be corrected.", "sources": [ { "name": "House of Commons Library — The Schools White Paper 2026: SEND Reform (CBP-10550)", "href": "https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10550/", "date": "2026" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — SEND Strategy", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cou-appendix-a-portsmouth-send-strategy.pdf", "date": "2020" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Special Provision and Alternative Provision Place Strategy 2019-2024", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cou-send-place-strategy.pdf", "date": "2019-2024" } ] }, "SEVERE_ABSENCE_COMPARE": [ { "year": "2018/19", "portsmouth": 1.69, "southampton": 1, "england": 0.85 }, { "year": "2021/22", "portsmouth": 2.34, "southampton": 2.11, "england": 1.65 }, { "year": "2022/23", "portsmouth": 2.99, "southampton": 2.52, "england": 2.03 }, { "year": "2023/24", "portsmouth": 3.16, "southampton": 2.95, "england": 2.3 }, { "year": "2024/25", "portsmouth": 3.55, "southampton": 3.36, "england": 2.39 } ] }, "portsmouth-education": { "ABSENCE": [ { "year": "2016/17", "pOverall": 5.2, "eOverall": 4.65, "pPersistent": 12.85, "ePersistent": 10.79, "pSevere": 1.3, "eSevere": 0.7 }, { "year": "2018/19", "pOverall": 5.41, "eOverall": 4.73, "pPersistent": 13.35, "ePersistent": 10.86, "pSevere": 1.69, "eSevere": 0.85 }, { "year": "2021/22", "pOverall": 8.26, "eOverall": 7.55, "pPersistent": 24.06, "ePersistent": 22.51, "pSevere": 2.34, "eSevere": 1.65 }, { "year": "2022/23", "pOverall": 8.19, "eOverall": 7.37, "pPersistent": 22.46, "ePersistent": 21.22, "pSevere": 2.99, "eSevere": 2.03 }, { "year": "2023/24", "pOverall": 7.88, "eOverall": 7.15, "pPersistent": 20.56, "ePersistent": 19.95, "pSevere": 3.16, "eSevere": 2.3 }, { "year": "2024/25", "pOverall": 7.8, "eOverall": 6.78, "pPersistent": 19.74, "ePersistent": 18.14, "pSevere": 3.55, "eSevere": 2.39 } ], "ABSENCE_HEADLINE": "Persistent absence is falling back from its post-pandemic peak, but severe absence — missing at least half of school — is still rising. 3.55% of Portsmouth pupils were severely absent in 2024/25, against 2.39% nationally. That is 934 children, up from 418 in 2018/19.", "ATTAINMENT": [ { "year": "2018/19", "portsmouthA8": 40.8, "englandA8": 46.7, "portsmouth5": 35, "england5": 43.2 }, { "year": "2019/20", "portsmouthA8": 45.7, "englandA8": 50.2, "portsmouth5": 43.3, "england5": 49.9, "assessed": true }, { "year": "2020/21", "portsmouthA8": 46.3, "englandA8": 50.9, "portsmouth5": 46, "england5": 51.9, "assessed": true }, { "year": "2021/22", "portsmouthA8": 43.4, "englandA8": 48.8, "portsmouth5": 41.3, "england5": 49.8 }, { "year": "2022/23", "portsmouthA8": 38.4, "englandA8": 46.3, "portsmouth5": 31.6, "england5": 45.3 }, { "year": "2023/24", "portsmouthA8": 39.5, "englandA8": 45.9, "portsmouth5": 34.4, "england5": 45.9 }, { "year": "2024/25", "portsmouthA8": 39.5, "englandA8": 46, "portsmouth5": 35.2, "england5": 45.4 } ], "ATTAINMENT_CAVEAT": "The 2019/20 and 2020/21 years used centre- and teacher-assessed grades rather than exams and are not comparable with the years either side. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because that cohort's KS2 baseline tests were cancelled in 2020.", "ATTAINMENT_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth's Attainment 8 score has sat consistently below England for the whole published period — 39.5 against 46.0 in 2024/25. On the headline \"grade 5 or above in English and maths\" measure the gap is wider still: 35.2% against 45.4%.", "DISADVANTAGE": [ { "year": "2018/19", "pDis": 31.5, "pNot": 45.8, "eDis": 36.7, "eNot": 50.3 }, { "year": "2021/22", "pDis": 32, "pNot": 48.9, "eDis": 37.6, "eNot": 52.8 }, { "year": "2022/23", "pDis": 28.6, "pNot": 43.5, "eDis": 35, "eNot": 50.3 }, { "year": "2023/24", "pDis": 29.9, "pNot": 44.6, "eDis": 34.6, "eNot": 50 }, { "year": "2024/25", "pDis": 29.8, "pNot": 45.6, "eDis": 34.9, "eNot": 50.4 } ], "DISADVANTAGE_DERIVED_NOTE": "Gap figures are the arithmetic difference between two DfE-published values, not a DfE-published statistic. DfE's own \"disadvantage gap index\" is published for England only, not by local authority.", "DISADVANTAGE_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth's disadvantage gap (15.8 Attainment 8 points in 2024/25) is close to England's (15.5) — but that similarity hides the real problem. Disadvantaged pupils in Portsmouth score 29.8 against 34.9 for disadvantaged pupils nationally. The gap is ordinary; the starting point is not.", "EDUCATION_SOURCES": [ { "name": "DfE — Key stage 4 performance, 2024/25", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance/2024-25", "date": "2026-04-23" }, { "name": "DfE — Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england/2024-25", "date": "2026-03-26" }, { "name": "DfE — Suspensions and permanent exclusions, 2024/25", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/suspensions-and-permanent-exclusions-in-england/2024-25", "date": "2026-07-09" }, { "name": "DfE — Education, health and care plans, 2026", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans/2026", "date": "2026-06-25" }, { "name": "DfE — Participation in education, training and NEET age 16 to 17 by local authority", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/participation-in-education-training-and-neet-age-16-to-17-by-local-authority/2025-26", "date": "2026-07-02" } ], "EHCP_CASELOAD": [ { "year": 2019, "portsmouth": 1513, "england": 353995 }, { "year": 2020, "portsmouth": 1596, "england": 390109 }, { "year": 2021, "portsmouth": 1662, "england": 430697 }, { "year": 2022, "portsmouth": 1806, "england": 473255 }, { "year": 2023, "portsmouth": 1919, "england": 517048 }, { "year": 2024, "portsmouth": 2000, "england": 576474 }, { "year": 2025, "portsmouth": 2310, "england": 638745 }, { "year": 2026, "portsmouth": 2616, "england": 718838 } ], "EHCP_CASELOAD_NOTE": "Portsmouth maintained 2,616 EHC plans in January 2026, up 72.9% in seven years. England rose 103.1% over the same period, so Portsmouth's caseload has grown more slowly than the national picture — though it accelerated sharply in 2025 and 2026, which is consistent with the assessment backlog clearing.", "EHCP_CAUTION": "This is a very large discontinuity. It is internally consistent in DfE's own data — in 2023, 180 plans took between 20 weeks and a year and 9 took over a year — so it is not a suppression artefact. But no explanation is published alongside it, and none is inferred here. Anyone citing this should check the release's local-authority footnotes first.", "EHCP_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth was one of the best performers in England on getting EHC plans out within the statutory 20 weeks — 96 to 97% for three consecutive years. In 2023 that fell to 1.6%. It has since recovered to 42.9%, just below the England average.", "EHCP_TIMELINESS": [ { "year": 2019, "portsmouthPct": 96, "englandPct": 58.7, "plansIssued": 198, "avgWeeksP": null, "avgWeeksE": null }, { "year": 2020, "portsmouthPct": 96.3, "englandPct": 55.6, "plansIssued": 189, "avgWeeksP": null, "avgWeeksE": null }, { "year": 2021, "portsmouthPct": 97, "englandPct": 57.9, "plansIssued": 233, "avgWeeksP": null, "avgWeeksE": null }, { "year": 2022, "portsmouthPct": 89.5, "englandPct": 47.7, "plansIssued": 210, "avgWeeksP": null, "avgWeeksE": null }, { "year": 2023, "portsmouthPct": 1.6, "englandPct": 49.1, "plansIssued": 192, "avgWeeksP": 38.7, "avgWeeksE": 24.7 }, { "year": 2024, "portsmouthPct": 4.3, "englandPct": 45.9, "plansIssued": 485, "avgWeeksP": 43.9, "avgWeeksE": 25.5 }, { "year": 2025, "portsmouthPct": 42.9, "englandPct": 45.5, "plansIssued": 513, "avgWeeksP": 25.6, "avgWeeksE": 25.6 } ], "NEET": [ { "year": 2019, "neetPct": 3.77, "notKnownPct": 1.05, "combinedPct": 4.83, "englandNeetPct": 2.6 }, { "year": 2021, "neetPct": 4.43, "notKnownPct": 1.14, "combinedPct": 5.57, "englandNeetPct": 2.8 }, { "year": 2023, "neetPct": 3.94, "notKnownPct": 1.62, "combinedPct": 5.56, "englandNeetPct": 2.8 }, { "year": 2024, "neetPct": 5.03, "notKnownPct": 2.11, "combinedPct": 7.14, "englandNeetPct": 3.2 }, { "year": 2025, "neetPct": 5.97, "notKnownPct": 1.75, "combinedPct": 7.71, "englandNeetPct": 3.4 }, { "year": 2026, "neetPct": 5.48, "notKnownPct": 6.05, "combinedPct": 11.53, "englandNeetPct": 3.4 } ], "NEET_HEADLINE": "The headline \"NEET or not known\" figure for Portsmouth jumps to 11.53% in 2026 — but measured NEET actually FELL, from 5.97% to 5.48%. The rise is almost entirely in young people the council could not track, which went from 1.75% to 6.05%. Those are different problems and are shown separately here.", "SUSPENSIONS": [ { "year": "2015/16", "pSusp": 6.95, "eSusp": 4.29, "pPerm": 0.064, "ePerm": 0.084 }, { "year": "2017/18", "pSusp": 10.29, "eSusp": 5.08, "pPerm": 0.073, "ePerm": 0.098 }, { "year": "2018/19", "pSusp": 10.04, "eSusp": 5.36, "pPerm": 0.061, "ePerm": 0.097 }, { "year": "2021/22", "pSusp": 6.51, "eSusp": 6.91, "pPerm": 0.033, "ePerm": 0.078 }, { "year": "2022/23", "pSusp": 13.2, "eSusp": 9.33, "pPerm": 0.043, "ePerm": 0.111 }, { "year": "2023/24", "pSusp": 17, "eSusp": 11.31, "pPerm": 0.089, "ePerm": 0.129 }, { "year": "2024/25", "pSusp": 16.58, "eSusp": 10.88, "pPerm": 0.068, "ePerm": 0.118 } ], "SUSPENSIONS_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth suspends pupils at around half again the national rate — 16.58 per 100 pupils against 10.88 in 2024/25, or 4,650 suspensions in a single year. Permanent exclusions, by contrast, run BELOW the England rate (0.068 against 0.118). Portsmouth suspends more and excludes less." }, "portsmouth-evidence": { "PORTSMOUTH_EVIDENCE": [ { "id": "homes.hdt", "type": "indicator", "topic": "homes", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Homes delivered vs required, Housing Delivery Test", "value": 11, "display": "11%", "period": "Housing Delivery Test, 2025 measurement", "comparison": "Any council below 45% loses the presumption against unwanted development. Portsmouth is at 11%.", "trend": "worsening", "definition": "Homes built as a share of the government's own target for Portsmouth. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "MHCLG", "title": "Homes delivered vs required, Housing Delivery Test", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-delivery-test", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-12-31" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/housing-supply", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[housing-delivery]" }, { "id": "schools.severe_absence", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Pupils missing 50%+ of sessions", "value": 3.55, "display": "3.55%", "period": "2024/25", "comparison": "England 2.39%", "trend": "worsening", "definition": "Pupils missing half or more of school, vs Southampton and England. Portsmouth state-funded schools.", "source": { "publisher": "Department for Education", "title": "Pupils missing 50%+ of sessions", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-03-26" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[severe-absence]" }, { "id": "schools.ehcp_20wk", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "New EHC plans issued within 20 weeks", "value": 42.9, "display": "42.9%", "period": "2025", "comparison": "England 45.5% — now almost level", "trend": "improving", "definition": "EHC plans issued inside the 20-week legal deadline. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "Department for Education", "title": "New EHC plans issued within 20 weeks", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-06-15" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[ehcp-timeliness]" }, { "id": "schools.gcse_5plus", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Pupils achieving grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE", "value": 35.2, "display": "35.2%", "period": "2024/25 GCSE cohort", "comparison": "England reached 45.4% and Southampton 38.9%, so Portsmouth trails its closest comparable city by 3.7 percentage points.", "trend": "flat", "definition": "Pupils passing English and maths GCSE at grade 5+, vs Southampton and England. Portsmouth state-funded schools.", "source": { "publisher": "DfE", "title": "Pupils achieving grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-15" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[gcse-attainment]" }, { "id": "schools.ehcp_rate", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Pupils on a school roll holding an Education, Health and Care plan", "value": 7.17, "display": "7.17%", "period": "January 2026", "comparison": "Southampton is at 6.72% and England at 6.04%. Portsmouth sat below Southampton for six years and overtook it this year.", "trend": "unknown", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Share of Portsmouth pupils holding an EHC plan, vs Southampton and England. Portsmouth schools, all types.", "source": { "publisher": "DfE", "title": "Pupils on a school roll holding an Education, Health and Care plan", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-06-15" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[ehcp-rate]" }, { "id": "schools.neet", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "16 and 17 year olds not in education, employment or training", "value": 5.5, "display": "5.5%", "period": "2026", "comparison": "England stands at 3.4%. The widely-quoted Portsmouth figure of 11.5% adds in a further 6.05% of young people whose destination is simply not known.", "trend": "unknown", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "16-17 year olds not in education, employment or training. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "DfE", "title": "16 and 17 year olds not in education, employment or training", "url": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/participation-in-education-training-and-neet-age-16-to-17-by-local-authority", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-06-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[neet]" }, { "id": "streets.flytipping", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Recorded fly-tipping incidents", "value": 937, "display": "937 incidents", "period": "2024/25", "comparison": "Incidents of fly-tipping in Portsmouth have fallen by 14.2%, while incidents across England have risen by 9.1%.", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Fly-tipping incidents recorded by the council each year. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "Defra", "title": "Recorded fly-tipping incidents", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england-2024-to-2025", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-12-15" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/fly-tipping", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[fly-tipping]" }, { "id": "water.southsea_east.class", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Bathing water classification", "value": "Poor", "display": "Poor", "period": "Southsea East, 2025 classification", "comparison": "Eastney, the other Southsea site, is rated Good", "trend": "flat", "definition": "Environment Agency annual rating for Southsea East beach. Southsea East sampling point.", "source": { "publisher": "Environment Agency", "title": "Bathing water classification", "url": "https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/profile.html?site=ukj3100-16600", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual (November)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/sewage-water-quality", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[bathing-water]" }, { "id": "health.preventable_u75", "type": "indicator", "topic": "health", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Under-75 deaths from preventable causes, age-standardised", "value": 192.1, "display": "192.1", "period": "per 100,000, 2022–24", "comparison": "England 151.2 — Portsmouth worse in every period on record", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Deaths before 75 that could have been avoided by treatment or prevention. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "OHID", "title": "Under-75 deaths from preventable causes, age-standardised", "url": "https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/93721#page/4/gid/1/pat/15/ati/502/are/E06000044", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/health-access", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[preventable-mortality]" }, { "id": "health.dental_la", "type": "indicator", "topic": "health", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist in 24 months", "value": 30.22, "display": "30.2%", "period": "seen in 24 months, to March 2026", "comparison": "England 40.0% — a 10-point gap", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist in the past two years. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "NHS BSA", "title": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist in 24 months", "url": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202526", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-08-26" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/health-access", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[nhs-dentistry]" }, { "id": "work.pay_resident", "type": "indicator", "topic": "work", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Median gross annual pay, full-time residents", "value": 36022, "display": "£36,022", "period": "resident median full-time pay, 2025", "comparison": "Jobs located in Portsmouth pay £38,815 — England residents £39,243", "trend": "unknown", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "What Portsmouth residents earn, against what jobs in the city pay. Portsmouth residents (not workplaces).", "source": { "publisher": "ONS ASHE", "title": "Median gross annual pay, full-time residents", "url": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/ashe", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-28" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/jobs-and-pay", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[resident-earnings]" }, { "id": "streets.no2_background", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "NO2 annual mean", "value": 12, "display": "12 µg/m³", "period": "NO2, urban background, 2025", "comparison": "Down from 27 in 2001; zero streets in breach at the Jan 2026 assessment", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Roadside nitrogen dioxide at the city's monitored streets. Hilsea urban background monitor.", "source": { "publisher": "Defra UK-AIR", "title": "NO2 annual mean", "url": "https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-06-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/air-quality-and-transport", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[air-quality]" }, { "id": "streets.bus_journeys", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Local bus passenger journeys", "value": "11.9m journeys", "display": "11.9m journeys", "period": "year to March 2025", "comparison": "Above the 11.0m of 2019 — England is still ~10% below", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Bus journeys taken across Portsmouth each year. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "DfT", "title": "Local bus passenger journeys", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus-statistics-data-tables", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/air-quality-and-transport", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[bus-use]" }, { "id": "council.social_care_share", "type": "indicator", "topic": "council", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Share of service budget on adult and children's social care", "value": "~60p in every £1", "display": "~60p in every £1", "period": "2025/26 service budgets", "comparison": "Children's services and adult social care combined", "trend": "worsening", "definition": "Share of council service spending taken by adult and children's social care. Portsmouth City Council.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council budget reports", "title": "Share of service budget on adult and children's social care", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/budgets-and-finance/", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual (February budget)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-02-28" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/council", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[social-care-share]" }, { "id": "council.reserves", "type": "indicator", "topic": "council", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "General fund working balance", "value": "£22.3m", "display": "£22.3m", "period": "2026/27 forecast", "comparison": "Against a minimum of £12m", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Usable general-fund reserves against the minimum the council must hold. Portsmouth City Council.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "title": "General fund working balance", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/budgets-and-finance/", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual (February budget)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-02-28" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/council", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[reserves]" }, { "id": "council.lgr", "type": "status", "topic": "council", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Local government reorganisation status", "value": "Decision withdrawn", "display": "Decision withdrawn", "period": "7 Sept 2026 · programme under government review", "comparison": "Was to merge with Gosport, Fareham and Havant", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Status of the government-directed merger that would have abolished the city council. Portsmouth and neighbouring authorities.", "source": { "publisher": "MHCLG", "title": "Local government reorganisation status", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton-local-government-reorganisation", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "On change", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-30", "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/local-government-reorganisation", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[lgr]" }, { "id": "streets.crime_trend", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Police-recorded crime, all offences, year-on-year change", "value": -1.4, "display": "-1.4%", "period": "year to March 2026 against year to March 2025", "comparison": "Sexual offences fell 5% over the same period. Knife crime is published only for the whole Hampshire force, where it was flat.", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Change in police-recorded crime year on year. Portsmouth community safety partnership area.", "source": { "publisher": "ONS Police Force Area data tables, year ending March 2026 (Tables C3, C4)", "title": "Police-recorded crime, all offences, year-on-year change", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual (July)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-07-22" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/claims-vs-evidence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[recorded-crime-trend]" }, { "id": "streets.empty_shops", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Vacant retail units, city centre", "value": 16.4, "display": "16.4%", "period": "Retail Study Update 2024", "comparison": "Southsea Centre, by contrast, is 10.2% vacant against a national average of 14.0%.", "trend": "flat", "definition": "Empty retail units as a share of the city-centre survey area. Portsmouth city centre survey boundary.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "title": "Vacant retail units, city centre", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-policy/", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Irregular (retail studies)", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[high-street-vacancy]" }, { "id": "streets.cycling", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Residents in employment cycling to work", "value": 5.2, "display": "5.2%", "period": "Census 2021", "comparison": "Across England, 2.1% of workers cycle to work — Portsmouth is two and a half times that rate.", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Residents in work who travel by bicycle. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "ONS / Portsmouth City Council LCWIP", "title": "Residents in employment cycling to work", "url": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Every 10 years (Census)", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/air-quality-and-transport", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[cycling-to-work]" }, { "id": "homes.hmo", "type": "indicator", "topic": "homes", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Licensed houses in multiple occupation on the council register", "value": 3158, "display": "3,158", "period": "council licensing register, August 2026", "comparison": "Planning policy tests each new application against a 10% threshold within 50 metres — a decision rule, not a cap on the total.", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Licensed houses in multiple occupation on the council register. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "title": "Licensed houses in multiple occupation on the council register", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-sector-housing/", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "On change", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-30" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/housing-supply", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[hmo-stock]" }, { "id": "streets.asylum", "type": "indicator", "topic": "streets", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support", "value": 733, "display": "733", "period": "receiving support, September 2024", "comparison": "Of those 733 people, 656 were in dispersal accommodation rather than hotels.", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "People in Portsmouth receiving Home Office asylum support. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council / Home Office", "title": "Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Quarterly (Home Office)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-26" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/claims-vs-evidence", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[asylum-accommodation]" }, { "id": "work.defence_share", "type": "indicator", "topic": "work", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Public administration and defence share of employee jobs", "value": 7.7, "display": "7.7%", "period": "of employee jobs, 2024", "comparison": "Across England the same sector accounts for 4.5% of employee jobs, so Portsmouth's share is nearly double.", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Share of city jobs in public administration and defence. Portsmouth local authority.", "source": { "publisher": "ONS BRES", "title": "Public administration and defence share of employee jobs", "url": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/bres", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-31" }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/jobs-and-pay", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[defence-employment-share]" }, { "id": "schools.utc", "type": "indicator", "topic": "schools", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Pupils on roll against capacity, UTC Portsmouth", "value": 491, "display": "491", "period": "pupils on roll", "comparison": "The school is approved for 600 places, so roughly one place in six is unfilled.", "trend": "flat", "directionMeaning": "No honest normative direction", "definition": "Pupils on roll at UTC Portsmouth against its approved capacity — one part of the skills picture, shown because it is the only 14-19 technical route with published local data. UTC Portsmouth.", "source": { "publisher": "Ofsted", "title": "Pupils on roll against capacity, UTC Portsmouth", "url": "https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "verified", "refresh": { "cadence": "On change", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, "owner": "UK Stat Pack — Portsmouth", "ukRoute": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/jobs-and-pay", "registryRef": "portsmouth-outcomes.OUTCOMES[utc-capacity]" }, { "id": "people.population", "type": "indicator", "topic": "people", "geographyCode": "E06000044", "title": "Population", "value": 211475, "display": "211,475", "period": "Mid-2025", "comparison": "Up 2.9% since 2011; England up 10.8%", "trend": "unknown", "directionMeaning": "Neither good nor bad in itself", "definition": "Usually resident population, ONS mid-year estimate.", "source": { "publisher": "ONS", "title": "Mid-2025 population estimates (MYE4)", "url": 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Both can be true: a visible, locally infuriating problem concentrated in particular streets, in a city whose overall street cleanliness residents rate better than anywhere else surveyed." }, "COST_FIGURES": [ { "figure": "£19.3m", "period": "2024/25", "whatItIs": "Measured council clearance cost", "coverage": "The largest 4% of incidents only. Defra discontinued standard unit costs from 2017/18, so the clearance cost of the other 96% is no longer estimated", "status": "Recorded" }, { "figure": "£924m (\"£1bn\")", "period": "2018/19", "whatItIs": "Modelled cost of ALL waste crime in England", "coverage": "ESA/Eunomia study. Includes illegal waste sites (£236m), misclassification (£120m), exemption breaches (£87m), illegal exports (£42m) and waste fires (£22m) — as well as fly-tipping", "status": "Modelled estimate" }, { "figure": "£392m", "period": "2018/19", "whatItIs": "The fly-tipping line item inside that £924m", "coverage": "Not a separate study. About 42% of the \"£1bn\" figure — the two must never be added or treated as independent estimates", "status": "Modelled estimate" } ], "DEPRIVATION_NOTE": "The research does NOT find that people on low incomes are more inclined to dump waste. It finds that the two biggest barriers to legal disposal — cost and ease — fall disproportionately on low-income households, and that enabling conditions cluster in dense housing: no car, limited storage, flats and HMOs, little outside space, difficulty moving bulky items, and frequent short-term tenancies. The researchers describe these as provocations or enabling conditions, not as evidence about the character of residents.", "DRIVERS": [ { "label": "Say reducing environmental impact matters", "pct": 92 }, { "label": "Say giving it to someone they trust matters", "pct": 85 }, { "label": "Say ease of the booking process matters", "pct": 81, "note": "Specifically ease of BOOKING, not ease of disposal generally" }, { "label": "Say cost matters", "pct": 77 }, { "label": "Of councils: say charging at recycling centres contributed to fly-tipping", "pct": 58, "note": "Of 226 local authorities — \"a great deal\" or \"a moderate amount\"" }, { "label": "Of recycling-centre users: experienced some difficulty using it", "pct": 56 } ], "ENFORCEMENT_CAVEAT": { "councilFigure": "258 fixed penalty notices for littering/fly-tipping since January 2025", "source": "Portsmouth City Council, \"Update on anti-social behaviour\", 2 December 2025", "whyNotComparable": [ "It combines littering and fly-tipping, which Defra counts as separate offences.", "Its window is \"since January 2025\" with no published end date — a partial calendar year, not a statutory financial year.", "The council has not published the split between the two offences." ], "onlyPublishedSplit": "The one published breakdown, in a scrutiny review covering the 12 months to May 2025, was 393 FPNs for littering against 33 for fly-tipping — roughly 92% to 8%. If that mix held, 258 combined would imply about 20 fly-tipping FPNs, but that is an inference from an adjacent period, not a published figure.", "conclusion": "Replacing \"17\" with \"258\" would be a worse error than leaving the stale figure. They measure different offences over different periods on different systems." }, "FLYTIPPING_SOURCES": [ { "name": "Defra — Fly-tipping statistics for England, 2024 to 2025", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england-2024-to-2025", "date": "2026-02-25" }, { "name": "NatCen Social Research for Defra — Fly-tipping: drivers, deterrents and impacts", "href": "https://natcen.ac.uk/publications/fly-tipping-drivers-deterrents-and-impacts", "date": "2022-06-06" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — bulky waste collection", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/recycling-and-rubbish/special-waste-collection/bulky-waste/", "date": "current" } ], "HOTSPOT_CONTEXT": "Portsmouth City Council scrutiny review \"Environmental Anti-Social Behaviour\", published 6 May 2025 — the top 30 roads for unauthorised waste reported to the Housing Safe, Clean and Tidy team, April–September 2024 (1,075 reports across the 30 roads). Showing the top 12; Fratton appears 8 times in the full 30 and Central Southsea 7 times.", "HOTSPOT_STREETS": [ { "street": "Guildford Road", "ward": "Fratton", "reports": 89 }, { "street": "Albert Road", "ward": "Central Southsea", "reports": 81 }, { "street": "Fawcett Road", "ward": "Central Southsea", "reports": 70 }, { "street": "Newcome Road", "ward": "Fratton", "reports": 59 }, { "street": "London Road", "ward": "Nelson", "reports": 52 }, { "street": "Hampshire Street", "ward": "Fratton", "reports": 42 }, { "street": "Trafalgar Place", "ward": "Fratton", "reports": 41 }, { "street": "Tangier Road", "ward": "Baffins", "reports": 40 }, { "street": "Clive Road", "ward": "Fratton", "reports": 40 }, { "street": "Highland Road", "ward": "Central Southsea", "reports": 39 }, { "street": "New Road", "ward": "Charles Dickens", "reports": 36 }, { "street": "Stansted Road", "ward": "Central Southsea", "reports": 34 } ], "HOTSPOT_WARD_COUNTS": [ { "ward": "Fratton", "streets": 8 }, { "ward": "Central Southsea", "streets": 7 }, { "ward": "Nelson", "streets": 4 }, { "ward": "St Thomas", "streets": 2 }, { "ward": "Baffins", "streets": 1 }, { "ward": "Charles Dickens", "streets": 1 }, { "ward": "Copnor", "streets": 1 }, { "ward": "Eastney & Craneswater", "streets": 1 }, { "ward": "Hilsea", "streets": 1 }, { "ward": "St Jude", "streets": 1 } ], "INCIDENT_COMPOSITION": [ { "label": "Involved household waste", "pct": 62 }, { "label": "Around a small-van load", "pct": 31 }, { "label": "A car boot or less", "pct": 27 }, { "label": "A single item (e.g. sofa, mattress)", "pct": 16 }, { "label": "Tipper-lorry load or larger", "pct": 4 } ], "INCOMPATIBLE_COUNTS": "Portsmouth has at least three incompatible fly-tipping counts for 2023/24: Defra/WasteDataFlow records 1,092 incidents; the council's street-cleansing contractor Colas recorded 4,174 \"fly tips\"; and a separate council figure gives approximately 400 incidents for July 2023–June 2024. There are likewise three incompatible enforcement counts. These are different systems counting different things and must never be combined into one series.", "MP_COST_CLAIM": { "claim": "Waste crime costs the economy £1 billion every year, with nearly 1.3 million incidents of fly-tipping recorded last year alone.", "whoSaidIt": "Identical wording on both Stephen Morgan MP (24 March 2026) and Amanda Martin MP (20 March 2026) websites, following the government's Waste Crime Action Plan.", "qualification": "Accurate as far as it goes, and correctly sourced to Defra's own action plan. Two things are worth adding: the underlying study covers the ENGLISH economy, not the UK; and its base year is 2018/19, now seven years old. It is also a trade-body study (ESA/Eunomia) cited by Defra, not an independent government estimate. Critically, the £1bn is all waste crime — fly-tipping is £392m of it." }, "NATIONAL_CONTRAST": { "portsmouthChangePct": -14.2, "englandChangePct": 9.1, "englandIncidents2324": 1152632, "englandIncidents2425": 1257863, "note": "Portsmouth recorded 937 incidents in 2024/25, down 14.2% on the year. Across England incidents rose 9.1% over the same period, from 1,152,632 to 1,257,863. Portsmouth moved against the national trend." }, "ONE_IN_FIVE": { "headline": 20, "headlineLabel": "Did something technically classifiable as fly-tipping", "breakdown": [ { "label": "Left items on the street", "pct": 9 }, { "label": "Left items outside a charity shop", "pct": 8 }, { "label": "Disposed of items by a road or in a field", "pct": 0.4 } ], "caveat": "The 20% is dominated by leaving items on the street or outside charity shops — behaviour many people would not recognise as fly-tipping. The category most likely to genuinely qualify is 0.4%, roughly one person in 250. The authors themselves question whether the broader category is justifiably classifiable as fly-tipping." }, "PORTSMOUTH_INCIDENTS": [ { "year": "2021/22", "incidents": 525, "fpnTotal": 2, "fpnFlytipping": 2, "fpnDutyOfCare": 0 }, { "year": "2022/23", "incidents": 751, "fpnTotal": 18, "fpnFlytipping": 9, "fpnDutyOfCare": 9 }, { "year": "2023/24", "incidents": 1092, "fpnTotal": 17, "fpnFlytipping": 0, "fpnDutyOfCare": 17 }, { "year": "2024/25", "incidents": 937, "fpnTotal": 38, "fpnFlytipping": 6, "fpnDutyOfCare": 32 } ], "PORTSMOUTH_LOCAL_EVIDENCE": { "interventions": "Portsmouth City Council attributes the reduction partly to concentrating patrols on hotspots, better investigations, cameras, improved communication between Colas and the council, and work with the University around student move-out waste.", "structural": "The council's 2024 scrutiny work identifies shared housing and HMOs, and particular hotspots, as recurring issues — and records a suggestion for mobile household-waste skips in areas where residents find it hard to reach the Port Solent recycling centre. That is close to the mechanism the national research identifies: disposal friction leading to illegal disposal.", "textileBanks": { "title": "A local natural experiment: were the textile banks simply full?", "setup": "Material was being left around textile recycling banks. The obvious assumption is that the banks were overflowing.", "finding": "The council checked its own collection records instead of assuming.", "data": [ { "label": "Full", "count": 5 }, { "label": "Three-quarters full", "count": 20 }, { "label": "Half full", "count": 144 }, { "label": "Empty", "count": 50 } ], "total": 749, "conclusion": "Of 749 textile-bank collections in August, only 5 were full. Officers concluded capacity was not the underlying issue at those sites — usage and behaviour were. Testing the obvious explanation changed the answer." } }, "PORTSMOUTH_TONNAGE": [ { "period": "Jan–Aug 2024", "tonnes": 106.1 }, { "period": "Jan–Aug 2025", "tonnes": 80.8 } ], "REPORT_OUTCOMES": { "intro": "The review published case breakdowns for three streets, which show how little of a report count is what a reader would picture as fly-tipping.", "streets": [ { "street": "Tangier Road, Baffins", "headline": "40 reports covered 28 actual incidents", "detail": "12 were duplicates. 8 perpetrators were found and fined; 8 were removed with no evidence of origin; 4 were gone within 24 hours; 1 was excess household waste. Reported by 17 Community Wardens, 3 councillors and 20 reports from 10 members of the public." }, { "street": "Albert Road, Central Southsea", "headline": "81 reports, 3 fines", "detail": "31 removed with no evidence, 17 nothing found on attendance, 11 duplicates, 6 in process, 3 fined, 3 educated, 3 trade waste, 2 taken back inside, 2 were simply out on collection day." }, { "street": "Newcome Road, Fratton", "headline": "44 reports from 24 different people", "detail": "20 removed with no evidence, 9 the resident took the waste back in, 8 duplicates, 6 in process, 4 educated, 1 fined." } ], "conclusion": "Across all three streets the commonest outcome is \"removed, no evidence of origin\" — which is why enforcement rates look low against report counts, and why report volume is a poor proxy for either incidents or culpability." }, "ROGUE_OPERATOR_ECONOMICS": { "legitimate": "A licensed operator charging around £100 must cover labour, transport and legitimate disposal fees.", "rogue": "An unlicensed operator can charge around £50 precisely because they never pay the disposal cost — they dump it, and the council, taxpayer or landowner pays instead.", "conclusion": "That is a market failure as much as an antisocial-behaviour problem: the criminal operator undercuts the legitimate business by externalising the cost onto everyone else.", "attribution": "Keep Britain Tidy reports that councils attribute around 40% of fly-tipping incidents to rogue operators. 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"display": "£1,368", "period": "August 2026", "comparison": "+2.4% on a year earlier", "definition": "Average monthly private rent, all property types, ONS Price Index of Private Rents.", "publisher": "ONS", "sourceTitle": "Price Index of Private Rents — Portsmouth", "sourceUrl": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/housingpriceslocal/E06000044/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Monthly", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-21" }, { "id": "homes.rent_change", "topic": "homes", "title": "Private rents, change on a year earlier", "value": 2.4, "unit": "%", "display": "+2.4%", "period": "Year to August 2026", "definition": "Annual change in the ONS Price Index of Private Rents for Portsmouth.", "publisher": "ONS", "sourceTitle": "Price Index of Private Rents — Portsmouth", "sourceUrl": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/housingpriceslocal/E06000044/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Monthly", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-21" }, { "id": "work.claimants", "topic": "work", "title": "People claiming unemployment-related benefits", "value": 6455, "display": "6,455", "period": "August 2026", "definition": "Claimant count: people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance plus Universal Credit claimants required to seek work.", "publisher": "ONS / DWP", "sourceTitle": "Claimant count (Nomis NM_162_1)", "sourceUrl": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/cc", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Monthly", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-13", "status": "provisional", "caveat": "Not a measure of unemployment: some claimants are in low-paid work." }, { "id": "work.claimant_rate", "topic": "work", "title": "Claimant rate", "value": 4.5, "unit": "%", "display": "4.5%", "period": "August 2026", "definition": "Claimant count as a percentage of residents aged 16 to 64.", "publisher": "ONS / DWP", "sourceTitle": "Claimant count (Nomis NM_162_1)", "sourceUrl": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/cc", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Monthly", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-13", "status": "provisional" }, { "id": "work.employment", "topic": "work", "title": "Employment rate, 16–64", "value": 77.8, "unit": "%", "display": "77.8%", "period": "April 2025 to March 2026", "definition": "Percentage of residents aged 16 to 64 in employment, Annual Population Survey.", "publisher": "ONS", "sourceTitle": "Annual Population Survey (Nomis)", "sourceUrl": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/lmp/la/1946157281/report.aspx", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Quarterly", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-20", "caveat": "Survey-based; local estimates carry wide confidence intervals." }, { "id": "work.pay_workplace", "topic": "work", "title": "Median full-time pay for jobs in Portsmouth", "value": 38815, "unit": "GBP per year", "display": "£38,815", "period": "2025 (provisional)", "definition": "Median gross annual pay of full-time employees working in Portsmouth (workplace-based), ASHE.", "publisher": "ONS", "sourceTitle": "Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings", "sourceUrl": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/ashe", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-10-28", "status": "provisional" }, { "id": "schools.persistent_absence", "topic": "schools", "title": "Pupils persistently absent", "value": 20.6, "unit": "%", "display": "20.6%", "period": "2023/24", "definition": "Pupils missing 10% or more of possible sessions, state-funded schools.", "publisher": "DfE", "sourceTitle": "Pupil absence in schools in England", "sourceUrl": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-03-26", "caveat": "A newer 2024/25 figure may be published; check before relying on it." }, { "id": "health.le_male", "topic": "health", "title": "Life expectancy at birth, men", "value": 77.8, "unit": "years", "display": "77.8", "period": "2025", "comparison": "England 80.0", "definition": "Life expectancy at birth, males, single year. OHID Fingertips indicator 90366.", "publisher": "OHID", "sourceTitle": "Public health profiles (Fingertips), indicator 90366", "sourceUrl": "https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/90366#page/4/gid/1/pat/15/ati/502/are/E06000044", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, { "id": "health.le_female", "topic": "health", "title": "Life expectancy at birth, women", "value": 81.9, "unit": "years", "display": "81.9", "period": "2025", "comparison": "England 83.8", "definition": "Life expectancy at birth, females, single year. OHID Fingertips indicator 90366.", "publisher": "OHID", "sourceTitle": "Public health profiles (Fingertips), indicator 90366", "sourceUrl": "https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/90366#page/4/gid/1/pat/15/ati/502/are/E06000044", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, { "id": "health.preventable_u75_1yr", "topic": "health", "title": "Preventable deaths under 75, single year", "value": 198.3, "unit": "per 100,000", "display": "198.3", "period": "2024", "comparison": "England 145.8", "definition": "Under-75 mortality from causes considered preventable, directly age-standardised, single year. OHID indicator 93721.", "publisher": "OHID", "sourceTitle": "Public health profiles (Fingertips), indicator 93721", "sourceUrl": "https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/93721#page/4/gid/1/pat/15/ati/502/are/E06000044", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": null, "caveat": "Single-year rates are noisier than the pooled three-year figure (health.preventable_u75) used for trends." }, { "id": "health.dental_icb", "topic": "health", "title": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist — Hampshire and Isle of Wight", "value": 35.2, "unit": "%", "display": "35.2%", "period": "24 months to March 2026", "comparison": "England 40.0%", "definition": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist in the previous 24 months as a share of the adult population, patient-location basis, Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB.", "publisher": "NHS Business Services Authority", "sourceTitle": "Dental Statistics — England 2025/26 (Table_3f)", "sourceUrl": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202526", "releaseDate": "2026-08-27", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-08-26", "caveat": "ICB percentages use mid-2024 populations; the local-authority figure uses mid-2025." }, { "id": "streets.crime_rate", "topic": "streets", "title": "Recorded crime rate", "value": 112.7, "unit": "per 1,000 people", "display": "112.7", "period": "Year ending March 2026", "comparison": "England 83.4 · 2nd highest of 12 Hampshire Constabulary partnership areas (Southampton 120.1, East Hampshire 43.4 lowest, median 57.0)", "trend": "improving", "definition": "Police-recorded offences excluding fraud per 1,000 population, Portsmouth community safety partnership area.", "publisher": "ONS", "sourceTitle": "Police Force Area data tables, year ending March 2026 (Table C4)", "sourceUrl": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables", "releaseDate": "2026-07-23", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Quarterly (annual CSP tables)", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-07-22", "caveat": "24,163 offences; ONS rates use mid-2024 population (214,300). 3,316 Hampshire offences were not allocated to any area." }, { "id": "streets.no2_roadside", "topic": "streets", "title": "Nitrogen dioxide, roadside", "value": 19, "unit": "µg/m³", "display": "19", "period": "2025", "comparison": "31 in 2018; legal limit 40", "definition": "Annual mean NO2 at roadside monitoring, Portsmouth.", "publisher": "Defra UK-AIR / Portsmouth City Council", "sourceTitle": "Air Quality Annual Status Report", "sourceUrl": "https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-06-30" }, { "id": "council.band_d", "topic": "council", "title": "Band D council tax", "value": 1908, "unit": "GBP per year", "display": "£1,908", "period": "2026-27", "definition": "Average Band D council tax including police and fire precepts.", "publisher": "MHCLG", "sourceTitle": "Council tax levels set by local authorities", "sourceUrl": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-tax-statistics", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Annual", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-03-26" }, { "id": "council.seats", "topic": "council", "title": "Seats on Portsmouth City Council", "value": "LD 23 · Reform 12 · Con 3 · Lab 3 · Ind 1", "display": "LD 23 · Reform 12 · Con 3 · Lab 3 · Ind 1", "period": "After changes to July 2026", "definition": "Councillors by party group, 42 seats across 14 wards.", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "sourceTitle": "2026 local election results, plus later changes", "sourceUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/portsmouths-2026-local-election-results/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "On change", "nextExpectedRelease": "2027-05-06", "reviewBy": "2026-11-30", "caveat": "Election result 8 May 2026 was LD 22, Reform 12, Lab 4, Con 3, Ind 1; later changes to be verified against the council's councillor list." }, { "id": "council.imd_share", "topic": "council", "title": "Neighbourhoods among England's most deprived 10%", "value": 12, "unit": "%", "display": "12%", "period": "Indices of Deprivation 2025", "definition": "Share of Portsmouth's small areas (LSOAs) in the most deprived decile nationally, IMD 2025.", "publisher": "MHCLG", "sourceTitle": "English indices of deprivation 2025", "sourceUrl": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-indices-of-deprivation", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "Every 4–5 years", "nextExpectedRelease": null }, { "id": "projects.city_of_culture", "topic": "projects", "title": "UK City of Culture 2029 bid", "value": "Longlisted", "display": "Longlisted", "period": "Shortlist due autumn 2026; winner January 2027", "definition": "Status of Portsmouth's bid in the DCMS UK City of Culture 2029 competition.", "publisher": "DCMS / Portsmouth Creates", "sourceTitle": "Portsmouth longlisted for UK City of Culture 2029", "sourceUrl": "https://portsmouthcreates.co.uk/portsmouth-celebrates-being-longlisted-as-uk-city-of-culture-2029/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "cadence": "On change", "nextExpectedRelease": "2026-11-30", "reviewBy": "2026-11-30" } ] }, "portsmouth-health": { "CHILD_OBESITY": [ { "year": "2018/19", "receptionP": 12.55, "receptionE": 9.68, "year6P": 21.63, "year6E": 20.22 }, { "year": "2021/22", "receptionP": 12.2, "receptionE": 10.11, "year6P": 27.25, "year6E": 23.45 }, { "year": "2022/23", "receptionP": 10.66, "receptionE": 9.15, "year6P": 25.73, "year6E": 22.65 }, { "year": "2023/24", "receptionP": 10.71, "receptionE": 9.65, "year6P": 23.98, "year6E": 22.09 }, { "year": "2024/25", "receptionP": 11.32, "receptionE": 10.49, "year6P": 24.47, "year6E": 22.25 } ], "DENTISTRY": [ { "asAt": "Mar 2020", "portsmouthAdults": 41.8, "englandAdults": 49.15, "portsmouthChildren": 52.08, "englandChildren": 59.49 }, { "asAt": "Mar 2021", "portsmouthAdults": 35.41, "englandAdults": 42.43, "portsmouthChildren": 21.89, "englandChildren": 23.41 }, { "asAt": "Mar 2022", "portsmouthAdults": 28.82, "englandAdults": 33.87, "portsmouthChildren": 40.06, "englandChildren": 45.93 }, { "asAt": "Mar 2023", "portsmouthAdults": 31.01, "englandAdults": 39.97, "portsmouthChildren": 35.26, "englandChildren": 52.77 }, { "asAt": "Mar 2024", "portsmouthAdults": 28.07, "englandAdults": 40.14, "portsmouthChildren": 38.95, "englandChildren": 55.1 }, { "asAt": "Mar 2025", "portsmouthAdults": 28.38, "englandAdults": 39.78, "portsmouthChildren": 43.65, "englandChildren": 56.86 }, { "asAt": "Mar 2026", "portsmouthAdults": 30.22, "englandAdults": 40.01, "portsmouthChildren": 50.2, "englandChildren": 59.97 } ], "DENTISTRY_CAVEAT": "Percentages are on a patient-location basis (patient postcode). NHS BSA re-bases the population denominators between releases, so these figures are internally consistent but not comparable with percentages quoted from an older release.", "DENTISTRY_HEADLINE": "Only three in ten Portsmouth adults have seen an NHS dentist in the past two years — 30.2% against 40.0% across England, to March 2026. That is up from 28.4% a year earlier, partly because the adult population estimate fell. For children (seen in 12 months) the gap is wider: 50.2% against 60.0%. Portsmouth dental contracts also delivered only around 55–66% of their contracted activity in 2024/25, against 84% nationally.", "GP_GEOGRAPHY_NOTE": "NHS England publishes GP workforce by sub-ICB, not by local authority. Portsmouth's sub-ICB (10R) is coterminous with the city — all 125 of its LSOAs are in Portsmouth — so this is a genuine Portsmouth figure, but it counts registered patients rather than residents.", "GP_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth has run 20–25% below England on fully-qualified GP staffing for the whole published period. The gap was widest in September 2023 — 32.7 GPs per 100,000 patients against 43.5 nationally — and has recovered only partially since.", "GP_WORKFORCE": [ { "period": "Sep 2019", "portsmouth": 40.51, "england": 46.97 }, { "period": "Sep 2020", "portsmouth": 36.82, "england": 46.26 }, { "period": "Sep 2021", "portsmouth": 37.09, "england": 45.67 }, { "period": "Sep 2022", "portsmouth": 36.03, "england": 44.48 }, { "period": "Sep 2023", "portsmouth": 32.73, "england": 43.48 }, { "period": "Sep 2024", "portsmouth": 33.38, "england": 43.99 }, { "period": "Sep 2025", "portsmouth": 35.69, "england": 44.61 }, { "period": "Jun 2026", "portsmouth": 36.38, "england": 45.73 } ], "HEALTH_SOURCES": [ { "name": "NHS England — General Practice Workforce, 30 June 2026", "href": "https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services/30-june-2026", "date": "2026-07-23" }, { "name": "NHS BSA — NHS Dental Statistics for England 2024/25", "href": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202425", "date": "2025-08-28 (corrected 2026-03-27)" }, { "name": "OHID Fingertips — public health profiles (life expectancy, preventable mortality, obesity)", "href": "https://fingertips.phe.org.uk", "date": "2026" }, { "name": "DHSC — National Child Measurement Programme, 2024/25", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-child-measurement-programme-ncmp-annual-report-academic-year-2024-to-2025-england", "date": "2025-11-04" } ], "LIFE_EXPECTANCY": { "period": "2022-24", "maleP": 78.1, "maleE": 79.5, "femaleP": 82.6, "femaleE": 83.3, "hleMaleP": 57.5, "hleMaleE": 60.9, "hleFemaleP": 58.6, "hleFemaleE": 61.3, "headline": "A boy born in Portsmouth can expect to live 78.1 years against 79.5 across England. But healthy life expectancy — years lived in good health — is 57.5 against 60.9, and Portsmouth male healthy life expectancy has fallen by around four years since 2018–20.", "caveat": "Healthy life expectancy at local authority level carries very wide confidence intervals, and most Portsmouth-vs-England differences on that measure are not statistically significant. The fall over time is the more robust signal than any single year's gap." }, "MORTALITY_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth has been significantly worse than England on under-75 deaths from causes considered preventable in every single period on record. The most recent figure — 192.1 per 100,000 against 151.2 — is 27% above the England rate.", "OBESITY": [ { "period": "2019/20", "adultsP": 27.47, "adultsE": 24.36 }, { "period": "2020/21", "adultsP": 29.44, "adultsE": 25.21 }, { "period": "2021/22", "adultsP": 26.47, "adultsE": 25.93 }, { "period": "2022/23", "adultsP": 30.75, "adultsE": 26.24 }, { "period": "2023/24", "adultsP": 31.44, "adultsE": 26.5 }, { "period": "2024/25", "adultsP": 32.33, "adultsE": 26.64 } ], "OBESITY_CAVEAT": "The adult figures come from Sport England's Active Lives survey with a Portsmouth sample of only around 320–390 respondents, so confidence intervals are wide. Smoking prevalence is not shown as a Portsmouth-vs-England difference for the same reason — the interval spans roughly ±3 points, so Portsmouth never registers as significantly different either way.", "OBESITY_HEADLINE": "Adult obesity in Portsmouth reached 32.3% in 2024/25 against 26.6% nationally — significantly worse than England for two consecutive years. Year 6 child obesity has been significantly worse than England every year since 2020/21.", "PREVENTABLE_MORTALITY": [ { "period": "2017-19", "portsmouth": 190.97, "england": 142.55 }, { "period": "2018-20", "portsmouth": 190.52, "england": 153.72 }, { "period": "2019-21", "portsmouth": 205.93, "england": 166.84 }, { "period": "2020-22", "portsmouth": 209.08, "england": 171.4 }, { "period": "2021-23", "portsmouth": 206.74, "england": 163.62 }, { "period": "2022-24", "portsmouth": 192.06, "england": 151.17 } ], "TRUST_EXCLUSION_NOTE": "A&E performance and elective waiting lists for Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are deliberately not shown here. The trust serves a catchment of 675,000+ across Portsmouth, Havant, Fareham, Gosport and beyond — roughly three times the city's population — so its activity is not a measure of Portsmouth residents' demand or experience, and no resident-level equivalent is published. Presenting it on a Portsmouth page, even caveated, invites exactly the misreading this site exists to prevent." }, "portsmouth-housing": { "CONSTRAINT_QUOTE": { "text": "The City of Portsmouth is a highly constrained authority, which has a significant impact on land supply, and availability of land for development. The constraints to development include: the City's island geography, its nature conservation and heritage designations, contaminated land, flooding, and limited land availability due to its highly built-up nature.", "source": "Portsmouth City Council, Housing Background Paper, October 2025", "consequence": "The council also states plainly that it \"is unable to meet its own needs based on the standard method figure, and so is unable to meet the housing needs of other authorities\". Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth have a combined unmet need of 18,347 homes." }, "HDT_CAVEATS": [ "The 2024 and 2025 measurements were both published on 17 August 2026, so this deterioration is very recent and postdates most of the Local Plan evidence base.", "The published annual components do not sum exactly to the published totals in any of the three years — an off-by-one that appears in MHCLG's own dataset and is reproduced here as published rather than silently reconciled.", "Two single-year delivery figures are extraordinarily low — 9 net additional homes in 2022-23 and 10 in 2024-25. These are the figures exactly as MHCLG publishes them. Neither MHCLG nor the council has published an explanation, and none is inferred here." ], "HDT_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth delivered 308 homes against a requirement of 2,702 over three years — a Housing Delivery Test result of 11%. Anything below 45% triggers the \"presumption in favour of sustainable development\", which weakens a council's ability to refuse housing applications.", "HDT_RESULTS": [ { "measurement": "HDT 2023", "yearsCovered": "2020-21 to 2022-23", "required": 2248, "delivered": 584, "resultPct": 26, "consequence": "Presumption", "published": "12 Dec 2024" }, { "measurement": "HDT 2024", "yearsCovered": "2021-22 to 2023-24", "required": 2678, "delivered": 578, "resultPct": 22, "consequence": "Presumption", "published": "17 Aug 2026" }, { "measurement": "HDT 2025", "yearsCovered": "2022-23 to 2024-25", "required": 2702, "delivered": 308, "resultPct": 11, "consequence": "Presumption", "published": "17 Aug 2026" } ], "HMO_BY_WARD": [ { "ward": "Charles Dickens", "count": 860 }, { "ward": "Central Southsea", "count": 745 }, { "ward": "St Thomas", "count": 579 }, { "ward": "St Jude", "count": 275 }, { "ward": "Fratton", "count": 170 }, { "ward": "Eastney & Craneswater", "count": 125 }, { "ward": "Nelson", "count": 105 }, { "ward": "Copnor", "count": 86 }, { "ward": "Hilsea", "count": 58 }, { "ward": "Milton", "count": 50 }, { "ward": "Cosham", "count": 29 }, { "ward": "Paulsgrove", "count": 18 }, { "ward": "Baffins", "count": 17 }, { "ward": "Drayton & Farlington", "count": 5 } ], "HMO_CONTEXT": { "registered": 3158, "registerDate": "August 2026", "estimatedTotal": 4366, "estimatedNote": "The council's Authority Monitoring Report estimates 3,230 licensed plus 1,136 unknown or possible HMOs — about 4,366 in total (December 2025). Total estimated stock has been essentially flat (4,358 a year earlier) while the licensed share rose sharply as the additional licensing scheme took effect.", "article4": "An Article 4 Direction has removed permitted-development rights for converting a family home to a small HMO across the whole city since 1 November 2011 — so every such conversion needs planning permission.", "spdRule": "Planning policy refuses new HMOs where more than 10% of residential properties within a 50-metre radius are already HMOs. The emerging Local Plan carries this into Strategic Policy PLP20 and adds tests on \"sandwiching\" and three-in-a-row.", "licensing": "A city-wide additional licensing scheme has required every HMO, whatever its size, to be licensed since 1 September 2023.", "wardCaveat": "The ward breakdown is a tabulation of the council's published combined HMO register. It is a count of licensed properties, not a concentration rate — the council publishes concentration only as a map image, so no per-ward percentage is shown here." }, "HOUSING_SOURCES": [ { "name": "MHCLG — Housing Delivery Test 2025 measurement", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-delivery-test-2025-measurement", "date": "2026-08-17" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Pre-Submission Local Plan Addendum (Policy PLP16)", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/pre-submission-local-plan-addendum-nov-2025-aa-accessible.pdf", "date": "2025-11" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Housing Background Paper", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Housing-Background-Paper-2025.pdf", "date": "2025-10" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — combined HMO public register", "href": "https://data.portsmouth.gov.uk/media/tables/combined-hmo-public-register-august-2026.csv", "date": "2026-08" } ], "LOCAL_PLAN": { "policy": "Strategic Policy PLP16", "planPeriod": "2025–2040", "requirement": 11369, "requirementNote": "at least 11,369 net additional homes, stepped: ~588/year for the first five years, ~843/year thereafter", "need": 15285, "needAnnual": 1019, "needAnnualNote": "Portsmouth City Council's own May 2025 recalculation of the standard method. MHCLG's published December 2024 indicative figure is 1,021 — the same formula on a different vintage of affordability data, not a contradiction.", "shortfall": 3916, "shortfallAnnual": 261, "meetsPct": 74, "withFareham": "Fareham Borough Council has committed to 800 homes of Portsmouth's unmet need, which would raise the proportion met to about 80%.", "capacityBased": "The 11,369 figure is explicitly capacity-based, not need-based — it is what the council believes can physically be built, and it is stated to be inclusive of the 20% buffer. Without that buffer the first five years would require 470 homes a year.", "status": "Submitted 18 March 2026. Three inspectors appointed 23 March 2026. Matters, Issues and Questions issued 19 August 2026. 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No appointment published." }, "furtherNominatingBodyProposed": { "value": "Proposal to designate the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner as a further nominating body for one non-constituent member.", "status": "official-proposal", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 5 recommendation C, para 3.2.4" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-10-12" }, "maxNonConstituentAndAssociate": { "value": 5, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "Schedule para 3(1)" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "votingBeforeMayor": { "value": [ "Five voting members: one per constituent council plus a second Hampshire County Council member.", "Decisions by simple majority of members present and voting; one vote each; no casting vote; a tie means not carried.", "Quorum: the Chair (or Vice-Chair acting) plus three constituent-council members.", "Unanimous vote of all five members needed for: the budget; adopting a local transport plan; the constitution or standing orders; any other plans or strategies the constitution specifies.", "Any decision that creates a financial liability for a constituent council, affects land in its area, or exercises functions in its area needs the approval of that council’s member — in effect a Portsmouth veto over Portsmouth-specific decisions.", "Non-constituent members do not vote unless the Board resolves they should.", "In practice the Board says it works by consensus and uses simple majority only if a vote is needed." ], "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "Schedule paras 1 and 4" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. 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The SI as made requires unanimity only for the listed matters, plus the council-specific approval rule above.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "PCC Cabinet 10 Feb 2026, item 6: Update on the Hampshire and The Solent Combined County Authority", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=6078", "published": "2026-02-10", "locator": "agenda item 28044" }, { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "Schedule para 4(2)" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Comparison of the request with the final SI is a direct reading of both documents; no published government response to the request was found." }, "chiefExecutive": { "value": { "name": "Dr Ruth Adams", "role": "Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service (fixed term)", "basis": "Appointed interim CEO (part-time, alongside South East Employers) during set-up; appointment as CEO and Head of Paid Service on a fixed-term basis approved 13 Jul 2026. 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The agenda spells the surname both \"Roojam\" and \"Roojaman\"." }, "memberAllowances": { "value": "Board members receive no remuneration from HSCCA other than travel and subsistence; allowances may be paid only to the mayor, a deputy mayor who is not a council leader, and members of the Overview and Scrutiny and Audit committees, after an independent remuneration panel report.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "Schedule para 6" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "Item 6 para 3.5" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "COUNCIL_MP_OR_HSCCA": [ { "question": "My bin wasn’t collected", "handler": "Council", "handlerDetail": "Portsmouth City Council", "reason": "HSCCA names bin collections as a service councils keep.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "What we will do (areas of responsibility; continuing role of local councils)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/", "locator": "Continuing role of local councils" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "question": "There’s a pothole / broken pavement on my road", "handler": "Council", "handlerDetail": "Portsmouth City Council (highway authority)", "reason": "Councils remain highway authorities even after HSCCA becomes the transport authority.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 8 para 3.2.7" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "question": "Objecting to a planning application", "handler": "Council", "handlerDetail": "Portsmouth City Council (local planning authority)", "reason": "Local planning stays with councils; a future mayor could call in only strategically important applications once an SDS exists.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "What we will do (areas of responsibility; continuing role of local councils)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/" }, { "title": "Housing and Strategic Planning", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/housing-and-strategic-planning/" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "question": "Social care, school places or library services", "handler": "Council", "handlerDetail": "Portsmouth City Council", "reason": "HSCCA lists schools, libraries and social care as council services.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "What we will do (areas of responsibility; continuing role of local councils)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "question": "Council housing repair or housing waiting list", "handler": "Council", "handlerDetail": "Portsmouth City Council", "reason": "No HSCCA housing management function exists; HSCCA says local service decisions stay with councils.", "status": "analysis", "sources": [ { "title": "About us", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/about-us/" }, { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "question": "My local bus route is being cut", "handler": "Council", "handlerDetail": "Portsmouth City Council (transport authority until 8 May 2028); HSCCA for regional bus strategy; mayor decides on franchising after 2028", "reason": "Councils lead day-to-day transport during the concurrency period.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Monthly update – May 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/monthly-update-may-2026/", "published": "2026-05-12" }, { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "reg. 9" }, { "title": "Transport", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/transport/" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "question": "How will the £1.3bn investment fund be spent in the region?", "handler": "HSCCA", "handlerDetail": "HSCCA Board (Portsmouth member: Cllr Steve Pitt); scrutiny by HSCCA Overview & Scrutiny Committee", "reason": "HSCCA holds and allocates the Investment Fund.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "LAF p.8; Item 9" }, { "title": "Overview and Scrutiny Committee", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/banner-test/democracy/overview-and-scrutiny-committee-2/" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "question": "Adult education and retraining courses", "handler": "HSCCA", "handlerDetail": "HSCCA from August 2027 (commissioning Adult Skills Fund); until then national funding via government", "reason": "Adult skills commissioning transfers to HSCCA from the 2027/28 academic year.", "status": "official-target", "sources": [ { "title": "Skills and Employment Support", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/skills-and-employment/" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "question": "Policing priorities in my area", "handler": "Other", "handlerDetail": "Police and Crime Commissioner now; expected to pass to the mayor in 2028", "reason": "PCC functions are not yet with HSCCA; transfer is expected at the 2028 mayoral election, subject to secondary legislation.", "status": "official-target", "sources": [ { "title": "Public Safety", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/public-safety/" }, { "title": "Monthly update – February 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/stakeholder-update-february-2026/", "published": "2026-02-21" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "question": "A problem with a government agency (benefits, visas, HMRC) or national law", "handler": "MP", "handlerDetail": "Your constituency MP", "reason": "MPs can take up cases with government departments and raise issues in Parliament; they do not run council or HSCCA services.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Contact your MP", "publisher": "UK Parliament", "url": "https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "FUNDING": [ { "item": "Investment Fund — annual value once a mayor is in post", "value": "£44.6m a year for 30 years, split equally capital/revenue, unringfenced", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Written Ministerial Statement HCWS1128: Devolution Priority Programme", "publisher": "UK Parliament", "url": "https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-12-04/hcws1128", "published": "2025-12-04" }, { "title": "More homes and improved high streets for new mayoral areas through 30-year funding package", "publisher": "MHCLG (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-homes-and-improved-high-streets-for-new-mayoral-areas-through-30-year-funding-package", "published": "2025-12-04" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "LAF p.8" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "item": "Investment Fund — headline total", "value": "£1.3bn", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Day one of region’s £1.3bn future as HSCCA is officially launched", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/day-one-of-regions-1-3bn-future-as-hampshire-and-the-solent-combined-county-authority-officially-launched/", "published": "2026-07-13" }, { "title": "Monthly update – February 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/stakeholder-update-february-2026/", "published": "2026-02-21" }, { "title": "The HSCCA set to deliver transformative changes across the region", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/a-new-era-of-opportunity-government-confirms-1-3bn-investment-fund-for-hampshire-and-the-solent-mayoral-combined-county-authority/", "published": "2026-03-16" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "HSCCA wording differs: launch article (13 Jul 2026) says \"£1.3 billion over 30 years\"; 16 Mar 2026 article says \"£1.3 billion over 32 years\". £44.6m x 30 = £1.338bn. Government sources give the annual figure and 30 years, not the £1.3bn total." }, { "item": "Investment Fund — pre-mayor release", "value": "£17.84m a year in 2026/27 and 2027/28 (40% of £44.6m); 2026/27 received as £8.9m revenue + £8.9m capital", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Monthly update – February 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/stakeholder-update-february-2026/", "published": "2026-02-21" }, { "title": "The HSCCA set to deliver transformative changes across the region", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/a-new-era-of-opportunity-government-confirms-1-3bn-investment-fund-for-hampshire-and-the-solent-mayoral-combined-county-authority/", "published": "2026-03-16" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "LAF p.8; Item 9 para 3.5.4" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.4.6 (2027/28)" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Contradiction: the Dec 2025 WMS said DPP areas would get \"a third\" of annual funds in 2026-27 and 2027-28. HSCCA sources from Feb 2026 onwards consistently say 40% / £17.84m, and the 2026/27 budget books £17.8m. No government document stating 40% was found." }, { "item": "Investment Fund — gateway/conditions", "value": "Subject to a review every five years to confirm the investment has contributed to growth; MHCLG sign-off of the Local Assurance Framework needed before funds are released; an Investment Strategy is to be developed in year one.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "LAF p.8" }, { "title": "Monthly update – February 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/stakeholder-update-february-2026/", "published": "2026-02-21" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "item": "Investment Fund — 2026/27 planned use (approved 13 Jul 2026)", "value": "Revenue: £6.1m programme delivery/grants, £0.976m staffing and programme management, £1.8m election reserve. Capital: £8.1m for projects, £0.8m scheme development. Total available for investment £14.25m. No firm capital schemes yet.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "Item 9 paras 3.5.4, 3.7" }, { "title": "Draft HSCCA Board minutes, 13 July 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/DRAFT-HSCCA-Board-minutes-13.07.26-v2.pdf", "locator": "item 10 (recorded vote 5–0)" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "item": "Investment Fund — proposed variations and 2027/28 plans (28 Sep 2026 agenda)", "value": "Proposals: £0.14m for Growth Hub shortfall; up to £0.5m one-off to reimburse councils’ set-up costs; 2027/28 revenue to include £1.5m for transfer programmes and £1.8m election reserve; £2.5m of 2027/28 capital towards a c.£5m transport modelling update. 2027/28 budget and MTFP due for approval January 2027.", "status": "official-proposal", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 recommendations A–E; paras 3.3.1, 3.4.6, 3.5.10" }, { "title": "Forward Plan of Key Decisions 1 Sep 2026 to 31 Jan 2027", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Forward-Plan-August-2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-29" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-10-12" }, { "item": "Mayoral election cost estimate", "value": "First mayoral election estimated at £6m–£7m (election reserve being built from Investment Fund revenue)", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.10.6" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "item": "Capacity funding (Mayoral Capacity Fund)", "value": "HSCCA: increased from £4m to £9m. Budget papers: £3m received in 2025/26 (£1.5m + £1.5m late uplift); multi-year settlement to 2028/29; £2.8m in the 2027/28 budget. Government (Dec 2025): at least £3m over three years plus £1m initial payment.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Monthly update – February 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/stakeholder-update-february-2026/", "published": "2026-02-21" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.2.1, 3.5.1" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.4.4" }, { "title": "Written Ministerial Statement HCWS1128: Devolution Priority Programme", "publisher": "UK Parliament", "url": "https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-12-04/hcws1128", "published": "2025-12-04" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "The £9m total is an HSCCA statement; the year-by-year profile adding to £9m is not published. The 28 Sep MTFS says capacity funding is insufficient (\"current shortfall\")." }, { "item": "Spatial Development Strategy grant", "value": "£0.76m (two payments, 2025/26 and 2026/27); further £2m–£3m expected but not confirmed", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "Item 9 paras 3.2.3, 3.5.3" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.4.5" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "The further £2m–£3m is an expectation in HSCCA papers, not an allocation. 13 Jul papers give both £0.765m and £0.76m." }, { "item": "Growth Hub grant (Department for Business and Trade)", "value": "£0.48m a year (3-year settlement) for a single regional Growth Hub", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.5.2" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.7.14" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "item": "Adult skills", "value": "Readiness funding £0.15m (2026/27) and £0.05m (2027/28). Adult Skills Fund from August 2027, estimated by HSCCA at c.£24m a year; exact allocation to be confirmed by DWP.", "status": "official-target", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.5.6" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 paras 3.4.7–3.4.8" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "c.£24m is an HSCCA estimate, not a confirmed allocation." }, { "item": "Transport revenue 2026/27", "value": "£17.8m paid by DfT direct to the four upper-tier councils in 2026/27 because HSCCA did not exist at the start of the year; from 2027/28 expected to be paid to HSCCA", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.5.5" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "item": "Transport capital — Local Transport Grant (HSCCA area)", "value": "£11.645m (2026/27), £17.359m (2027/28), £23.789m (2028/29), £30.219m (2029/30); £83.014m total. Expected to transfer to HSCCA from 2027/28; most to be passported to councils during transition.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Local Transport Grant: capital allocations 2026 to 2027 and 2029 to 2030", "publisher": "DfT (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-transport-grant-allocations/local-transport-grant-ltg-capital-allocations-202627-to-202930" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 paras 3.7.9–3.7.10" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "item": "Transport funding model", "value": "Before the mayor: Integrated Transport Fund and Bus Services Fund. After: a single Mayoral Transport Fund. Two years of concurrent LTA powers.", "status": "official-target", "sources": [ { "title": "Monthly update – February 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/stakeholder-update-february-2026/", "published": "2026-02-21" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 para 3.7.12" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "item": "Transport top-slice for transition", "value": "Proposed top-slice of transport funding for transition and strategic planning", "status": "official-proposal", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 paras 3.3.2(l), 3.7.11" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-10-12", "note": "Internal inconsistency: para 3.3.2(l) says £1.3m of transport revenue top-sliced; para 3.7.11(a) refers to a \"£1.5million top slice retained in 2027/28\". Reviewer should check." }, { "item": "Who pays HSCCA running costs by law", "value": "Constituent councils must ensure HSCCA costs reasonably attributable to its functions are met — split as they agree, or by population share if they do not agree.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "reg. 13" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "No council contribution for Portsmouth has been published; HSCCA papers so far fund costs from grants and the Investment Fund." } ], "HSCCA_STATUS": { "name": "Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority (HSCCA)", "area": { "value": "The combined areas of Hampshire County Council, Isle of Wight Council, Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council (the four \"constituent councils\").", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "reg. 2 (definitions of \"the Area\" and \"constituent councils\")" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "legalForm": { "value": { "statutoryTerm": "mayoral combined county authority (mayoral CCA)", "basis": "SI 2026/595 reg. 3 establishes \"a combined county authority for the Area\" (a body corporate) and reg. 6(1) provides that \"there is to be a mayor for the Area\". Under LURA 2023 s.27(8) a CCA for whose area regulations provide for a mayor is a \"mayoral CCA\" — this applies before the first mayor is elected." }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "regs 3 and 6" }, { "title": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, s.27(8) (meaning of \"mayoral CCA\")", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55/section/27", "locator": "s.27(8)" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 11, para 2.1: \"The HSCCA is a Mayoral Combined County Authority\"" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "frameworkTier": { "value": { "tier": "Mayoral", "statutoryTerm": "mayoral strategic authority", "established": false }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026, s.1 (strategic authorities)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/section/1", "published": "2026-04-29", "locator": "s.1(5)(b): a mayoral CCA is a \"mayoral strategic authority\"; s.1(6)(b): \"established\" only if designated under LURA s.25A" }, { "title": "Skills and Employment Support", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/skills-and-employment/", "locator": "Further reading: \"Mayoral Combined County Authorities are a form of Mayoral Strategic Authority\"" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Not an Established Mayoral Strategic Authority: no designation under LURA s.25A has been made or is possible yet (see earliestEstablishedStatus)." }, "governmentAreaFactsheet": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "GOV.UK English devolution: Area factsheets (published 10 Jul 2025; lists 16 areas, no Hampshire and the Solent entry)", "GOV.UK publication page for the factsheets (no updates since 10 Jul 2025)" ], "note": "Government has not published an HSCCA factsheet stating its tier, route to Established status, police/fire position or distinctive arrangements." }, "earliestEstablishedStatus": { "value": "Government criteria require a directly elected mayor to have been in place for at least 18 months before an application to move to the Established Mayoral tier. With the first mayor taking office on 8 May 2028, HSCCA cannot meet that criterion before November 2029.", "status": "analysis", "sources": [ { "title": "Established Mayoral Strategic Authority designation: Criteria and evidence guidance", "publisher": "MHCLG (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/established-mayoral-strategic-authority-designation-criteria-and-evidence-guidance/established-mayoral-strategic-authority-designation-criteria-and-evidence-guidance", "published": "2026-05-06" }, { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "reg. 6(4)(a)" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Date derived by applying the published 18-month criterion to the statutory term start date; no government statement on HSCCA eligibility found." }, "operationalStatus": { "value": "Operating, in set-up phase. Legally established 4 Jun 2026; Board formally constituted and Constitution, Local Assurance Framework and 2026/27 budget adopted at the inaugural meeting on 13 Jul 2026. Mayor-only functions (SI Part 5) do not come into force until 8 May 2028. Advisory boards and non-constituent members due for agreement at the 28 Sep 2026 Board.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "Draft HSCCA Board minutes, 13 July 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/DRAFT-HSCCA-Board-minutes-13.07.26-v2.pdf", "locator": "items 7–10" }, { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "reg. 1(3)" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Items 5 and 8" }, { "title": "Monthly update – August 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/monthly-update-august-2026/", "published": "2026-09-02", "locator": "Chief Executive spotlight" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-10-12" }, "formalEstablishmentDate": { "value": "2026-06-04", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "made 3 Jun 2026; reg. 1(2): in force the day after the day made" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "Item 1 para 3.1.1: \"The HSCCA came into being on 4 June 2026\"" }, { "title": "HSCCA formally established following parliamentary approval", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/hampshire-and-the-solent-combined-county-authority-formally-established-following-parliamentary-approval/", "published": "2026-06-04" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "inauguralBoardMeeting": { "value": "2026-07-13 (Southampton Civic Centre)", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board (membership, meetings)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/banner-test/democracy/hsccaboard/" }, { "title": "Draft HSCCA Board minutes, 13 July 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/DRAFT-HSCCA-Board-minutes-13.07.26-v2.pdf" }, { "title": "Day one of region’s £1.3bn future as HSCCA is officially launched", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/day-one-of-regions-1-3bn-future-as-hampshire-and-the-solent-combined-county-authority-officially-launched/", "published": "2026-07-13" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "leadershipNow": { "value": { "model": "Pre-mayoral: the SI requires the Board to appoint a Chair and Vice-Chair from its members at its first meeting. The Local Assurance Framework says the posts are elected annually at the start of each municipal year by simple majority. Not a rotating chair and not an interim mayor.", "chair": "Cllr Nick Adams-King (Leader, Hampshire County Council) — appointed 13 Jul 2026, proposed by Cllr Pitt, seconded by Cllr Bogle, agreed unanimously", "viceChair": "Cllr Jonathan Bacon (Leader, Isle of Wight Council) — appointed 13 Jul 2026, agreed unanimously", "chairEnds": "Chair ceases to hold office and Vice-Chair post is abolished at the end of the day before the first mayor’s term begins (i.e. end of 7 May 2028)." }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "Schedule para 2" }, { "title": "Draft HSCCA Board minutes, 13 July 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/DRAFT-HSCCA-Board-minutes-13.07.26-v2.pdf", "locator": "items 2–3" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "LAF section 3.1.3" }, { "title": "About us", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/about-us/" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "firstMayoralElection": { "value": { "pollDate": "2028-05-04", "termBegins": "2028-05-08", "termYears": 4 }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "reg. 6(2) and 6(4)" }, { "title": "Governance 2026 – 2028", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/banner-test/democracy/governance-2026-2028/", "locator": "May 2028 entry (page updated after the LGR pause, still shows May 2028)" }, { "title": "Written Ministerial Statement HCWS1128: Devolution Priority Programme", "publisher": "UK Parliament", "url": "https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-12-04/hcws1128", "published": "2025-12-04", "locator": "Government \"minded to\" hold DPP inaugural elections in May 2028 (4 Dec 2025)" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Date is fixed in the SI; changing it would need new legislation. No government statement changing it was found at checkedOn." }, "callsToBringElectionForward": { "value": "On 13 Jul 2026 the Board unanimously supported writing to the Prime Minister seeking alignment of the HSCCA mayoral election with the May 2027 \"shadow authority\" elections. On 6 Aug 2026 the Chair said he had pressed ministers to bring the election forward from 2028 to 2027. No government response found. Note: the 7 Sep 2026 LGR letter says May 2027 elections will go ahead on existing council boundaries, so the \"shadow authority\" elections the request referred to are no longer scheduled.", "status": "official-proposal", "sources": [ { "title": "Draft HSCCA Board minutes, 13 July 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/DRAFT-HSCCA-Board-minutes-13.07.26-v2.pdf", "locator": "item 7" }, { "title": "Statement from Chair of the HSCCA Board, Cllr Nick Adams-King", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/statement-from-councillor-nick-adams-king/", "published": "2026-08-06" }, { "title": "Local government reorganisation: programme review and decisions withdrawal letter to council leaders", "publisher": "MHCLG (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders", "published": "2026-09-07" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "establishmentSI": { "value": { "citation": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026", "siNumber": "SI 2026/595", "made": "2026-06-03", "inForce": "2026-06-04 (Part 5 mayoral functions: 2028-05-08)", "procedure": "Draft affirmative: laid 16 Mar 2026; debated House of Lords 18 May and House of Commons 20 May 2026; consented to by all four constituent councils", "parentAct": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023" }, "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03" }, { "title": "The HSCCA set to deliver transformative changes across the region", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/a-new-era-of-opportunity-government-confirms-1-3bn-investment-fund-for-hampshire-and-the-solent-mayoral-combined-county-authority/", "published": "2026-03-16", "locator": "\"Today, (16 March 2026) a statutory instrument (SI) was presented to Parliament\"" }, { "title": "Monthly update – May 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/monthly-update-may-2026/", "published": "2026-05-12", "locator": "Parliamentary Process" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "LGR_SEPARATION_NOTE": { "heading": "Devolution (HSCCA) and council reorganisation (LGR) are two different things", "boxText": [ "Devolution: the Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority is a new regional body, set up by law on 4 June 2026. It is running now. It handles regional jobs such as transport strategy, adult skills, strategic planning and investment. Its first mayor is due to be elected on 4 May 2028.", "Local government reorganisation (LGR): a separate government programme to replace today’s county, district and city councils with new unitary councils. The government’s March 2026 decision for Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton was withdrawn on 7 September 2026, and the whole programme is under review.", "What this means now: Portsmouth City Council carries on as it is, with elections in May 2027 on existing boundaries. HSCCA also carries on: the withdrawal letter does not mention it, and the law that set it up — including the May 2028 mayoral election date — is unchanged.", "Why they are linked at all: the government delayed the mayoral election to 2028 so new unitary councils would be in place first, and HSCCA’s framework says its board membership will be reviewed when reorganisation happens. Whether the LGR review changes the mayoral timetable has not been announced." ], "doesWithdrawalAffectHscca": { "value": "Not directly, on the published evidence. The 7 Sep 2026 letter withdraws the LGR decisions, pauses implementation of the July decisions and says May 2027 elections go ahead on existing boundaries; it does not mention HSCCA, combined authorities or the mayoral election. HSCCA’s governance timeline, updated after the pause, still shows the inaugural mayoral election in May 2028, and SI 2026/595 still fixes 4 May 2028. Indirect links: the 2028 date was chosen so LGR would finish first (Dec 2025 WMS), and the LAF ties any review of Board membership to LGR.", "status": "analysis", "sources": [ { "title": "Local government reorganisation: programme review and decisions withdrawal letter to council leaders", "publisher": "MHCLG (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders", "published": "2026-09-07" }, { "title": "Governance 2026 – 2028", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/banner-test/democracy/governance-2026-2028/" }, { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03", "locator": "reg. 6(2)" }, { "title": "Written Ministerial Statement HCWS1128: Devolution Priority Programme", "publisher": "UK Parliament", "url": "https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-12-04/hcws1128", "published": "2025-12-04" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03", "locator": "LAF 2.2.3" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "governmentStatementOnHsccaImpact": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "GOV.UK LGR withdrawal letter (7 Sep 2026) and Hampshire LGR collection page", "GOV.UK search for mayoral election / DPP items published Aug–Sep 2026", "HSCCA news list (latest item 2 Sep 2026) and Governance 2026-2028 page" ], "note": "The oral statement of 7 Sep 2026 referred to in the letter was not located on GOV.UK." }, "sources": [ { "title": "Local government reorganisation: programme review and decisions withdrawal letter to council leaders", "publisher": "MHCLG (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders", "published": "2026-09-07" }, { "title": "Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton: Local government reorganisation (collection)", "publisher": "MHCLG (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton-local-government-reorganisation" }, { "title": "Governance 2026 – 2028", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/banner-test/democracy/governance-2026-2028/" }, { "title": "FAQs", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/faqs/" }, { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "MEETINGS_AND_DECISIONS": { "meetings": [ { "date": "2026-02-10", "body": "Portsmouth City Council Cabinet", "title": "Update on the Hampshire and The Solent Combined County Authority", "outcome": "Noted that PCC and the other upper-tier councils had asked government to require unanimity in all HSCCA decisions; no government response at the time.", "held": true, "status": "fact", "links": [ { "title": "PCC Cabinet 10 Feb 2026, item 6: Update on the Hampshire and The Solent Combined County Authority", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=6078", "published": "2026-02-10", "locator": "agenda item 28044" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "date": "2026-02-24", "body": "Portsmouth City Council Full Council", "title": "Approvals relating to the HSCCA (debate and noting)", "outcome": "Council noted the Cabinet report. Officers said that without all four councils’ approval the Secretary of State could set up a minimal foundation strategic authority without extra powers or funding.", "held": true, "status": "fact", "links": [ { "title": "PCC Full Council 24 Feb 2026, item 9: Approvals relating to the HSCCA (minutes)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=5851", "published": "2026-02-24", "locator": "agenda item 28134" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "date": "2026-03-03", "body": "Portsmouth City Council Cabinet", "title": "Approvals relating to the HSCCA", "outcome": "Authorised the Chief Executive to agree the draft SI and any further minor changes before it was laid.", "held": true, "status": "fact", "links": [ { "title": "PCC Cabinet 3 Mar 2026, item 7: Approvals relating to the HSCCA (decision)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=6079", "published": "2026-03-03", "locator": "agenda item 28166" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "date": "2026-06-04", "body": "Parliament / MHCLG", "title": "HSCCA legally established (SI 2026/595 in force)", "outcome": "Authority established; mayoral election fixed for 4 May 2028.", "held": true, "status": "fact", "links": [ { "title": "The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/595)", "publisher": "legislation.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/595/contents/made", "published": "2026-06-03" }, { "title": "HSCCA formally established following parliamentary approval", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/hampshire-and-the-solent-combined-county-authority-formally-established-following-parliamentary-approval/", "published": "2026-06-04" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "date": "2026-07-13", "body": "HSCCA Board (inaugural, Southampton)", "title": "Appointments; governance; statutory officers; 2026/27 budget; young people and work", "outcome": "Chair and Vice-Chair appointed; Constitution, Local Assurance Framework and first policies adopted; Governance & Audit and Overview & Scrutiny committees established; CEO and interim statutory officers appointed; 2026/27 budget approved 5–0; agreed to write to DWP and DfE ministers on young people and employment; calendar agreed.", "held": true, "status": "fact", "links": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 13 July 2026 (incl. Constitution, Local Assurance Framework, Year 1 budget)", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSCCA-Agenda-Final-13.07.2026.pdf", "published": "2026-07-03" }, { "title": "Draft HSCCA Board minutes, 13 July 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/DRAFT-HSCCA-Board-minutes-13.07.26-v2.pdf" }, { "title": "Recording of 13 Jul 2026 Board", "publisher": "HSCCA (YouTube)", "url": "https://youtu.be/OVF4Bgj6iMM" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "date": "2026-07-14", "body": "Portsmouth City Council Full Council", "title": "Appointments to HSCCA committees", "outcome": "Revised Portsmouth nominations to HSCCA Overview & Scrutiny and Governance & Audit committees after HSCCA-wide political balance calculation (two Liberal Democrat members each).", "held": true, "status": "fact", "links": [ { "title": "PCC Full Council 14 Jul 2026: Appointments to the HSCCA committees", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=5979", "published": "2026-07-14", "locator": "agenda item 28462" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "body": "HSCCA Board (Portsmouth Guildhall, 2.30pm)", "title": "Appointments; permanent Monitoring Officer; constitution changes; four advisory boards; budget variation and draft 2027/28 budget/MTFS; pay framework; Local Growth Plan overview", "outcome": "Not yet held at checkedOn. 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Governance & Audit: Cllrs Stuart Brown and Ian Holder. Proposed advisory boards: Planning — Cllr Hugh Mason; Transport — Cllr Peter Candlish (Cabinet Member for Transport); Skills & Employment — Cllr Suzy Horton; Economic Growth & Regeneration — Cllrs Steve Pitt and Mark Jeffery.", "status": "fact", "sources": [ { "title": "PCC Full Council 14 Jul 2026: Appointments to the HSCCA committees", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=5979", "published": "2026-07-14", "locator": "agenda item 28462" }, { "title": "PCC Annual Council 19 May 2026: committee appointments (minutes)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=5853", "published": "2026-05-19", "locator": "agenda item 28347" }, { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 5 paras 3.3.3, 3.4.3; Item 8 Appendix A" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-10-12" }, { "topic": "Proposed co-chair roles for Portsmouth’s leader", "detail": "Cllr Pitt is proposed as co-chair of the Skills and Employment Support Advisory Board (with Cllr Bogle) and of the Economic Growth and Regeneration Advisory Board (with Cllr Bacon).", "status": "official-proposal", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 8 Appendix A" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-10-12" }, { "topic": "Solent Freeport accountable body", "detail": "Portsmouth City Council is currently the Freeport’s accountable body, holding and administering Freeport funds. The role is to transfer to HSCCA, concluding by June 2028. Freeport 2027/28 revenue budget £1.46m; accountable body support costs £0.1m a year; only two tax sites currently generating retained rates.", "status": "official-target", "sources": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 9 paras 3.7.5–3.7.6" }, { "title": "Economic Development and Regeneration", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/economic-development-and-regeneration/" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "topic": "Portsmouth transport money", "detail": "DfT Local Transport Grant capital for Portsmouth: £2.031m (2026/27), £2.691m (2027/28), £3.688m (2028/29), £4.685m (2029/30) — £13.096m total. Resource: £0.254m a year 2026/27–2028/29. 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The Investment Strategy is still to be written." }, "analysis": [ { "kind": "opportunity", "text": "Portsmouth’s leader is proposed to co-chair two of the four advisory boards (skills; economic growth), which gives the city a direct role in shaping the Local Growth Plan and adult skills priorities before the plans are adopted.", "status": "strategic-opportunity", "basedOn": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "kind": "opportunity", "text": "The Local Growth Plan must name 4–10 key investment projects. Whether any Portsmouth scheme is among them will be decided in 2026/27; draft expected early spring 2027.", "status": "strategic-opportunity", "basedOn": [ { "title": "HSCCA Board agenda pack, 28 September 2026", "publisher": "HSCCA", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FINAL-Agenda-Pack-28.09.26-v2.pdf", "published": "2026-09-18", "locator": "Item 11" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "kind": "opportunity", "text": "The Board’s first policy topic, young people and work, touches issues relevant to Portsmouth such as young people not in education, employment or training. 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"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton-local-government-reorganisation" }, "mpContact": { "title": "Contact your MP", "publisher": "UK Parliament", "url": "https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/" }, "pccCab100226": { "title": "PCC Cabinet 10 Feb 2026, item 6: Update on the Hampshire and The Solent Combined County Authority", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=6078", "published": "2026-02-10", "locator": "agenda item 28044" }, "pccCouncil240226": { "title": "PCC Full Council 24 Feb 2026, item 9: Approvals relating to the HSCCA (minutes)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=5851", "published": "2026-02-24", "locator": "agenda item 28134" }, "pccCab030326": { "title": "PCC Cabinet 3 Mar 2026, item 7: Approvals relating to the HSCCA (decision)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=6079", "published": "2026-03-03", "locator": "agenda item 28166" }, "pccCouncil190526": { "title": "PCC Annual Council 19 May 2026: committee appointments (minutes)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=5853", "published": "2026-05-19", "locator": "agenda item 28347" }, "pccCab230626": { "title": "PCC Cabinet 23 Jun 2026: Appointments to Outside Organisations (decision)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=6214", "published": "2026-06-23", "locator": "agenda item 28386" }, "pccCouncil140726": { "title": "PCC Full Council 14 Jul 2026: Appointments to the HSCCA committees", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (modern.gov)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=5979", "published": "2026-07-14", "locator": "agenda item 28462" } } }, "portsmouth-issues": { "ATTENTION_SCALE_EXPLAINER": "Public attention and measured scale are recorded separately and never combined into a single score. Attention reflects how prominently an issue features in local political and public discussion; scale reflects what the measured data shows about how many people are affected and how severely. They frequently diverge — a highly visible problem is not automatically the largest one, and the largest problem is not always the most discussed. Each rating states the basis it rests on so it can be argued with.", "PORTSMOUTH_ISSUES": [ { "slug": "local-government-reorganisation", "accountability": { "primary": "UK Government (MHCLG)", "nextDecision": "The outcome of the government's review of the whole reorganisation programme — no timetable published. May 2027 council elections go ahead on existing boundaries", "residentsCanDo": "Respond to government consultations and raise it with your MP — this is a Westminster decision, not a council one" }, "title": "Reorganisation: the merger decision was withdrawn and is under review", "summary": "Government decided in March 2026 to abolish Portsmouth City Council on 1 April 2028 and absorb it into a new South East unitary with Fareham, Gosport and Havant. On 7 September 2026 the Secretary of State withdrew that decision following updated legal advice and launched a review of the whole programme; the council continues and no new timetable has been published. The proposing councils claim £63.9m a year in savings across the area; the option chosen drew 28% positive responses in consultation against 63% for the alternative.", "category": "Governance", "attention": "High", "attentionBasis": "Sustained coverage in local media, a formal council legal challenge, and repeated public statements by councillors of several parties.", "scale": "Structural", "scaleBasis": "Affects every council service, every resident and the democratic geography of the city itself. Scale is recorded as \"structural\" rather than high/low because it is a change in who governs, not a measurable quantity of harm or benefit.", "trend": "Unknown", "trendBasis": "The March 2026 decision was withdrawn on 7 September 2026 before it took effect; the government's review has not reported.", "whyItsHere": "Raised persistently by councillors, both MPs and residents, and the subject of a judicial review brought by the council itself.", "whatHappened": "MHCLG announced in March 2026 that it would implement \"5 unitary option 1A\" for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, with vesting day on 1 April 2028. Portsmouth would have joined a new South East unitary with Fareham, Gosport, Havant, three parishes of East Hampshire and one of Winchester. Portsmouth City Council was one of seven councils that submitted the five-unitary proposal, and its cabinet subsequently voted in March 2026 to pursue judicial review of the process, with a claim deadline of 24 June 2026. The consultation ran 19 November 2025 to 11 January 2026 and drew 5,163 responses. On 7 September 2026 the Secretary of State withdrew the March decision, citing updated legal advice, and announced a review of the whole reorganisation programme. Councils were asked to stop implementation work, and the May 2027 local elections will take place on existing council boundaries.", "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "Merger decision", "value": "Withdrawn", "period": "7 September 2026", "note": "The March 2026 MHCLG decision; the programme is now under government review" }, { "label": "Claimed saving across the area", "value": "£63.9m a year", "period": "Joint business case, 26 Sept 2025", "note": "The proposing councils' own figure, not independently verified" }, { "label": "Public support for the chosen option", "value": "28%", "period": "Consultation, closed 11 Jan 2026", "note": "63% backed a different five-unitary option" }, { "label": "Consultation responses", "value": "5,163", "period": "19 Nov 2025 - 11 Jan 2026" } ], "where": "Whole city, plus neighbouring authorities.", "whyItMatters": "Determines who sets council tax, runs social care, housing, waste and planning for Portsmouth, and whether the city retains a council of its own. Reorganisations also carry transition costs and typically freeze or slow other decisions while they proceed.", "whyItHappens": "Much of Hampshire runs a two-tier system — a county council plus eleven districts and boroughs — alongside four separate unitaries. The proposers argue this duplicates back-office functions, splits responsibility for services residents experience as one thing, and leaves councils too small to be financially resilient. Government has also tied devolution deals to simplified structures, so reorganisation is a precondition for further powers reaching the area.", "whoControlsIt": [ { "body": "UK Government (MHCLG)", "role": "Decides whether and how reorganisation proceeds — the decisive power" }, { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Can respond, lobby and litigate, but cannot veto" }, { "body": "The courts", "role": "Assess the lawfulness of the process, not whether reorganisation is a good idea" } ], "whatsBeingDone": "Nothing is being implemented: the government withdrew the March 2026 decision on 7 September 2026 and asked councils to stop implementation work while it reviews the whole programme. Portsmouth City Council — one of the seven councils that submitted the proposal — had separately pursued judicial review of how the boundary decision was reached; what happens to that claim now is not confirmed here.", "cost": "Transition costs are not published. The claimed saving is £63.9m a year across the whole area, per the proposing councils' own business case; no independent costing of transition or net saving has been identified.", "hasItWorked": "Not applicable — the decision was withdrawn before it took effect.", "whatHappensNext": "The outcome of the government's review of the reorganisation programme, which the minister linked to the forthcoming Devolution White Paper. No date has been published.", "evidenceGaps": [ "When the government's review will report, and what options it will consider, is not published.", "No published estimate of transition cost for the South East unitary that was decided and then withdrawn.", "No published analysis of what reorganisation does to Portsmouth council tax bills — Band D is £1,908 for 2026-27.", "No independent verification of the £63.9m annual saving; it is the proposing councils' own figure.", "How debt held by each merging authority will be apportioned is not published.", "Outcome and current status of the judicial review not confirmed here." ], "actionPlanIds": [], "relatedLinks": [ { "label": "Who controls what in Portsmouth", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/politics" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "GOV.UK — Programme review and decisions withdrawal letter to council leaders", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders", "date": "2026-09-07" }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Review of local government reorganisation launched", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/review-of-local-government-reorganisation-launched", "date": "2026-09-07" }, { "name": "The News (portsmouth.co.uk) — legal fight launched over merger plans", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/legal-fight-launched-over-plans-to-merge-portsmouth-with-neighbouring-councils-8757598", "date": "2026-03" }, { "name": "Local Government Lawyer — unitary approves judicial review bid", "href": "https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/396-governance-news/100881-unitary-approves-judicial-review-bid-against-hampshire-local-government-reorganisation", "date": "2026-03" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-27" }, { "slug": "sewage-water-quality", "accountability": { "primary": "Southern Water, regulated by the Environment Agency and Ofwat", "nextDecision": "The next Environment Agency bathing water classification", "residentsCanDo": "Report a pollution incident to the Environment Agency's 24-hour line; raise systemic concerns with Ofwat and your MP" }, "title": "Sewage discharges and Southsea East bathing water", "summary": "One of Southsea's two bathing waters is officially classified \"Poor\", and storm overflows discharged into Portsmouth Harbour 124 times in the most recent reporting year. A £170m investment programme is under way.", "category": "Environment", "attention": "High", "attentionBasis": "A sustained, multi-year campaign by the Portsmouth South MP, recurring local media coverage, and consistently high engagement on local social media.", "scale": "Localised", "scaleBasis": "Serious and well-evidenced, but geographically concentrated: Southsea East is classified Poor while Eastney, the other Southsea-area sampling point, is classified Good. Affects bathing and harbour water users rather than the whole population directly.", "trend": "Too early to tell", "trendBasis": "The £170m programme has delivered at least one named local fix, but the Poor classification has persisted and no post-investment improvement in classification has yet been recorded.", "whyItsHere": "Among the most consistently raised local environmental issues by residents, campaigners and the Portsmouth South MP.", "whatHappened": "The Environment Agency classifies Southsea East (Pyramids to South Parade Pier) as \"Poor\" for the 2025 season, its third consecutive Poor year; Eastney is \"Good\". The site received 34 pollution risk warnings during 2025. Over the Environment Agency's 2022-2025 assessment period, sewage debris was NOT noted at this monitoring site, while litter was observed on 91% of visits; the named short-term risks are tide, rainfall, urban drainage and occasional Canoe Lake discharge. Rivers Trust aggregation of Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring records 124 storm overflow spills totalling 234 hours across 12 Southern Water outfalls in Portsmouth Harbour, and 11 spills totalling 24 hours across 2 Langstone Harbour outfalls, in the 2025 reporting year.", "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "Southsea East bathing water", "value": "Poor", "period": "2025 season classification", "note": "Third consecutive Poor year" }, { "label": "Eastney bathing water", "value": "Good", "period": "2025 season classification" }, { "label": "Pollution risk warnings, Southsea East", "value": "34", "period": "2025 season", "note": "Forecasts, not confirmed discharges" }, { "label": "Sewage debris at Southsea East", "value": "Not noted", "period": "EA assessment period 2022-2025", "note": "Litter observed on 91% of visits" }, { "label": "Portsmouth Harbour spills", "value": "124 spills / 234 hours", "period": "2025 reporting year", "note": "Across 12 Southern Water outfalls" }, { "label": "Investment programme", "value": "£170m", "period": "Three Harbours Partnership, ongoing" } ], "where": "Southsea East seafront; Portsmouth Harbour and Langstone Harbour outfalls, including Cosham and Stamshaw.", "whyItMatters": "Affects whether the sea is safe to swim in at a major public beach, the ecology of two harbours, and the city's visitor economy. Bathing water classification is a statutory public-health measure, not a reputational one.", "whyItHappens": "Southern Water's own explanation: many Portsmouth-area sewers are combined systems carrying rainwater and sewage in the same pipe. In heavy rain the combined flow exceeds pipe or treatment capacity, and storm overflows act as an engineered relief valve to stop sewage backing up into homes. Rainwater misconnected into the foul network is a named contributor.", "whoControlsIt": [ { "body": "Southern Water", "role": "Owns and operates the network — the decisive lever" }, { "body": "Environment Agency", "role": "Sets and enforces discharge permits, monitors bathing water, prosecutes" }, { "body": "Ofwat", "role": "Sets what the company may spend and charge; levies performance penalties" }, { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Limited — planning and highway drainage decisions affecting surface-water load" } ], "whatsBeingDone": "Southern Water's £170m Three Harbours Partnership covers Portsmouth, Langstone and Chichester Harbours: sustainable drainage, smart water butts, disconnecting downpipes from foul sewers, and pumping station upgrades. A decades-old sewer bottleneck under Stanley Road, Stamshaw has reportedly been removed.", "cost": "£170m (Southern Water investment, part of a wider £1.5bn Clean Rivers and Seas Plan)", "hasItWorked": "Not yet demonstrable. Southsea East remains classified Poor for a third consecutive season and received 34 pollution warnings in 2025. No published site-level spill data yet shows a sustained fall attributable to the programme. The Environment Agency did not, however, note sewage debris at the Southsea East monitoring site across 2022-2025 — the picture is worse than \"fine\" and better than \"raw sewage daily\".", "whatHappensNext": "The next Environment Agency bathing-water classification, and the next annual EDM spill return.", "evidenceGaps": [ "No published site-by-site delivery timetable for the remaining worst outfalls.", "EDM records the duration of a discharge, not its volume or pollutant load.", "The Environment Agency has not published a site-level explanation of why Southsea East has remained Poor for three consecutive seasons.", "Pollution risk warnings are forecasts, so the number issued is not a count of discharges that occurred." ], "actionPlanIds": [ "sewage-timetable" ], "relatedLinks": [ { "label": "Full sewage evidence and charts", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/community" }, { "label": "Is the sea \"full of sewage\"? — claim tested", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/claims-vs-evidence" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "Environment Agency — Southsea East bathing water profile", "href": "https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/", "date": "2025 season" }, { "name": "Environment Agency — Bathing water classifications", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bathing-waters-in-england-compliance-reports/bathing-water-classifications-2024", "date": "2025-11-25" }, { "name": "Rivers Trust (Top of the Poops) — Portsmouth Harbour", "href": "https://top-of-the-poops.org/waterway/southern-water/portsmouth-harbour", "date": "2025 data year" }, { "name": "Southern Water — £170m Portsmouth Harbour scheme", "href": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/latest-news/work-underway-on-170m-portsmouth-harbour-storm-overflow-reduction-scheme/", "date": "2024–2026" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, { "slug": "housing-supply", "accountability": { "primary": "Portsmouth City Council and the Planning Inspectorate", "nextDecision": "Local Plan hearings, then the Inspectors' report in spring 2027", "residentsCanDo": "Comment on the Local Plan examination and on individual planning applications" }, "title": "Housing delivery has collapsed", "summary": "Portsmouth delivered 308 homes against a requirement of 2,702 over three years — a Housing Delivery Test result of 11%, down from 26%. Its Local Plan proposes building only 74% of assessed need, and is at examination now.", "category": "Housing", "attention": "Medium", "attentionBasis": "Housing is raised constantly in local debate, but usually as affordability, HMOs or a specific development. The delivery-test collapse itself was published on 17 August 2026 and has had comparatively little public attention relative to its significance.", "scale": "Very high", "scaleBasis": "Affects the whole city and compounds over decades. Portsmouth is building at roughly a tenth of the rate its own delivery test requires, in a city that already states it cannot meet its own assessed housing need, with a combined sub-regional unmet need of 18,347 homes.", "trend": "Worsening", "trendBasis": "The Housing Delivery Test result fell from 26% (published December 2024) to 22% and then 11% (both published 17 August 2026). Three consecutive measurements below the 45% threshold that triggers the presumption in favour of sustainable development.", "whyItsHere": "Raised persistently by residents as affordability and by councillors as HMO concentration — and now sharply escalated by a delivery-test result published in August 2026.", "whatHappened": "MHCLG's Housing Delivery Test measured Portsmouth at 26% (2023 measurement), 22% (2024) and 11% (2025). Two published single-year figures are extraordinarily low — 9 net additional homes in 2022-23 and 10 in 2024-25. The emerging Local Plan (Policy PLP16) proposes at least 11,369 homes for 2025–2040 against an assessed need of 15,285, a shortfall of 3,916. The plan was submitted on 18 March 2026 and inspectors issued Matters, Issues and Questions on 19 August 2026.", "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "Housing Delivery Test", "value": "11%", "period": "2025 measurement", "note": "Down from 26%; below 45% triggers the presumption" }, { "label": "Homes delivered vs required", "value": "308 of 2,702", "period": "2022-23 to 2024-25" }, { "label": "Plan meets this share of need", "value": "74%", "period": "Local Plan 2025–2040" }, { "label": "Licensed HMOs", "value": "3,158", "period": "August 2026" } ], "where": "HMO concentration is heavily skewed: Charles Dickens (860), Central Southsea (745) and St Thomas (579) hold the large majority of licensed HMOs, against 5 in Drayton & Farlington.", "whyItMatters": "Housing supply determines affordability, who can afford to stay in the city, and how much pressure falls on temporary accommodation and homelessness services. A delivery test below 45% also weakens the council's ability to refuse applications it considers unsuitable, because the presumption in favour of development applies.", "whyItHappens": "The council's own stated explanation is physical constraint: \"The City of Portsmouth is a highly constrained authority... the City's island geography, its nature conservation and heritage designations, contaminated land, flooding, and limited land availability due to its highly built-up nature.\" It states plainly that it cannot meet its own needs, let alone anyone else's. What the published evidence does NOT establish is how much of the recent collapse is constraint, how much is viability, and how much is the timing of a small number of large schemes.", "whoControlsIt": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Local Plan, planning decisions, HMO licensing and its own housing stock" }, { "body": "Planning Inspectorate", "role": "Examining the Local Plan now — decides whether the 74%-of-need requirement is sound" }, { "body": "UK Government (MHCLG)", "role": "Sets the standard method, the delivery test and national planning policy" }, { "body": "Homes England", "role": "Grant funding that determines whether affordable schemes are viable" }, { "body": "Private developers", "role": "Actually build the great majority of homes — permission does not compel building" }, { "body": "Neighbouring authorities", "role": "Fareham has committed to 800 homes of Portsmouth's unmet need" } ], "whatsBeingDone": "The Local Plan is at examination, proposing a stepped requirement of ~588 homes a year rising to ~843. Strategic sites include Tipner West and Horsea Island East (1,000 homes) and Tipner East (1,056). An Article 4 Direction has required planning permission for family-home-to-HMO conversions city-wide since 2011, and city-wide additional HMO licensing has run since September 2023.", "cost": "Not published as a single figure — delivery depends primarily on private investment and Homes England grant rather than council spending.", "hasItWorked": "Not on the delivery measure. Three consecutive delivery test results below the threshold, deteriorating each time. The Local Plan is intended to address this but has not yet been adopted, and its evidence base predates the two most recent results.", "whatHappensNext": "Local Plan hearing sessions, then Main Modifications consultation expected winter 2026/27 and the inspectors' report in spring 2027. The next Housing Delivery Test measurement is the key number to watch.", "evidenceGaps": [ "No published explanation for the two single-year delivery figures of 9 and 10 net additional homes.", "MHCLG's own published annual components do not sum exactly to its published totals in any of the three delivery-test years.", "No published decomposition of how much of the shortfall is physical constraint versus viability versus scheme timing.", "Ward-level HMO concentration is published only as a map image, so no per-ward rate can be shown.", "Temporary accommodation and homelessness figures are not yet included here — that research was not completed." ], "actionPlanIds": [ "clt-housing", "tipner-marine-jobs" ], "relatedLinks": [ { "label": "Development Plan — the actual sites", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan" }, { "label": "Suggested Action Plan — housing options", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/action-plan" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "MHCLG — Housing Delivery Test 2025 measurement", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-delivery-test-2025-measurement", "date": "2026-08-17" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Housing Background Paper", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Housing-Background-Paper-2025.pdf", "date": "2025-10" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — combined HMO public register", "href": "https://data.portsmouth.gov.uk/media/tables/combined-hmo-public-register-august-2026.csv", "date": "2026-08" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, { "slug": "send-and-school-absence", "accountability": { "primary": "Portsmouth City Council, with schools and academy trusts", "nextDecision": "The 2026 EHC plan timeliness figures, and the DSG position before the March 2028 override ends", "residentsCanDo": "Appeal an EHC plan decision to the SEND Tribunal; raise systemic delay with the council and your MP" }, "title": "SEND demand and school absence", "summary": "EHC plans maintained by Portsmouth are up 73% in seven years. Severe absence — missing at least half of school — has more than doubled since 2018/19 and is still rising. Portsmouth suspends pupils at around half again the England rate.", "category": "Education", "attention": "Medium", "attentionBasis": "SEND is raised persistently by parents and appears in the council's own budget documents as a named pressure, but it receives far less public and media attention than the more visible environmental issues.", "scale": "High", "scaleBasis": "2,616 children and young people hold an EHC plan maintained by Portsmouth. 934 pupils were severely absent in 2024/25. 4,650 suspensions were issued in a single year. These are large numbers against a school population of about 29,600.", "trend": "Worsening", "trendBasis": "Severe absence has risen every year since 2018/19, from 1.69% to 3.55%, and the gap to England has widened. Suspensions have risen from 6.95 to 16.58 per 100 pupils since 2015/16. EHC plan numbers are accelerating. The one improving measure is EHCP timeliness, recovering from 1.6% to 42.9%.", "whyItsHere": "Raised consistently by parents and SEND campaigners, and named by the council itself as one of its three main budget pressures alongside social care and homelessness.", "whatHappened": "Portsmouth maintained 2,616 EHC plans in January 2026, up from 1,513 in 2019. The proportion of new plans issued within the statutory 20 weeks fell from 97% in 2021 to 1.6% in 2023, and has since recovered to 42.9% in 2025 — just below the England average of 45.5%. Severe absence reached 3.55% of pupils in 2024/25 against 2.39% in England. Suspensions ran at 16.58 per 100 pupils against 10.88 in England, though permanent exclusions were BELOW the England rate.", "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "EHC plans maintained", "value": "2,616", "period": "January 2026", "note": "Up 72.9% since 2019" }, { "label": "EHC plans within 20 weeks", "value": "42.9%", "period": "2025", "note": "Was 1.6% in 2023; England 45.5%" }, { "label": "Severely absent pupils", "value": "3.55%", "period": "2024/25", "note": "934 children; England 2.39%" }, { "label": "Suspensions per 100 pupils", "value": "16.58", "period": "2024/25", "note": "England 10.88" } ], "where": "Not published below local authority level. School-level data exists but attributing a school's intake to a ward would be misleading, so no sub-city breakdown is shown.", "whyItMatters": "Severe absence and suspension are among the strongest predictors of poor outcomes later. EHC plan delays leave children without support they have a statutory right to. And SEND is a direct financial pressure: Portsmouth is budgeting its first Dedicated Schools Grant deficit in 2026/27, with the statutory override protecting councils from those deficits ending in March 2028.", "whyItHappens": "Rising EHC plan demand is a national phenomenon — England's caseload rose 103% over the same period, faster than Portsmouth's 73%. Beyond that, the published data does not establish causes. No explanation has been published for the 2023 collapse in EHCP timeliness, and none is inferred here.", "whoControlsIt": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Statutory duty to assess and issue EHC plans, and to promote school attendance" }, { "body": "Schools and multi-academy trusts", "role": "Day-to-day attendance, behaviour and suspension decisions — most are academies, not council-run" }, { "body": "Department for Education", "role": "The SEND system, the high-needs funding block, and the statutory override ending March 2028" } ], "whatsBeingDone": "EHCP timeliness has recovered substantially, from 1.6% in 2023 to 42.9% in 2025, and average time to issue fell from 43.9 weeks to 25.6 — now level with England. The council's stated approach on the DSG is to work towards no overall deficit by the end of March 2028, in consultation with the Schools Forum.", "cost": "The Dedicated Schools Grant high-needs position is the measurable cost. Portsmouth held a DSG surplus of £8.0m at March 2026 but is budgeting a £4.5m deficit for 2026/27.", "hasItWorked": "Partly. EHCP timeliness has genuinely recovered. Severe absence and suspensions have not — both are still rising and both remain well above England.", "whatHappensNext": "The 2026 EHCP timeliness figures, the next absence release, and the DSG position as the March 2028 statutory override approaches.", "evidenceGaps": [ "No published explanation for the 2023 collapse in EHCP timeliness — anyone citing it should check the DfE release's local-authority footnotes first.", "DfE publishes its disadvantage gap index for England only, so Portsmouth's gap can only be derived by subtracting two published figures.", "No sub-city breakdown of absence, suspension or SEND is published.", "Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because that cohort's KS2 baseline was cancelled in 2020." ], "actionPlanIds": [ "pupil-premium" ], "relatedLinks": [ { "label": "Council & Money — the SEND budget position", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/council" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "DfE — Education, health and care plans, 2026", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans/2026", "date": "2026-06-25" }, { "name": "DfE — Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england/2024-25", "date": "2026-03-26" }, { "name": "DfE — Suspensions and permanent exclusions, 2024/25", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/suspensions-and-permanent-exclusions-in-england/2024-25", "date": "2026-07-09" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, { "slug": "health-access", "accountability": { "primary": "NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board", "nextDecision": "The 2025/26 NHS dental statistics and the next GP workforce release", "residentsCanDo": "Complaints go to the provider first, then the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; funding and workforce are MP matters" }, "title": "Getting seen: GPs, dentists and preventable death", "summary": "Portsmouth has run a fifth below England on GP staffing for years, fewer than three in ten adults have seen an NHS dentist, and under-75 deaths from preventable causes are 27% above the England rate — worse in every period on record.", "category": "Health", "attention": "High", "attentionBasis": "GP and dentist access is among the most consistently raised issues by residents nationally and locally, and appears in the council's own Big Portsmouth Survey.", "scale": "Very high", "scaleBasis": "Affects the whole population. Preventable mortality is 27% above England and has been significantly worse in every measured period. Healthy life expectancy for men is 3.4 years below England and has fallen about four years since 2018–20.", "trend": "Improving", "trendBasis": "Narrowly, and from a low base. GP staffing has recovered from its September 2023 low of 32.7 per 100,000 to 36.4, and preventable mortality fell in the most recent period from 206.7 to 192.1. Both remain well below and above England respectively.", "whyItsHere": "Consistently among the most raised issues by residents, and the subject of the council's own current survey work on local priorities.", "whatHappened": "Fully-qualified GP FTE per 100,000 registered patients in Portsmouth fell from 40.5 in September 2019 to 32.7 in September 2023, recovering to 36.4 by June 2026 — against an England figure of 45.7. NHS dentistry access is 30.2% of adults seen in 24 months to March 2026 against 40.0% nationally, and 50.2% of children (seen in 12 months) against 60.0%. Under-75 preventable mortality was 192.1 per 100,000 in 2022–24 against 151.2 in England. Adult obesity reached 32.3% against 26.6%.", "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "GPs per 100,000 patients", "value": "36.4", "period": "June 2026", "note": "England 45.7" }, { "label": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist", "value": "30.2%", "period": "to March 2026", "note": "England 40.0%" }, { "label": "Preventable deaths per 100,000", "value": "192.1", "period": "2022–24", "note": "England 151.2 — 27% higher" }, { "label": "Healthy life expectancy, men", "value": "57.5 years", "period": "2022–24", "note": "England 60.9" } ], "where": "Not published below local authority level. Portsmouth's NHS sub-ICB is coterminous with the city, which is why GP figures are genuinely local — but no ward or constituency breakdown exists.", "whyItMatters": "Access to primary care determines whether conditions are caught early or become emergencies. Preventable mortality is, by definition, deaths that need not have happened. And the healthy-life-expectancy gap is far larger than the lifespan gap — Portsmouth residents do not just die a little earlier, they spend markedly more of their lives in poor health.", "whyItHappens": "The published data establishes the gaps but not their causes. Deprivation, the age and structure of the local population, workforce recruitment and NHS contract delivery are all plausible contributors; none is quantified in these sources, and no decomposition is attempted here.", "whoControlsIt": [ { "body": "NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB", "role": "Commissions primary care, community and dental services — the main local lever" }, { "body": "Individual GP practices and dental contractors", "role": "Independent contractors, not NHS-managed staff" }, { "body": "Department of Health and Social Care", "role": "National workforce planning, the GP and dental contracts, and funding" }, { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Public health functions — prevention, smoking, obesity, healthy weight" } ], "whatsBeingDone": "GP staffing has partially recovered since 2023. Dental contract delivery in Portsmouth rose from around 55–66% of contracted activity in 2024/25 towards 71–75% in 2025/26, though still below England's 89%. No Portsmouth-specific published evaluation of either recovery exists.", "cost": "Not separately published for Portsmouth.", "hasItWorked": "Partially. GP numbers and preventable mortality both moved the right way in the most recent period, and dental contract delivery is improving. None has closed the gap to England.", "whatHappensNext": "NHS Dental Statistics for 2025/26 were due at the end of August 2026 and will refresh the dentistry figures with deprivation breakdowns. The next GP workforce and OHID mortality releases follow.", "evidenceGaps": [ "No sub-city breakdown of any health measure is published.", "The GP Patient Survey no longer publishes results at Portsmouth's sub-ICB level — 2025 and 2026 exist only at ICB, PCN and practice level.", "Adult obesity and smoking come from a Portsmouth sample of only ~320–390 respondents, so confidence intervals are wide and smoking never registers as significantly different from England either way.", "Portsmouth has not returned a value on the 5-year-old dental decay survey since 2014/15.", "No published decomposition of what drives the preventable mortality gap." ], "actionPlanIds": [ "health-tech-cluster" ], "relatedLinks": [ { "label": "Council & Money — public health sits in the council budget", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/council" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "NHS England — General Practice Workforce, June 2026", "href": "https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services/30-june-2026", "date": "2026-07-23" }, { "name": "NHS BSA — NHS Dental Statistics for England 2024/25", "href": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202425", "date": "2025-08-28" }, { "name": "OHID Fingertips — public health profiles", "href": "https://fingertips.phe.org.uk", "date": "2026" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, { "slug": "jobs-and-pay", "accountability": { "primary": "Private employers and investors", "nextDecision": "The 2026 earnings survey, and business survival rates for the 2020 cohort", "residentsCanDo": "Little direct lever — this is where council economic development and MP advocacy matter most" }, "title": "Jobs, pay and business survival", "summary": "Jobs located in Portsmouth pay more than Portsmouth residents earn. The city has less than half England's share of professional and scientific jobs, more than a quarter of its jobs are public sector, and businesses started here are markedly less likely to reach five years.", "category": "Money", "attention": "Medium", "attentionBasis": "Cost of living is raised constantly; the structure of the local economy behind it much less so. The council's own Big Portsmouth Survey asks about cost of living directly.", "scale": "High", "scaleBasis": "Affects roughly 104,000 employee jobs and every working household. Portsmouth resident earnings have been below England in every year on record, and the five-year business survival gap is more than eight percentage points.", "trend": "Stable", "trendBasis": "Resident earnings have risen broadly in line with England without closing the gap. The public-sector share has risen steadily while private-sector jobs have fallen since 2018. Business births have fallen from 1,205 to 870 since 2019.", "whyItsHere": "Underlies the cost-of-living concerns raised persistently by residents, and answers a question repeatedly asked locally: where are the high-value jobs?", "whatHappened": "In 2025, median full-time pay for jobs located in Portsmouth was £38,815 while median pay for Portsmouth residents was £36,022 — the city hosts better-paid jobs than its residents hold. Professional, scientific and technical work makes up 4.3% of Portsmouth employee jobs against 9.6% across England. Public sector jobs rose to 26.9% of the total against 17.9% nationally, while private-sector employee jobs fell 8.4% from their 2018 peak. Of businesses born in Portsmouth in 2019, 29.9% survived five years against 38.3% in England.", "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "Resident median pay", "value": "£36,022", "period": "2025 (provisional)", "note": "England £39,243" }, { "label": "Pay for jobs IN the city", "value": "£38,815", "period": "2025", "note": "£2,793 above resident pay" }, { "label": "Professional & scientific jobs", "value": "4.3%", "period": "2024", "note": "England 9.6% — the biggest gap" }, { "label": "Five-year business survival", "value": "29.9%", "period": "2019 cohort", "note": "England 38.3%" } ], "where": "Not published below local authority level.", "whyItMatters": "The resident/workplace pay gap means the benefit of Portsmouth's better-paid jobs partly leaves the city each evening. The professional-services deficit is the concrete form of the \"where are the high-value jobs?\" question. And a business survival rate eight points below England compounds: fewer firms reach the size at which they employ significant numbers.", "whyItHappens": "The published data establishes the pattern but not its cause. On business survival it does rule one thing out: this is not a generic naval-city or port-city effect, because Plymouth — comparable in size and also a naval city — is ABOVE the England average at 39.8%. Southampton is lower than Portsmouth at 26.2%, so there may be a south-coast pattern, but no published analysis explains it.", "whoControlsIt": [ { "body": "Private employers and investors", "role": "Create the great majority of jobs — the decisive actor" }, { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Economic development, planning for employment land, skills partnerships" }, { "body": "University of Portsmouth", "role": "Graduate supply and business support; retention is roughly 19% by the Council's own estimate" }, { "body": "UK Government", "role": "Tax, business support, Freeport designations, defence procurement" } ], "whatsBeingDone": "Solent Freeport tax and customs site designations, the university's Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and incubation activity, and the Local Plan's employment land allocations at Tipner West. None has a published evaluation showing an effect on these measures.", "cost": "Not applicable as a single figure.", "hasItWorked": "Not on these measures. Resident pay remains below England, the professional-services share has not closed, and business births and survival have both weakened.", "whatHappensNext": "The 2026 ASHE release, and business demography figures maturing enough to give a five-year survival rate for the 2020 and 2021 cohorts.", "evidenceGaps": [ "ONS has not accredited Labour Force Survey and Annual Population Survey estimates as official statistics since October 2023, so recent local employment and inactivity rates carry wide margins and should not be read as precise.", "No published explanation for the business survival gap, or for why it opens at year three rather than year one.", "Business births and deaths are only published from 2019 in the current edition; earlier years require archived releases.", "Long-term sickness inactivity for Portsmouth carries margins of ±8 to ±12 percentage points, so local year-on-year movement is not interpretable." ], "actionPlanIds": [ "apprenticeship-hub", "tipner-marine-jobs" ], "relatedLinks": [ { "label": "Strengths & Pressures — the economic assets", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/swot" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings via Nomis", "href": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/ashe", "date": "2025-11-03" }, { "name": "ONS Business Register and Employment Survey via Nomis", "href": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/newbrespub", "date": "2025-10-28" }, { "name": "ONS Business Demography reference tables", "href": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/businessdemographyreferencetable", "date": "2025-11-20" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, { "slug": "air-quality-and-transport", "accountability": { "primary": "Portsmouth City Council, under government direction", "nextDecision": "States 3 and 4 of the compliance assessment, end 2026", "residentsCanDo": "Respond to the Clean Air Strategy consultation; the council publishes air quality reports on request" }, "title": "Air quality and how Portsmouth moves", "summary": "Nitrogen dioxide has more than halved since 2001 and bus use has fully recovered past pre-pandemic levels. Portsmouth passed the government's State 2 Assessment in January 2026 with no exceedances at any of the twelve assessed locations, though three remain classed as at risk — and the Clean Air Zone cannot be credited for the improvement.", "category": "Environment", "attention": "Medium", "attentionBasis": "The Clean Air Zone generated significant debate at launch. Air quality itself is raised less often than sewage or fly-tipping despite affecting far more people.", "scale": "High", "scaleBasis": "Air pollution affects the whole population continuously. OHID attributes roughly 4.9% of Portsmouth adult mortality to particulate pollution — down from 9.1% in 2018, but still substantial.", "trend": "Improving", "trendBasis": "NO2 at the urban background monitor fell from 27 µg/m³ in 2001 to 12 in 2025, and at the roadside monitor from 31 in 2018 to 19. Portsmouth moved from three streets in breach at the 2023 assessment to none at the 2026 assessment. Bus journeys per head have returned above their pre-pandemic level while England's have not.", "whyItsHere": "The Clean Air Zone remains a live local argument, and air quality connects directly to the health outcomes covered separately.", "whatHappened": "NO2 at Portsmouth's urban background monitor fell from 27 µg/m³ (2001) to 12 (2025); the roadside monitor on Anglesea Road fell from 31 (2018) to 19 (2025). The 200 µg/m³ hourly objective has never been breached at either site. On 2023 data, Alfred Road (43.7) and Hope Street (42.5) exceeded the 40.49 limit value; both fell on 2024 data, and Portsmouth passed the government's State 2 Assessment in January 2026 with no exceedances at any of twelve assessed locations, having failed State 1 in November 2023 with three. Five Air Quality Management Areas declared in 2005 remain in force, none revoked following compliance. Bus journeys reached 11.9 million in the year to March 2025, above the 11.0 million of 2019.", "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "NO2, urban background", "value": "12 µg/m³", "period": "2025", "note": "Was 27 in 2001" }, { "label": "Streets above the limit", "value": "0", "period": "State 2 Assessment, Jan 2026", "note": "Was 3 at State 1 in Nov 2023" }, { "label": "Bus journeys", "value": "11.9m", "period": "Year to March 2025", "note": "Above the 11.0m of 2019" }, { "label": "Households with no car", "value": "30.3%", "period": "Census 2021", "note": "England 23.5%" } ], "where": "Five Air Quality Management Areas remain in force: Fratton Road to London Road; central Portsmouth; Milton Road to Eastern Road; Marketway to Lake Road to the M275; and The Hard to Queen Street.", "whyItMatters": "Nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates are linked to respiratory and cardiovascular harm. Portsmouth's density and island geography also make active travel unusually practical — 12.7% walk to work against 7.6% nationally, and 5.2% cycle against 2.1%.", "whyItHappens": "The council's own commissioned study attributes 51–53% of NO2 at the exceedance sites to road traffic, of which diesel cars are 58–59% and diesel vans a further 18–20%. Cars registered in Portsmouth rose 17% between 2011 and 2021 against 5% nationally.", "whoControlsIt": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Operates the Clean Air Zone, declares Air Quality Management Areas, sets local transport policy" }, { "body": "UK Government (Defra / JAQU)", "role": "Sets limit values and issued the Ministerial Direction requiring the zone" }, { "body": "Vehicle owners and fleet operators", "role": "Fleet turnover is what actually drives most of the reduction" }, { "body": "Bus operators", "role": "Commercial services account for the great majority of bus mileage" } ], "whatsBeingDone": "A Class B Clean Air Zone has operated since 29 November 2021, charging non-compliant taxis, HGVs, buses and coaches — but not private cars or vans. The council's draft Clean Air Strategy 2025–2040 sets interim NO2 targets of 30 µg/m³ by 2030 and 20 by 2035, against a WHO guideline of 10.", "cost": "Not published as a single figure for the zone.", "hasItWorked": "Air quality has improved substantially — but the Clean Air Zone cannot be credited for it. The council's own study records that traffic on the exceedance roads has NOT fallen since the zone opened, that under 1% of entering vehicles are chargeable, and that there is \"limited scope for further NO2 benefits\". The largest single fall at the roadside monitor was 2019 to 2020, a year before the zone launched.", "whatHappensNext": "States 3 and 4 of the government assessment are due at the end of 2026. If Portsmouth passes both, the council plans to decommission the Clean Air Zone in 2027 at the earliest. Three locations — including the former Alfred Road and Hope Street exceedance sites — remain classed as at risk.", "evidenceGaps": [ "Portsmouth City Council does not publish its Air Quality Annual Status Reports on its own site. Four full reports are public via committee papers or a planning examination (2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020 editions); for the other years only a short covering report exists, and the full documents run past 400 pages. The 2011–2024 diffusion-tube trend across 27 sites exists only as a chart image.", "One year is simply missing: the 2022 report, covering 2021 data, was never submitted to Defra — the council states this itself. Nothing has been published for 2025 data.", "The background monitor's 2020 and 2021 readings fall below the 75% data-capture threshold and are omitted rather than plotted.", "PM10 measurement methods changed twice over the series, so it is not one continuously comparable record.", "DfT states that local-authority traffic estimates are not accredited official statistics.", "The latest walking and cycling survey data for Portsmouth covers only to November 2023.", "One continuous-analyser reading (37.70 µg/m³ at Alfred Road) is published by the council as both its 2023 and its 2024 value in two different committee reports. The conflict is unresolved and the underlying Annual Status Reports are not published." ], "actionPlanIds": [ "cycle-circuit" ], "relatedLinks": [ { "label": "Health — what the air contributes to", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/health-access" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "Defra UK-AIR — annual and exceedance statistics", "href": "https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/exceedance", "date": "2026" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council / AtkinsRéalis — Air Quality Targeted Feasibility Study", "href": "https://cleanerairportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Portsmouth_AQ_TFS_Exec_Summary_V10.1_Accessible_Version_-_White.pdf", "date": "2024-12" }, { "name": "DfT — Bus statistics BUS01", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus01-local-bus-passenger-journeys", "date": "2026-03-24" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, { "slug": "fly-tipping", "accountability": { "primary": "Portsmouth City Council", "nextDecision": "The 2025/26 Defra figures, and the 2027 waste-carrier licensing reform", "residentsCanDo": "Report incidents to the council; check any waste carrier you pay on the free national register before handing over waste" }, "title": "Fly-tipping", "summary": "Recorded incidents nearly doubled to 1,092 in 2023/24, then fell to 937 in 2024/25 — and collected tonnage fell 23.8% over the same kind of period. The strongest evidence points at cost and convenience in legal disposal, not indifference.", "category": "Environment", "attention": "High", "attentionBasis": "Campaigned on by both Portsmouth MPs, raised repeatedly by residents and councillors, and a recurring subject of local media coverage and community social media.", "scale": "Moderate", "scaleBasis": "Real, visible and damaging to amenity, and concentrated in specific streets in Fratton and Central Southsea. But the measured scale is materially smaller than housing pressure, child poverty or NHS access, and Portsmouth records no large-scale fly-tipping at all — zero tipper-lorry-load incidents in each of the last four years. Residents also rate the city 1st of 111 local authorities for road cleanliness (NHT survey, 2024).", "trend": "Improving", "trendBasis": "Two independent measures moved the same way: recorded incidents fell from 1,092 (2023/24) to 937 (2024/25), and Portsmouth City Council's own collected tonnage fell 23.8% between January–August 2024 and the same period in 2025.", "whyItsHere": "One of the highest-salience local issues: both MPs campaign on it publicly, and it recurs constantly in resident discussion and local reporting.", "whatHappened": "Portsmouth recorded 525 fly-tipping incidents in 2021/22, 751 in 2022/23, 1,092 in 2023/24 and 937 in 2024/25 (Defra). Portsmouth City Council separately measured collected fly-tipped tonnage of 106.1 tonnes in January–August 2024 against 80.8 tonnes in the same months of 2025 — a fall of 23.8%. The council attributes the improvement partly to hotspot patrols, better investigations, cameras, improved Colas/council communication and work with the University on student move-out waste.", "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "Recorded incidents", "value": "937", "period": "2024/25 (Defra)", "note": "Down 14.2% — while England rose 9.1%" }, { "label": "Collected tonnage", "value": "−23.8%", "period": "Jan–Aug 2025 vs Jan–Aug 2024", "note": "80.8t against 106.1t" }, { "label": "Fly-tipping fines issued", "value": "6", "period": "2024/25", "note": "Plus 32 household duty-of-care notices" }, { "label": "Resident satisfaction, road cleanliness", "value": "1st of 111", "period": "NHT survey 2024" } ], "where": "Council scrutiny work identifies shared housing and HMOs, and specific hotspots, as recurring locations — with access to the Port Solent recycling centre named as a barrier for some residents.", "whyItMatters": "Fly-tipping degrades the places people live, costs public money to clear, can carry fire and health risks, and shifts the cost of disposal from whoever produced the waste onto the council, the taxpayer or a private landowner.", "whyItHappens": "The research describes a system rather than a single cause. Legal disposal carries cost and friction: 77% say cost matters to their disposal decisions and 81% say ease matters; 56% of recycling-centre users reported difficulty and 40% of bulky-waste collection users did. Notably, 58% of 226 councils surveyed said charging at recycling centres contributed to fly-tipping. A separate route involves no dumping by the resident at all — paying an unlicensed carrier who then dumps it — and public understanding of that market is poor: only 57% knew carriers must be licensed and only 11% knew the householder can themselves be convicted.", "whoControlsIt": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Clearance, enforcement, recycling centre and bulky-waste policy — the main operational lever" }, { "body": "UK Government (Defra)", "role": "Penalty levels and the waste-carrier licensing regime, with reform due in 2027" }, { "body": "Environment Agency", "role": "Leads on large-scale and organised waste crime rather than individual incidents" }, { "body": "Residents and waste producers", "role": "Choosing a licensed carrier — checkable free on the public register" } ], "whatsBeingDone": "Portsmouth has concentrated patrols on hotspots, improved investigations, deployed cameras, improved communication between Colas and the council, and worked with the University on student move-out waste. Nationally, government has abolished charges for small quantities of household DIY waste at recycling centres.", "cost": "Portsmouth's own clearance cost is not separately published. England-wide, Defra records £19.3m for 2024/25 — covering only the largest 4% of incidents.", "hasItWorked": "On the available evidence, yes — at least partly. Incidents fell 14% and collected tonnage fell 23.8%. Two independent measures moving together is more persuasive than either alone, since incident counts are sensitive to how readily people report. Whether the fall is sustained, and how much is attributable to the interventions rather than to reporting changes, is not yet established.", "whatHappensNext": "The 2025/26 Defra figures, and whether the tonnage reduction holds. The 2027 waste-carrier licensing reform is the main national change ahead.", "evidenceGaps": [ "Portsmouth's own clearance cost is not separately published — Defra discontinued standard unit costs from 2017/18.", "Sub-city geography has been published exactly once: a top-30 road table covering April–September 2024 inside a 2025 scrutiny review. There is no recurring release, no dataset and no map — and that table counts \"unauthorised waste\", which is broader than fly-tipping.", "The council reports 258 littering/fly-tipping fines since January 2025 but has never published the split between the two offences, nor an end date for that window.", "The split between household fly-tipping and waste dumped by unlicensed commercial carriers in Portsmouth specifically is not published — and interventions differ sharply depending on which dominates.", "How much of the recent fall is attributable to enforcement rather than to changes in reporting or recording is not established." ], "actionPlanIds": [ "waste-carrier-awareness" ], "relatedLinks": [ { "label": "Root causes and what reduces it", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/community" }, { "label": "Is fly-tipping getting worse? — claim tested", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/claims-vs-evidence" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "Defra — Fly-tipping statistics for England, 2024 to 2025", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england-2024-to-2025", "date": "2026-02-25" }, { "name": "NatCen Social Research for Defra — Fly-tipping: drivers, deterrents and impacts", "href": "https://natcen.ac.uk/publications/fly-tipping-drivers-deterrents-and-impacts", "date": "2022-06-06" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" } ] }, "portsmouth-levelling-up": { "LUF_ALLOCATIONS": [ { "scheme": "Portsmouth International Port — cruise & ferry terminal", "grant": 11250000, "spentToMar2025": 11250000, "status": "Complete", "confidence": "Well-sourced", "detail": "The only component with an independently published figure: Portsmouth International Port (council-owned) states on its own site that the terminal was \"made possible through £11.25m of Levelling Up funding\", matching the capital programme exactly. The terminal opened to its first passengers on 20 August 2023 after 18 months' construction. The council's 2024/25 accounts describe it as \"now fully operational, managing an additional 250,000 passengers a year.\"" }, { "scheme": "Linear Park (Hilsea) — including Hilsea Lido refurbishment", "grant": 7750000, "spentToMar2025": 4854293, "status": "Underway", "confidence": "Reconstructed from capital programme", "detail": "The grant-funded programme contains a single scheme called \"Linear Park\". There is no separate Hilsea Lido grant line — so the council has never published how much of this went to the Lido versus the wider park. The Lido reopened on 2 May 2026; the council's own release names no cost figure. Spend slipped repeatedly (£5.59m planned for 2023/24 became £0.90m). The scheme total has since risen by £536,000 to £8,286,000 — but £486,000 of that increase is council money, not grant." }, { "scheme": "Investment in football facilities, including changing facilities", "grant": 1000000, "spentToMar2025": 1000000, "status": "Complete", "confidence": "Unverified as a LUF component", "detail": "This line carries the same LUHC funder code and is needed to make the three schemes sum to exactly £20m — but no public document connects it to the Levelling Up bid. A Full Council motion of 9 November 2021 listed the Lido, the linear park and the cruise terminal as the LUF projects, and mentioned a football bid separately. Treat its inclusion here as inference, not established fact." } ], "LUF_DELIVERY_GAP": { "promised": "The government's own January 2023 case study promised, among other things, children's water play, event space and spectator areas at Hilsea.", "delivered": "The Lido reopened with a refurbished pool, changing facilities, a sauna, and pop-up food and beverage. The contractor's own account records that the spectator stand was demolished. The council describes the opening as coming \"ahead of the full regeneration in the future\".", "framing": "No council or government document declares a descope, and no clawback appears anywhere in the record. This is a documented comparison between what was promised and what has so far opened — not an allegation of failure.", "delay": "Roughly a year. The contractor said in June 2024 that the Lido would be complete in spring 2025 and open for the summer season in time for its 90th anniversary; the council's 2024/25 annual report expected a 2025 opening. It opened on 2 May 2026." }, "LUF_HEADLINE": { "bidName": "Transforming the visitor economy", "round": "Levelling Up Fund Round 1", "announced": "27 October 2021 (Autumn Budget)", "amount": 20000000, "amountExact": "£20,000,000.00 — a round £20m, per the government's own published bidders list", "spendDeadline": "End of March 2028 (extended under MHCLG's 2025 funding reforms, which also removed the requirement to seek approval before moving funding between projects)" }, "LUF_SOURCES": [ { "name": "GOV.UK — Levelling Up Fund: first round successful bidders (data file)", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/levelling-up-fund-first-round-successful-bidders", "date": "2021-10-27" }, { "name": "GOV.UK — £20 million Levelling Up transformation for North Portsmouth (case study)", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/20-million-levelling-up-transformation-for-north-portsmouth", "date": "2023-01-17" }, { "name": "Portsmouth International Port — recent projects (£11.25m figure)", "href": "https://portsmouth-port.co.uk/about-us/sustainability/recent-projects/", "date": "current" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Hilsea Lido opening date announced", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/news/2026/portsmouths-iconic-hilsea-lido-opening-date-announced", "date": "2026-02-24" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Cabinet 10 Feb 2026, Appendices A–H (capital programme actuals)", "href": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/documents/s61499/Appendices%20A%20to%20H.pdf", "date": "2026-02-10" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Statement of Accounts 2024/25", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/statement-of-accounts-feb-2026-aa-accessible.pdf", "date": "2026-02" }, { "name": "North Portsea Coastal Scheme — update (moat dredging, Phase 5)", "href": "https://northportseacoastalscheme.org.uk/north-portsea-coastal-scheme-update-22-august-2025/", "date": "2025-08-22" } ], "LUF_TRANSPARENCY_NOTE": "Tracing this £20m is now unexpectedly hard. Portsmouth City Council's live news archive contains only 2026 items — the award announcements, the start-of-works releases and the completion release that carried a Hilsea cost figure all return 404. The council's dedicated Levelling Up Fund page redirects to a generic landing page. The live Lido and Hilsea Lines pages say only \"funded by the UK Government\", naming neither the fund nor any figure. The award is now traceable mainly through gov.uk, the council-owned port's own website, and capital-programme appendices. The definitive per-project split exists in the council's unpublished Memorandum of Understanding with MHCLG, which would require a Freedom of Information request to obtain.", "NOT_ACTUALLY_LUF": [ { "item": "Hilsea Lines moat restoration and dredging", "actualFunder": "North Portsea Coastal Scheme Phase 5 — a flood-defence scheme delivered by Coastal Partners with the Environment Agency and Portsmouth City Council", "detail": "The scheme's own site attributes it to \"new funding secured by our dedicated environment team for 2025/26\" and does not identify it as Levelling Up money anywhere. Dredging began in September 2025 and the wider sea-defence work runs to the end of 2026 — not, as sometimes stated, completed by December 2025." }, { "item": "Walking, cycling and bus improvements around Hilsea", "actualFunder": "Portsmouth's Bus Service Improvement Plan — a separate £53m programme", "detail": "Attributed by the council itself to the BSIP, not to the Levelling Up Fund." } ] }, "portsmouth-lgr": { "LGR_AGAINST": [ { "point": "The public preferred a different option", "detail": "Of 5,163 consultation responses, 63% were positive about five-unitary option 1, against 28% for option 1A — the option government chose. Named consultees, largely the councils and institutions themselves, split the other way, with 59% positive on 1A." }, { "point": "Opposition to the boundary changes specifically", "detail": "27% of respondents opposed the targeted boundary changes in option 1A, citing increased costs and doubts about overall financial viability." }, { "point": "Loss of a Portsmouth-specific voice", "detail": "Under the March 2026 decision Portsmouth would have ceased to have a council of its own for the first time since it became a county borough. Respondents raised the dilution of local identity and the risk of a smaller place being outvoted inside a larger authority." }, { "point": "Inherited debt and unproven savings", "detail": "Respondents questioned whether projected savings are achievable, and how debt held by the merging authorities is treated. No independent verification of the £63.9m figure has been identified." }, { "point": "Council tax harmonisation", "detail": "Merging authorities with different Band D levels raises the question of whose bill moves and in which direction. Portsmouth's Band D is £1,908 for 2026-27. No published analysis of the effect on Portsmouth bills has been identified." }, { "point": "Disruption while it happens", "detail": "Respondents raised service disruption during transition and potential job losses. Reorganisations also tend to slow or freeze other decisions while they proceed." } ], "LGR_DECISION": { "status": "withdrawn_under_review", "statusLabel": "Decision withdrawn; reorganisation under government review", "statusKicker": "Withdrawn — under review", "headline": "The decision to close Portsmouth City Council has been withdrawn", "withdrawn": "7 September 2026", "withdrawnBy": "The Secretary of State (MHCLG), following updated legal advice", "nextStep": "A government review of the whole reorganisation programme, led by the local government minister. No new decision or timetable has been published. The May 2027 local elections go ahead on existing council boundaries.", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-30", "decidedBy": "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government", "announced": "March 2026", "option": "5 unitary councils, option 1A — with targeted boundary changes around Portsmouth and Southampton", "vestingDay": "1 April 2028 (under the withdrawn decision)", "newAuthority": "A new South East unitary covering Fareham, Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth, plus three parishes of East Hampshire and one of Winchester", "whatHappensToPCC": "Portsmouth City Council would have been abolished as a principal authority and absorbed into the new unitary from 1 April 2028. On 7 September 2026 the Secretary of State withdrew that decision following updated legal advice. The council continues, the whole programme is under government review, and the May 2027 local elections go ahead on existing boundaries.", "consultation": { "opened": "19 November 2025", "closed": "11 January 2026", "responses": 5163 } }, "LGR_EVIDENCE_GAPS": [ "When the government's review of the reorganisation programme will conclude, and what options it will consider, is not published.", "No published estimate of transition cost for the South East unitary that was decided and then withdrawn.", "No published analysis of what reorganisation does to Portsmouth council tax bills.", "No independent verification of the £63.9m annual saving; it is the proposing councils' own figure.", "How debt held by each merging authority will be apportioned is not published.", "The outcome of Portsmouth City Council's judicial review is not confirmed here." ], "LGR_FOR": [ { "point": "Removes duplication between county and district", "detail": "One authority instead of two doing planning, waste and revenues in the same place. The joint business case puts the recurring saving at £63.9m a year across the area." }, { "point": "Matches how people actually live and travel", "detail": "Supporters argued the new boundaries better reflect travel-to-work areas and local economies than the current ones, which in the south-east of the county cut across a single conurbation." }, { "point": "Mid-sized rather than mega-sized", "detail": "Option 1A produces councils the proposers describe as large enough to be financially resilient while still small enough to be locally responsive — the stated reason for five authorities rather than fewer." }, { "point": "Strengthens the case for devolution", "detail": "Government has tied devolution deals to simplified local structures, so reorganisation is a precondition for further powers and funding coming to the area." } ], "LGR_PORTSMOUTH_POSITION": "Portsmouth City Council was one of seven councils — with Eastleigh, Fareham, Hart, Havant, Rushmoor and Southampton — that submitted the five-unitary proposal to government. Its cabinet subsequently voted in March 2026 to pursue judicial review of the process, with a claim deadline of 24 June 2026. Both facts are on the record and neither cancels the other: a council can propose a structure and still challenge how the decision on boundaries was reached. On 7 September 2026 the Secretary of State withdrew the March decision itself, following updated legal advice; what that means for the judicial review is not confirmed here.", "LGR_RATIONALE": { "statedProblem": "Hampshire currently runs a two-tier system across much of its area — a county council plus eleven districts and boroughs — alongside four separate unitary authorities. The proposers argue this duplicates back-office functions, splits responsibility for services residents see as one thing, and produces councils too small to be resilient.", "statedAim": "Simplify the structure, reduce duplicated administrative cost, reinvest the saving in frontline services, and keep decisions close enough to be locally accountable.", "claimedSaving": "At least £63.9m a year", "savingClaimedBy": "Eleven councils including Portsmouth, in a joint business case titled \"Close enough to be local, big enough to stay strong\", submitted 26 September 2025", "savingCaveat": "This is the proposers' own figure, not an independent assessment. No verified independent costing of the transition, or of the net saving after transition costs, has been identified." }, "LGR_SOURCES": [ { "name": "GOV.UK — Local government reorganisation: programme review and decisions withdrawal letter to council leaders", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-reorganisation-programme-review-and-decisions-withdrawal-letter-to-council-leaders", "date": "2026-09-07" }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Review of local government reorganisation launched", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/review-of-local-government-reorganisation-launched", "date": "2026-09-07" }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton: local government reorganisation (collection)", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton-local-government-reorganisation", "date": "2026-09-07" }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Local government reorganisation in Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton: consultation outcome", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/local-government-reorganisation-in-hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton", "date": "2026-03" }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Summary and analysis of consultation responses", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/local-government-reorganisation-in-hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton/outcome/hampshire-isle-of-wight-portsmouth-and-southampton-summary-and-analysis-of-consultation-responses", "date": "2026-05-06" }, { "name": "Fareham Borough Council — Local Government Reorganisation", "href": "https://www.fareham.gov.uk/local_government_reorganisation/intro.aspx", "date": "2026" } ] }, "portsmouth-mps": { "BOUNDARY_NOTE": "Portsmouth North and Portsmouth South were both re-formed on their existing 2010–2024 boundaries in the 2023 boundary review — they did not actually change shape, only their internal reference ID did. The 2019 comparison below is therefore a genuine like-for-like result, not a notional estimate (Commons Library, electionresults.parliament.uk).", "MPS_DISCLAIMER": "This is not a scorecard or a ranking. It sets out, with sources, what each MP has actually done, what official Parliament data and TheyWorkForYou's published voting-stance summaries record, and what their own websites emphasise — so residents can judge for themselves. \"Did not vote\" is never presented as \"absent\" — see Parliament's own explanation on each profile. For the full, unfiltered voting record, use the official Parliament link on each profile — this page is a starting point, not a replacement for it.", "NOT_VOTING_EXPLANATION": "Members may not vote in every division of the House. This can be due to a number of reasons; The Speaker and deputies cannot vote because of the impartiality of the chair, and Sinn Féin Members have an absentionist policy. A Member may wish to abstain, or have a procedural reason for not voting. Members can be absent carrying out consitituency or ministerial business, or be unable to attend for other reasons.", "PORTSMOUTH_MPS": [ { "slug": "amanda-martin", "name": "Amanda Martin", "constituency": "Portsmouth North", "party": "Labour", "mpSince": "4 July 2024 — the first time Portsmouth North has returned a Labour MP", "electorate2024": 70446, "turnout2024Pct": 59, "majority2024": 780, "result2024": [ { "name": "Amanda Martin", "party": "Labour", "votes": 14495, "sharePct": 34.8, "changePct": 7.9 }, { "name": "Penny Mordaunt", "party": "Conservative", "votes": 13715, "sharePct": 33, "changePct": -28.4 }, { "name": "Melvyn Todd", "party": "Reform UK", "votes": 8501, "sharePct": 20.4, "changePct": 20.4 }, { "name": "Simon Dodd", "party": "Liberal Democrat", "votes": 3031, "sharePct": 7.3, "changePct": -0.2 }, { "name": "Duncan Robinson", "party": "Green", "votes": 1851, "sharePct": 4.5, "changePct": 1.6 } ], "result2019Summary": "2019: Conservative hold (Penny Mordaunt), majority 15,780 (34.4pp), turnout 63.9% — Labour was a distant second on 27.0%. A 62-point swing in majority share over one Parliament.", "currentRoles": [ "Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education (since September 2025) — an unpaid, first-rung government role bound by collective responsibility, not a ministerial appointment.", "Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gibraltar (elected September 2024).", "No government, opposition or other official post recorded before this — a backbench MP for her first year." ], "committees": [ "Education Committee, 21 Oct 2024 – 28 Oct 2025", "Armed Forces Commissioner Bill, 4–12 Dec 2024", "Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, 15 Jan – 11 Feb 2025", "Court of Referees, 27 Feb 2025 – present", "Planning and Infrastructure Bill, 24 Apr – 22 May 2025", "Football Governance Bill [HL], 14 May – 17 Jun 2025", "Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill, 25 Jun 2025", "Norwich Livestock Market Bill [HL], 25 Jun 2025 – present", "General Cemetery Bill [HL], 16 Sep 2025 – present" ], "totalDivisionsRecorded": 483, "divisionsAsOf": "8 July 2026 (Division 53 of this Parliament)", "votingRecordNotes": [ { "theme": "UK Stat Pack's own grouping of TheyWorkForYou's stance summaries — not an official Parliament category", "note": "Parliament's own voting pages carry no policy-area taxonomy at all; the themes below are TheyWorkForYou's independent analysis, grouped here for readability." }, { "theme": "Overall pattern", "note": "TheyWorkForYou records 100% alignment with the Labour Party position across her most recent 304 votes, and no vote against the party majority — these are Labour-government positions she has supported, not personal breaks from the party line. Note the two vote counts on this page are not the same thing and should not be compared: Parliament records 483 divisions she has taken part in, while TheyWorkForYou scores only the subset it has categorised into a policy position. Neither number is wrong; they count different things." }, { "theme": "Housing", "note": "Consistently voted for more rights for tenants and regulation on landlords — relevant to a constituency with a large private-rented sector." }, { "theme": "Environment", "note": "Consistently voted for financial incentives for low-carbon electricity, increasing the windfall tax on oil and gas, and measures to prevent climate change." }, { "theme": "Welfare — a genuinely mixed record worth presenting in full", "note": "Voted for scrapping the two-child benefit limit (expands support for larger low-income families), but also voted for reducing the health-related top-up for new Universal Credit claims (a welfare reduction) — both real, recorded votes, worth reading together rather than in isolation." }, { "theme": "Tax", "note": "Voted for increases to income tax (in real terms), employer National Insurance, capital gains tax and VAT on private school fees — standard Labour Budget positions, not Portsmouth-specific." } ], "actionsTaken": [ "Wrote to the Leader of Portsmouth City Council and raised it in Parliament that the council's public HMO register was 15 months out of date, and cited council data implying a 12-year wait for a four-bedroom council home (June 2025).", "Sat on five Public Bill Committees plus two Private Bill committees, most with high attendance." ], "welcomedNotOriginated": [ "Publicised the government's national Waste Crime Action Plan and £45m Environment Agency funding on fly-tipping, framed around Portsmouth constituents' experience.", "Backed, jointly with Stephen Morgan MP, Portsmouth's bid for UK City of Culture 2029.", "Welcomed up to £3,994,500 of national Skills Bootcamps funding reaching City of Portsmouth College, and separate national schools-buildings funding reaching Portsmouth North schools." ], "ownSiteTone": "Her site (amandamartin.org.uk) frames three personal pledges — Champion, Visible, Trust — with a strong personal-connection narrative. Content leans toward republishing central government announcements with a local quote attached. The HMO register letter is the strongest example of substantive, locally-initiated content.", "whatsNotYetActioned": [ "No Portsmouth North-specific campaign found yet, personally led by her, on policing, NHS waiting times or targeted cost-of-living support.", "The City of Culture bid and skills/schools funding are framed as \"welcomed\", not \"secured by Amanda Martin\" — worth reading carefully." ], "contact": { "parliamentaryOffice": "House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA", "parliamentaryEmail": "amanda.martin.mp@parliament.uk" }, "officialProfile": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/5294/", "officialVotingRecord": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/5294/voting", "ownWebsite": "https://amandamartin.org.uk", "sources": [ { "name": "UK Parliament — Amanda Martin, official profile", "href": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/5294/", "date": "2026-08-26" }, { "name": "UK Parliament — voting record (483 divisions)", "href": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/5294/voting", "date": "2026-08-26" }, { "name": "UK Parliament — 2024 election result", "href": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/5294/electionresult", "date": "2026-08-26" }, { "name": "TheyWorkForYou — voting stance summaries", "href": "https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/26430/amanda_martin/portsmouth_north/votes", "date": "2026-08-26" }, { "name": "amandamartin.org.uk — HMO register letter", "href": "https://amandamartin.org.uk/amanda-martin-mp-demands-urgent-action-on-missing-hmo-register-in-portsmouth/", "date": "2025-06-23" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, { "slug": "stephen-morgan", "name": "Stephen Morgan", "constituency": "Portsmouth South", "party": "Labour", "mpSince": "8 June 2017 (re-elected 2019 and 2024)", "electorate2024": 73711, "turnout2024Pct": 52.8, "majority2024": 13155, "result2024": [ { "name": "Stephen Morgan", "party": "Labour", "votes": 18857, "sharePct": 48.4, "changePct": -0.2 }, { "name": "Mark Zimmer", "party": "Reform UK", "votes": 5702, "sharePct": 14.6, "changePct": 12.6 }, { "name": "Signe Biddle", "party": "Conservative", "votes": 5643, "sharePct": 14.5, "changePct": -22.8 }, { "name": "Charlie Murphy", "party": "Liberal Democrat", "votes": 4886, "sharePct": 12.6, "changePct": 1.1 }, { "name": "Elliott Lee", "party": "Green", "votes": 3107, "sharePct": 8, "changePct": 8 }, { "name": "Jacob Short", "party": "Portsmouth Independent Party", "votes": 733, "sharePct": 1.9, "changePct": 1.9 } ], "result2019Summary": "2019: Labour hold, majority 5,363 (11.3pp), turnout 63.9% — Morgan 48.6% to the Conservatives' 37.3%.", "currentRoles": [ "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Defra — farming, food, marine and fisheries (since 22 July 2026).", "Previously: Minister of State, Defra (12 Jun – 22 Jul 2026); Government Whip / Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury (7 Sep 2025 – 12 Jun 2026); Parliamentary Under-Secretary, DfE — early education (9 Jul 2024 – 7 Sep 2025).", "Pre-government (Opposition): Shadow Minister for Local Government/Communities (2019–20); Shadow Defence Minister (2020–21); Shadow Education Minister (2021–23); Shadow Transport Minister (2023–24)." ], "committees": [ "Public Accounts Committee, 20 Nov 2017 – 6 Nov 2019 — inquiries included Crossrail, NHS waiting times, housing-market planning and Brexit consultancy costs.", "Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill 2021, Feb–Apr 2021", "Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, 15 Jan – 11 Feb 2025", "Courts and Tribunals Bill, 18 Mar – 28 Apr 2026" ], "totalDivisionsRecorded": 1696, "divisionsAsOf": "15 July 2026 (Division 60 of this Parliament; total spans back to 2017)", "votingRecordNotes": [ { "theme": "UK Stat Pack's own grouping of TheyWorkForYou's stance summaries — not an official Parliament category", "note": "As with Portsmouth North, Parliament's own voting pages carry no policy-area taxonomy — these groupings are TheyWorkForYou's independent analysis." }, { "theme": "Environment / water", "note": "Consistently voted for improving environmental water quality — consistent with his long-running public campaigning on Southern Water sewage discharges since at least 2022." }, { "theme": "Welfare — same mixed pattern as his Portsmouth North colleague", "note": "Voted with the government (not among the 49 Labour MPs who rebelled) on the July 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which reduced a health-related top-up for new claimants — while also having voted, on the record, for scrapping the two-child benefit limit." }, { "theme": "Housing", "note": "Consistently voted for more rights for tenants and regulation on landlords, and for landlords bearing the cost of building-safety works." }, { "theme": "Immigration", "note": "Almost always voted against a stricter asylum system and against stronger enforcement of immigration rules — a UK-wide Home Office voting pattern, not a Portsmouth-specific one." } ], "actionsTaken": [ "A sustained, multi-year public campaign against Southern Water storm-overflow discharges — public statements since at least August 2022, public meetings, and reported engagement with the Environment Agency over Southsea East's \"poor\" bathing-water classification.", "Hosted public meetings on rising local fly-tipping, citing a specific example of commercial waste dumped behind North End businesses.", "Sat on the Public Accounts Committee for two years, plus three further bill committees since." ], "welcomedNotOriginated": [ "Welcomed the government's national Waste Crime Action Plan (March 2026).", "His own site cites figures for Naval Base investment and constituency funding (including a stated £20m for Landport and £62m in council funding over the parliament) that appear in his own press releases rather than an independently verifiable government announcement." ], "ownSiteTone": "His site (stephenmorgan.org.uk) is built around constituency accessibility — a physical high-street constituency office with published hours. His 2026 \"Report Back\" annual report is hope-framed but states no hard figures in the report text itself; specific pound amounts appear only in separate press releases.", "whatsNotYetActioned": [ "Despite years of sewage/water-quality campaigning as a backbencher, none of his ministerial roles since July 2024 have carried the water-regulation brief itself.", "No evidence found of him commenting publicly on the UTC Portsmouth–BAE Systems apprenticeship pipeline, despite HM Naval Base Portsmouth sitting inside his own constituency." ], "contact": { "parliamentaryOffice": "House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA", "parliamentaryEmail": "stephen.morgan.mp@parliament.uk", "constituencyOffice": "72 Albert Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 2SL", "constituencyOfficeHours": "Monday–Thursday, 10:00–11:30 and 14:00–15:45" }, "officialProfile": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/4653/", "officialVotingRecord": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/4653/voting", "ownWebsite": "https://www.stephenmorgan.org.uk", "sources": [ { "name": "UK Parliament — Stephen Morgan, official profile", "href": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/4653/", "date": "2026-08-26" }, { "name": "UK Parliament — voting record (1,696 divisions)", "href": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/4653/voting", "date": "2026-08-26" }, { "name": "UK Parliament — 2024 election result", "href": "https://members.parliament.uk/member/4653/electionresult", "date": "2026-08-26" }, { "name": "TheyWorkForYou — voting stance summaries", "href": "https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25658/stephen_morgan/portsmouth_south/votes", "date": "2026-08-26" }, { "name": "Farmers Weekly — Defra reshuffle, retained farming brief", "href": "https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/morgan-retains-farming-brief-after-defra-reshuffle", "date": "2026-07-30" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" } ] }, "portsmouth-outcomes": { "OUTCOMES": [ { "slug": "housing-delivery", "measure": "Homes delivered vs required, Housing Delivery Test", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "2022-23 to 2024-25", "domain": "Housing", "subhead": "Homes built as a share of the government's own target for Portsmouth", "headline": "Portsmouth is building a ninth of the homes it is required to", "latest": "11%", "latestPeriod": "Housing Delivery Test, 2025 measurement", "comparison": "Any council below 45% loses the presumption against unwanted development. Portsmouth is at 11%.", "previously": "The same test returned 26% in 2023 and 22% in 2024, so this is a three-year slide.", "direction": "down", "isGood": false, "whyItMatters": "Supply drives affordability and how many households end up in temporary accommodation. Below 45%, the council also loses ground when refusing applications it considers unsuitable.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/housing-supply", "source": "MHCLG", "linkLabel": "Why delivery collapsed, and what could change it" }, { "slug": "severe-absence", "measure": "Pupils missing 50%+ of sessions", "geography": "Portsmouth state-funded schools", "period": "2024/25", "domain": "Education", "subhead": "Pupils missing half or more of school, vs Southampton and England", "headline": "Severe school absence is still rising", "latest": "3.55%", "latestPeriod": "2024/25", "comparison": "England 2.39%", "previously": "1.69% in 2018/19 — more than doubled", "direction": "up", "isGood": false, "whyItMatters": "Severe absence means missing at least half of school. It is among the strongest predictors of poor outcomes later, and it is the one absence measure still worsening while others recover.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "source": "Department for Education", "linkLabel": "Absence trends, causes and the EBSA evidence gap" }, { "slug": "ehcp-timeliness", "measure": "New EHC plans issued within 20 weeks", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "Calendar 2025", "domain": "Education", "subhead": "EHC plans issued inside the 20-week legal deadline", "headline": "EHC plan timeliness has recovered sharply", "latest": "42.9%", "latestPeriod": "2025", "comparison": "England 45.5% — now almost level", "previously": "Fell to 1.6% in 2023 from 97% in 2021", "direction": "up", "isGood": true, "whyItMatters": "An EHC plan is a statutory right, and delay means a child goes without support they are legally entitled to. Average time to issue is back to 25.6 weeks, level with England.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "source": "Department for Education", "linkLabel": "The 2023 collapse, the recovery, and what is unexplained" }, { "slug": "gcse-attainment", "measure": "Pupils achieving grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE", "geography": "Portsmouth state-funded schools", "period": "2024/25", "domain": "Education", "subhead": "Pupils passing English and maths GCSE at grade 5+, vs Southampton and England", "headline": "Barely a third of pupils get a strong pass in English and maths", "latest": "35.2%", "latestPeriod": "2024/25 GCSE cohort", "comparison": "England reached 45.4% and Southampton 38.9%, so Portsmouth trails its closest comparable city by 3.7 percentage points.", "previously": "The rate was 34.4% in 2023/24 and 31.6% in 2022/23, so it is recovering slowly from a sharp fall.", "direction": "flat", "isGood": false, "whyItMatters": "This is 760 pupils out of a cohort of 2,157. The other 1,397 left without the grades that most A-level courses, apprenticeships and employers treat as the entry requirement. Portsmouth trailing England could be put down to deprivation; trailing Southampton, a city with a very similar profile, cannot be.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "source": "DfE", "linkLabel": "Full GCSE series, cohort sizes and the Southampton gap" }, { "slug": "ehcp-rate", "measure": "Pupils on a school roll holding an Education, Health and Care plan", "geography": "Portsmouth schools, all types", "period": "January 2026 school census", "domain": "Education", "subhead": "Share of Portsmouth pupils holding an EHC plan, vs Southampton and England", "headline": "One pupil in fourteen now has an EHC plan", "latest": "7.17%", "latestPeriod": "January 2026", "comparison": "Southampton is at 6.72% and England at 6.04%. Portsmouth sat below Southampton for six years and overtook it this year.", "previously": "The rate was 3.64% in 2018/19, so it has almost doubled in seven years.", "direction": "up", "isGood": null, "whyItMatters": "A rising EHCP rate is not straightforwardly good or bad. It can mean need is being identified and met, or that ordinary school-level support has thinned until a legal plan becomes the only reliable route to help. Both readings are consistent with this data, which is why no direction is claimed.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "source": "DfE", "linkLabel": "What a rising EHCP rate does and does not tell you" }, { "slug": "neet", "measure": "16 and 17 year olds not in education, employment or training", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "2026", "domain": "Skills", "subhead": "16-17 year olds not in education, employment or training", "headline": "Measured NEET fell, but the council lost track of far more", "latest": "5.5%", "latestPeriod": "2026", "comparison": "England stands at 3.4%. The widely-quoted Portsmouth figure of 11.5% adds in a further 6.05% of young people whose destination is simply not known.", "previously": "Measured NEET was 5.97% in 2025, so the number confirmed as NEET actually went down.", "direction": "down", "isGood": null, "whyItMatters": "Being unable to trace a 16 year old is a different problem from knowing they are NEET, and the two should not be added together and reported as one worsening figure. Tracking failure hides who needs help; measured NEET tells you who does.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/send-and-school-absence", "source": "DfE", "linkLabel": "Why the headline figure overstates the rise" }, { "slug": "fly-tipping", "measure": "Recorded fly-tipping incidents", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "2024/25", "domain": "Environment", "subhead": "Fly-tipping incidents recorded by the council each year", "headline": "Fly-tipping is falling here while it rises nationally", "latest": "937 incidents", "latestPeriod": "2024/25", "comparison": "Incidents of fly-tipping in Portsmouth have fallen by 14.2%, while incidents across England have risen by 9.1%.", "previously": "There were 1,092 incidents in 2023/24, and 525 in 2021/22 — so the fall is real but the level remains well above 2021.", "direction": "down", "isGood": true, "whyItMatters": "Collected tonnage fell 23.8% over a comparable period, so two independent measures agree. Portsmouth also ranks 1st of 111 authorities for resident satisfaction with road cleanliness.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/fly-tipping", "source": "Defra", "linkLabel": "Why people fly-tip, what deters it, and what it costs" }, { "slug": "bathing-water", "measure": "Bathing water classification", "geography": "Southsea East sampling point", "period": "2025 classification", "domain": "Environment", "subhead": "Environment Agency annual rating for Southsea East beach", "headline": "One Southsea bathing water is still rated Poor", "latest": "Poor", "latestPeriod": "Southsea East, 2025 classification", "comparison": "Eastney, the other Southsea site, is rated Good", "previously": "The Poor classification has persisted", "direction": "flat", "isGood": false, "whyItMatters": "Bathing water classification is a statutory public-health measure. A £170m investment programme is under way but no improvement in classification has yet been recorded.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/sewage-water-quality", "source": "Environment Agency", "linkLabel": "Classification history, pollution warnings and the sewage evidence" }, { "slug": "preventable-mortality", "measure": "Under-75 deaths from preventable causes, age-standardised", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "2022-24 pooled", "domain": "Health", "subhead": "Deaths before 75 that could have been avoided by treatment or prevention", "headline": "Preventable deaths run 27% above England", "latest": "192.1", "latestPeriod": "per 100,000, 2022–24", "comparison": "England 151.2 — Portsmouth worse in every period on record", "previously": "Peaked at 209.1 in 2020–22; now falling", "direction": "down", "isGood": true, "whyItMatters": "These are, by definition, deaths that need not have happened. The rate is falling, which is genuinely good — but it has been significantly worse than England in every measured period.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/health-access", "source": "OHID", "linkLabel": "What drives the gap and which services affect it" }, { "slug": "nhs-dentistry", "measure": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist in 24 months", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "To March 2026", "domain": "Health", "subhead": "Adults seen by an NHS dentist in the past two years", "headline": "Only three in ten adults see an NHS dentist", "latest": "30.2%", "latestPeriod": "seen in 24 months, to March 2026", "comparison": "England 40.0% — a 10-point gap", "previously": "28.4% a year earlier; 41.8% in March 2020", "direction": "up", "isGood": true, "whyItMatters": "Portsmouth dental contracts delivered only around 55–66% of contracted activity in 2024/25, against 84% nationally. For children the gap is wider still: 43.6% against 56.9%.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/health-access", "source": "NHS BSA", "linkLabel": "Access data, contract problems and possible remedies" }, { "slug": "resident-earnings", "measure": "Median gross annual pay, full-time residents", "geography": "Portsmouth residents (not workplaces)", "period": "2025 provisional", "domain": "Jobs & pay", "subhead": "What Portsmouth residents earn, against what jobs in the city pay", "headline": "The city's jobs pay more than its residents earn", "latest": "£36,022", "latestPeriod": "resident median full-time pay, 2025", "comparison": "Jobs located in Portsmouth pay £38,815 — England residents £39,243", "previously": "Resident pay has been below England in every year on record", "direction": "up", "isGood": null, "whyItMatters": "Pay is rising, but the gap to England has not closed. The city hosts better-paid jobs than its own residents hold — the opposite pattern to Brighton, where residents out-earn local jobs by commuting out.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/jobs-and-pay", "source": "ONS ASHE", "linkLabel": "The commuting gap and what would close it" }, { "slug": "air-quality", "measure": "NO2 annual mean", "geography": "Hilsea urban background monitor", "period": "2025", "domain": "Environment", "subhead": "Roadside nitrogen dioxide at the city's monitored streets", "headline": "Air quality has improved substantially", "latest": "12 µg/m³", "latestPeriod": "NO2, urban background, 2025", "comparison": "Down from 27 in 2001; zero streets in breach at the Jan 2026 assessment", "previously": "Roadside NO2 down from 31 (2018) to 19", "direction": "down", "isGood": true, "whyItMatters": "Portsmouth failed the government's 2023 compliance assessment with three streets in breach and passed the 2026 one with none. Mortality attributable to particulate pollution fell from 9.1% to 4.9%. The Clean Air Zone still cannot be credited — the council's own study finds traffic on those roads did not fall after it opened.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/air-quality-and-transport", "source": "Defra UK-AIR", "linkLabel": "The full compliance timeline and what the CAZ did and did not do" }, { "slug": "bus-use", "measure": "Local bus passenger journeys", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "Year to March 2025", "domain": "Transport", "subhead": "Bus journeys taken across Portsmouth each year", "headline": "Bus use has recovered past pre-pandemic levels", "latest": "11.9m journeys", "latestPeriod": "year to March 2025", "comparison": "Above the 11.0m of 2019 — England is still ~10% below", "previously": "Fell to 3.9m in 2021, fully recovered since", "direction": "up", "isGood": true, "whyItMatters": "Portsmouth is one of relatively few places where bus patronage has genuinely returned. Nearly a third of households have no car, so bus and active travel are not discretionary here.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/air-quality-and-transport", "source": "DfT", "linkLabel": "Patronage, funding and where the network still falls short" }, { "slug": "social-care-share", "measure": "Share of service budget on adult and children's social care", "geography": "Portsmouth City Council", "period": "2025/26 budget", "domain": "Council", "subhead": "Share of council service spending taken by adult and children's social care", "headline": "Social care is squeezing everything else", "latest": "~60p in every £1", "latestPeriod": "2025/26 service budgets", "comparison": "Children's services and adult social care combined", "previously": "Adults +64% and children +62% since 2017/18, against +49% for the whole budget", "direction": "up", "isGood": false, "whyItMatters": "Both are demand-led statutory duties growing faster than the budget as a whole, so the space for everything else — streets, parks, leisure, libraries — shrinks by arithmetic rather than by choice.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/council", "source": "Portsmouth City Council budget reports", "linkLabel": "Where the money goes and what is being squeezed" }, { "slug": "reserves", "measure": "General fund working balance", "geography": "Portsmouth City Council", "period": "2026/27 forecast", "domain": "Council", "subhead": "Usable general-fund reserves against the minimum the council must hold", "headline": "Reserves are flat, but the required floor keeps rising", "latest": "£22.3m", "latestPeriod": "2026/27 forecast", "comparison": "Against a minimum of £12m", "previously": "Balance broadly unchanged; the minimum has risen from £8m to £12m", "direction": "flat", "isGood": null, "whyItMatters": "The balance is not falling — but the council's own finance officer has twice raised the minimum considered safe, which is a statement about rising risk rather than about the money itself.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/council", "source": "Portsmouth City Council", "linkLabel": "Council finances, risk and the audit position" }, { "slug": "lgr", "measure": "Local government reorganisation status", "geography": "Portsmouth and neighbouring authorities", "period": "As at September 2026", "domain": "Governance", "subhead": "Status of the government-directed merger that would have abolished the city council", "headline": "The merger decision has been withdrawn", "latest": "Decision withdrawn", "latestPeriod": "7 Sept 2026 · programme under government review", "comparison": "Was to merge with Gosport, Fareham and Havant", "previously": "A structural change, not a measurable trend", "direction": "flat", "isGood": null, "whyItMatters": "Determines who runs every council service in Portsmouth and whether the city keeps a council of its own. The government review has no published timetable; May 2027 elections go ahead on existing boundaries.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/local-government-reorganisation", "source": "MHCLG", "linkLabel": "What was decided, what was withdrawn, and what happens next" }, { "slug": "recorded-crime-trend", "measure": "Police-recorded crime, all offences, year-on-year change", "geography": "Portsmouth community safety partnership area", "period": "Year ending March 2026 vs year ending March 2025", "domain": "Community safety", "subhead": "Change in police-recorded crime year on year", "headline": "Recorded crime is falling, slowly", "latest": "-1.4%", "latestPeriod": "year to March 2026 against year to March 2025", "comparison": "Sexual offences fell 5% over the same period. Knife crime is published only for the whole Hampshire force, where it was flat.", "previously": "Offences fell 3.9% over the two years to March 2026 (25,151 to 24,163)", "direction": "down", "isGood": true, "whyItMatters": "Portsmouth's rate is 112.7 offences per 1,000 population (year ending March 2026) against 83.4 for England — second highest of the 12 Hampshire Constabulary partnership areas, after Southampton (120.1). Elevated in absolute terms, but moving down, not up. Rates exclude fraud and use ONS mid-2024 population estimates, so part of the fall since 2024 reflects a larger population base.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/claims-vs-evidence", "source": "ONS Police Force Area data tables, year ending March 2026 (Tables C3, C4)", "linkLabel": "Recorded crime, perception, and what the survey shows" }, { "slug": "high-street-vacancy", "measure": "Vacant retail units, city centre", "geography": "Portsmouth city centre survey boundary", "period": "2024 retail study", "domain": "High streets", "subhead": "Empty retail units as a share of the city-centre survey area", "headline": "One in six city-centre units stands empty", "latest": "16.4%", "latestPeriod": "Retail Study Update 2024", "comparison": "Southsea Centre, by contrast, is 10.2% vacant against a national average of 14.0%.", "previously": "Monitoring recorded ~18% vacant frontages in August 2024", "direction": "flat", "isGood": false, "whyItMatters": "Vacancy is not uniform. Arundel Street had 11 of 30 units vacant — more than a third — while Southsea sits below the national rate. Rates depend entirely on the survey boundary, so city centre, Commercial Road and Southsea figures are not interchangeable.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/development-plan", "source": "Portsmouth City Council", "linkLabel": "Vacancy by street, causes and regeneration plans" }, { "slug": "cycling-to-work", "measure": "Residents in employment cycling to work", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "Census 2021", "domain": "Transport", "subhead": "Residents in work who travel by bicycle", "headline": "Portsmouth cycles at 2.5x the England rate", "latest": "5.2%", "latestPeriod": "Census 2021", "comparison": "Across England, 2.1% of workers cycle to work — Portsmouth is two and a half times that rate.", "previously": "The council's own plan identifies continuity and crossing gaps in the network", "direction": "up", "isGood": true, "whyItMatters": "Flat, compact and dense, Portsmouth is unusually well suited to cycling and already well above the national rate. The LCWIP sets out a planned network and identifies the need to improve continuity, crossings, bridges and connections between neighbourhoods.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/air-quality-and-transport", "source": "ONS / Portsmouth City Council LCWIP", "linkLabel": "The planned network, its gaps, and what completing it needs" }, { "slug": "hmo-stock", "measure": "Licensed houses in multiple occupation on the council register", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "August 2026", "domain": "Housing", "subhead": "Licensed houses in multiple occupation on the council register", "headline": "Over 3,100 licensed HMOs on the register", "latest": "3,158", "latestPeriod": "council licensing register, August 2026", "comparison": "Planning policy tests each new application against a 10% threshold within 50 metres — a decision rule, not a cap on the total.", "previously": "The threshold is a decision test, not a measure of existing stock", "direction": "flat", "isGood": null, "whyItMatters": "The 10%/50m planning threshold and the licensed stock are different measures with different denominators and must not be read against each other. No per-ward concentration rate is published in machine-readable form, so none is stated here.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/housing-supply", "source": "Portsmouth City Council", "linkLabel": "How HMO policy works and what the threshold actually does" }, { "slug": "asylum-accommodation", "measure": "Asylum seekers in receipt of Home Office support", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "September 2024", "domain": "Housing", "subhead": "People in Portsmouth receiving Home Office asylum support", "headline": "733 people supported, one hotel in use", "latest": "733", "latestPeriod": "receiving support, September 2024", "comparison": "Of those 733 people, 656 were in dispersal accommodation rather than hotels.", "previously": "No comparable earlier local figure is published", "direction": "flat", "isGood": null, "whyItMatters": "Accommodation is commissioned by the Home Office; the council states it has no control over individual placements. The Royal Beach Hotel is the only hotel in use, for family accommodation. No official source establishes a disproportionate share or any effect on local housing supply, so neither is claimed.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/claims-vs-evidence", "source": "Portsmouth City Council / Home Office", "linkLabel": "Who decides placements and what is genuinely known" }, { "slug": "defence-employment-share", "measure": "Public administration and defence share of employee jobs", "geography": "Portsmouth local authority", "period": "2024", "domain": "Economy", "subhead": "Share of city jobs in public administration and defence", "headline": "Defence and public administration is nearly double the England share", "latest": "7.7%", "latestPeriod": "of employee jobs, 2024", "comparison": "Across England the same sector accounts for 4.5% of employee jobs, so Portsmouth's share is nearly double.", "previously": "BAE Systems closed its Portsmouth shipbuilding operation in August 2014", "direction": "flat", "isGood": null, "whyItMatters": "This is a whole-sector figure, not a naval base figure. No current official assessment of HMNB Portsmouth's employment or economic contribution has been identified — the available official numbers are a 2012 study (1,900 base staff) and a 2014 MOD statement (2,000+ BAE jobs). Figures such as \"15,000 jobs\" are not used here.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/jobs-and-pay", "source": "ONS BRES", "linkLabel": "The evidence gap on the naval base's real economic weight" }, { "slug": "utc-capacity", "measure": "Pupils on roll against capacity, UTC Portsmouth", "geography": "UTC Portsmouth", "period": "Ofsted provider record, inspection published January 2026", "domain": "Skills", "subhead": "Pupils on roll at UTC Portsmouth against its approved capacity — one part of the skills picture, shown because it is the only 14-19 technical route with published local data", "headline": "The technical school built for these pathways is a sixth empty", "latest": "491", "latestPeriod": "pupils on roll", "comparison": "The school is approved for 600 places, so roughly one place in six is unfilled.", "previously": "Latest inspection report published January 2026", "direction": "flat", "isGood": null, "whyItMatters": "Named employer partners include BAE Systems, the Royal Navy, QinetiQ and Airbus. A partnership evidences participation, not employment: no official source establishes guaranteed jobs, and at this scale the UTC cannot be a city-wide skills solution on its own.", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/issues/jobs-and-pay", "source": "Ofsted", "linkLabel": "Skills pathways, NEET and what the UTC can and cannot fix" } ], "OUTCOMES_METHODOLOGY": "These are indicators that are genuinely measured, comparable over time, and have an honest direction of travel. Population is deliberately excluded — a rising or falling population is not \"better\" or \"worse\". Where a measure has no meaningful good/bad direction, none is shown. Several important domains are not yet represented here because the underlying research is incomplete: temporary accommodation and homelessness, and household-level cost-of-living measures such as fuel poverty and food insecurity." }, "portsmouth-population": { "DENSITY_CLAIM": { "figure": "5,236 people per km² (mid-2025); 5,272 (mid-2024)", "precise": "Portsmouth is the most densely populated city in England outside London, and the second most densely populated local authority area outside London after Luton — which is denser but does not hold city status. The unqualified claim \"England's most densely populated city\" is not accurate: several London boroughs are considerably denser.", "source": "ONS mid-2025 population estimates (table MYE5) and Portsmouth City Council JSNA, November 2025" }, "PEER_GROUP_METHODOLOGY": { "summary": "There is no single official government classification of \"peer cities\" for Portsmouth. This comparison combines ONS's own statistical nearest-neighbour analysis with an editorial selection on shared characteristics — and says which is which, rather than implying an official standard exists.", "onsBasis": "ONS publishes a k-means clustering and statistical nearest-neighbour analysis of UK local authorities (methodology February 2024; UK dataset February 2025), run separately on Global, Economic and Demographic models. Southampton is Portsmouth's number-one statistical nearest neighbour on all three models — the strongest and least arguable match available. Plymouth appears in the Global (10th) and Demographic (3rd) neighbour lists.", "editorialBasis": "Brighton and Hove is included on characteristics grounds — a south-coast unitary authority with a large university population and comparable seafront urban density — but it is ONS's weakest statistical match of the three, appearing only in the Demographic neighbour list and falling in a different cluster on the Global and Economic models. It has no naval or major port role. That is disclosed here rather than quietly relied upon.", "scaleCaveat": "None of the comparators is the same size as Portsmouth. On mid-2025 estimates Portsmouth has 211,475 residents against Southampton's 259,230 (+23%), Plymouth's 271,361 (+28%) and Brighton and Hove's 284,170 (+34%). They are broadly comparable secondary cities, not same-sized ones — which is precisely why the comparison chart is indexed rather than plotted in absolute terms.", "sources": [ { "name": "ONS — Clustering similar local authorities in the UK: methodology", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/methodologies/clusteringsimilarlocalauthoritiesintheukmethodology", "date": "2024-02-23" }, { "name": "ONS — Clustering and statistical nearest neighbours in the UK, 2025 dataset", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/adhocs/2632clusteringsimilarlocalauthoritiesandstatisticalnearestneighboursintheuk2025", "date": "2025-02-14" } ] }, "POPULATION_CAVEATS": [ "Never mix figures from different ONS releases. ONS is explicit that the most recent estimates should not be appended to a series from an earlier release — the whole series from a single release must be used. This is a live issue locally: Portsmouth City Council's November 2025 JSNA cites a mid-2024 population of 214,321 and a density of 5,307/km², which were correct for the July 2025 vintage. ONS subsequently revised Portsmouth's mid-2024 population down by 1,385 to 212,936 (density 5,272) in the July 2026 release used here.", "The mid-2012 to mid-2020 estimates contain an apportioned residual. Rebasing onto Census 2021 spread an \"unattributable population change\" of −40,400 backwards across those years in proportion to migration churn — ONS describes this as creating \"a plausible distribution of change\", so mid-decade years are partly modelled rather than fully re-estimated.", "Uncertainty grows with distance from a census. Around 93% of local authorities had uncertainty ranges under 5% in 2021; by 2025 only about 51% did.", "Recent years are still subject to revision — mid-2022 to mid-2024 were all revised in the July 2026 release to reflect updated international migration estimates." ], "POPULATION_SERIES": [ { "year": 2011, "portsmouth": 205433, "southampton": 235870, "plymouth": 256589, "brightonHove": 272952, "england": 53107169 }, { "year": 2012, "portsmouth": 205729, "southampton": 238097, "plymouth": 257886, "brightonHove": 274051, "england": 53506812 }, { "year": 2013, "portsmouth": 205905, "southampton": 239484, "plymouth": 259549, "brightonHove": 275494, "england": 53918686 }, { "year": 2014, "portsmouth": 206200, "southampton": 241230, "plymouth": 261980, "brightonHove": 275999, "england": 54370319 }, { "year": 2015, "portsmouth": 207873, "southampton": 244666, "plymouth": 263088, "brightonHove": 277351, "england": 54808676 }, { "year": 2016, "portsmouth": 209951, "southampton": 248662, "plymouth": 264440, "brightonHove": 279796, "england": 55289034 }, { "year": 2017, "portsmouth": 210965, "southampton": 250492, "plymouth": 265294, "brightonHove": 279500, "england": 55619548 }, { "year": 2018, "portsmouth": 211215, "southampton": 250803, "plymouth": 265689, "brightonHove": 281250, "england": 55924528 }, { "year": 2019, "portsmouth": 210412, "southampton": 249428, "plymouth": 265041, "brightonHove": 279920, "england": 56230056 }, { "year": 2020, "portsmouth": 209142, "southampton": 248679, "plymouth": 264830, "brightonHove": 278496, "england": 56325961 }, { "year": 2021, "portsmouth": 207119, "southampton": 247672, "plymouth": 264768, "brightonHove": 276454, "england": 56554891 }, { "year": 2022, "portsmouth": 209614, "southampton": 252949, "plymouth": 267574, "brightonHove": 278709, "england": 57189701 }, { "year": 2023, "portsmouth": 213939, "southampton": 258617, "plymouth": 270641, "brightonHove": 282366, "england": 57990791 }, { "year": 2024, "portsmouth": 212936, "southampton": 260604, "plymouth": 271904, "brightonHove": 285063, "england": 58607170 }, { "year": 2025, "portsmouth": 211475, "southampton": 259230, "plymouth": 271361, "brightonHove": 284170, "england": 58834812 } ], "POPULATION_SOURCE": { "name": "ONS, Estimates of the population for England and Wales, Mid-2025 (2023 local authority boundaries)", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/estimatesofthepopulationforenglandandwales/mid20252023localauthorityboundaries", "released": "29 July 2026", "latestAvailable": "Mid-2025 (published 29 July 2026)", "seriesCode": "Nomis NM_2002_1 / ONS table MYE5" }, "PORTSMOUTH_AGE_DENSITY": [ { "year": 2011, "medianAge": 34.1, "density": 5087 }, { "year": 2012, "medianAge": 34.2, "density": 5094 }, { "year": 2013, "medianAge": 34.4, "density": 5098 }, { "year": 2014, "medianAge": 34.7, "density": 5106 }, { "year": 2015, "medianAge": 34.7, "density": 5147 }, { "year": 2016, "medianAge": 34.8, "density": 5199 }, { "year": 2017, "medianAge": 34.9, "density": 5224 }, { "year": 2018, "medianAge": 35.1, "density": 5230 }, { "year": 2019, "medianAge": 35.4, "density": 5210 }, { "year": 2020, "medianAge": 35.8, "density": 5178 }, { "year": 2021, "medianAge": 36.2, "density": 5128 }, { "year": 2022, "medianAge": 36.2, "density": 5190 }, { "year": 2023, "medianAge": 36.1, "density": 5297 }, { "year": 2024, "medianAge": 36.6, "density": 5272 }, { "year": 2025, "medianAge": 36.9, "density": 5236 } ], "PORTSMOUTH_LAND_AREA_SQKM": 40.3867 }, "portsmouth-project-tracker": { "TRACKED_PROJECTS": [ { "id": "port-terminal", "name": "Portsmouth International Port — cruise and ferry terminal", "constituency": "City-wide", "stage": "Complete", "committed": 11250000, "committedLabel": "£11.25m", "spentToDate": 11250000, "spentLabel": "£11.25m", "funder": "Levelling Up Fund Round 1", "accountableBody": "Portsmouth City Council (port is council-owned)", "nextDecision": "None outstanding — operational", "delay": null, "confidence": "Published", "note": "The only Levelling Up component with an independently published figure: the port states on its own site that the terminal was made possible through £11.25m of Levelling Up funding, matching the capital programme. Opened to first passengers 20 August 2023. The council’s 2024/25 accounts describe it as fully operational, handling an additional 250,000 passengers a year.", "asOf": "15 September 2026", "sourceHref": "https://portsmouth-port.co.uk/about-us/sustainability/recent-projects/" }, { "id": "hilsea-lido", "name": "Linear Park and Hilsea Lido", "constituency": "Portsmouth North", "stage": "Underway", "committed": 7750000, "committedLabel": "£7.75m grant (scheme total since risen to £8.286m)", "spentToDate": 4854293, "spentLabel": "£4.85m to March 2025", "funder": "Levelling Up Fund Round 1, plus £486k council contribution", "accountableBody": "Portsmouth City Council", "nextDecision": "Completion of the wider linear park beyond the Lido itself", "delay": "About a year. The contractor said in June 2024 it would complete in spring 2025 for the summer season; it opened 2 May 2026.", "confidence": "Reconstructed", "note": "The grant programme contains a single line called \"Linear Park\" — there is no separate Hilsea Lido grant line, so the council has never published how much went to the Lido versus the wider park. Government’s January 2023 case study promised children’s water play, event space and spectator areas; the Lido reopened with pool, changing, sauna and pop-up food, and the contractor’s account records the spectator stand was demolished. No descope or clawback appears anywhere in the public record. An FOI is outstanding on the internal split.", "asOf": "15 September 2026", "sourceHref": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/news/2026/portsmouths-iconic-hilsea-lido-opening-date-announced" }, { "id": "football-facilities", "name": "Investment in football facilities, including changing facilities", "constituency": "City-wide", "stage": "Complete", "committed": 1000000, "committedLabel": "£1.0m", "spentToDate": 1000000, "spentLabel": "£1.0m", "funder": "Attributed to Levelling Up Fund — NOT CONFIRMED", "accountableBody": "Portsmouth City Council", "nextDecision": "FOI outstanding to confirm the funding source", "delay": null, "confidence": "Inferred", "note": "This line carries the same funder code and is needed to make the three components sum to exactly £20m, but no public document connects it to the Levelling Up bid. A Full Council motion of 9 November 2021 listed the Lido, the linear park and the cruise terminal as the LUF projects and mentioned a football bid separately. Treat as inference, not established fact. Both FOI requests ask this question directly.", "asOf": "15 September 2026", "sourceHref": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/levelling-up-fund-first-round-successful-bidders" }, { "id": "hilsea-lines", "name": "Hilsea Lines moat restoration and sea defences", "constituency": "Portsmouth North", "stage": "Underway", "committed": null, "committedLabel": "Not published as a single figure", "spentToDate": null, "spentLabel": "Not published", "funder": "North Portsea Coastal Scheme Phase 5 — Environment Agency and Coastal Partners", "accountableBody": "Coastal Partners with the Environment Agency and Portsmouth City Council", "nextDecision": "Completion of sea-defence work, end of 2026", "delay": null, "confidence": "Published", "note": "Commonly and wrongly attributed to the £20m Levelling Up award. The scheme’s own site attributes it to funding secured by the environment team for 2025/26 and does not identify it as Levelling Up money anywhere. Dredging began September 2025. Crediting a flood-defence scheme to a regeneration grant makes that grant look like it delivered more than it did.", "asOf": "15 September 2026", "sourceHref": "https://northportseacoastalscheme.org.uk/north-portsea-coastal-scheme-update-22-august-2025/" }, { "id": "southsea-coastal", "name": "Southsea Coastal Scheme", "constituency": "Portsmouth South", "stage": "Underway", "committed": null, "committedLabel": "See scheme site", "spentToDate": null, "spentLabel": "Not published as a running total", "funder": "Environment Agency flood defence grant in aid, with partnership funding", "accountableBody": "Coastal Partners / Portsmouth City Council", "nextDecision": "Successive frontage phases through to completion", "delay": null, "confidence": "Published", "note": "The largest local authority-led flood defence scheme in England, protecting around 10,000 homes and businesses. Rebuilding the seafront public realm as it goes, which is why it also appears in regeneration discussion.", "asOf": "15 September 2026", "sourceHref": "https://coastalpartners.org.uk/project/southsea-coastal-scheme/" }, { "id": "city-centre-north", "name": "City Centre North — former Tricorn and Sainsbury’s sites", "constituency": "Portsmouth South", "stage": "Allocated in Local Plan", "committed": 16079057, "committedLabel": "At least £16.1m of land assembly", "spentToDate": 16079057, "spentLabel": "At least £16.1m spent on acquisitions", "funder": "Portsmouth City Council capital — land assembly. A development partner is still required for the scheme itself", "accountableBody": "Portsmouth City Council (landowner and planning authority)", "nextDecision": "Local Plan examination, then selection of a development partner and any planning application", "delay": null, "confidence": "Published", "note": "The single largest regeneration site in the city centre and central to the Local Plan housing trajectory. The council has acquired 31 properties for it since 2020 — a near-continuous run of Commercial Road retail units plus the former Sainsbury’s at 315 Commercial Road for £6.2m. Twenty of the 31 carry no price in the published register, so £16.1m is a floor and the true figure is higher. Allocation is still not delivery: no scheme is consented and no start date exists. City-centre retail vacancy was about 16.4% in the 2024 retail study — some of which is the council’s own newly-acquired stock awaiting redevelopment.", "asOf": "15 September 2026", "sourceHref": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/planning-and-building/planning-policy/local-plan/" }, { "id": "tipner-west", "name": "Tipner West", "constituency": "Portsmouth North", "stage": "Allocated in Local Plan", "committed": null, "committedLabel": "No public funding committed", "spentToDate": null, "spentLabel": "n/a", "funder": "To be determined", "accountableBody": "Portsmouth City Council", "nextDecision": "Local Plan examination", "delay": null, "confidence": "Published", "note": "Housing alongside marine employment space. The sequencing matters: if housing is built first and employment space last, the employment element is the part most at risk of never arriving. That risk is this site’s analysis, not council policy.", "asOf": "15 September 2026", "sourceHref": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/planning-and-building/planning-policy/local-plan/" } ], "TRACKER_AS_OF": "15 September 2026", "TRACKER_METHOD_NOTE": "Stage uses five levels deliberately: complete, underway, funded but not started, allocated in the Local Plan, and proposed. Allocation is the level most often reported as though it were delivery. Confidence is separate: \"Published\" means the figure appears in a public document; \"Reconstructed\" means it was assembled from a capital programme rather than stated; \"Inferred\" means the attribution is our judgement and could be wrong.", "TRACKER_SOURCES": [ { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Cabinet 10 February 2026, capital programme appendices", "href": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/documents/s61499/Appendices%20A%20to%20H.pdf", "date": "2026-02-10" }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Levelling Up Fund: first round successful bidders", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/levelling-up-fund-first-round-successful-bidders", "date": "2021-10-27" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Statement of Accounts 2024/25", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/statement-of-accounts-feb-2026-aa-accessible.pdf", "date": "2026-02" } ], "TRACKER_STANDING_NOTE": "This data is correct as of 15 September 2026. Each project also carries its own last-checked date, because the public record for different schemes updates at different rates. Where a spend figure is not published, this tracker shows no figure rather than a zero." }, "portsmouth-responsibility": { "PORTSMOUTH_RESPONSIBILITY": [ { "issue": "Sewage discharges & bathing water quality", "icon": "🌊", "primaryControl": "Southern Water", "primaryControlType": "Utility company", "alsoInvolved": [ { "body": "Environment Agency", "role": "Sets and enforces discharge permits, monitors bathing water, prosecutes breaches" }, { "body": "Ofwat", "role": "Economic regulator — sets what the company may spend and charge, and levies performance penalties" }, { "body": "UK Government (Defra)", "role": "Sets the legal framework and enforcement powers" }, { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Limited: planning and highway drainage decisions that affect surface-water load" } ], "commonMisconception": "Sewage discharges are frequently raised with the city council, which does not own, operate or regulate the sewer network and cannot stop a discharge. The council's genuine levers are narrow (planning and drainage); the decisive ones sit with Southern Water and its regulators.", "whatAResidentCanDo": "Report a specific discharge or pollution incident to the Environment Agency's 24-hour incident line; raise systemic concerns with Ofwat and with your MP, who can question Defra ministers directly.", "relatedEvidence": { "label": "Sewage evidence & the £170m programme", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/community" } }, { "issue": "Fly-tipping & waste dumping", "icon": "🛋️", "primaryControl": "Portsmouth City Council", "primaryControlType": "Council", "alsoInvolved": [ { "body": "Environment Agency", "role": "Leads on large-scale/organised waste crime rather than individual incidents" }, { "body": "UK Government (Defra)", "role": "Sets penalty levels and the waste-carrier licensing regime (reform due 2027)" }, { "body": "Hampshire & IoW Constabulary", "role": "Involved where vehicle seizure or associated criminality arises" } ], "commonMisconception": "This is one of the issues where the council genuinely is the primary responsible body — but its enforcement capacity is the binding constraint (17 fixed penalty notices against 1,092 recorded incidents in a single year), not its willingness. Bigger fines do not, by themselves, add enforcement officers.", "whatAResidentCanDo": "Report incidents directly to Portsmouth City Council (this also builds the evidence base for hotspot enforcement); check any waste carrier you pay against the free national register before handing over waste.", "relatedEvidence": { "label": "Fly-tipping root-cause evidence", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/community" } }, { "issue": "GP access, dentistry & hospital waiting times", "icon": "🏥", "primaryControl": "NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight (Integrated Care Board)", "primaryControlType": "NHS", "alsoInvolved": [ { "body": "Individual GP practices and dental providers", "role": "Independent contractors, not directly council- or NHS-managed staff" }, { "body": "Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust", "role": "Runs Queen Alexandra Hospital and its waiting lists" }, { "body": "UK Government (DHSC)", "role": "Sets national funding, workforce planning and the NHS contract framework" }, { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Public health functions and adult social care — which affect hospital discharge, but not waiting lists directly" } ], "commonMisconception": "Queen Alexandra Hospital serves a catchment far larger than Portsmouth (roughly 675,000 people across Portsmouth, Havant, Fareham, Gosport and the Isle of Wight). Its activity figures should never be read as a measure of Portsmouth residents' demand alone.", "whatAResidentCanDo": "Formal complaints go to the provider first, then the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; systemic concerns are genuinely MP territory, since funding and workforce policy are national." }, { "issue": "Crime, antisocial behaviour & policing priorities", "icon": "🚔", "primaryControl": "Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary", "primaryControlType": "Police", "alsoInvolved": [ { "body": "Police and Crime Commissioner", "role": "Sets the local policing plan and budget, holds the Chief Constable to account" }, { "body": "Home Office", "role": "National policing funding, legislation and sentencing framework" }, { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Community safety partnership duties, CCTV, licensing, ASB civil powers" } ], "commonMisconception": "Sentencing is set nationally by Parliament and applied by independent courts — neither the council nor the local force controls it, so a council motion calling for tougher sentences is a lobbying act, not an operational decision.", "whatAResidentCanDo": "Report crime to the police (101/999 as appropriate); raise policing priorities and resourcing with the Police and Crime Commissioner, who is directly elected for exactly this purpose.", "relatedEvidence": { "label": "Crime claims tested against data", "href": "/hampshire/cities/portsmouth/claims-vs-evidence" } }, { "issue": "Housing — availability, affordability and standards", "icon": "🏘️", "primaryControl": "Multiple bodies — this one genuinely is split", "primaryControlType": "Multiple bodies", "alsoInvolved": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Council housing stock, homelessness duty, planning decisions, HMO licensing, private-rented enforcement" }, { "body": "UK Government (MHCLG)", "role": "National planning policy, housing finance, Right to Buy rules, private-rental legislation" }, { "body": "Homes England", "role": "Grant funding that determines whether affordable schemes are viable" }, { "body": "Private developers and landlords", "role": "Actually build and let the great majority of homes" }, { "body": "DWP", "role": "Housing benefit / Universal Credit housing element — sets what low-income renters can afford" } ], "commonMisconception": "Housing is the clearest case where no single body can fix the problem. The council can grant permission but cannot compel building; government sets the funding but does not build; developers build but respond to viability. Blaming any one of them alone misdescribes how the system works.", "whatAResidentCanDo": "Disrepair and licensing issues in a private tenancy are council enforcement matters; affordability and benefit levels are national policy, and therefore MP matters." }, { "issue": "Local government reorganisation (the proposed \"super council\")", "icon": "🏛️", "primaryControl": "UK Government (MHCLG)", "primaryControlType": "MP / Westminster", "alsoInvolved": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "role": "Can respond, lobby and — as it has done — seek judicial review, but cannot veto" }, { "body": "Neighbouring authorities", "role": "Gosport, Fareham and Havant were the merger partners in the March 2026 decision, withdrawn on 7 September 2026" } ], "commonMisconception": "The decision on whether Portsmouth City Council continues to exist in its current form is a central government one. The council's judicial review challenges the process, not the principle — courts assess lawfulness, not whether a merger is a good idea. The March 2026 decision was withdrawn on 7 September 2026 and the programme is under government review.", "whatAResidentCanDo": "Respond to any government consultation directly, and raise it with your MP — this is squarely a Westminster decision." } ], "RESPONSIBILITY_DISCLAIMER": "Responsibilities in UK local government are genuinely shared and often overlap — this is a guide to where the most decisive lever sits, not a claim that one body is solely accountable. Where responsibility is truly split (housing being the clearest example), this says so rather than picking a single body for the sake of a tidy answer." }, "portsmouth-root-causes": { "PORTSMOUTH_ROOT_CAUSES": [ { "slug": "fly-tipping", "icon": "🛋️", "title": "Fly-tipping", "theComplaint": "Dumped mattresses, sofas, builders’ rubble and bagged household waste on streets, verges and back alleys — one of the most-reported everyday complaints in Portsmouth.", "whyEnforcementAloneFallsShort": "Fines and prosecutions only work on people who expect to be caught and who weigh the fine against the alternative. National research finds most fly-tipping is either done unknowingly by householders who don’t realise it’s an offence, or carried out by profit-driven \"man with a van\" operators who are already operating outside the law and factor enforcement risk into their price — neither group is much moved by a bigger fine. Portsmouth’s own recent record makes the same point in miniature: incidents rose sharply in the year the council’s data is most recently published for, while the number of penalty notices issued stayed very low.", "nationalEvidence": [ "1.26 million fly-tipping incidents were recorded by English councils in 2024/25, up 9% on 2023/24 (1.15m). Household waste was 62% of incidents; highways were the commonest location (37%). Clearance cost councils £19.3m; 69,000 Fixed Penalty Notices were issued (up 9%), average £626 (£381 with early-payment discount).", "Government-commissioned research (NatCen, for Defra) found roughly 1 in 5 people had unknowingly committed a legally-classifiable fly-tipping act (e.g. leaving bags outside a charity shop). 56% of people using a household waste recycling centre in the past year reported difficulties — long queues was the top complaint (37%). Only 28% knew a registered waste-carrier database exists to check who is legally allowed to take waste away, and only 11% knew fly-tipping could lead to a criminal conviction.", "The link between recycling-centre charging and fly-tipping is genuinely contested, not one-directional: one industry review found no statistically significant national association between HWRC charging and higher fly-tipping rates — a useful caution against assuming any single lever explains the trend either way." ], "portsmouthEvidence": [ "Portsmouth recorded 1,092 fly-tipping incidents in the year to March 2024, up from 751 the year before — the highest since comparable local records began in 2019/20 (622 were on council land, 495 were household waste). Only 17 Fixed Penalty Notices were issued locally that year: a low enforcement rate against the incident volume.", "Portsmouth City Council’s Port Solent Household Waste Recycling Centre decision (2016) reduced opening hours and introduced a weekly closure day, aligning with the wider Hampshire HWRC network, while introducing charges for construction/DIY-type waste (ordinary household waste stayed free). Council officers at the time noted charging correlated with a fall in fly-tipped tonnage, though at least one councillor raised concerns about waste being displaced to specific areas instead.", "The current bulky waste collection charge starts at £40, with one free collection every 12 months for residents receiving council tax support.", "The most visible local political response so far — constituent surveys, a public meeting, and MP calls for vehicle seizure/crushing powers, drones, CCTV and the national 2027 waste-carrier licensing reform — is enforcement-focused. That in itself is worth naming honestly: the current local conversation leans punitive, even though the strongest national evidence points at awareness, access and rogue-operator licensing as the bigger levers." ], "whatActuallyHelps": [ "Making the free household-collection entitlement for council tax support recipients better known and easier to use — it already exists but isn’t a prominent part of the local conversation.", "Publicising the online registered waste-carrier database so residents paying someone to take waste away can check they’re legal in seconds — fewer than 3 in 10 people nationally currently know it exists.", "Following through on the 2027 waste-carrier licensing reform, which targets the \"man with a van\" rogue-operator model directly, rather than relying on fines aimed mainly at householders.", "Targeting enforcement resource at repeat commercial/rogue operators rather than spreading it thinly across every incident — Portsmouth’s 17-FPNs-against-1,092-incidents ratio suggests capacity, not willingness, is the current constraint." ], "sources": [ { "name": "Defra / GOV.UK", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england-2024-to-2025", "date": "2026-02-25" }, { "name": "NatCen Social Research, \"Fly-tipping: drivers, deterrents and impacts\" (for Defra)", "href": "https://natcen.ac.uk/publications/fly-tipping-drivers-deterrents-and-impacts", "date": "2022-06-06" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Cabinet Member decision, Port Solent HWRC opening hours & charging", "href": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieIssueDetails.aspx?IId=10662&Opt=3", "date": "2016-11-17" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Bulky waste collection", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/recycling-and-rubbish/special-waste-collection/bulky-waste/", "date": "current" }, { "name": "Stephen Morgan MP — Waste Crime Action Plan response", "href": "https://www.stephenmorgan.org.uk/stephen-morgan-welcomes-crackdown-on-fly-tipping-as-government-launches-toughest-ever-waste-crime-action-plan/", "date": "2026-03-24" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, { "slug": "van-tool-theft", "icon": "🧰", "title": "Tool theft from tradespeople’s vans", "theComplaint": "Tradespeople’s vans broken into overnight, often on ordinary residential streets, with tools stolen that can cost thousands of pounds and days of lost work to replace.", "whyEnforcementAloneFallsShort": "This crime persists because it is low-risk and high-reward for the offender, not because sentences are too light. Tools are portable, hold their value, and can be resold anonymously online within hours — the apprehension rate is low and the resale market absorbs stolen goods easily. Interventions that remove the opportunity (secure parking, marked/traceable tools) or the resale route (a searchable registry, marketplace checks) address the actual mechanics of the crime; tougher sentencing addresses a risk that most offenders don’t weigh in the first place.", "nationalEvidence": [ "The Federation of Master Builders has reported that the large majority of UK builders have been a victim of tool theft at some point, with an average loss around £2,500 for those hit in the past decade, and roughly 1 in 10 losing £10,000 or more in tools.", "Over 25,000 tool-theft incidents were reported to UK police forces in 2024, roughly half of them stolen from a vehicle, according to the National Business Crime Centre (NBCC).", "In response, the NBCC has rolled out a free tool-marking scheme (SelectaDNA kits, deterrent stickers, and a searchable Secure Asset Register that any UK police force can check) with participating forces including Hampshire, Sussex, the Met, Essex, West Midlands, Avon & Somerset and Greater Manchester." ], "portsmouthEvidence": [ "The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Business Crime Partnership launched in October 2024, chaired by the Police and Crime Commissioner, brings together 50+ retailers, shopping centres, utilities and police to tackle business crime across the force area — broader than van/tool theft alone, but the relevant local infrastructure for coordinating a response.", "Hampshire Constabulary has taken part in NBCC tool-marking events locally (e.g. offering free SelectaDNA kits to tradespeople), extending the national scheme into the area — reported by local press; treat exact event details as indicative rather than a complete local rollout." ], "whatActuallyHelps": [ "Secure, lockable van-parking schemes for tradespeople, particularly in dense residential streets where vans have nowhere off-road to park overnight.", "Free tool-marking/registration (e.g. SelectaDNA) that makes stolen tools traceable and far harder to resell — already running in Hampshire but not yet a routinely-publicised local offer.", "Slam-locks/deadlocks and van-alarm subsidies, which raise the time and noise cost of a break-in.", "Basic identity checks on second-hand power-tool listings on the largest online marketplaces, closing the anonymous-resale route that makes this crime worth the risk in the first place." ], "sources": [ { "name": "National Business Crime Centre — Tool Marking Initiative", "href": "https://nbcc.police.uk/news/the-nbcc-launch-tool-marking-initiative-to-combat-commercial-tool-theft", "date": "2024" }, { "name": "Federation of Master Builders — tool theft research (reported)", "href": "https://www.fmb.org.uk/resource/tool-theft-affects-8-in-10-builders.html", "date": "reported" }, { "name": "Hampshire & Isle of Wight PCC — Business Crime Partnership", "href": "https://hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/commissioner/partnership-working/business-crime-partnership", "date": "2024-10" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, { "slug": "underage-sales", "icon": "🏪", "title": "Underage sales at a small minority of convenience stores", "theComplaint": "A handful of local shops repeatedly caught selling alcohol, vapes or tobacco to under-18s — sometimes with additional serious licensing breaches on top.", "whyEnforcementAloneFallsShort": "Licence reviews happen after the fact, and only reach the shops someone complains about or that a test-purchase operation happens to visit. The underlying pressure is economic: legitimate wholesale stock (especially vapes, since the disposable-vape ban) can leave thin margins, while illicit or under-the-counter stock is cheap and easy to source — and national Trading Standards capacity to do proactive, routine inspection (rather than reactive, complaint-driven visits) has fallen sharply over the past 15 years. Naming and revoking the worst offenders’ licences matters, but it doesn’t by itself fix the enforcement-capacity gap that let the problem persist for months first.", "nationalEvidence": [ "Local-authority Trading Standards funding and staffing have fallen substantially since 2009 (widely reported, though the precise percentage varies by source — recommend checking the Chartered Trading Standards Institute’s own published figures before quoting an exact number).", "The UK government committed £10m of new funding via CTSI in 2025 specifically to boost Trading Standards enforcement against underage tobacco/vape sales (funding roughly 80 additional apprentice enforcement officers), on top of a wider £30m/year (from April 2024) across Trading Standards, Border Force and HMRC for illicit tobacco and vape enforcement.", "A House of Commons Library briefing on illicit high-street activity (26 June 2026) notes Trading Standards is the lead enforcement agency for illicit tobacco, vapes, counterfeit and unsafe goods, but that enforcement increasingly needs cross-agency coordination with police, the NCA and HMRC because of links to organised crime — this is genuinely a bigger, harder problem than any one local authority can solve with licensing reviews alone." ], "portsmouthEvidence": [ "Portsmouth City Council’s licensing committee revoked the premises licence of a Fawcett Road, Southsea convenience store in 2026 after test purchasers found underage vape and alcohol sales, and a follow-up inspection found no designated premises supervisor present, no refusals register, incorrect Challenge 25 signage, no evidence of staff training, and 11 boxes of illegal disposable vapes hidden beneath the counter — a genuinely serious case, and one the council did act on.", "The council also runs a Responsible Retailer Scheme supporting local shops with age-verification training, and reported test-purchase operations in which the large majority of businesses visited did not sell to underage volunteers — worth stating plainly so one bad case doesn’t read as representative of independent shops generally." ], "whatActuallyHelps": [ "Shifting Trading Standards funding back toward proactive, routine inspection rather than purely complaint-driven visits — the national funding already secured in 2025 is a start, not a finish.", "Expanding the Responsible Retailer Scheme and age-verification training so compliant shops are supported, not just threatened with the same licensing process as repeat offenders.", "Continuing to use licence review and revocation — which the Fawcett Road case shows Portsmouth’s own committee is willing to do — as a targeted tool against clear repeat breaches, rather than the main tool for prevention." ], "sources": [ { "name": "Chartered Trading Standards Institute — funding secured for tobacco/vape enforcement", "href": "https://www.tradingstandards.uk/news-policy-campaigns/news-room/2025/ctsi-helps-to-secure-vital-investment-for-trading-standards/", "date": "2025" }, { "name": "House of Commons Library — \"Tackling illicit activity in high street shops\"", "href": "https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10889/", "date": "2026-06-26" }, { "name": "The News (portsmouth.co.uk) — Fawcett Road licence revocation", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/portsmouth-shop-loses-alcohol-licence-over-underage-sales-concerns-8836729", "date": "2026" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" } ], "ROOT_CAUSES_DISCLAIMER": "This section looks at what evidence says actually drives each of these everyday complaints, and what has been shown to reduce them — alongside what Portsmouth-specific data and local action already exist. It does not argue against enforcement, which remains a necessary and used tool locally (see the Fawcett Road licensing case), only against treating enforcement as the whole answer when the evidence points at capacity, awareness and opportunity as the bigger levers." }, "portsmouth-router": { "COUNCIL_CONTACTS": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "reportHub": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/all-tasks/report", "urlCheck": "http-200", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/all-tasks/report", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "contactDirectory": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-council/contact-us", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-council/contact-us", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "switchboard": { "phone": "023 9282 2251", "note": "General enquiries, and the out-of-hours general line." }, "cityHelpdesk": { "phone": "023 9283 4092", "email": "cityhelpdesk@portsmouthcc.gov.uk", "note": "Highways and street cleaning.", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-council/contact-us/highways-and-street-cleaning", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "outOfHours": { "general": "023 9282 2251", "councilBuildings": "023 9269 5203", "councilTenants": "023 9282 4244", "highwaysColas": "023 9231 0900", "note": "Office hours stated as Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm; Civic Offices open to visitors 9am to 4pm." }, "complaintsLine": { "phone": "023 9283 4702", "email": "complimentcomplaint@portsmouthcc.gov.uk", "note": "The contact-directory entry lists ccc@portsmouthcc.gov.uk instead — two different addresses are published.", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/complaints/how-to-submit-a-complaint", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "visit": "Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth PO1 2AL (many services need an appointment).", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-council/contact-us", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "DECISION_FLOW": [ { "step": 1, "question": "Is anyone in danger right now, or is something happening that cannot wait?", "ifYes": "Show GENERAL_EMERGENCIES plus the issue's own emergency contacts, then stop." }, { "step": 2, "question": "What is it about?", "options": "ISSUES[].label" }, { "step": 3, "question": "What do you need?", "options": "NEEDS[].question" }, { "step": 4, "show": "primary route, then supporting route (if any), then escalateTo ladder, then overlap note" }, { "step": 5, "optional": "Postcode -> ward councillors and MP (POSTCODE_LOOKUP), only where the route is a councillor or MP" } ], "GENERAL_EMERGENCIES": [ { "text": "Life at risk, violence, crime in progress, fire", "number": "999", "source": { "url": "https://www.hampshire.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Non-emergency police", "number": "101", "source": { "url": "https://www.hampshire.police.uk/fo/feedback/complaints/complaints/complain-about-the-police/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Urgent medical help (not life-threatening)", "number": "111", "source": { "url": "https://111.nhs.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Power cut (national number; the council is not responsible for electricity supply)", "number": "105", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-tenants/power-cuts", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Smell gas (national gas emergency number)", "number": "0800 111 999", "source": { "url": "https://www.sgn.co.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Pollution incident (Environment Agency, 24 hours)", "number": "0800 80 70 60", "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-water-pollution", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } ], "ISSUES": [ { "id": "bins-litter-flytipping", "label": "Bins, litter and fly-tipping", "examples": [ "Missed bin collection", "Dumped mattress in an alley", "Overflowing litter bin" ], "overlap": "Street sweeping on council roads is done by the council's highways contractor Colas; the council states that fly-tipping itself is dealt with by the council. Rubbish in rivers or the sea is also a council report, not an Environment Agency one.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council", "action": "Report fly-tipping or dumped rubbish online", "url": "https://my.portsmouth.gov.uk/en/AchieveForms/?form_uri=sandbox-publish://AF-Process-5e2d630c-2331-47fc-ae25-9d4b79c59811/AF-Stage-a5024096-d4e1-4221-9493-9c551d91cd99/definition.json&redirectlink=%2Fen&cancelRedirectLink=%2Fen&consentMessage=yes", "urlCheck": "form-shell-200", "landingUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/community-safety/keeping-our-city-safe-clean-and-tidy/fly-tipping-and-littering", "phone": "023 9283 4092", "whyThem": "The council collects household waste across the city and deals with fly-tipping.", "canDo": [ "Clear reported fly-tips and investigate", "Issue fixed penalty notices for fly-tipping (published at £400 to £1,000) and littering (£100 to £500), or prosecute" ], "cannotDo": [ "Collect waste over your bin allowance — side waste and overflowing bins are the householder's responsibility (waste collection policy 6.8.2)" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — corporate complaints", "when": "If a report is not acted on", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/complaints/how-to-submit-a-complaint" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/community-safety/keeping-our-city-safe-clean-and-tidy/fly-tipping-and-littering", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — Recycling and Rubbish Team", "action": "Report a missed bin collection on the waste portal", "url": "https://recyclingandrubbish.portsmouth.gov.uk/", "urlCheck": "redirect-200", "phone": "023 9284 1105", "whyThem": "Missed collections go to the waste service, not the general report forms.", "canDo": [ "Return to collect a genuinely missed bin" ], "cannotDo": [ "Treat a bin as missed if it was not out by 6am, was contaminated, blocked or too heavy (policy 12.3, 12.7)" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "Report within 2 working days of the scheduled collection; crews aim to return within 1 to 2 working days (longer at busy times such as Christmas).", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/policies-and-strategies/waste-collection-policy", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — corporate complaints", "when": "If the missed collection is not put right", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/complaints/how-to-submit-a-complaint" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/policies-and-strategies/waste-collection-policy", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Portal redirects to /PublicDashboard." } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — corporate complaints", "action": "Make a formal complaint about how a council service handled your issue", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/complaints/how-to-submit-a-complaint", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9283 4702", "whyThem": "The Ombudsman will not look at a council complaint until the council has had the chance to put it right through its own two-stage process.", "canDo": [ "Investigate at stage one (response aimed within 10 working days of acknowledgement) and stage two (within 20 working days)", "Accept a complaint made through a representative such as a family member, councillor or MP, with your written consent" ], "cannotDo": [ "Replace a statutory appeal route (parking fines, Housing Benefit, planning appeals and school places each have their own)", "Normally consider issues more than 12 months old, unless there are exceptional circumstances" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "Acknowledged within 5 working days; stage one response within 10 working days of acknowledgement (extendable, normally to no more than 20); stage two within 20 working days of acknowledgement.", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/policies-and-strategies/complaints-policy", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "when": "After the council has sent its final response (or if a complaint made more than 16 weeks ago has had none); normally within 12 months of knowing about the problem. Free.", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/policies-and-strategies/complaints-policy", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — environmental enforcement", "action": "Complain about the behaviour of an officer who issued a fixed penalty notice", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/community-safety/living-together-safely/fixed-penalty-notices/complaints-about-officer-behaviour", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "This is the only FPN-specific challenge route the council publishes.", "canDo": [ "Look at complaints about how an enforcement officer behaved" ], "cannotDo": [ "The FPN page publishes no appeal against the penalty itself; unpaid FPNs may go to court, where liability is decided" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "when": "After the council has sent its final response (or if a complaint made more than 16 weeks ago has had none); normally within 12 months of knowing about the problem. Free.", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/community-safety/living-together-safely/fixed-penalty-notices", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. Ward list confirmed from democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk." } } }, "influence-policy": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — petitions and consultations", "action": "Start or sign a petition, or respond to a current council consultation", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Petitions and consultations are the council's formal routes for residents to shape policy rather than individual cases.", "canDo": [ "Accept paper or e-petitions under the council's petition scheme", "Advise where a petition concerns another body" ], "cannotDo": [ "Guarantee a particular outcome — the scheme sets out how petitions are handled, not that they succeed" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Current council consultations", "when": "When the council is consulting on a plan, policy or project", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/current-consultations" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. Ward list confirmed from democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk." } } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "action": "Ask the Ombudsman to investigate once the council complaints process is finished", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "It is the independent, free final step for complaints about council services, adult social care and most council housing functions other than social housing.", "canDo": [ "Investigate fault in how the council acted and whether it caused you injustice", "Recommend apologies, payments or changes to council procedures" ], "cannotDo": [ "Look at your complaint before the council has had the chance to resolve it", "Overturn a decision the council made properly just because you disagree with it", "Investigate issues that carry their own right of appeal to a tribunal" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Requested https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint, redirected to /how-to-complain." } } } }, "gaps": [ { "status": "not-published", "item": "Response time for fly-tipping and litter reports", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "fly-tipping-and-littering page", "keeping-our-city-safe-clean-and-tidy hub", "waste collection policy", "highways-management page" ] }, { "status": "not-published", "item": "Appeal or representation route against an environmental FPN", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "fixed-penalty-notices page", "fly-tipping-and-littering page", "Safe, clean & tidy enforcement policy link (not opened — PDF)" ] } ] }, { "id": "roads-parking", "label": "Potholes, local roads and parking", "examples": [ "Pothole or trip hazard", "Broken street light", "Parking ticket", "Illegal parking" ], "emergency": [ { "text": "Dangerous highway problem out of hours (council roads, via Colas)", "number": "023 9231 0900", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-council/contact-us", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } ], "overlap": "The council has a 25-year highways maintenance contract; Colas inspects, repairs and sweeps most city roads. The A27/M27 are managed by National Highways, not the council.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council (highways contractor Colas)", "action": "Report a pothole or problem with the road online", "url": "https://my.portsmouth.gov.uk/en/AchieveForms/?form_uri=sandbox-publish://AF-Process-0ee19f0f-ecae-4183-bce6-6e2d969b7a9d/AF-Stage-7ada4ede-9faa-4fa3-a82f-9eb82611ec9d/definition.json&redirectlink=%2Fen&cancelRedirectLink=%2Fen&consentMessage=yes", "urlCheck": "form-shell-200", "landingUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/parking-roads-and-travel/roads", "phone": "023 9283 4092", "whyThem": "The council is the highway authority for city roads and its contractor Colas inspects and repairs them.", "canDo": [ "Prioritise and repair potholes and trip hazards found on inspection or reported", "Repair street lights, drains, signs and street furniture on council roads", "Enforce parking restrictions (separate \"report illegal parking\" form)" ], "cannotDo": [ "Repair the A27 or M27 — those are National Highways roads" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "Published inspection regime, not a repair deadline: main roads and pavements inspected monthly, residential roads every six months; street lights inspected every two weeks in winter and four in summer, with repairs \"within a week\" of inspection.", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/parking-roads-and-travel/roads/highways-management", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — corporate complaints", "when": "If a reported defect is not dealt with", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/complaints/how-to-submit-a-complaint" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/parking-roads-and-travel/roads/highways-management", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "National Highways", "action": "Report a problem on the A27 or M27", "url": "https://nationalhighways.co.uk/support-and-contact/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "0300 123 5000", "whyThem": "The strategic road network around Portsmouth is not a council road.", "canDo": [ "Take reports 24 hours a day" ], "cannotDo": [ "Deal with city streets" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://nationalhighways.co.uk/support-and-contact/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Its report.nationalhighways.co.uk tool returned \"down for maintenance\" (HTTP 418) on checkedOn." } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — parking services", "action": "Challenge a penalty charge notice (PCN)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/parking-roads-and-travel/parking/parking-fines-and-penalty-charge-notices/challenging-a-penalty-charge-notice", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "The council issues PCNs and must consider your challenge before any independent appeal.", "canDo": [ "Cancel a PCN on a successful challenge", "Keep the discount open if an early challenge (within 14 days) fails" ], "cannotDo": [ "Guarantee late representations are considered — those after 28 days from a Notice to Owner may be disregarded" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Traffic Penalty Tribunal", "when": "If the council rejects your formal representations", "url": "https://www.tpt.gov.uk/" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/parking-roads-and-travel/parking/parking-fines-and-penalty-charge-notices/challenging-a-penalty-charge-notice", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. 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Ward list confirmed from democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk." } } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "action": "Ask the Ombudsman to investigate once the council complaints process is finished", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "It is the independent, free final step for complaints about council services, adult social care and most council housing functions other than social housing.", "canDo": [ "Investigate fault in how the council acted and whether it caused you injustice", "Recommend apologies, payments or changes to council procedures" ], "cannotDo": [ "Look at your complaint before the council has had the chance to resolve it", "Overturn a decision the council made properly just because you disagree with it", "Investigate issues that carry their own right of appeal to a tribunal" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Requested https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint, redirected to /how-to-complain." } } } }, "gaps": [ { "status": "not-published", "item": "Pothole repair deadline after a report", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "roads hub", "highways-management page", "local highways maintenance transparency report index (sub-pages not opened)" ] } ] }, { "id": "council-housing-homelessness", "label": "Council housing (Portsmouth Homes) and homelessness", "examples": [ "Repair not done", "Damp and mould", "About to lose my home", "Housing register" ], "emergency": [ { "text": "Homelessness crisis or emergency council-home repair out of hours", "number": "023 9282 4244", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/looking-for-a-home/if-you-are-at-risk-of-becoming-homeless/contact-the-team", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } ], "overlap": "The council is two things here: landlord (its housing service trades as \"Portsmouth Homes\" — complaints go to the Housing Ombudsman) and homelessness/allocations authority (complaints go to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman). Pick the ombudsman by which role the complaint is about.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — Portsmouth Homes customer repairs team", "action": "Report a repair to your Portsmouth Homes property", "url": "https://my.portsmouth.gov.uk/en/AchieveForms/?form_uri=sandbox-publish://AF-Process-f5bfbb03-7d94-42e5-8850-9395db44de99/AF-Stage-ddf4de14-3db1-4ef5-b493-936b9d56d4a1/definition.json&redirectlink=%2Fen&cancelRedirectLink=%2Fen&consentMessage=yes", "urlCheck": "form-shell-200", "landingUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/portsmouth-homes/maintaining-and-repairing-your-council-property/report-a-repair-council-housing", "phone": "023 9284 1311", "whyThem": "The council is the landlord for Portsmouth Homes tenants and leaseholders.", "canDo": [ "Carry out landlord repairs to published timescales", "Survey damp and mould" ], "cannotDo": [ "Attend non-emergency repairs out of hours (a call-out fee may be charged)" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "Emergency repairs: response within 24 hours. Urgent: within 3 working days. Routine: completed within 20 working days. Damp and mould surveys attended within 10 working days.", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/portsmouth-homes/maintaining-and-repairing-your-council-property/repair-timescales", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Portsmouth Homes landlord complaints", "when": "If a repair is not done — a complaint is different from a service request", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/portsmouth-homes/housing-complaint-compliment/make-a-housing-complaint" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/portsmouth-homes/maintaining-and-repairing-your-council-property/report-a-repair-council-housing", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — Housing Needs Advice and Support team", "action": "Ask for help if you are homeless or at risk of losing your home", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/looking-for-a-home/if-you-are-at-risk-of-becoming-homeless/contact-the-team", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9283 4989", "whyThem": "The council holds the statutory homelessness duties; the earlier you contact it, the more it can do.", "canDo": [ "Assess your situation and make a housing plan", "Check priority need and whether temporary housing is owed", "Negotiate with family or landlord; offer money support" ], "cannotDo": [ "Always find you somewhere straight away — duties depend on vulnerability and why you became homeless" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/looking-for-a-home/if-you-are-at-risk-of-becoming-homeless/how-we-can-help", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Walk-in: Civic Offices, 9am to 4pm; phones 9am to 5pm." } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — homelessness and housing decision review", "action": "Request a review of a homelessness or housing application decision", "url": "https://media.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/hou-requesting-a-review-of-an-application-for-a-housing-decision-july-2019.pdf", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "A statutory review by the council is the required first step before any court appeal.", "canDo": [ "Reconsider the decision with new information" ], "cannotDo": [ "Accept requests after 21 days from the decision, unless there were exceptional reasons" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "Request within 21 days of the decision. The guidance also states a county court appeal on a point of law must be made within 21 days of the review decision.", "source": { "url": "https://media.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/hou-requesting-a-review-of-an-application-for-a-housing-decision-july-2019.pdf", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Guidance dated July 2019 — check it is still current." } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "County court (point of law)", "when": "After the review decision; the guidance recommends getting legal advice first", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/civil-legal-advice" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/looking-for-a-home/if-you-are-at-risk-of-becoming-homeless/how-we-can-help", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Advice Portsmouth", "action": "Get free, independent advice (PO1–PO6 residents)", "url": "https://adviceportsmouth.org.uk/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9279 4340", "whyThem": "The council itself signposts Advice Portsmouth for independent housing, benefits, debt and employment advice.", "canDo": [ "General and specialist advice on social welfare, debt, benefits, employment, housing, family and consumer law" ], "cannotDo": [ "Serve residents outside the PO1–PO6 areas it states it covers" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://adviceportsmouth.org.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Phone published as \"02392 794 340\"." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth Homes housing complaints team", "action": "Ask for help making a housing complaint, including translation or using a representative", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/portsmouth-homes/housing-complaint-compliment/escalating-your-housing-complaint-and-getting-support", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9260 6383", "whyThem": "The landlord complaints team offers practical help, and the Housing Ombudsman can advise at any point.", "canDo": [ "Help you make a complaint", "Translate letters", "Deal with a representative (family, councillor, attorney)" ], "cannotDo": [ "Act independently of the landlord — for independent advice use the Housing Ombudsman (0300 111 3000)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/portsmouth-homes/housing-complaint-compliment/escalating-your-housing-complaint-and-getting-support", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. Ward list confirmed from democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk." } } }, "influence-policy": { "primary": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. Ward list confirmed from democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk." } }, "supporting": { "body": "Your MP (Portsmouth North or Portsmouth South)", "action": "Ask your MP to raise national law or funding with ministers", "url": "https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "whyThem": "Only Parliament and government can change national law and national funding formulas; the MP's role is to scrutinise ministers and make representations.", "canDo": [ "Write to or question ministers", "Raise the issue in Parliament", "Make representations on your behalf to UK government departments" ], "cannotDo": [ "Direct council officers or decide council spending", "Overturn a court, tribunal or council decision" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Location/Constituency/Search?searchText=Portsmouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Constituency/MP mapping from the Parliament members API; members.parliament.uk blocks scripted requests." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "Housing Ombudsman Service", "action": "Bring your Portsmouth Homes landlord complaint to the Housing Ombudsman", "url": "https://www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/residents/bring-your-complaint-to-the-housing-ombudsman/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "0300 111 3000", "whyThem": "It handles complaints about social landlords, including the council in its role as landlord.", "canDo": [ "Investigate repairs, charges, estate management, ASB handling and complaint handling", "Advise at any point, before the landlord process ends" ], "cannotDo": [ "Investigate homelessness or allocations decisions — those go to the LGSCO" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/residents/bring-your-complaint-to-the-housing-ombudsman/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Requested /residents/make-a-complaint/, redirected here." } }, "supporting": { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "action": "Complain to the LGSCO about homelessness, allocations or Housing Benefit handling", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "It is the independent, free final step for complaints about council services, adult social care and most council housing functions other than social housing.", "canDo": [ "Investigate fault in how the council acted and whether it caused you injustice", "Recommend apologies, payments or changes to council procedures" ], "cannotDo": [ "Look at your complaint before the council has had the chance to resolve it", "Overturn a decision the council made properly just because you disagree with it", "Investigate issues that carry their own right of appeal to a tribunal" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint/fact-sheets/housing", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } } } }, { "id": "private-renting-hmos", "label": "Private renting and HMOs", "examples": [ "Landlord will not repair", "Illegal eviction", "Unlicensed shared house", "Rent increase" ], "overlap": "Your landlord is responsible for repairs; the council's Private Sector Housing team can inspect and enforce only after you have reported to the landlord. Licensing of HMOs is a council function — every HMO in Portsmouth needs a licence.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — Private Sector Housing team", "action": "Report an unresolved disrepair or safety problem in your rented home", "url": "https://my.portsmouth.gov.uk/en/AchieveForms/?form_uri=sandbox-publish://AF-Process-3ba6411f-f4ff-476f-a62b-e9f563d7634f/AF-Stage-2be284f6-113e-4617-a991-ad03dca58ff9/definition.json&redirectlink=%2Fen&cancelRedirectLink=%2Fen&consentMessage=yes", "urlCheck": "form-shell-200", "landingUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-tenants/how-to-report-a-repair", "phone": "023 9268 8369", "whyThem": "The council enforces housing standards (Housing Health and Safety Rating System) in private rented homes.", "canDo": [ "Inspect and assess hazards", "Require the landlord to carry out work in some circumstances", "Tackle poor HMO management" ], "cannotDo": [ "Help until you have reported the repair to your landlord in writing, waited 10 working days, then given a final 48 hours" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — corporate complaints", "when": "If the council does not act on your report", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/complaints/how-to-submit-a-complaint" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-tenants/how-to-report-a-repair", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — HMO licensing", "action": "Report a suspected unlicensed HMO", "url": "https://my.portsmouth.gov.uk/en/AchieveForms/?form_uri=sandbox-publish://AF-Process-89fde64d-3c6d-4ef4-b05e-e679abb40ae2/AF-Stage-f6fea063-2cf9-460b-8b3f-cade9abc4b67/definition.json&redirectlink=%2Fen&cancelRedirectLink=%2Fen&consentMessage=yes", "urlCheck": "form-shell-200", "landingUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-tenants/report-an-unlicensed-hmo-property", "phone": "023 9284 1659", "whyThem": "All HMOs in Portsmouth require a licence, and the council keeps the licence register.", "canDo": [ "Investigate unlicensed HMOs", "Check the public HMO database" ], "cannotDo": [ "License a home with only two occupiers — no licence is needed" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-tenants/report-an-unlicensed-hmo-property", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) via GOV.UK", "action": "Apply for a market rent determination if you disagree with a proposed rent increase", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-open-market-rent-determination", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Under the Renters' Rights Act 2025 rent can rise only once a year on a Form 4A notice, and the tribunal decides the open-market rent if you disagree.", "canDo": [ "Determine the open-market rent for the property" ], "cannotDo": [ "Deal with repairs or eviction disputes" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-tenants/renters-rights-act", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council states changes apply from 1 May 2026; GOV.UK guide states Royal Assent 27 October 2025." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "supporting": { "body": "Advice Portsmouth", "action": "Get free, independent advice (PO1–PO6 residents)", "url": "https://adviceportsmouth.org.uk/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9279 4340", "whyThem": "The council itself signposts Advice Portsmouth for independent housing, benefits, debt and employment advice.", "canDo": [ "General and specialist advice on social welfare, debt, benefits, employment, housing, family and consumer law" ], "cannotDo": [ "Serve residents outside the PO1–PO6 areas it states it covers" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://adviceportsmouth.org.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Phone published as \"02392 794 340\"." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — Landlord and Tenant Support Officer", "action": "Get support raising problems with your landlord", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-tenants/renting-support", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9284 1797", "whyThem": "The council offers a named support officer for tenants worried about raising issues with a landlord, and signposts a free mediation service.", "canDo": [ "Advise on approaching your landlord", "Point you to the free landlord and tenant mediation service" ], "cannotDo": [ "Give independent legal advice — use Advice Portsmouth or Shelter" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Landlord and tenant mediation service", "when": "If both sides are willing to talk", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-tenants/landlord-and-tenant-mediation-service" }, { "body": "Shelter England", "when": "For independent housing advice", "url": "https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/private-tenants/renting-support", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Advice Portsmouth", "action": "Get free, independent advice (PO1–PO6 residents)", "url": "https://adviceportsmouth.org.uk/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9279 4340", "whyThem": "The council itself signposts Advice Portsmouth for independent housing, benefits, debt and employment advice.", "canDo": [ "General and specialist advice on social welfare, debt, benefits, employment, housing, family and consumer law" ], "cannotDo": [ "Serve residents outside the PO1–PO6 areas it states it covers" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://adviceportsmouth.org.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Phone published as \"02392 794 340\"." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "influence-policy": { "primary": { "body": "Your MP (Portsmouth North or Portsmouth South)", "action": "Ask your MP to raise national law or funding with ministers", "url": "https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "whyThem": "Tenancy law (the Renters' Rights Act 2025, possession grounds, the landlord database and ombudsman) is set by Parliament, not the council.", "canDo": [ "Write to or question ministers", "Raise the issue in Parliament", "Make representations on your behalf to UK government departments" ], "cannotDo": [ "Direct council officers or decide council spending", "Overturn a court, tribunal or council decision" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Location/Constituency/Search?searchText=Portsmouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Constituency/MP mapping from the Parliament members API; members.parliament.uk blocks scripted requests." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — petitions and consultations", "action": "Start or sign a petition, or respond to a current council consultation", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Petitions and consultations are the council's formal routes for residents to shape policy rather than individual cases.", "canDo": [ "Accept paper or e-petitions under the council's petition scheme", "Advise where a petition concerns another body" ], "cannotDo": [ "Guarantee a particular outcome — the scheme sets out how petitions are handled, not that they succeed" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Current council consultations", "when": "When the council is consulting on a plan, policy or project", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/current-consultations" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "Rent Repayment Orders (First-tier Tribunal)", "action": "Apply to recover rent where your landlord committed a qualifying offence", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rent-repayment-orders-guidance-for-tenants", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Where a landlord has committed certain offences (for example running an unlicensed HMO), tenants can apply to the tribunal themselves.", "canDo": [ "Order repayment of rent for qualifying offences" ], "cannotDo": [ "Order repairs" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Private Rented Sector Landlord Ombudsman", "when": "NOT YET OPEN on checkedOn — created by the Renters' Rights Act; council says \"later in 2026\", GOV.UK says \"as soon as possible after Royal Assent\".", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-the-renters-rights-act/guide-to-the-renters-rights-act" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rent-repayment-orders-guidance-for-tenants", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "action": "Complain to the LGSCO if the council mishandled your private-rented complaint", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "It is the independent, free final step for complaints about council services, adult social care and most council housing functions other than social housing.", "canDo": [ "Investigate fault in how the council acted and whether it caused you injustice", "Recommend apologies, payments or changes to council procedures" ], "cannotDo": [ "Look at your complaint before the council has had the chance to resolve it", "Overturn a decision the council made properly just because you disagree with it", "Investigate issues that carry their own right of appeal to a tribunal" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Requested https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint, redirected to /how-to-complain." } } } }, "gaps": [ { "status": "not-published", "item": "Launch date of the Private Rented Sector Landlord Ombudsman", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "GOV.UK Guide to the Renters' Rights Act", "council Renters' Rights Act page" ] } ] }, { "id": "planning-development", "label": "Planning and development", "examples": [ "Neighbour's extension", "New flats proposed", "Building work without permission" ], "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — Development Management", "action": "Comment on (support or object to) a planning application", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-applications-view-and-comment-online/how-to-view-and-comment-on-planning-applications", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9268 8832", "whyThem": "The council is the local planning authority and decides applications.", "canDo": [ "Weigh comments that raise planning issues: policy, design, neighbour amenity (light, privacy, noise), traffic and road safety", "Count named objections towards the threshold for a Planning Committee decision" ], "cannotDo": [ "Refuse a proposal simply because many people object", "Take account of property values, loss of view, covenants or ownership disputes", "Acknowledge or correspond on individual comments", "Take anonymous comments into account" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-applications-view-and-comment-online/how-to-view-and-comment-on-planning-applications", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Online search is at publicaccess.portsmouth.gov.uk (Azure WAF bot check — could not be verified by script or browser). Problems: planning.reps@portsmouthcc.gov.uk (the same page also shows planningreps@)." } }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — Planning Enforcement", "action": "Report a suspected breach of planning control in writing", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-enforcement", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Unauthorised building work is an enforcement matter, not an application comment.", "canDo": [ "Investigate written complaints and allocate a named case officer", "Act on breaches causing significant harm to amenity" ], "cannotDo": [ "Investigate anonymous complaints, except about listed buildings, conservation-area trees or TPO trees" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-enforcement", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Email planningenforcement@portsmouthcc.gov.uk." } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "Planning Inspectorate (via GOV.UK)", "action": "Appeal a refusal or conditions — applicants only; others can comment on the appeal", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-planning-decision", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Only the applicant (or someone on their behalf) can appeal a council planning decision; neighbours can comment once an appeal is made.", "canDo": [ "Decide appeals against refusal, conditions or non-determination (8 weeks; 13 for major projects)", "Take comments from interested parties" ], "cannotDo": [ "Hear an appeal from a neighbour or objector against a grant of permission" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Comment on an appeal", "when": "If an applicant has appealed and you want your view considered", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-planning-decision/comment-on-an-appeal" }, { "body": "High Court", "when": "If you think an appeal decision is legally incorrect", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-planning-decision/if-you-think-the-appeal-decision-is-legally-incorrect" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-planning-decision", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "action": "Complain to the LGSCO about how the council decided a neighbour's application", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint/fact-sheets/planning-and-building-control/your-neighbour-s-planning-application", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "No body can hear a neighbour's appeal against a grant, but the Ombudsman can look at fault in how the council decided it.", "canDo": [ "Investigate fault in how the council acted and whether it caused you injustice", "Recommend apologies, payments or changes to council procedures" ], "cannotDo": [ "Overturn the permission or order demolition", "Find fault just because you disagree with a properly made decision" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint/fact-sheets/planning-and-building-control/your-neighbour-s-planning-application", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it", "Help you register to speak at Planning Committee (only registered speakers are notified of the date)" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. Ward list confirmed from democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk." } } }, "influence-policy": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — Local Plan and planning policy", "action": "Respond to Local Plan and planning policy consultations", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-policy/portsmouth-local-plan", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Individual decisions follow the Local Plan, so the plan is where residents shape what gets approved.", "canDo": [ "Consult on the Local Plan and supplementary planning documents under its Statement of Community Involvement" ], "cannotDo": [ "Override national planning policy, which is set by government" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-applications-view-and-comment-online", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. Ward list confirmed from democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk." } } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "action": "Ask the Ombudsman to investigate once the council complaints process is finished", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint/fact-sheets/planning-and-building-control", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "It is the independent, free final step for complaints about council services, adult social care and most council housing functions other than social housing.", "canDo": [ "Investigate fault in how the council acted and whether it caused you injustice", "Recommend apologies, payments or changes to council procedures" ], "cannotDo": [ "Look at your complaint before the council has had the chance to resolve it", "Overturn a decision the council made properly just because you disagree with it", "Investigate issues that carry their own right of appeal to a tribunal" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint/fact-sheets/planning-and-building-control", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } } } }, { "id": "schools-send-social-care", "label": "Schools, SEND and social care", "examples": [ "Refused a school place", "EHC plan refused or wrong", "Worried about a child", "Care for an older relative" ], "emergency": [ { "text": "A child or adult in immediate danger", "number": "999", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/adult-social-care/adult-safeguarding/report-a-concern-about-an-adult", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Worried a child is being abused or neglected (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub)", "number": "023 9268 8793", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/children-and-families/keeping-children-safe", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } ], "overlap": "Schools handle most SEN support themselves; the council becomes responsible once a child is being assessed for, or has, an EHC plan. Academies and free schools are their own admission authorities, so complaints about their appeal process go to the Department for Education, not the Ombudsman.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — School Admissions", "action": "Apply for a school place or join a waiting list", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/schools-and-learning/schools/admissions/waiting-list-and-appeals-for-a-school-place", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9268 8008", "whyThem": "The council co-ordinates admissions and waiting lists for Portsmouth schools.", "canDo": [ "Keep your child on waiting lists for refused schools" ], "cannotDo": [ "Keep a child on a waiting list if you do not respond by the deadline" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/schools-and-learning/schools/admissions/waiting-list-and-appeals-for-a-school-place", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — Adult Social Care helpdesk", "action": "Report a concern about an adult or ask for care support", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/adult-social-care/adult-safeguarding/report-a-concern-about-an-adult", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9268 0810", "whyThem": "Adult social care and adult safeguarding are council duties.", "canDo": [ "Take safeguarding referrals for yourself, family, friends or neighbours" ], "cannotDo": [ "Replace 999 where someone is in immediate danger" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/adult-social-care/adult-safeguarding/report-a-concern-about-an-adult", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Out-of-hours social care: Hampshire Out of Hours, published as 023 9268 8793 — the same number the children's page gives for MASH." } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability)", "action": "Appeal an EHC needs assessment or EHC plan decision", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-ehc-plan-decision", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Refusals to assess, refusals to issue a plan, the content of a plan and ceasing a plan all carry a statutory right of appeal to the tribunal.", "canDo": [ "Order changes to education sections (B, F, I) of an EHC plan", "Order an assessment or a plan" ], "cannotDo": [ "Hear most appeals without a mediation certificate (not needed if the appeal is only about the named school, section I)" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "Appeal must reach the tribunal within 2 months of the council's decision letter, or 1 month from the mediation certificate, whichever is later.", "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-ehc-plan-decision/appeal-as-a-parent", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-ehc-plan-decision/before-you-appeal", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Independent school admission appeal panel", "action": "Appeal a refused school place", "url": "https://schoolappeals.portsmouth.gov.uk/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Every refusal carries a right of appeal to an independent panel following the School Admission Appeals Code.", "canDo": [ "Uphold the appeal if admission criteria were not properly followed, or if your case outweighs the school's" ], "cannotDo": [ "Usually uphold infant class size appeals (Reception to Year 2), which have restricted legal grounds" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "At least 20 school days to lodge an appeal; at least 10 school days' notice of the hearing; hearing within 40 school days of the appeal deadline; decision usually within 5 school days.", "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/schools-admissions/appealing-a-schools-decision", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "when": "Complaint about the appeal PROCESS for a maintained school (not the decision)", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/how-to-complain" }, { "body": "Department for Education", "when": "Complaint about the appeal process for an academy or free school", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/schools-admissions/complain-about-the-appeals-process" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/schools-and-learning/schools/admissions/waiting-list-and-appeals-for-a-school-place", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council notes no successful infant class size appeals for Portsmouth schools in previous years." } } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth SENDIASS (run by Barnardo's)", "action": "Get free, impartial advice on SEND, EHC plans and appeals", "url": "https://barnardossendiass.org.uk/portsmouth-sendiass/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9323 3656", "whyThem": "The statutory SEND information, advice and support service for Portsmouth parents, carers and young people aged 0–25, independent of council decisions.", "canDo": [ "Explain SEND law and your options", "Support you through EHC processes and meetings" ], "cannotDo": [ "Make or change EHC decisions" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://portsmouthlocaloffer.org/services/portsmouth-send-information-advice-and-support-service-send-iass/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "supporting": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. Ward list confirmed from democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk." } } }, "influence-policy": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth SEND Local Offer (council)", "action": "Take part in SEND co-production and strategy consultation", "url": "https://portsmouthlocaloffer.org/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "The council publishes its SEND and alternative provision strategy and involvement strategy through the Local Offer.", "canDo": [ "Shape local SEND services through participation and co-production" ], "cannotDo": [ "Change national SEND law or the high-needs funding formula" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/schools-and-learning/schools/special-educational-needs-send", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Your MP (Portsmouth North or Portsmouth South)", "action": "Ask your MP to raise national law or funding with ministers", "url": "https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "whyThem": "SEND law (Children and Families Act 2014) and school and high-needs funding are national, so they are genuinely MP matters.", "canDo": [ "Write to or question ministers", "Raise the issue in Parliament", "Make representations on your behalf to UK government departments" ], "cannotDo": [ "Direct council officers or decide council spending", "Overturn a court, tribunal or council decision" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Location/Constituency/Search?searchText=Portsmouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Constituency/MP mapping from the Parliament members API; members.parliament.uk blocks scripted requests." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman", "action": "Complain to the LGSCO about EHC delays, undelivered EHC provision or social care", "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint/fact-sheets/education/special-educational-needs", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "It is the independent, free final step for complaints about council services, adult social care and most council housing functions other than social housing.", "canDo": [ "Investigate delays in EHC assessment and annual reviews", "Investigate failure to secure provision in an EHC plan", "Investigate children's and adult social care complaints after the council process" ], "cannotDo": [ "Investigate decisions that carry a right of appeal to the SEND Tribunal", "Investigate the school's own actions (only the council's)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.lgo.org.uk/make-a-complaint/fact-sheets/education/special-educational-needs", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Department for Education", "action": "Complain to DfE after completing a school's own complaints procedure", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-school/state-schools", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Complaints about schools themselves (not council decisions) go to the school, then DfE.", "canDo": [ "Consider whether the school handled your complaint correctly" ], "cannotDo": [ "Deal with term-time holiday fines, compensation or staff behaviour" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-school/state-schools", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } } } }, { "id": "benefits-pensions-immigration", "label": "Benefits, pensions, tax and immigration", "examples": [ "Universal Credit decision", "PIP refused", "HMRC delay", "Visa refused or delayed" ], "overlap": "Most benefits are DWP; Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support are the council's. Tax is HMRC; immigration is the Home Office (UK Visas and Immigration). This is the area where an MP genuinely has a formal role — on individual cases with government departments and as the gateway to the Parliamentary Ombudsman.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "Department for Work and Pensions", "action": "Claim Universal Credit online", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/how-to-claim", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "DWP decides most working-age benefits and the State Pension.", "canDo": [ "Decide entitlement", "Reconsider its decision on request" ], "cannotDo": [ "Decide Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support — those are the council's" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/how-to-claim", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — benefits", "action": "Apply for Housing Benefit, Council Tax Support or the Crisis and Resilience Fund", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/benefits-and-money-advice", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "These locally administered schemes are council decisions.", "canDo": [ "Assess Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support", "Offer hardship support" ], "cannotDo": [ "Decide DWP benefits" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/benefits-and-money-advice", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "Department for Work and Pensions — mandatory reconsideration", "action": "Ask DWP to look again at a benefit decision", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/mandatory-reconsideration", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "For most benefits you must ask for mandatory reconsideration before you can appeal to the independent tribunal.", "canDo": [ "Change the decision" ], "cannotDo": [ "Usually accept requests more than one month after the decision without a good reason" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "Request within one month of the date on the decision letter.", "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/mandatory-reconsideration", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Social Security and Child Support Tribunal", "when": "After mandatory reconsideration, normally within one month", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/appeal-benefit-decision" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/mandatory-reconsideration", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "HMRC / Home Office decision reviews", "action": "Challenge a tax decision, or ask for an immigration administrative review or tribunal appeal", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/tax-appeals", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Tax and immigration decisions have their own review and tribunal routes — a complaint is the wrong tool for disputing a decision.", "canDo": [ "Review or reverse the decision" ], "cannotDo": [ "Be replaced by a service complaint (HMRC says complaints are only for poor service)" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Visa administrative review", "when": "If your visa decision letter offers it", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/ask-for-a-visa-administrative-review" }, { "body": "First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)", "when": "If your decision carries a right of appeal", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/immigration-asylum-tribunal" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-hmrc", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Citizens Advice Portsmouth", "action": "Get free advice and help preparing your case", "url": "https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/contact-us/local-citizens-advice/0014K000009EMLyQAO/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9400 6600", "whyThem": "Independent, free advice across benefits, debt, housing, employment and consumer problems, with a drop-in office in the city centre (Ark Royal House, PO1 2GF).", "canDo": [ "Explain your rights and options", "Help you write letters, complaints and appeals" ], "cannotDo": [ "Make decisions on your case — the deciding body remains the council, DWP, employer or trader" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/contact-us/local-citizens-advice/0014K000009EMLyQAO/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "supporting": { "body": "Your MP (Portsmouth North or Portsmouth South)", "action": "Ask your MP to make representations to DWP, HMRC or the Home Office on your case", "url": "https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "whyThem": "MPs routinely take up individual cases with UK government departments; they cannot decide them.", "canDo": [ "Write to or question ministers", "Raise the issue in Parliament", "Make representations on your behalf to UK government departments" ], "cannotDo": [ "Direct council officers or decide council spending", "Overturn a court, tribunal or council decision" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Find a regulated immigration adviser", "when": "For immigration advice (advisers must be regulated)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/find-an-immigration-adviser" } ], "source": { "url": "https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Location/Constituency/Search?searchText=Portsmouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Constituency/MP mapping from the Parliament members API; members.parliament.uk blocks scripted requests." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "influence-policy": { "primary": { "body": "Your MP (Portsmouth North or Portsmouth South)", "action": "Ask your MP to raise national law or funding with ministers", "url": "https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "whyThem": "Only Parliament and government can change national law and national funding formulas; the MP's role is to scrutinise ministers and make representations.", "canDo": [ "Write to or question ministers", "Raise the issue in Parliament", "Make representations on your behalf to UK government departments" ], "cannotDo": [ "Direct council officers or decide council spending", "Overturn a court, tribunal or council decision" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Location/Constituency/Search?searchText=Portsmouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Constituency/MP mapping from the Parliament members API; members.parliament.uk blocks scripted requests." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "Independent Case Examiner (DWP) / Adjudicator's Office (HMRC) / Independent Examiner of Complaints (Home Office)", "action": "Take a finished departmental complaint to its independent second-tier reviewer", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/independent-case-examiner", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Each department has a named independent reviewer that must be used before the Parliamentary Ombudsman.", "canDo": [ "Review how the department handled your complaint" ], "cannotDo": [ "Re-decide benefit, tax or visa entitlement — use the appeal routes" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "Home Office: UKVI replies within 20 working days; ask for a review within one month; escalate to the IEC within 3 months of the review response. DWP says it currently cannot meet its usual 15 working days.", "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about/complaints-procedure", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "DWP clause from the DWP complaints procedure page (source below)." } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Adjudicator's Office (HMRC)", "when": "After HMRC first- and second-tier reviews", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-complain-to-the-adjudicators-office-about-hmrc-or-the-voa" }, { "body": "Independent Examiner of Complaints (Home Office)", "when": "Within 3 months of UKVI's review response", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/make-a-complaint-to-the-independent-examiner-of-complaints" }, { "body": "Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman — via your MP", "when": "After a UK government department's own complaints process (and any second-tier reviewer) is finished. By law the Ombudsman can only look at complaints about government departments if an MP refers them.", "url": "https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/making-complaint/before-you-come-to-us" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions/about/complaints-procedure", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "The Pensions Ombudsman", "action": "Complain about a workplace or personal pension scheme", "url": "https://www.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Private and workplace pension disputes are outside DWP; State Pension complaints follow the DWP route above.", "canDo": [ "Investigate pension scheme complaints" ], "cannotDo": [ "Deal with State Pension decisions" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } } } }, { "id": "gp-dentist-hospital", "label": "GP, dentist and hospital access", "examples": [ "Cannot get a GP appointment", "No NHS dentist", "Problem with care at QA Hospital" ], "emergency": [ { "text": "Life-threatening emergency", "number": "999", "source": { "url": "https://111.nhs.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Urgent medical help that is not an emergency (NHS 111)", "number": "111", "source": { "url": "https://111.nhs.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } ], "overlap": "NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight (the integrated care board) commissions GP, dental, pharmacy, optometry and hospital services; practices and trusts provide them. For a complaint you choose EITHER the provider OR the ICB — you cannot complain to both.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "NHS (nhs.uk)", "action": "Find and register with a GP surgery, or find a dentist offering NHS appointments", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "GP and dental practices are independent contractors; you apply to them directly.", "canDo": [ "Show practices near you" ], "cannotDo": [ "Guarantee a dental practice is taking NHS patients" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Find a dentist", "when": "For NHS dental appointments", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-dentist" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/gps/how-to-register-with-a-gp-surgery/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight (ICB) — Patient Experience", "action": "Ask the ICB where you can get an NHS dental appointment if you cannot find one", "url": "https://www.hantsiow.icb.nhs.uk/patient-experience", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "0300 561 2561", "whyThem": "nhs.uk says the local ICB manages dental services and may be able to tell you where to get an appointment.", "canDo": [ "Advise on local NHS dental access", "Take complaints about services it commissions" ], "cannotDo": [ "Guarantee an appointment" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/how-to-find-an-nhs-dentist/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "ICB email hiowicb-hsi.patientexperience@nhs.net; phone is an answerphone." } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "The NHS provider (GP practice, dentist or hospital trust)", "action": "Make a complaint to the practice or trust — or to the ICB, but not both", "url": "https://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/feedback-and-complaints/complaint/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "The provider has your records and staff involved, so it can usually resolve things fastest.", "canDo": [ "Investigate and respond, with details of your right to go to the Ombudsman" ], "cannotDo": [ "Normally consider complaints more than 12 months after the event or after you became aware" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight (ICB)", "when": "Instead of the provider (not as well as), e.g. if you would rather not complain directly", "url": "https://www.hantsiow.icb.nhs.uk/patient-experience" }, { "body": "Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman", "when": "At the end of the local NHS process — no MP referral needed for NHS complaints", "url": "https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/making-complaint" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/feedback-and-complaints/complaint/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Requested nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/how-to-complain-to-the-nhs/, redirected here." } } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust — PALS", "action": "Ask the Patient Advice and Liaison Service to help resolve a hospital problem", "url": "https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/coming-phu/patient-experience/patient-advice-liaison-service", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "PALS can often resolve Queen Alexandra Hospital problems informally and explains how to complain if not.", "canDo": [ "Resolve issues informally", "Explain the complaints procedure and independent help" ], "cannotDo": [ "Investigate serious matters — it may suggest a formal complaint" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/coming-phu/patient-experience/patient-advice-liaison-service", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Email pho-tr.phtpals@nhs.net; hospital switchboard 023 9228 6000 when PALS is closed." } }, "supporting": { "body": "NHS complaints advocacy — The Advocacy People (via Healthwatch Portsmouth)", "action": "Get free, independent help to make an NHS complaint", "url": "https://www.healthwatchportsmouth.co.uk/help-making-a-complaint", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "NHS complaints advocacy is a statutory right; Healthwatch Portsmouth names The Advocacy People as the local provider.", "canDo": [ "Support you at any stage of an NHS complaint" ], "cannotDo": [ "Decide the complaint" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.healthwatchportsmouth.co.uk/help-making-a-complaint", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "influence-policy": { "primary": { "body": "Healthwatch Portsmouth", "action": "Share your experience so it feeds into how local services are planned", "url": "https://www.healthwatchportsmouth.co.uk/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Healthwatch is the independent statutory body for patient feedback on local health and care services.", "canDo": [ "Gather and report patient experience to commissioners" ], "cannotDo": [ "Investigate individual complaints" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/feedback-and-complaints/complaint/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Your MP (Portsmouth North or Portsmouth South)", "action": "Ask your MP to raise national law or funding with ministers", "url": "https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "whyThem": "NHS funding, workforce and the GP and dental contracts are set nationally, so they are genuinely MP matters.", "canDo": [ "Write to or question ministers", "Raise the issue in Parliament", "Make representations on your behalf to UK government departments" ], "cannotDo": [ "Direct council officers or decide council spending", "Overturn a court, tribunal or council decision" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Location/Constituency/Search?searchText=Portsmouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Constituency/MP mapping from the Parliament members API; members.parliament.uk blocks scripted requests." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman", "action": "Ask the Ombudsman to review your NHS complaint", "url": "https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/making-complaint", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "It makes final decisions on unresolved NHS complaints in England and is independent of the NHS.", "canDo": [ "Investigate after the local NHS process has finished" ], "cannotDo": [ "Start before you have complained to the NHS organisation" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/making-complaint/before-you-come-to-us", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "PHSO notes long waits due to high volumes." } } } } }, { "id": "crime-asb", "label": "Crime and antisocial behaviour", "examples": [ "Burglary", "Noisy neighbours", "Drug dealing on my street", "Repeated harassment" ], "emergency": [ { "text": "Immediate danger to life, violence, or a crime happening now", "number": "999", "source": { "url": "https://www.hampshire.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Non-emergency police", "number": "101", "source": { "url": "https://www.hampshire.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } ], "overlap": "Antisocial behaviour is shared: police for crime and patterns of ASB, the council for noise, nuisance and civil ASB powers (Portsmouth Homes housing officers for council tenants). The ASB case review brings the agencies together.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary", "action": "Report a crime or antisocial behaviour online, or call 101", "url": "https://www.hampshire.police.uk/ro/report/", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "phone": "101", "whyThem": "Crime and patterns of ASB are police matters; one-off low-level ASB is unlikely to get an immediate police response.", "canDo": [ "Investigate crime", "Act on patterns of ASB, drug dealing, harassment and criminal damage" ], "cannotDo": [ "Deal with noise nuisance — that is the council's environmental health role" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.hampshire.police.uk/ro/report/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — antisocial behaviour team", "action": "Report antisocial behaviour or a noise nuisance to the council", "url": "https://my.portsmouth.gov.uk/en/AchieveForms/?form_uri=sandbox-publish://AF-Process-5976ea93-e147-4091-9c62-9d0e2f0a33fb/AF-Stage-0017b30e-4884-4ea4-909e-2c92e286ac45/definition.json&redirectlink=%2Fen&cancelRedirectLink=%2Fen&consentMessage=yes", "urlCheck": "form-shell-200", "landingUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/community-safety/anti-social-behaviour", "whyThem": "The council handles noise, nuisance and civil ASB interventions; Portsmouth Homes tenants report to their housing officer.", "canDo": [ "Investigate noise and nuisance", "Use formal ASB interventions", "Deploy community wardens" ], "cannotDo": [ "Respond to crime in progress — call 999" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/community-safety/anti-social-behaviour", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Email safecleantidy@portsmouthcc.gov.uk." } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary — Professional Standards", "action": "Complain about the police", "url": "https://www.hampshire.police.uk/fo/feedback/complaints/complaints/complain-about-the-police/", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "phone": "101", "whyThem": "All police complaints start with the force (the IOPC passes complaints back to the force for the initial stage).", "canDo": [ "Investigate and give a written outcome with your right of review" ], "cannotDo": [ "Handle a complaint about the Chief Constable — that goes to the Police and Crime Commissioner" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Police and Crime Commissioner or IOPC (review)", "when": "Within 28 days of the outcome letter; the letter says which body reviews your case", "url": "https://www.hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/contact-us/complaints-and-reviews" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.hampshire.police.uk/fo/feedback/complaints/complaints/unhappy-complaint-outcome/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. Ward list confirmed from democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk." } } }, "influence-policy": { "primary": { "body": "Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commissioner", "action": "Raise policing priorities with the PCC, who sets the Police and Crime Plan", "url": "https://www.hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/commissioner/police-crime-plan", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "The elected PCC sets local policing priorities (Police and Crime Plan 2024–2028) and holds the Chief Constable to account.", "canDo": [ "Set policing priorities and budget", "Carry out independent reviews of some police complaint outcomes" ], "cannotDo": [ "Direct operational policing of individual cases", "Set sentencing, which is national law applied by courts" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "supporting": { "body": "Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority (future Mayor)", "action": "Note: policing governance is expected to move to the Hampshire and Solent Mayor", "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/public-safety/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "HSCCA states the Mayor (first elected May 2028) will become accountable for PCC and fire authority functions, subject to secondary legislation.", "canDo": [ "Nothing yet on policing — the transfer has not happened" ], "cannotDo": [ "Take local ASB or crime reports" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://hantsandsolent-ca.gov.uk/what-will-the-hscca-do/public-safety/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "status": "official-proposal", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "ASB case review (police, council and partners)", "action": "Request an ASB case review if repeated reports have not been acted on", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/community-safety/anti-social-behaviour/case-review", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "101", "whyThem": "It gives repeat victims a legal right to have agencies review the action taken, if the threshold is met.", "canDo": [ "Make agencies share information, review action so far and decide further action" ], "cannotDo": [ "Start unless the threshold is met: 3 or more reports by one person in 6 months, or 5 people reporting similar incidents (with consent); each incident reported within one month; latest within the last 6 months" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/community-safety/anti-social-behaviour/case-review", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Police say call 101 first; council also accepts safecleantidy@portsmouthcc.gov.uk (non-council-tenants) and housing officers (Portsmouth Homes tenants). Published: 2024 — 1 application, 1 review." } }, "supporting": { "body": "Independent Office for Police Conduct", "action": "Ask for a review of a serious police complaint outcome", "url": "https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/complaints/reviews-and-appeals", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "The IOPC reviews the more serious complaint outcomes; the PCC reviews the rest.", "canDo": [ "Review whether the outcome was reasonable and proportionate" ], "cannotDo": [ "Take a review if your outcome letter names the PCC as the review body" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/contact-us/complaints-and-reviews", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } } } }, { "id": "water-sewage-bathing", "label": "Water, sewage and bathing water", "examples": [ "Sewage in the sea", "Sewer flooding", "No water or low pressure", "Water bill dispute" ], "emergency": [ { "text": "Pollution incident (including sewage in the sea or a river) — Environment Agency, 24 hours", "number": "0800 80 70 60", "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-water-pollution", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Report a pollution to Southern Water", "number": "0800 952 1001", "source": { "url": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/help-and-support/report-a-pollution/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, { "text": "Portsmouth Water (drinking water supply)", "number": "023 9249 9888", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouthwater.co.uk/contact-us/emergency-guide/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } ], "overlap": "Two companies: Portsmouth Water supplies drinking water; Southern Water is the sewerage undertaker for the city. The Environment Agency regulates discharges and bathing water; the council's contractor Colas clears road drains, which are not sewers.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "Environment Agency", "action": "Report sewage or pollution in the sea or a river", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-water-pollution", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "0800 80 70 60", "whyThem": "The Environment Agency regulates discharges and pollution incidents.", "canDo": [ "Review every report and decide whether to act" ], "cannotDo": [ "Give you updates on your report", "Deal with rubbish in water (report that to the council)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/report-water-pollution", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Southern Water", "action": "Report a sewer problem, sewer flooding or a pollution", "url": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/report-a-problem/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "0330 303 0368", "whyThem": "Southern Water owns and runs the public sewers in Portsmouth.", "canDo": [ "Fix sewer blockages and pollutions", "Report pollutions to the Environment Agency" ], "cannotDo": [ "Deal with your drinking water supply in Portsmouth — that is Portsmouth Water" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://media.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Statement-of-Common-Ground-PCC_Southern-Water-Septemeber-2024-FINAL-signed.pdf", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "\"Southern Water is the sewerage undertaker for the City of Portsmouth.\"" } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "Your water company (Southern Water for sewerage, Portsmouth Water for supply)", "action": "Complain to the company about a bill or service", "url": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/media/es2nv1z1/our-complaints-procedure.pdf", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "0330 303 0223", "whyThem": "CCW will pass your complaint back unless the company has had the chance to resolve it first.", "canDo": [ "Correct bills", "Pay guaranteed-standards compensation where owed" ], "cannotDo": [ "Be bypassed — CCW requires the company process first" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "Southern Water: complaints by post and email answered within 10 working days.", "source": { "url": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/media/es2nv1z1/our-complaints-procedure.pdf", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Consumer Council for Water (CCW)", "when": "If the company has not resolved it", "url": "https://www.ccw.org.uk/contact-us/" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/media/es2nv1z1/our-complaints-procedure.pdf", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "southernwater.co.uk/contact-us/our-complaints-procedure/ redirects to the general contact page; the PDF is the published procedure." } }, "supporting": { "body": "Portsmouth Water", "action": "Complain about your drinking water supply or bill", "url": "https://www.portsmouthwater.co.uk/customer-services/complaints-about-our-service/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "023 9249 9888", "whyThem": "Portsmouth Water, not Southern Water, supplies drinking water in the city.", "canDo": [ "Resolve supply and billing problems" ], "cannotDo": [ "Deal with sewers or sewage discharges" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "No water after recent works: Portsmouth Water says it will work to resolve within 5 working days.", "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouthwater.co.uk/contact-us/emergency-guide/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "CCW", "when": "If Portsmouth Water does not resolve it", "url": "https://www.ccw.org.uk/contact-us/" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouthwater.co.uk/customer-services/complaints-about-our-service/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Consumer Council for Water (CCW)", "action": "Ask CCW to take up your complaint with the water company", "url": "https://www.ccw.org.uk/contact-us/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "phone": "0300 034 2222", "whyThem": "CCW is the free, independent statutory voice for water customers.", "canDo": [ "Advise you and take up your complaint with the company" ], "cannotDo": [ "Take a complaint the company has not yet seen" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouthwater.co.uk/customer-services/complaints-about-our-service/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "influence-policy": { "primary": { "body": "Your MP (Portsmouth North or Portsmouth South)", "action": "Ask your MP to raise national law or funding with ministers", "url": "https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "whyThem": "The legal framework for sewage discharges and the reform of water regulation are set by Parliament and Defra.", "canDo": [ "Write to or question ministers", "Raise the issue in Parliament", "Make representations on your behalf to UK government departments" ], "cannotDo": [ "Direct council officers or decide council spending", "Overturn a court, tribunal or council decision" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Location/Constituency/Search?searchText=Portsmouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Constituency/MP mapping from the Parliament members API; members.parliament.uk blocks scripted requests." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "status": "fact" }, "supporting": { "body": "Ofwat (economic regulator) — being replaced", "action": "Raise systemic company performance with the regulator (not individual complaints)", "url": "https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/households/", "urlCheck": "browser-verified", "whyThem": "Ofwat sets what companies can spend and charge; the government has announced it will be replaced by a single water regulator and a new Water Ombudsman.", "canDo": [ "Regulate company finances and performance" ], "cannotDo": [ "Deal with individual consumer complaints (Ofwat says so itself)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/water-reform-a-new-vision-for-water/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Reform status: white paper; Transition Plan and Water Reform Bill to follow. Read in a browser (Cloudflare)." }, "status": "official-proposal", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "escalate-failed-complaint": { "primary": { "body": "Water Redress Scheme (WATRS)", "action": "Ask WATRS for a final, independent decision after CCW", "url": "http://watrs.org/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Southern Water's published procedure names WATRS as the final step after CCW.", "canDo": [ "Make a final adjudication on a water company complaint" ], "cannotDo": [ "Hear a complaint before the company and CCW stages" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/media/es2nv1z1/our-complaints-procedure.pdf", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "https://watrs.org failed (no response over HTTPS); http://watrs.org returned 200." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } } }, "gaps": [ { "status": "not-published", "item": "Start date for the proposed Water Ombudsman and single water regulator", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "Commons Library \"Water reform: A new vision for water\"", "ofwat.gov.uk households pages", "ccw.org.uk home" ] } ] }, { "id": "buses-connectivity", "label": "Buses and regional connectivity", "examples": [ "Bus did not turn up", "Route withdrawn", "Bus pass", "Better links to the rest of the region" ], "overlap": "Bus services are run by operators (First Solent and Stagecoach South); the council runs the Bus Service Improvement Plan with them, issues concessionary passes and prepares the Local Transport Plan. HSCCA says it will take on regional transport planning, bus strategy and (for the Mayor) any future franchising.", "routes": { "report-or-apply": { "primary": { "body": "The bus operator (First Bus or Stagecoach)", "action": "Send a complaint or feedback to the company that runs the bus", "url": "https://www.firstbus.co.uk/help-support/complaints-feedback/send-complaint-or-feedback", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Operators run and are responsible for the services, timetables and staff.", "canDo": [ "Investigate service problems; CCTV is typically held for only 7 or 14 days, so complain promptly" ], "cannotDo": [ "Answer for another operator's services" ], "responseStandard": { "text": "First Bus: case reference within 2 working days; full response aimed within 7–14 working days.", "source": { "url": "https://www.firstbus.co.uk/help-support/complaints-feedback/customer-complaints-charter", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Bus Users UK", "when": "After giving the operator 14 working days", "url": "https://bususers.org/make-a-complaint/" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/parking-roads-and-travel/travel/public-transport-information/bus-and-coach-services-in-portsmouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "supporting": { "body": "Stagecoach", "action": "Use the Stagecoach complaint form", "url": "https://www.stagecoachbus.com/help-and-contact/forms/complaint-form", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Stagecoach South is the city's other main operator.", "canDo": [ "Investigate Stagecoach service problems" ], "cannotDo": [ "Answer for First Bus services" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Bus Users UK", "when": "After giving the operator 14 working days", "url": "https://bususers.org/make-a-complaint/" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.stagecoachbus.com/help-and-contact/feedback-enquiries-and-advertising", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "challenge-a-decision": { "primary": { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — concessionary travel", "action": "Apply for (or query) an older person's, disabled person's or companion bus pass", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/parking-roads-and-travel/travel/public-transport-information/bus-and-coach-services-in-portsmouth", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "The council issues concessionary passes; a refusal is a council decision.", "canDo": [ "Issue passes (older persons: free travel 9am to 2am weekdays, all day weekends and bank holidays)" ], "cannotDo": [ "Change bus routes or timetables, which operators decide" ], "escalateTo": [ { "body": "Portsmouth City Council — corporate complaints", "when": "If you disagree with a pass decision", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/complaints/how-to-submit-a-complaint" } ], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/parking-roads-and-travel/travel/public-transport-information/bus-and-coach-services-in-portsmouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } } }, "casework-help": { "primary": { "body": "Bus Users UK", "action": "Ask Bus Users UK to take up an unresolved bus complaint", "url": "https://bususers.org/make-a-complaint/", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "It is the independent complaints body for bus passengers once the operator has had its chance.", "canDo": [ "Forward your complaint to the operator and broker a solution", "Refer to an independent panel" ], "cannotDo": [ "Take your complaint before the operator has had 14 working days" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://bususers.org/complaints-process/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "supporting": { "body": "Your ward councillors (3 per ward, 14 wards)", "action": "Ask your ward councillor to take up your case or raise it with the council", "url": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx", "urlCheck": "http-200", "whyThem": "Councillors do ward casework and set council policy and budget, so they can chase officers on a council matter and raise patterns with the relevant Cabinet member or a scrutiny panel.", "canDo": [ "Raise your case with council officers and ask for an explanation", "Act as your representative in a council complaint (with your consent)", "Raise an issue with the relevant executive (Cabinet) member or ask a scrutiny committee to look at it" ], "cannotDo": [ "Instruct officers to overturn a decision taken under a statutory process", "Decide matters that belong to another body (NHS, police, water companies, government departments)" ], "escalateTo": [], "source": { "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/your-say/petitions-and-e-petitions/introduction-to-petitions", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Council lists ward councillor, executive member, scrutiny committee and complaint as alternatives to a petition. 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Do not log, store, or send the postcode to our own servers or analytics, and never put it in our own URL query strings. The postcode does go to postcodes.io as part of the request path.", "fields": { "ward": "result.admin_ward", "wardCode": "result.codes.admin_ward", "constituency": "result.parliamentary_constituency", "constituencyCode": "result.codes.parliamentary_constituency", "constituency2024": "result.parliamentary_constituency_2024", "district": "result.admin_district", "districtCode": "result.codes.admin_district", "icb": "result.icb", "policeForceArea": "result.pfa" }, "inPortsmouthTest": "result.codes.admin_district === \"E06000044\"", "notFound": "HTTP 404 with { status: 404, error: \"Postcode not found\" }", "wardNameMatching": "postcodes.io writes \"Eastney and Craneswater\"; democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk writes \"Eastney & Craneswater\" (also \"Drayton & Farlington\"). 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It is not legal advice. Time limits shown are the ones each body publishes; always check your own decision letter, which may give a different deadline." }, "portsmouth-send-funding": { "BOTH_READINGS_NOTE": "Both readings are consistent with the published data and this site does not choose between them, because nothing published resolves it. What would resolve it is the council's own account of why the high needs block was underspent in those years — which is not published, and is a fair question for a councillor or MP to ask.", "COMPARATOR_GAP": "Southampton's and Hampshire's DSG balances are not compared here. DSG reserve positions are published in each authority's statement of accounts and Section 251 outturn rather than in any central dataset, and neither was retrieved for this page. Requests for both have been made. Until they are answered, Portsmouth's surplus is stated without a like-for-like local comparison, rather than against an estimate.", "DSG_BALANCE": [ { "period": "March 2024", "balance": 11.5 }, { "period": "March 2025", "balance": 11.1 }, { "period": "March 2026 (draft)", "balance": 8 }, { "period": "2026/27 (budgeted)", "balance": -4.5, "note": "First budgeted deficit" } ], "DSG_CORROBORATION": "The absence of a \"DSG Adjustment Account\" in Portsmouth's unusable reserves independently corroborates the surplus — that negative reserve is what every deficit authority is required to carry, and Portsmouth does not have one.", "OUTCOME_COMPARISON": [ { "measure": "Severe absence (missing half of school or more)", "portsmouth": "3.55%", "southampton": "3.36%", "hampshire": "2.44%", "period": "2024/25", "portsmouthWorst": true }, { "measure": "Persistent absence", "portsmouth": "19.74%", "southampton": "21.40%", "hampshire": "15.77%", "period": "2024/25", "portsmouthWorst": false }, { "measure": "Pupils holding an EHC plan", "portsmouth": "7.17%", "southampton": "6.72%", "hampshire": "7.37%", "period": "Jan 2026", "portsmouthWorst": false }, { "measure": "EHC plans issued within the 20-week deadline", "portsmouth": "42.9%", "southampton": "Not retrieved", "hampshire": "Not retrieved", "period": "2025", "portsmouthWorst": false } ], "OVERRIDE_AND_MERGER": { "overrideEnds": "31 March 2028", "headline": "The DSG override ends 31 March 2028. What happens to Portsmouth's position after that is unsettled.", "detail": "A statutory override currently keeps DSG deficits off councils' main revenue budgets. It ends on 31 March 2028 under Regulation 30L of the Local Authorities (Capital Finance and Accounting) (England) Regulations 2003. Government has confirmed that in-year deficits from April 2028 become its responsibility, but has made no commitment to fund accumulated deficits existing at that date.", "mergerPoint": "Under the March 2026 reorganisation decision, Portsmouth City Council would have been abolished on 1 April 2028 — the day after the override ends — and its DSG position would have transferred into a new South East unitary alongside those of Fareham, Gosport and Havant. That decision was withdrawn on 7 September 2026 and the programme is under government review, so the council continues for now. Portsmouth is budgeting its first deficit in 2026/27.", "question": "Whether accumulated DSG positions would be netted, written off or carried into any successor authority is not published. For a city that has been in surplus, that remains a material question if reorganisation returns." }, "READING_FAVOURABLE": { "title": "Reading one: the money was managed well", "points": [ "Portsmouth avoided the accumulated deficit that engulfed most authorities, so it would enter any reorganisation without a liability its partners may carry.", "Its EHCP rate has risen sharply to 7.17%, above Southampton, which is consistent with need being identified and met.", "Timeliness recovered from 1.6% in 2023 to 42.9% in 2025, close to the England average, which is consistent with a backlog being cleared rather than ignored.", "Persistent absence is lower than Southampton's." ] }, "READING_UNFAVOURABLE": { "title": "Reading two: the money went unspent while need went unmet", "points": [ "Portsmouth held the LOWEST EHCP rate of the three authorities from 2021/22 to 2024/25 — below both Southampton and Hampshire — in the same years it was carrying an £11m surplus. A surplus alongside comparatively few plans is what under-identification would also look like.", "Severe absence is the highest of the three and has risen every single year, from 1.69% to 3.55%. Severe absence is the nearest measured proxy for unmet need, including emotionally based school avoidance.", "EHC plan timeliness collapsed to 1.6% in 2023 and remains below the England average. Children waiting for a plan are children not receiving the provision the grant funds.", "A surplus is an accounting outcome, not a service outcome. Money not spent on high needs is money that did not reach a child in that year." ] }, "SAFETY_VALVE_CORRECTION": "The DfE Safety Valve intervention programme, which this site previously cited, closed on 1 April 2026 and was replaced by the high needs stability grant. Membership of it is therefore no longer a current indicator of anything, and is not used here.", "SEND_FUNDING_SOURCES": [ { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Statement of Accounts 2024/25", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/statement-of-accounts-feb-2026-aa-accessible.pdf", "date": "2026-02" }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Explanatory note on the government's approach to Dedicated Schools Grant deficits", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/explanatory-note-on-the-governments-approach-to-dedicated-schools-grant-deficits/explanatory-note-on-the-governments-approach-dedicated-schools-grant-deficits", "date": "2026" }, { "name": "GOV.UK — Dedicated schools grant: very high deficit intervention (programme closed 1 April 2026)", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-very-high-deficit-intervention", "date": "2026-04-01" } ] }, "portsmouth-send-needs": { "SEND_NEEDS": [ { "need": "Speech, language and communications needs", "portsmouth": 29.2, "portsmouthN": 610, "southampton": 21.5, "hampshire": 23.2 }, { "need": "Autistic spectrum disorder", "portsmouth": 26, "portsmouthN": 543, "southampton": 38.3, "hampshire": 21 }, { "need": "Social, emotional and mental health", "portsmouth": 24.6, "portsmouthN": 514, "southampton": 14.6, "hampshire": 23.5 }, { "need": "Moderate learning difficulty", "portsmouth": 7.7, "portsmouthN": 161, "southampton": 6.6, "hampshire": 11 }, { "need": "Severe learning difficulty", "portsmouth": 3.5, "portsmouthN": 73, "southampton": 4.4, "hampshire": 7.4 }, { "need": "Specific learning difficulty", "portsmouth": 2.8, "portsmouthN": 59, "southampton": 2.5, "hampshire": 5.5 }, { "need": "Physical disability", "portsmouth": 2.3, "portsmouthN": 49, "southampton": 3.6, "hampshire": 3.4 }, { "need": "Profound and multiple learning difficulty", "portsmouth": 1.7, "portsmouthN": 35, "southampton": 3.1, "hampshire": 1.1 }, { "need": "Hearing impairment", "portsmouth": 1.1, "portsmouthN": 22, "southampton": 1.8, "hampshire": 1 }, { "need": "Vision impairment", "portsmouth": 0.4, "portsmouthN": 9, "southampton": 0.8, "hampshire": 0.8 }, { "need": "Down syndrome", "portsmouth": 0.3, "portsmouthN": 7, "southampton": 1.2, "hampshire": 0.4 }, { "need": "Other difficulty or disability", "portsmouth": 0.3, "portsmouthN": 6, "southampton": 1.5, "hampshire": 1.6 }, { "need": "Multi-sensory impairment", "portsmouth": 0.1, "portsmouthN": 2, "southampton": 0.1, "hampshire": 0.3 } ], "SEND_NEEDS_AS_OF": "January 2026 school census, published 25 June 2026", "SEND_NEEDS_BASE": { "portsmouth": 2090, "southampton": 2180, "hampshire": 12923 }, "SEND_NEEDS_CAUTION": "Primary need records the main reason a plan was issued, not the only need a child has. A child with autism and significant speech and language needs is counted once, under whichever was recorded as primary. Differences between authorities can therefore reflect assessment and recording practice as well as underlying population. This is a well-documented limitation of the measure and no causal reading should be taken from it.", "SEND_NEEDS_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth's EHC plans are not shaped like Southampton's. Speech, language and communication is the largest single need here at 29.2%, against 21.5% in Southampton. Autism is the largest in Southampton at 38.3%, against 26.0% here. Social, emotional and mental health is 24.6% in Portsmouth and 14.6% in Southampton — two-thirds higher.", "SEND_NEEDS_INTERPRETATION": "A caseload total tells a council how many plans to administer. The mix tells it what to commission. Three needs account for four in five Portsmouth plans, and the two where Portsmouth most exceeds Southampton — speech and language, and social/emotional/mental health — are the two most dependent on therapy and specialist staffing rather than physical places.", "SEND_NEEDS_SOURCES": [ { "name": "DfE — Special educational needs in England (age and gender by type of SEN provision and type of need)", "href": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england", "date": "2026-06-25" } ], "SEND_PROCESS_GAP": "Requests for assessment, refusals to assess, mediation and tribunal appeals are published by DfE in the separate Education, health and care plans release, which is not exposed through the statistics API used here. Those figures are therefore not shown, rather than being estimated. EHC plan timeliness, which IS held on this site, comes from that release and is shown above." }, "portsmouth-sewage": { "BATHING_WATER_CLASSIFICATIONS": [ { "site": "Southsea East (Pyramids to South Parade Pier)", "classification": "Poor" }, { "site": "Eastney", "classification": "Good" }, { "site": "Hill Head (Fareham, nearby comparison)", "classification": "Excellent" } ], "BATHING_WATER_HISTORY": [ { "year": 2021, "southseaEast": "Sufficient", "eastney": "Good" }, { "year": 2022, "southseaEast": "Sufficient", "eastney": "Good" }, { "year": 2023, "southseaEast": "Poor", "eastney": "Good" }, { "year": 2024, "southseaEast": "Poor", "eastney": "Good" }, { "year": 2025, "southseaEast": "Poor", "eastney": "Good" } ], "SEWAGE_EVIDENCE": { "investment": { "headline": "£170 million", "detail": "Southern Water's Three Harbours Partnership is investing £170m to reduce storm overflow spills into Portsmouth, Langstone and Chichester Harbours (part of a wider £1.5bn Clean Rivers and Seas Plan), covering Portsmouth, Gosport, Fareham and Havant. Work includes sustainable drainage (raingardens, swales, permeable surfaces), smart water butts, disconnecting downpipes from foul sewers (200+ properties already done in Fareham/Gosport), and pumping station/treatment works upgrades." }, "rootCause": "Southern Water's own explanation: many Portsmouth-area sewers are combined systems carrying rainwater and sewage in the same pipe. In heavy rain, combined flow exceeds pipe or treatment capacity, and storm overflows act as an engineered relief valve to stop sewage backing up into homes — \"if water companies only had to treat wastewater, there would not be the need for storm overflows at all\" (Southern Water's Clean Rivers and Seas Task Force). Misconnected downpipes feeding rainwater into the foul network are a specifically named contributor.", "fixedExample": "A specific, decades-old pipework bottleneck under Stanley Road, Stamshaw — where six storm overflows converged at a 90-degree bend, causing local sewers to back up and spill more often — has reportedly been removed as part of this programme: a concrete example of the investment fixing a named local problem, not just a general pledge.", "enforcement": "Southern Water was fined £90 million at Canterbury Crown Court in July 2021 after pleading guilty to 51 offences covering illegal discharges 2010–2015 across 17 sites in Hampshire, Kent and West Sussex. One of those 17 sites — Budds Farm Waste Water Treatment Works, discharging into Langstone Harbour — was specifically named in the prosecution, with 674 discharges totalling 4,938 hours attributed to it. A separate, company-wide Ofwat performance penalty in 2025/26 is not Portsmouth-specific and shouldn't be read as a Portsmouth fine, even though Portsmouth-area complaints were cited as supporting context in press coverage of it.", "sources": [ { "name": "Environment Agency — Southsea East bathing water profile (2025 season)", "href": "https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/", "date": "2025 season" }, { "name": "GOV.UK / Environment Agency — Bathing water classifications", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bathing-waters-in-england-compliance-reports/bathing-water-classifications-2024", "date": "2025-11-25" }, { "name": "Top of the Poops (Rivers Trust, EDM data) — Portsmouth Harbour", "href": "https://top-of-the-poops.org/waterway/southern-water/portsmouth-harbour", "date": "2025 data year" }, { "name": "Top of the Poops — Langstone Harbour", "href": "https://top-of-the-poops.org/waterway/southern-water/langstone-harbour", "date": "2025 data year" }, { "name": "Southern Water — Portsmouth Harbour £170m storm overflow scheme", "href": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/latest-news/work-underway-on-170m-portsmouth-harbour-storm-overflow-reduction-scheme/", "date": "2024–2026" }, { "name": "Southern Water — Havant and Fareham join the £170m programme", "href": "https://www.southernwater.co.uk/latest-news/new-hampshire-towns-join-southern-water-s-170m-push-to-cut-storm-overflows/", "date": "2026" }, { "name": "Hausfeld — Southern Water £90m fine summary", "href": "https://www.hausfeld.com/en-gb/what-we-think/perspectives-blogs/southern-water-fined-90-million-after-pleading-guilty-over-50-breaches-of-environmental-law", "date": "2021-07-09" }, { "name": "The News (portsmouth.co.uk) — Stanley Road sewer bottleneck removed", "href": "https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/people/sewer-bottleneck-causing-portsmouth-storm-overflow-challenge-for-decades-is-removed-5453943", "date": "reported" } ], "lastVerified": "2026-08-26" }, "SOUTHSEA_EAST_PROFILE": { "site": "Southsea East (Pyramids to South Parade Pier)", "classification": "Poor", "classificationYear": 2025, "pollutionWarnings2025": 34, "assessmentPeriod": "2022-2025", "sewageDebris": "Not noted during the assessment period", "litterObserved": "91% of visits during the assessment period", "namedRisks": [ "Tide", "Rainfall", "Urban drainage", "Occasional Canoe Lake discharge" ], "fairSummary": "Poor annual classification and recurring pollution warnings, but no sewage debris recorded at this monitoring site during the stated assessment period.", "doNotClaim": "The evidence does not support saying that raw sewage is dumped at Southsea daily, or that the beach is never safe to swim. It equally does not support saying the water is fine: the classification is Poor and there were 34 pollution risk warnings in 2025.", "note": "Pollution risk warnings are short-term forecasts issued when conditions make pollution likely. They are not measurements that a discharge occurred. \"Sewage debris not noted\" refers to visual assessment at this monitoring point and does not rule out discharges elsewhere in the harbour.", "source": { "name": "Environment Agency — Southsea East bathing water profile", "href": "https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/", "date": "2025 season" } }, "STORM_OVERFLOW_DATA": [ { "site": "Portsmouth Harbour (12 Southern Water outfalls)", "spills": 124, "hours": 234, "period": "2025 reporting year" }, { "site": "Langstone Harbour (2 outfalls)", "spills": 11, "hours": 24, "period": "2025 reporting year" } ] }, "portsmouth-team-portsmouth": { "FOLLOW_UP_CHECK": [ { "id": "promote-outcomes", "promise": "Promote the outcomes from the Team Portsmouth Conference.", "result": "partly-observed", "finding": { "status": "fact", "value": "The full conference report was published as Appendix A to an information report at Cabinet on 26 Nov 2024. The report says feedback was also shared through existing partnerships (Shaping Portsmouth, Hive, Health and Care Portsmouth via the Health and Wellbeing Board, Portsmouth Creates, Portsmouth Education Partnership). It is not on imagineportsmouth.co.uk: the Conference 2024 page (last edited 17 Jul 2024) still says \"Watch this space for the conference outcomes later in the summer\".", "sources": [ { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." }, { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." }, { "title": "Conference 2024", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth (facilitated by Portsmouth City Council)", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/conference-2024/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "WordPress page created 2024-06-25, last modified 2024-07-17. Still says \"Watch this space for the conference outcomes later in the summer.\"" }, { "title": "imagineportsmouth.co.uk WordPress REST API listings (/wp-json/wp/v2/pages, /media, /posts) and Yoast sitemaps", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/pages?per_page=100", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "No page created after 2024-06-28; no media uploaded after 2024-07-17; only later edit is the accessibility statement (2025-06-11)." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "id": "conference-2025", "promise": "Run a second Team Portsmouth conference in 2025.", "result": "not-published", "finding": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "PCC ModernGov web service: all 372 meetings 1 Jun 2024 to 23 Sep 2026; scanned agenda titles, agenda text, decision/minute text and linked-document titles for team portsmouth / city vision / imagine portsmouth / stakeholder directory / pledge / centenary / portsmouth 100 / shaping portsmouth / hive portsmouth", "Candidate PDFs read in full: s60040 (Portsmouth100, Cabinet 25 Nov 2025), s61733 (HIVE update, Cabinet 3 Mar 2026), s60239/s60089 (tourism), s61401 (Victorious), s63320 (centenary performance), s57752-3 (VCSE match funding)", "imagineportsmouth.co.uk: WP REST API page, post and media listings plus sitemaps (no page created after 2024-06-28; no media after 2024-07-17)", "portsmouth.gov.uk sitewide search: \"Team Portsmouth\", \"city vision\", \"Imagine Portsmouth\", \"Portsmouth 100 centenary\"", "Web search: \"Team Portsmouth\" conference 2025/2026, stakeholder directory", "shapingportsmouth.co.uk/conference-2025/ and /conference-2026/ (secondary; checked in case the events were combined)" ], "note": "No evidence of a 2025 Team Portsmouth conference. In Nov 2024 PCC told Cabinet one \"is being planned for 2025\". Shaping Portsmouth held its own conferences on 17 Jan 2025 and 16 Jan 2026; the 2026 one is listed in PCC's Portsmouth100 programme. Neither event page mentions Team Portsmouth, so we do not treat them as the promised conference." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "id": "stakeholder-directory", "promise": "Develop a Team Portsmouth stakeholder directory, hosted on imagineportsmouth.co.uk.", "result": "not-published", "finding": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "PCC ModernGov web service: all 372 meetings 1 Jun 2024 to 23 Sep 2026; scanned agenda titles, agenda text, decision/minute text and linked-document titles for team portsmouth / city vision / imagine portsmouth / stakeholder directory / pledge / centenary / portsmouth 100 / shaping portsmouth / hive portsmouth", "Candidate PDFs read in full: s60040 (Portsmouth100, Cabinet 25 Nov 2025), s61733 (HIVE update, Cabinet 3 Mar 2026), s60239/s60089 (tourism), s61401 (Victorious), s63320 (centenary performance), s57752-3 (VCSE match funding)", "imagineportsmouth.co.uk: WP REST API page, post and media listings plus sitemaps (no page created after 2024-06-28; no media after 2024-07-17)", "portsmouth.gov.uk sitewide search: \"Team Portsmouth\", \"city vision\", \"Imagine Portsmouth\", \"Portsmouth 100 centenary\"", "Web search: \"Team Portsmouth\" conference 2025/2026, stakeholder directory" ], "note": "The conference report linked a sign-up form on my.portsmouth.gov.uk to collect details and consent to publish. In Nov 2024 the Cabinet report said the directory \"is being created\". No directory page exists on imagineportsmouth.co.uk. Do not confuse it with HIVE Portsmouth's Directory of Services (876 organisations, per HIVE's Cabinet update of 3 Mar 2026), which is a separate community-support directory." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "id": "pledges-online", "promise": "Add all pledges to the city vision website.", "result": "not-published", "finding": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "PCC ModernGov web service: all 372 meetings 1 Jun 2024 to 23 Sep 2026; scanned agenda titles, agenda text, decision/minute text and linked-document titles for team portsmouth / city vision / imagine portsmouth / stakeholder directory / pledge / centenary / portsmouth 100 / shaping portsmouth / hive portsmouth", "Candidate PDFs read in full: s60040 (Portsmouth100, Cabinet 25 Nov 2025), s61733 (HIVE update, Cabinet 3 Mar 2026), s60239/s60089 (tourism), s61401 (Victorious), s63320 (centenary performance), s57752-3 (VCSE match funding)", "imagineportsmouth.co.uk: WP REST API page, post and media listings plus sitemaps (no page created after 2024-06-28; no media after 2024-07-17)", "portsmouth.gov.uk sitewide search: \"Team Portsmouth\", \"city vision\", \"Imagine Portsmouth\", \"Portsmouth 100 centenary\"", "Web search: \"Team Portsmouth\" conference 2025/2026, stakeholder directory" ], "note": "No pledges page or document exists on imagineportsmouth.co.uk. Only a sample of pledge themes appears, in the conference report." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "id": "pledge-updates", "promise": "Contact pledge-makers for progress updates before the next Team Portsmouth event.", "result": "not-published", "finding": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "PCC ModernGov web service: all 372 meetings 1 Jun 2024 to 23 Sep 2026; scanned agenda titles, agenda text, decision/minute text and linked-document titles for team portsmouth / city vision / imagine portsmouth / stakeholder directory / pledge / centenary / portsmouth 100 / shaping portsmouth / hive portsmouth", "Candidate PDFs read in full: s60040 (Portsmouth100, Cabinet 25 Nov 2025), s61733 (HIVE update, Cabinet 3 Mar 2026), s60239/s60089 (tourism), s61401 (Victorious), s63320 (centenary performance), s57752-3 (VCSE match funding)", "imagineportsmouth.co.uk: WP REST API page, post and media listings plus sitemaps (no page created after 2024-06-28; no media after 2024-07-17)", "portsmouth.gov.uk sitewide search: \"Team Portsmouth\", \"city vision\", \"Imagine Portsmouth\", \"Portsmouth 100 centenary\"", "Web search: \"Team Portsmouth\" conference 2025/2026, stakeholder directory", "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/team-portsmouth-privacy/ (pledge scheme privacy statement)" ], "note": "No published pledge progress update. The privacy statement says pledge data is kept for five years so progress can be tracked. Whether PCC has contacted pledge-makers privately is unknown." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "id": "p100-initial-plan", "promise": "Initial Portsmouth100 plan \"shared in early 2025\", informed by conference ideas and the Big Portsmouth Survey.", "result": "partly-observed", "finding": { "status": "fact", "value": "A Portsmouth100 programme was launched on 19 Sep 2025 and reported to Cabinet on 25 Nov 2025. Celebrations began on 1 Jan 2026. We found no published plan from early 2025. The Nov 2025 report links the programme to the city vision (\"a chance to bring the vision to life\"), but does not mention the Team Portsmouth conference, its pledges or the Big Portsmouth Survey results.", "sources": [ { "title": "Celebrating the centenary of city status (Cabinet, 25 November 2025, information report)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s60040/Celebrating%20the%20centenary%20of%20city%20status.pdf", "publishedOn": "2025-11", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "Portsmouth100 – let the celebrations begin! (23 December 2025)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/news/2025/portsmouth100-let-the-celebrations-begin", "publishedOn": "2025-12-23", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "The programme is run by a PCC officer core team (corporate strategy, marketing and communications, culture and leisure)." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "id": "partner-facilitation", "promise": "Partners volunteer to facilitate smaller Team Portsmouth events or cross-sector working groups.", "result": "not-published", "finding": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "PCC ModernGov web service: all 372 meetings 1 Jun 2024 to 23 Sep 2026; scanned agenda titles, agenda text, decision/minute text and linked-document titles for team portsmouth / city vision / imagine portsmouth / stakeholder directory / pledge / centenary / portsmouth 100 / shaping portsmouth / hive portsmouth", "Candidate PDFs read in full: s60040 (Portsmouth100, Cabinet 25 Nov 2025), s61733 (HIVE update, Cabinet 3 Mar 2026), s60239/s60089 (tourism), s61401 (Victorious), s63320 (centenary performance), s57752-3 (VCSE match funding)", "imagineportsmouth.co.uk: WP REST API page, post and media listings plus sitemaps (no page created after 2024-06-28; no media after 2024-07-17)", "portsmouth.gov.uk sitewide search: \"Team Portsmouth\", \"city vision\", \"Imagine Portsmouth\", \"Portsmouth 100 centenary\"", "Web search: \"Team Portsmouth\" conference 2025/2026, stakeholder directory" ], "note": "We found no Team Portsmouth-branded events or working groups. One Cabinet Member minute (6 Feb 2026) thanks the Victorious team \"for their continued work as part of Team Portsmouth\". That is a passing reference, not evidence of a facilitated group." }, "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } ], "OPPORTUNITY_MODEL": { "status": "strategic-opportunity", "label": "PROPOSAL by UK Stat Pack. This is not a Team Portsmouth or Portsmouth City Council product.", "governanceNote": "Team Portsmouth is facilitated by Portsmouth City Council with city partners; the Stat Pack has no role in running it. This is an independent idea for a public \"benefit ledger\", built only from published information. We could offer it to PCC and partners, but it does not depend on their agreement to exist in a basic form.", "purpose": "Show residents, in one place, what Team Portsmouth partners have pledged or announced and how far each item has got. It responds directly to the gaps found above: no formal progress tracking, pledges not published, no stakeholder directory.", "rules": [ "Every figure needs a public source URL and a checked-on date. No source means the field shows \"unreported\", never 0.", "Missing is not zero. \"Unreported\" is a status, not a failure verdict.", "Investment is shown by stage (announced, received, spent, completed). An announcement is never counted as money spent.", "Partners are shown only under the basis an official source gives (see PARTNERS). Nobody is shown as a \"member\" without a source.", "Individual pledge-makers are never named unless they have consented to publication. PCC holds pledge data under its pledge-scheme privacy notice.", "No rankings or league tables of partners. No claims that a partner caused a change in any city statistic." ], "fields": [ { "field": "partner", "type": "string", "definition": "Organisation name, as used in the official source", "likelySource": "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners; Corporate Plan" }, { "field": "pillar", "type": "'thriving-economy' | 'lifelong-learning' | 'healthy-and-happy' | 'culture-and-creativity' | 'easy-travel' | 'green-city'", "definition": "Vision pillar the item supports", "likelySource": "Stat Pack classification (analysis)" }, { "field": "commitment", "type": "string", "definition": "The pledge or announcement, quoted briefly", "likelySource": "Partner or PCC publication" }, { "field": "pledgeStatus", "type": "PledgeStatus", "definition": "complete | active | delayed | unreported", "likelySource": "Partner self-report with evidence link; default unreported" }, { "field": "jobsToResidents", "type": "number | NotPublished", "definition": "Jobs filled by people living in the Portsmouth City Council area, as reported by the partner, with the date and definition used", "likelySource": "Partner reports; social value returns on PCC contracts" }, { "field": "apprenticeshipsByWard", "type": "Record", "definition": "Apprenticeship starts linked to the commitment, by apprentice home ward (14 wards)", "likelySource": "Partner reports; DfE apprenticeship data for context only" }, { "field": "localProcurement", "type": "{ spendGBP: number | NotPublished; sharePct: number | NotPublished; definitionOfLocal: string }", "definition": "Spend with suppliers based in the city (or the stated local area), for a stated period", "likelySource": "Partner procurement or social value reports; PCC spend-over-£500 data for the council's own spend" }, { "field": "investment", "type": "Record", "definition": "Money shown separately at each stage", "likelySource": "Funding announcements; council budgets and outturn; grant registers" }, { "field": "evidenceUrl", "type": "string", "definition": "Most recent public evidence", "likelySource": "Any official page" }, { "field": "checkedOn / reviewBy", "type": "ISO dates", "definition": "Last check, and when to check again (60 days by default)", "likelySource": "Stat Pack" } ], "pledgeStatusDefinitions": { "complete": "Public evidence shows the commitment was delivered as stated.", "active": "Public evidence of work under way, within the stated timescale.", "delayed": "Public evidence that it is behind its stated timescale, or the stated date has passed without completion.", "unreported": "No public evidence either way. This is the default." }, "investmentStageDefinitions": { "announced": "A public statement that money is committed or available.", "received": "Evidence the money has reached the delivering body (e.g. grant award letter, budget line).", "spent": "Evidence of expenditure (outturn, accounts, progress report).", "completed": "The funded output exists or is in use." }, "wards": { "status": "fact", "value": [ "Baffins", "Central Southsea", "Charles Dickens", "Copnor", "Cosham", "Drayton & Farlington", "Eastney & Craneswater", "Fratton", "Hilsea", "Milton", "Nelson", "Paulsgrove", "St Jude", "St Thomas" ], "sources": [ { "title": "PCC ModernGov web service: GetMeetings (all committees, 01/06/2024–23/09/2026, 372 meetings) + GetMeeting for each", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeetings?lCommitteeId=0&sFromDate=01/06/2024&sToDate=23/09/2026", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Taken from the ward filter on PCC ModernGov document search. Check against ONS ward codes before use." }, "exampleRows": [ { "partner": "BAE Systems", "pillar": "lifelong-learning", "item": "New educational and careers centre for young people in Stamshaw", "announced": { "status": "fact", "value": "£500k donation (as reported by delegates in the conference report)", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "BAE Systems is not a confirmed Team Portsmouth partner. 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Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Identified from the logo link only." }, { "name": "Portsmouth Friends of the Earth", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "name": "The Guildhall Trust", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "name": "Portsmouth Cycle Forum (Pompey BUG)", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "name": "Portsmouth College", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Links to portsmouth-college.ac.uk. That college has since become part of City of Portsmouth College; do not treat this entry as City of Portsmouth College without checking." }, { "name": "CPSC (cpsc.org.uk – Portsmouth)", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Identified from the logo link only." }, { "name": "Portsmouth Mediation Service", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "name": "Age UK Portsmouth", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "name": "Wightlink", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "name": "Pompey in the Community", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "name": "Hampshire Chamber of Commerce", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "name": "Visit Hampshire", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, { "name": "Hovertravel", "basis": [ "city-vision-supporter" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." } ], "status": "fact", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } ], "PARTNERS_MENTIONED_NOT_CONFIRMED": [ { "name": "HMNB Portsmouth (as a distinct unit)", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Signed the Portsmouth Clean Air Pledge, Jan 2026 (PCC news). Partner lists name only \"the Royal Navy\".", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "BAE Systems", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Appendix A: donating £500k for a new educational and careers centre in Stamshaw (delegate-reported example).", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "Portsmouth International Port", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Conference venue; named in several collaboration examples. It is council-owned (listed as a PCC service area in the Corporate Plan), so it is not a separate partner in the usual sense.", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "City of Portsmouth College", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Appendix A (community matrix map; Net Zero training hub; could target deprived wards). See the \"Portsmouth College\" supporter entry in PARTNERS.", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "Brittany Ferries", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Appendix A: Sea Change shore power collaboration.", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "Gunwharf Quays", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Appendix A: employability schemes with Enable Ability.", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "South Western Railway", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Appendix A: collaboration examples; named in the organisational pledge sample (centenary sponsorship/co-hosting).", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "Maritime UK Solent", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Appendix A: organisational pledge sample; school outreach suggestion.", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "Solent Local Enterprise Partnership", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Appendix A: shared working hub example.", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "Health and Care Portsmouth", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Appendix A and how-we-are-doing (as a partnership of partners). Not listed as a partner organisation.", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] }, { "name": "Portsmouth Youth Cabinet", "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "whereMentioned": "Took part in the 2024 conference. The partners page says the vision board includes youth parliament representatives, but the Youth Cabinet is not listed as a partner.", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners (Partners and Supporters lists)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 \"Team Portsmouth\" page and priority 6a", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ] } ], "PLYMOUTH_COMPARATOR": { "whatItIs": { "status": "fact", "value": "\"An ambitious partnership spanning defence, industry, academia and local and national government\" (University of Plymouth). It was formed after the MOD confirmed long-term investment in HMNB Devonport and Babcock's Devonport Royal Dockyard. 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make Smart Sound a year-round testing and assurance environment", "Advanced Marine Technology Hub at the University of Plymouth", "Set up a city innovation board", "Make the most of the studies under way on City Skills and Marine Autonomy" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Launching Team Plymouth: A united city, driving defence innovation and opportunity for all", "publisher": "Plymouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/news/launching-team-plymouth-united-city-driving-defence-innovation-and-opportunity-all", "publishedOn": "2025-09-19", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "funding": { "status": "fact", "value": [ { "item": "Defence Growth Deal fund shared by five defence growth areas (Plymouth \"the only city to be named\")", "amount": "£250 million over a number of years", "status": "funded-project" }, { "item": "Plymouth Defence Growth Deal (announced 9 Apr 2026)", "amount": "£50 million (government)", "status": "funded-project" }, { "item": "Full package announced 23 Sep 2026, when the Defence Minister approved Team Plymouth's strategic business case", "amount": "£84 million = £50m government + \"up to an additional £34 million from industry and local partners\"", "status": "funded-project" }, { "item": "\"Get Plymouth Working\" scheme", "amount": "£1.5 million", "status": "funded-project" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Launching Team Plymouth: A united city, driving defence innovation and opportunity for all", "publisher": "Plymouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/news/launching-team-plymouth-united-city-driving-defence-innovation-and-opportunity-all", "publishedOn": "2025-09-19", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "£50 million boost for defence businesses in Plymouth and the South West with new defence growth deal", "publisher": "Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/50-million-boost-for-defence-businesses-in-plymouth-and-the-south-west-with-new-defence-growth-deal", "publishedOn": "2026-04-09", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "£84 million to boost Plymouth's defence growth plans", "publisher": "Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/84-million-to-boost-plymouths-defence-growth-plans", "publishedOn": "2026-09-23", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Published on the day of checking." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "The \"up to £34m\" from industry and local partners is an upper bound, not confirmed money." }, "statedOutcomeExpectations": { "status": "official-target", "value": [ "Nearly 1,000 jobs; 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\"£4 billion already committed to Devonport\" (MOD, Apr 2026); \"£7 billion is already being invested in HMNB Devonport\" (MOD, Sep 2026). The figures differ; the scope of each is not explained.", "Helsing: £350 million investment (Plymouth City Council, Sep 2025)", "\"Over £175 million already committed to regeneration\" (SRO quote, Sep 2025)" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Launching Team Plymouth: A united city, driving defence innovation and opportunity for all", "publisher": "Plymouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/news/launching-team-plymouth-united-city-driving-defence-innovation-and-opportunity-all", "publishedOn": "2025-09-19", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "£50 million boost for defence businesses in Plymouth and the South West with new defence growth deal", "publisher": "Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/50-million-boost-for-defence-businesses-in-plymouth-and-the-south-west-with-new-defence-growth-deal", "publishedOn": "2026-04-09", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "£84 million to boost Plymouth's defence growth plans", "publisher": "Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/84-million-to-boost-plymouths-defence-growth-plans", "publishedOn": "2026-09-23", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Published on the day of checking." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "SOURCES": { "cabinetCover2024": { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." }, "conferenceReport2024": { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." }, "conferencePage2024": { "title": "Conference 2024", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth (facilitated by Portsmouth City Council)", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/conference-2024/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "WordPress page created 2024-06-25, last modified 2024-07-17. Still says \"Watch this space for the conference outcomes later in the summer.\"" }, "conferencePresentation2024": { "title": "Team Portsmouth Conference 2024 – slide presentation (accessible PDF)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth / Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/team-portsmouth-conf-presentation-aa-accessible.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07-17", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "conferenceHandout2024": { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision – statistics handout (\"infographics\"), July 2024 (accessible PDF)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth / Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/team-portsmouth-infographics-july-2024-aa-accessible.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07-16", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Most figures state \"November 2023 based on portsmouth.gov.uk/jsna\". Useful as a list of indicators already used by PCC, not as a current data source." }, "pledgePrivacy": { "title": "Privacy statement for City Vision pledge scheme", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (on imagineportsmouth.co.uk)", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/team-portsmouth-privacy/", "publishedOn": "2024-06-21", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "visionPage": { "title": "The Vision – Imagine Portsmouth 2040", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/the-vision/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "visionHome": { "title": "Imagine Portsmouth – homepage (short-form aspiration statements)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "visionPdf2021": { "title": "Imagine Portsmouth vision infographic (accessible PDF, January 2021)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Imagine-Portsmouth-Vision-Infographic-Accessible-.pdf", "publishedOn": "2021-01", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "visionAbout": { "title": "About the project", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/about/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "visionPartners": { "title": "Our partners", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/our-partners/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page last modified 2024-05-29. Two headed lists: \"Partners\" (13 logos) and \"Supporters\" (17 logos)." }, "howWeAreDoing": { "title": "How we are doing", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/how-we-are-doing/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page created 2024-06-28, last modified 2024-07-01. Illustrative examples only." }, "imagineWpApi": { "title": "imagineportsmouth.co.uk WordPress REST API listings (/wp-json/wp/v2/pages, /media, /posts) and Yoast sitemaps", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/pages?per_page=100", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "No page created after 2024-06-28; no media uploaded after 2024-07-17; only later edit is the accessibility statement (2025-06-11)." }, "corporatePlan": { "title": "Corporate Plan 2024–2026: Working together to achieve more", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/56.308-Council-Plan-2024-accessible-aa.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-10-16", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "PDF metadata created 16 Oct 2024; uploaded May 2025. Listed as \"Corporate plan 2024-2026 (PDF)\" on portsmouth.gov.uk policies and strategies page on 23 Sep 2026 (no successor plan listed)." }, "policiesPage": { "title": "Policies and strategies", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/policies-and-strategies", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "newsConference2024Archived": { "title": "Team Portsmouth come together to make the city vision a reality (17 July 2024) — Wayback snapshot 7 May 2025", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (news)", "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250507124510/https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/team-portsmouth-come-together-to-make-the-city-vision-a-reality/", "publishedOn": "2024-07-17", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Live URL now returns \"Page not found\". Used only for context; no attendance figure given." }, "cabinetP100_2025": { "title": "Celebrating the centenary of city status (Cabinet, 25 November 2025, information report)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s60040/Celebrating%20the%20centenary%20of%20city%20status.pdf", "publishedOn": "2025-11", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "newsP100Launch": { "title": "Portsmouth100 – let the celebrations begin! (23 December 2025)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/news/2025/portsmouth100-let-the-celebrations-begin", "publishedOn": "2025-12-23", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "cabinetHive2026": { "title": "HIVE Portsmouth update (Cabinet, 3 March 2026, information report)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s61733/HIVE%20Portsmouth%20update.pdf", "publishedOn": "2026-02", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "leaderDecisionVictorious2026": { "title": "Cabinet Member – The Leader (Culture, Regeneration and Economic Development), 6 Feb 2026: Victorious Festival update — decision/minute text", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (ModernGov web service, meeting 6002)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeeting?lMeetingId=6002", "publishedOn": "2026-02-06", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "modernGovScan": { "title": "PCC ModernGov web service: GetMeetings (all committees, 01/06/2024–23/09/2026, 372 meetings) + GetMeeting for each", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetMeetings?lCommitteeId=0&sFromDate=01/06/2024&sToDate=23/09/2026", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "newsCleanAirPledge2026": { "title": "Portsmouth organisations make Clean Air Pledge (26 January 2026)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/news/2026/portsmouth-organisations-make-clean-air-pledge", "publishedOn": "2026-01-26", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "plymouthLaunch": { "title": "Launching Team Plymouth: A united city, driving defence innovation and opportunity for all", "publisher": "Plymouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/news/launching-team-plymouth-united-city-driving-defence-innovation-and-opportunity-all", "publishedOn": "2025-09-19", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "plymouthUni": { "title": "Team Plymouth", "publisher": "University of Plymouth", "url": "https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/team-plymouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "A partner institution page, not a Team Plymouth programme page. Lists University representatives on each workstream." }, "govuk50m": { "title": "£50 million boost for defence businesses in Plymouth and the South West with new defence growth deal", "publisher": "Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/50-million-boost-for-defence-businesses-in-plymouth-and-the-south-west-with-new-defence-growth-deal", "publishedOn": "2026-04-09", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "govuk84m": { "title": "£84 million to boost Plymouth's defence growth plans", "publisher": "Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/84-million-to-boost-plymouths-defence-growth-plans", "publishedOn": "2026-09-23", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Published on the day of checking." } }, "TEAM_PORTSMOUTH_OFFICIAL": { "whatItIs": { "status": "fact", "value": "A partnership idea for organisations and individuals in the city to collaborate on delivering the Imagine Portsmouth 2040 city vision. PCC says the July 2024 conference introduced \"the concept of Team Portsmouth\". It is not a legal body and has no published membership list.", "sources": [ { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." }, { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "convener": { "status": "fact", "value": "Portsmouth City Council facilitates it. The report says the Council \"will continue to facilitate some Team Portsmouth activities\", including running imagineportsmouth.co.uk and a 2025 conference. It adds that other organisations \"need to come forwards and facilitate opportunities\". Contact: cityvision@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "cityVisionOrigin": { "status": "fact", "value": "PCC developed the city vision in 2019–20 for a partner board of 13 organisations and partnerships. The process involved workshops with about 60 organisations, 20 focus groups (about 250 people), a 90-person citizens' conference and a citywide consultation (1,800+ responses). The vision was launched in January 2021 at the Shaping Conference.", "sources": [ { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth Conference 2024 – slide presentation (accessible PDF)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth / Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/team-portsmouth-conf-presentation-aa-accessible.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07-17", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "About the project", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/about/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "The presentation dates the partner board to March 2019 and describes it as \"13 organisations, with over 30,000 employees\"." }, "relationshipToVision": { "status": "fact", "value": "Team Portsmouth is how the vision is meant to be delivered. The conference's first objective was to \"work together as Team Portsmouth to help make the city vision a reality, and to make commitments to taking tangible steps towards the vision by 2026\".", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth Conference 2024 – slide presentation (accessible PDF)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth / Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/team-portsmouth-conf-presentation-aa-accessible.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07-17", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "relationshipToCouncilPlan": { "status": "fact", "value": "The PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026 says it is \"informed by the City Vision\" and has a \"Team Portsmouth\" page listing partners. Priority 6a commits to \"working effectively with our strategic partners in Team Portsmouth, including Hive Portsmouth, Shaping Portsmouth and Portsmouth Creates, to achieve wider city objectives\". The plan is a council document; it does not bind partners.", "sources": [ { "title": "Corporate Plan 2024–2026: Working together to achieve more", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/56.308-Council-Plan-2024-accessible-aa.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-10-16", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "PDF metadata created 16 Oct 2024; uploaded May 2025. Listed as \"Corporate plan 2024-2026 (PDF)\" on portsmouth.gov.uk policies and strategies page on 23 Sep 2026 (no successor plan listed)." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "The plan covers 2024–2026 and was still the current plan on the policies page on 23 Sep 2026. Check whether a successor plan has been adopted." }, "formalGovernance": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "Cabinet cover report 26 Nov 2024 (s54820) and Appendix A (s54821)", "imagineportsmouth.co.uk: every page listed through the WP REST API", "PCC ModernGov: all 372 meetings, 1 Jun 2024 to 23 Sep 2026 (web service scan)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026" ], "note": "Not published: terms of reference, chair, board, membership list or meeting schedule for Team Portsmouth. The city vision \"partner board\" (13 organisations) is named on imagineportsmouth.co.uk, but no Team Portsmouth board is described." }, "progressTracking": { "status": "fact", "value": "PCC told Cabinet in November 2024: \"there is no formal approach to tracking progress\". Instead, illustrative examples were gathered from partners and published on imagineportsmouth.co.uk/how-we-are-doing.", "sources": [ { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." }, { "title": "How we are doing", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/how-we-are-doing/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page created 2024-06-28, last modified 2024-07-01. Illustrative examples only." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "conference2024": { "date": { "status": "fact", "value": "2024-07-12", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "venue": { "status": "fact", "value": "Portsmouth International Port", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "format": { "status": "fact", "value": "Delegates sat at 16 tables, each with a moderator. The morning had context talks from PCC Public Health Intelligence and the University of Portsmouth Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures. Breakout 1 covered collaboration; breakout 2 covered Portsmouth100. The Youth Cabinet took part.", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth Conference 2024 – slide presentation (accessible PDF)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth / Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/team-portsmouth-conf-presentation-aa-accessible.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07-17", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "attendance": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "Appendix A conference report (s54821)", "Cabinet cover report (s54820)", "imagineportsmouth.co.uk/conference-2024/ and the presentation and handout PDFs", "PCC news story of 17 Jul 2024 (Wayback copy; now removed from the live site)" ], "note": "Only \"16 tables\" is given. No delegate count is published." }, "objectives": { "status": "fact", "value": [ "Establish ways to work together as Team Portsmouth to make the city vision a reality, with commitments to tangible steps towards the vision by 2026.", "Discuss how to mark Portsmouth's centenary as a city in 2026 and leave a lasting legacy." ], "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "speakers": { "status": "fact", "value": [ { "name": "Natalie Brahma-Pearl", "role": "Chief Executive, PCC", "slot": "Welcome and background to the city vision" }, { "name": "Matt Gummerson", "role": "Portsmouth City Council", "slot": "Where are we now" }, { "name": "Dr Guy Collender", "role": "University of Portsmouth", "slot": "Where are we now" }, { "name": "Dr Melanie Bassett", "role": "University of Portsmouth", "slot": "Where are we now" }, { "name": "Natasha Edmunds", "role": "Director of Corporate Services, PCC", "slot": "Breakout 1: collaboration" }, { "name": "Cllr Steve Pitt", "role": "Leader of Portsmouth City Council (at July 2024)", "slot": "Breakout 2: Portsmouth100" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Team Portsmouth Conference 2024 – slide presentation (accessible PDF)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth / Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/team-portsmouth-conf-presentation-aa-accessible.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07-17", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22", "note": "Job titles are as given in July 2024. Do not use them as current office holders without re-checking." }, "individualPledges": { "status": "fact", "value": "more than 100", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "organisationalPledges": { "status": "fact", "value": "more than 100", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "exactPledgeCounts": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "Appendix A: \"We gathered more than 100 individual pledges and more than 100 organisation pledges\"", "Cabinet cover report: \"More than 100 individual pledges and more than 100 organisational pledges were made\"", "imagineportsmouth.co.uk (no pledges page exists)", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ], "note": "Both official documents give only \">100\" for each type. Do not display an exact number." }, "pledgeThemesOrganisational": { "status": "fact", "value": [ "Social value (e.g. University of Sanctuary status, tackling poverty, affordable housing, reaching \"seldom heard\" groups)", "Work experience weeks, placements, training and apprenticeships", "Green pledges (e.g. electric fleets, de-paving, training 100 businesses on net zero free of charge)", "Supporting the city vision and civic pride", "Healthy city initiatives", "Sponsoring or co-hosting centenary events (the report names Victorious Festival, Maritime UK Solent, Comserve, South Western Railway)" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "The report calls these \"a sample\". Individual pledges are not attributed to named organisations." }, "pledgeDataHandling": { "status": "fact", "value": "Pledges were collected on pledge cards and by email and stored \"in an Excel spreadsheet\" by PCC. Data is kept for five years \"to enable progress to be tracked\".", "sources": [ { "title": "Privacy statement for City Vision pledge scheme", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (on imagineportsmouth.co.uk)", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/team-portsmouth-privacy/", "publishedOn": "2024-06-21", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } }, "barriers": { "status": "fact", "value": { "practical": [ "Lack of physical spaces to meet and discuss projects", "No central directory or mapping of stakeholders with contact details", "Lack of capacity at existing networking events", "Lack of staff time to pursue collaboration in charities and businesses" ], "macroAndFinancial": [ "Electoral cycles and lack of continuity; \"Inability to make 25-year plans\"", "Too much reliance on unpaid volunteers; some organisations may lack professional leadership", "Insufficient funding overall, particularly in healthcare", "Funding bids are time-consuming and hard to prepare, especially in the third sector" ], "attitudinal": [ "Reluctance to ask for help; goodwill not visible to those who need it", "Hard to reach \"seldom heard from\" groups", "Siloed working and lack of cross-sector awareness" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "These are what delegates said at the tables, summarised by PCC. They are not PCC findings." }, "suggestedSolutions": { "status": "fact", "value": { "communication": [ "More events like the Team Portsmouth conference", "Share a list of delegates and their contact details", "More structured collaboration between PCC, business and the third sector, with Hive and Shaping Portsmouth as \"key gatekeeper organisations\"", "Cross-sector working groups on key issues" ], "practical": [ "A bid writer at PCC or Hive; a central directory of funding pots", "A new area on the Hive website for businesses wanting to support community initiatives", "#TeamPortsmouth comms to champion outcomes from the conference" ] }, "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Delegate suggestions, not commitments." }, "promisedNextSteps": { "status": "official-proposal", "value": [ { "id": "promote-outcomes", "who": "Council", "promise": "Promote the outcomes from the Team Portsmouth Conference." }, { "id": "conference-2025", "who": "Council", "promise": "Run a second Team Portsmouth conference in 2025." }, { "id": "stakeholder-directory", "who": "Council", "promise": "Work with partner organisations to develop a stakeholder directory for Team Portsmouth, hosted on imagineportsmouth.co.uk." }, { "id": "pledges-online", "who": "Council", "promise": "Add all the pledges to the city vision website \"in due course\"." }, { "id": "pledge-updates", "who": "Council", "promise": "Contact pledge-makers for updates on progress before the next Team Portsmouth event." }, { "id": "p100-initial-plan", "who": "Council", "promise": "Use the conference ideas and Big Portsmouth Survey results (Aug–Sep 2024) to create an initial Portsmouth100 plan, \"shared in early 2025\"." }, { "id": "partner-facilitation", "who": "Team Portsmouth partners", "promise": "Volunteer to facilitate other opportunities, e.g. smaller Team Portsmouth events and cross-sector working groups." } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" } }, "TRANSFERABLE_LESSONS": [ { "id": "named-accountability", "status": "analysis", "plymouth": "A named Senior Responsible Owner and a Programme Delivery Board.", "portsmouthNow": "PCC facilitates. No chair, board, terms of reference or membership list is published.", "lesson": "A published list of who is accountable, even a light one, would let the public see who owns each pledge and pillar.", "basis": [ { "title": "Launching Team Plymouth: A united city, driving defence innovation and opportunity for all", "publisher": "Plymouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/news/launching-team-plymouth-united-city-driving-defence-innovation-and-opportunity-all", "publishedOn": "2025-09-19", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "Team Plymouth", "publisher": "University of Plymouth", "url": "https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/team-plymouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "A partner institution page, not a Team Plymouth programme page. Lists University representatives on each workstream." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ] }, { "id": "workstream-leads", "status": "analysis", "plymouth": "Six workstreams, with named institutional leads published for at least two (BIMA: University of Plymouth; post-16 skills: City College Plymouth).", "portsmouthNow": "Six vision pillars. Each had a featured speaker in 2024, but no pillar lead is published.", "lesson": "Naming a lead organisation for each pillar is a low-cost step that would make follow-up possible.", "basis": [ { "title": "Launching Team Plymouth: A united city, driving defence innovation and opportunity for all", "publisher": "Plymouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/news/launching-team-plymouth-united-city-driving-defence-innovation-and-opportunity-all", "publishedOn": "2025-09-19", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "Team Plymouth", "publisher": "University of Plymouth", "url": "https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/team-plymouth", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "A partner institution page, not a Team Plymouth programme page. Lists University representatives on each workstream." }, { "title": "Conference 2024", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth (facilitated by Portsmouth City Council)", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/conference-2024/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "WordPress page created 2024-06-25, last modified 2024-07-17. Still says \"Watch this space for the conference outcomes later in the summer.\"" } ] }, { "id": "funded-anchor", "status": "analysis", "plymouth": "Tied to a government-funded Defence Growth Deal with a strategic business case, approved 23 Sep 2026.", "portsmouthNow": "No dedicated Team Portsmouth funding or business case is published.", "lesson": "External funding brings deadlines and reporting duties. Without it, Team Portsmouth has to build its own light reporting habit.", "basis": [ { "title": "£84 million to boost Plymouth's defence growth plans", "publisher": "Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/84-million-to-boost-plymouths-defence-growth-plans", "publishedOn": "2026-09-23", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Published on the day of checking." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ] }, { "id": "social-value-as-workstream", "status": "analysis", "plymouth": "Social value is a workstream in its own right, aiming at \"measurable and sustainable social impact\".", "portsmouthNow": "PCC Corporate Plan priority 5c uses the council's social value policy to create opportunities. Organisational pledges include social value themes.", "lesson": "The pieces exist in Portsmouth; they are not collected together or published as a measured set.", "basis": [ { "title": "Launching Team Plymouth: A united city, driving defence innovation and opportunity for all", "publisher": "Plymouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/news/launching-team-plymouth-united-city-driving-defence-innovation-and-opportunity-all", "publishedOn": "2025-09-19", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "Corporate Plan 2024–2026: Working together to achieve more", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/56.308-Council-Plan-2024-accessible-aa.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-10-16", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "PDF metadata created 16 Oct 2024; uploaded May 2025. Listed as \"Corporate plan 2024-2026 (PDF)\" on portsmouth.gov.uk policies and strategies page on 23 Sep 2026 (no successor plan listed)." }, { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." } ] }, { "id": "quantified-expectations", "status": "analysis", "plymouth": "Government has published outcome expectations (jobs, people into work, businesses, courses).", "portsmouthNow": "\"No formal approach to tracking progress\" (PCC, Nov 2024). Pledge counts published only as \">100\".", "lesson": "Even simple counts (pledges made, pledges reported complete) would be a step forward. Plymouth's figures are also still expectations, not delivered results.", "basis": [ { "title": "£84 million to boost Plymouth's defence growth plans", "publisher": "Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/84-million-to-boost-plymouths-defence-growth-plans", "publishedOn": "2026-09-23", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Published on the day of checking." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ] }, { "id": "limits-of-comparison", "status": "analysis", "plymouth": "Built around a national defence designation, MOD money and an MOD-appointed SRO.", "portsmouthNow": "A voluntary, council-facilitated collaboration around a resident-built city vision, not a funded programme.", "lesson": "Borrow the transparency practices, not the model. We have not checked whether Portsmouth or the Solent is in any Defence Growth Deal area, and make no claim either way.", "basis": [ { "title": "Launching Team Plymouth: A united city, driving defence innovation and opportunity for all", "publisher": "Plymouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/news/launching-team-plymouth-united-city-driving-defence-innovation-and-opportunity-all", "publishedOn": "2025-09-19", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ] } ], "WORKSTREAMS": [ { "id": "thriving-economy", "officialName": { "status": "fact", "value": "A city with a thriving economy", "sources": [ { "title": "The Vision – Imagine Portsmouth 2040", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/the-vision/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "Imagine Portsmouth vision infographic (accessible PDF, January 2021)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Imagine-Portsmouth-Vision-Infographic-Accessible-.pdf", "publishedOn": "2021-01", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "shortName": { "status": "fact", "value": "Thriving economy", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." }, { "title": "Conference 2024", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth (facilitated by Portsmouth City Council)", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/conference-2024/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "WordPress page created 2024-06-25, last modified 2024-07-17. Still says \"Watch this space for the conference outcomes later in the summer.\"" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "ambitionQuote": { "status": "fact", "value": "We supercharge local businesses and entrepreneurs and attract outside investment.", "sources": [ { "title": "Imagine Portsmouth – homepage (short-form aspiration statements)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "councilPlanCommitments": { "status": "analysis", "value": [ { "ref": "5d", "quote": "working with key partners including the Naval Base and University to drive economic growth and major development in the city" }, { "ref": "5e", "quote": "providing support that enables businesses to locate and grow in Portsmouth" }, { "ref": "5c", "quote": "using our social value policy as a way to create opportunities for people who might otherwise face barriers to employment" }, { "ref": "2a", "quote": "improving our key shopping areas and district centres" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Corporate Plan 2024–2026: Working together to achieve more", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/56.308-Council-Plan-2024-accessible-aa.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-10-16", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "PDF metadata created 16 Oct 2024; uploaded May 2025. Listed as \"Corporate plan 2024-2026 (PDF)\" on portsmouth.gov.uk policies and strategies page on 23 Sep 2026 (no successor plan listed)." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "The Corporate Plan does not map its priorities to vision pillars. This grouping is Stat Pack analysis; the quoted wording is official." }, "reportedPartnerExamples": { "status": "fact", "value": [ "Outline planning for a north-of-city-centre scheme of up to 2,300 homes (PCC and partners)", "One-stop business support service for SMEs (Shaping Portsmouth, PCC)", "Cruise market development for Portsmouth International Port (Shaping Portsmouth, PCC)" ], "sources": [ { "title": "How we are doing", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/how-we-are-doing/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page created 2024-06-28, last modified 2024-07-01. Illustrative examples only." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Illustrative examples reported by PCC. Not verified outcomes." }, "namedLead": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk (vision, partners, conference and how-we-are-doing pages)", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ], "note": "No organisation or person is named as lead for any pillar. 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Illustrative examples only." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Illustrative examples reported by PCC. Not verified outcomes." }, "namedLead": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk (vision, partners, conference and how-we-are-doing pages)", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ], "note": "No organisation or person is named as lead for any pillar. 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Still says \"Watch this space for the conference outcomes later in the summer.\"" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "ambitionQuote": { "status": "fact", "value": "We encourage and support more walking and cycling, have excellent public transport connections…", "sources": [ { "title": "Imagine Portsmouth – homepage (short-form aspiration statements)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Truncated to stay under 25 words." }, "councilPlanCommitments": { "status": "analysis", "value": [ { "ref": "1d", "quote": "delivering our ambitions for a people-centred connected travel network" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Corporate Plan 2024–2026: Working together to achieve more", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/56.308-Council-Plan-2024-accessible-aa.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-10-16", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "PDF metadata created 16 Oct 2024; uploaded May 2025. 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Illustrative examples only." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Illustrative examples reported by PCC. Not verified outcomes." }, "namedLead": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk (vision, partners, conference and how-we-are-doing pages)", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ], "note": "No organisation or person is named as lead for any pillar. Each pillar had a featured speaker at the 2024 conference (see conferencePillarSpeaker), but none is described as a lead." }, "conferencePillarSpeaker": { "status": "fact", "value": { "name": "Jenni Jones", "role": "Project Support Officer, Community Rail Network" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Conference 2024", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth (facilitated by Portsmouth City Council)", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/conference-2024/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "WordPress page created 2024-06-25, last modified 2024-07-17. Still says \"Watch this space for the conference outcomes later in the summer.\"" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "baselineMeasures": [ { "measure": "Local bus passenger journeys", "likelyDataset": "DfT bus statistics (BUS01 tables, by local transport authority)", "status": "statpack-recommendation" }, { "measure": "Method of travel to work", "likelyDataset": "ONS Census 2021 TS061", "status": "statpack-recommendation" }, { "measure": "Adults walking or cycling at least once a week", "likelyDataset": "DfT walking and cycling statistics (Active Lives, CW0301 series)", "status": "statpack-recommendation" }, { "measure": "Licensed cars; public EV charging devices", "likelyDataset": "DfT VEH0105; DfT electric vehicle charging infrastructure statistics", "status": "statpack-recommendation" } ] }, { "id": "green-city", "officialName": { "status": "fact", "value": "A green city", "sources": [ { "title": "The Vision – Imagine Portsmouth 2040", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/the-vision/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "Imagine Portsmouth vision infographic (accessible PDF, January 2021)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Imagine-Portsmouth-Vision-Infographic-Accessible-.pdf", "publishedOn": "2021-01", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "shortName": { "status": "fact", "value": "Green city", "sources": [ { "title": "Appendix A – #TeamPortsmouth Conference Report (Research and Engagement, Corporate Services)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54821/Appendix%20A%20-%20Team%20Portsmouth%20Conference%20Report.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Dated July 2024 on cover; published as a Cabinet appendix on 18 Nov 2024. 32 pages." }, { "title": "Conference 2024", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth (facilitated by Portsmouth City Council)", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/conference-2024/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "WordPress page created 2024-06-25, last modified 2024-07-17. Still says \"Watch this space for the conference outcomes later in the summer.\"" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "ambitionQuote": { "status": "fact", "value": "We have excellent air quality, green spaces and sustainable transport.", "sources": [ { "title": "Imagine Portsmouth – homepage (short-form aspiration statements)", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" }, "councilPlanCommitments": { "status": "analysis", "value": [ { "ref": "4a", "quote": "ensuring we are resilient to the impacts of climate change, through our multi-million pound transformative sea defence programme" }, { "ref": "4b", "quote": "continuing to both lobby and work with partners to improve air and water quality and city biodiversity" }, { "ref": "4c", "quote": "developing solutions to address waste reduction, increasing reuse and recycling and responsible waste disposal" }, { "ref": "4d", "quote": "reducing carbon emissions in line with our Net Zero commitments" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Corporate Plan 2024–2026: Working together to achieve more", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/56.308-Council-Plan-2024-accessible-aa.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-10-16", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "PDF metadata created 16 Oct 2024; uploaded May 2025. Listed as \"Corporate plan 2024-2026 (PDF)\" on portsmouth.gov.uk policies and strategies page on 23 Sep 2026 (no successor plan listed)." } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "The Corporate Plan does not map its priorities to vision pillars. This grouping is Stat Pack analysis; the quoted wording is official." }, "reportedPartnerExamples": { "status": "fact", "value": [ "Carbon neutral cruise passenger terminal at Portsmouth International Port (PCC/PIP)", "Solent Oyster Restoration Project (UoP)", "Portsmouth Clean Air Pledge signed Jan 2026 by PCC, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, HMNB Portsmouth and Portsmouth International Port" ], "sources": [ { "title": "How we are doing", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/how-we-are-doing/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Page created 2024-06-28, last modified 2024-07-01. Illustrative examples only." }, { "title": "Team Portsmouth City Vision: update for Cabinet (Cabinet, 26 November 2024, agenda item 4)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (report by Assistant Director of Corporate Services)", "url": "https://portsmouth.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s54820/Team%20Portsmouth%20City%20Vision.pdf", "publishedOn": "2024-11-18", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Information report; Cabinet \"Noted the report which is for information and not subject to call-in.\" ModernGov meeting id 5696." }, { "title": "Portsmouth organisations make Clean Air Pledge (26 January 2026)", "publisher": "Portsmouth City Council (news)", "url": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/news/2026/portsmouth-organisations-make-clean-air-pledge", "publishedOn": "2026-01-26", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "Illustrative examples reported by PCC. Not verified outcomes. The Clean Air Pledge press release links the pledge to the \"Imagine Portsmouth 2040 vision\" but does not call it a Team Portsmouth initiative." }, "namedLead": { "status": "not-published", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "searched": [ "imagineportsmouth.co.uk (vision, partners, conference and how-we-are-doing pages)", "Cabinet cover report and Appendix A (Nov 2024)", "PCC Corporate Plan 2024–2026", "PCC ModernGov scan Jun 2024 – Sep 2026" ], "note": "No organisation or person is named as lead for any pillar. Each pillar had a featured speaker at the 2024 conference (see conferencePillarSpeaker), but none is described as a lead." }, "conferencePillarSpeaker": { "status": "fact", "value": { "name": "Clare Seek", "role": "Founder, Share Portsmouth" }, "sources": [ { "title": "Conference 2024", "publisher": "Imagine Portsmouth (facilitated by Portsmouth City Council)", "url": "https://imagineportsmouth.co.uk/conference-2024/", "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "note": "WordPress page created 2024-06-25, last modified 2024-07-17. Still says \"Watch this space for the conference outcomes later in the summer.\"" } ], "checkedOn": "2026-09-23", "reviewBy": "2026-11-22" }, "baselineMeasures": [ { "measure": "Territorial greenhouse gas emissions (total and per resident)", "likelyDataset": "DESNZ UK local authority greenhouse gas emissions statistics", "status": "statpack-recommendation" }, { "measure": "Household waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting (%)", "likelyDataset": "Defra local authority collected waste statistics (ENV18)", "status": "statpack-recommendation" }, { "measure": "Annual mean NO2 at monitoring sites in Air Quality Management Areas", "likelyDataset": "PCC Air Quality Annual Status Report (Defra LAQM)", "status": "statpack-recommendation" }, { "measure": "Bathing water classifications (e.g. Eastney, Southsea East)", "likelyDataset": "Environment Agency Swimfo / bathing water quality data", "status": "statpack-recommendation" } ] } ] }, "portsmouth-transport": { "AQMA": { "active": 5, "declaredTotal": 13, "declaredDate": "11 April 2005", "revokedDate": "26 January 2010", "areas": [ "Fratton Road to London Road", "Central Portsmouth — High Street, St Georges Road, Cambridge Road and surrounding", "Milton Road to Eastern Road, Milton", "Marketway to Lake Road to the M275", "The Hard to Queen Street, Portsea" ], "note": "All 13 were declared on the same day in 2005 for nitrogen dioxide, all attributed to local authority roads. Eight were revoked in 2010; five remain in force." }, "ASR_AVAILABILITY": { "summary": "Portsmouth City Council does not publish its Air Quality Annual Status Reports on its own website — its air quality page lists more than twenty other documents but no ASR, and directs residents to email for a copy. Four full reports are nonetheless public, as committee appendices or through a planning examination.", "available": [ { "report": "2016 ASR", "dataYear": "2016", "where": "Committee appendix" }, { "report": "2018 ASR", "dataYear": "2017", "where": "Committee appendix" }, { "report": "2019 ASR", "dataYear": "2018", "where": "Committee appendix" }, { "report": "2020 ASR", "dataYear": "2019", "where": "Submitted to the AQUIND planning examination — never attached to a council agenda" } ], "summaryOnly": "For 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 data, only a short covering report to committee is public. The full reports run to 400+ pages and are not published.", "missing": "The 2022 report, covering 2021 data, does not exist. A council report of January 2023 states plainly: \"The 2021 ASR was submitted to DEFRA in line with these responsibilities, however, the 2022 ASR has not been submitted.\" There is also no 2017 report — the sequence runs 2016 then 2018 — and nothing has been published for 2025 data." }, "BUS": [ { "year": "2010", "portsmouth": 10.472, "portsmouthPerHead": 52.6, "englandPerHead": 88.4 }, { "year": "2014", "portsmouth": 10.324, "portsmouthPerHead": 50.1, "englandPerHead": 86.7 }, { "year": "2018", "portsmouth": 11.576, "portsmouthPerHead": 54.9, "englandPerHead": 78.2 }, { "year": "2019", "portsmouth": 10.995, "portsmouthPerHead": 52.1, "englandPerHead": 77.1 }, { "year": "2020", "portsmouth": 9.892, "portsmouthPerHead": 47, "englandPerHead": 72.5 }, { "year": "2021", "portsmouth": 3.936, "portsmouthPerHead": 18.8, "englandPerHead": 28.1 }, { "year": "2022", "portsmouth": 7.768, "portsmouthPerHead": 37.5, "englandPerHead": 50.2 }, { "year": "2023", "portsmouth": 9.4, "portsmouthPerHead": 45, "englandPerHead": 59.3 }, { "year": "2024", "portsmouth": 11.506, "portsmouthPerHead": 53.8, "englandPerHead": 62.6 }, { "year": "2025", "portsmouth": 11.919, "portsmouthPerHead": 55.6, "englandPerHead": 62.6 } ], "BUS_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth bus journeys have not just recovered from the pandemic — they now exceed pre-pandemic levels. 11.9 million journeys in the year to March 2025 against 11.0 million in 2019. Across England, patronage remains around 10% below where it was.", "CAR_FREE": { "portsmouth": 30.3, "england": 23.5 }, "CAZ": { "launched": "29 November 2021", "classType": "Class B", "area": "South-western Portsea Island", "charged": "Non-compliant taxis and private hire £10/day; non-compliant HGVs, buses and coaches £50/day. Private cars, vans and motorcycles are NOT charged.", "standard": "Euro 6 diesel / Euro 4 petrol", "compliantShare": "Just under 94% of vehicles entering the zone in its first two years were already compliant or exempt. Under 1% were chargeable.", "doNotAttribute": "No official evaluation attributes any NO2 reduction to the Clean Air Zone, and the council's own commissioned study points the other way. It records that \"monthly traffic volumes on Alfred Road are largely higher than when the CAZ was first introduced in 2021, suggesting that traffic levels have not decreased since the CAZ became operational\", and that there is \"limited scope for further NO2 benefits as a result of further vehicles being upgraded\". The largest single fall at the roadside monitor was 2019 to 2020 — COVID, a year before the zone opened.", "stillExceeding": "On 2023 data two streets exceeded the limit value — Alfred Road at 43.7 µg/m³ and Hope Street at 42.5. Both have since fallen: on 2024 data Alfred Road recorded 37.9 and 40.4 at its two tube sites and Hope Street 39.3. Portsmouth passed the government's State 2 Assessment in January 2026 with no exceedances at any of the twelve assessed locations, though three — including the former Alfred Road and Hope Street sites — remain classed as at risk.", "whyNotWorking": "Diesel cars account for 58–59% of road NOx at those sites, and diesel vans another 18–20% — neither is charged by a Class B zone. Cars registered in Portsmouth rose 17% between 2011 and 2021 against 5% nationally." }, "CAZ_ASSESSMENT": [ { "stage": "State 1 Assessment", "date": "November 2023", "outcome": "Failed — not on track for compliance", "exceeding": 3, "atRisk": 9 }, { "stage": "Targeted Feasibility Study", "date": "December 2024", "outcome": "No change to boundary or charges; rely on fleet renewal", "exceeding": null, "atRisk": null }, { "stage": "Government response", "date": "March 2025", "outcome": "Accepted no further measures would speed compliance; rejected a £2m behaviour-change package as poor value", "exceeding": null, "atRisk": null }, { "stage": "State 2 Assessment", "date": "January 2026", "outcome": "Passed — no exceedances at any of 12 assessed locations", "exceeding": 0, "atRisk": 3 }, { "stage": "State 3 & 4", "date": "End 2026 (planned)", "outcome": "Modelling and exit plan", "exceeding": null, "atRisk": null }, { "stage": "Decommissioning", "date": "2027 at the earliest", "outcome": "Conditional on passing States 3 and 4", "exceeding": null, "atRisk": null } ], "CAZ_STATUS_NOW": "The zone is still operating. Portsmouth passed the State 2 Assessment in January 2026 with zero exceedances, having failed State 1 in November 2023 with three. If it also passes States 3 and 4, the council plans to decommission the zone in 2027 at the earliest. The five Air Quality Management Areas declared in 2005 remain in force — none has been revoked following compliance.", "EXCEEDANCE_NOTE": "Bias-corrected annual mean from diffusion tubes, against a 40 µg/m³ limit. Sites above 40 fell from four in 2022 to three in 2023 to one in 2024. The council states that after bias, distance and siting adjustments the objective was not exceeded at any location in 2024. Diffusion tubes and the continuous analysers are different instruments and are not interchangeable — the one remaining 2024 reading above 40 is a tube result the council says meets the 2010 Regulations but not local monitoring siting standards.", "EXCEEDANCE_STREETS": [ { "site": "Alfred Road, northbound", "y2019": 48, "y2022": 48.54, "y2023": 42.79, "y2024": 37.89 }, { "site": "Alfred Road, southbound kerbside", "y2019": 52.52, "y2022": 45.89, "y2023": 43.72, "y2024": 40.44 }, { "site": "Hope Street, opposite Sainsbury's", "y2019": 43.91, "y2022": 44.88, "y2023": 42.51, "y2024": 39.29 } ], "NO2": [ { "year": 2001, "background": 27, "roadside": null }, { "year": 2005, "background": 23, "roadside": null }, { "year": 2010, "background": 22, "roadside": null }, { "year": 2015, "background": 19, "roadside": null }, { "year": 2018, "background": 19, "roadside": 31 }, { "year": 2019, "background": 17, "roadside": 28 }, { "year": 2020, "background": null, "roadside": 21, "lowCapture": true }, { "year": 2021, "background": null, "roadside": 23, "lowCapture": true }, { "year": 2022, "background": 15, "roadside": 23 }, { "year": 2023, "background": 13, "roadside": 21 }, { "year": 2024, "background": 13, "roadside": 21 }, { "year": 2025, "background": 12, "roadside": 19 } ], "NO2_CAPTURE_NOTE": "The background monitor's 2020 and 2021 readings are omitted: data capture was 15% and 65%, below the 75% threshold at which a year counts as valid. Plotting them would show a dip that is an artefact of the monitor, not the air.", "NO2_HEADLINE": "Nitrogen dioxide at Portsmouth's urban background monitor has fallen from 27 µg/m³ in 2001 to 12 in 2025, and at the Anglesea Road roadside monitor from 31 in 2018 to 19. The hourly objective of 200 µg/m³ has never been breached at either site in any year on record.", "TRAFFIC": [ { "year": 1993, "allVehicles": 705.1, "cars": 596.9, "lgv": 70.2 }, { "year": 2004, "allVehicles": 769.2, "cars": 633.6, "lgv": 96 }, { "year": 2010, "allVehicles": 717.2, "cars": 587.4, "lgv": 94.6 }, { "year": 2019, "allVehicles": 758.4, "cars": 611.7, "lgv": 114.6 }, { "year": 2020, "allVehicles": 589.6, "cars": 460.7, "lgv": 102.6 }, { "year": 2022, "allVehicles": 757, "cars": 596.5, "lgv": 129.6 }, { "year": 2024, "allVehicles": 742.3, "cars": 592.7, "lgv": 121.6 }, { "year": 2025, "allVehicles": 749.3, "cars": 601.6, "lgv": 118.5 } ], "TRAFFIC_CAVEAT": "DfT states that local-authority traffic estimates are not accredited official statistics and are less robust than regional and national totals. Motorcycles, buses and cycles are not published at this geography.", "TRAFFIC_HEADLINE": "Total traffic in Portsmouth peaked in 2004 and has been broadly flat since. Car traffic in 2025 is close to where it was two decades ago. The growth has been in vans: light goods traffic is up about 69% since 1993, while heavy goods traffic has fallen around 22%.", "TRANSPORT_SOURCES": [ { "name": "Defra UK-AIR — annual and exceedance statistics, Portsmouth AURN sites", "href": "https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/exceedance", "date": "2026" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council / AtkinsRéalis — Air Quality Targeted Feasibility Study", "href": "https://cleanerairportsmouth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Portsmouth_AQ_TFS_Exec_Summary_V10.1_Accessible_Version_-_White.pdf", "date": "2024-12" }, { "name": "DfT — Bus statistics, table BUS01", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus01-local-bus-passenger-journeys", "date": "2026-03-24" }, { "name": "DfT — Road traffic estimates in Great Britain 2025", "href": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/road-traffic-estimates-in-great-britain-2025", "date": "2026-05-20" }, { "name": "ONS Census 2021 — travel to work (TS061) and car availability (TS045)", "href": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/census", "date": "2022-12-08" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Air Quality Annual Status Report 2020 (2019 data, full report)", "href": "https://nsip-documents.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/published-documents/EN020022-003295-Portsmouth%20City%20Council.pdf", "date": "2020-12" }, { "name": "Portsmouth City Council — Clean Air Zone update, Cabinet", "href": "https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/documents/s61716/Clean%20Air%20Zone%20update.pdf", "date": "2026-03-03" } ], "TRAVEL_CAVEAT": "Census 2021 was taken during the pandemic, which affected travel-to-work answers substantially — most obviously the home-working figure. ONS states this explicitly. The comparison with England is still valid because both were measured the same way at the same moment.", "TRAVEL_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth walks and cycles to work at well above the national rate — 12.7% on foot against 7.6%, and 5.2% by bicycle against 2.1%. Nearly a third of households have no car at all, against under a quarter across England. Density and a compact island geography make active travel genuinely viable here in a way it is not in most of the country.", "TRAVEL_TO_WORK": [ { "method": "Driving a car or van", "portsmouth": 41.6, "england": 44.5 }, { "method": "Work mainly at or from home", "portsmouth": 24.9, "england": 31.5 }, { "method": "On foot", "portsmouth": 12.7, "england": 7.6 }, { "method": "Bus, minibus or coach", "portsmouth": 5.1, "england": 4.3 }, { "method": "Bicycle", "portsmouth": 5.2, "england": 2.1 }, { "method": "Passenger in a car or van", "portsmouth": 5, "england": 3.9 }, { "method": "Train", "portsmouth": 1.9, "england": 2 } ] }, "portsmouth-verified-claims": { "EVIDENCE_RULE": "Every claim on this page is tested against an official or regulator source — Portsmouth City Council, the Environment Agency, Defra, the Home Office, ONS, DfE or Ofsted, NHS bodies, DfT, Hampshire Constabulary, the MOD or another named government department. Social media posts, campaign material and news reports are never treated as statistical evidence; where they appear, they are labelled as examples of public perception only.", "VERIFIED_CLAIMS": [ { "slug": "sewage-daily-dumping", "topic": "Sewage & bathing water", "claim": "Raw sewage is dumped at Southsea every day and the beach is never safe to swim.", "verdict": "misleading", "shortAnswer": "Southsea East is classified Poor and had 34 pollution warnings in 2025 — but the Environment Agency recorded no sewage debris at this site across the 2022–2025 assessment period.", "officialEvidence": "The Environment Agency bathing water profile for Southsea East records a Poor annual classification for 2025 and 34 pollution risk warnings during the season. Over the 2022–2025 assessment period the profile states sewage debris was NOT noted at this site, while litter was observed on 91% of visits. Named short-term pollution risks are tide, rainfall, urban drainage and occasional Canoe Lake discharge.", "portsmouthFigure": "Southsea East: Poor (2025). 34 pollution risk warnings. Sewage debris not recorded 2022–2025.", "comparison": "Eastney, the other Southsea-area designated bathing water, is classified Good.", "periodAndDate": "2025 bathing season; assessment period 2022–2025", "responsibleBody": "Environment Agency (classification and enforcement); Southern Water (network); Ofwat (economic regulation)", "residentAction": "Check the Environment Agency daily pollution risk forecast before swimming. Report a pollution incident to the Environment Agency 24-hour line.", "sourceName": "Environment Agency — Southsea East bathing water profile", "sourceUrl": "https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/", "methodology": "Annual classification pools four years of sampling. Pollution risk warnings are short-term forecasts, not measurements of a discharge having occurred. \"Sewage debris not noted\" refers to visual assessment at this monitoring point and does not rule out discharges elsewhere in the harbour.", "perceptionExample": "Photographs of discoloured harbour water circulate widely on local social media and are frequently described as raw sewage. Those posts are not evidence of what the water contained." }, { "slug": "flytipping-commercial", "topic": "Fly-tipping", "claim": "Most fly-tipping in Portsmouth is commercial waste dumped by rogue traders.", "verdict": "unverifiable", "shortAnswer": "No Portsmouth-level dataset publishes the household/commercial split. Nationally, 62% of recorded fly-tips involved household waste — the opposite emphasis.", "officialEvidence": "Defra fly-tipping statistics for England 2024/25 record that 62% of incidents involved household waste. Portsmouth recorded 937 incidents in 2024/25, down from 1,092, of which 478 were on council land and 379 on highways. Defra does not publish a household-versus-commercial split at local authority level.", "portsmouthFigure": "937 incidents, 2024/25. 38 fixed penalty notices, of which 6 were fly-tipping specific.", "comparison": "Portsmouth incidents fell 14.2% while England rose 9.1% over the same period.", "periodAndDate": "2024/25 financial year; published 25 February 2026", "responsibleBody": "Portsmouth City Council (clearance and enforcement); Environment Agency (organised waste crime)", "residentAction": "Report incidents to Portsmouth City Council. Check any waste carrier you pay on the free national register before handing over waste.", "sourceName": "Defra — Fly-tipping statistics for England, 2024 to 2025", "sourceUrl": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england/fly-tipping-statistics-for-england-2024-to-2025", "methodology": "Defra counts incidents reported to and recorded by local authorities, so figures reflect reporting behaviour as well as underlying activity. National waste-type composition is not automatically Portsmouth composition and is not presented as such." }, { "slug": "caz-motorist-tax", "topic": "Clean Air Zone", "claim": "The Clean Air Zone is a tax on ordinary Portsmouth motorists.", "verdict": "incorrect", "shortAnswer": "Portsmouth operates a Class B zone. Private cars, vans, motorcycles and minibuses are not charged at all.", "officialEvidence": "Portsmouth City Council operates a Class B Clean Air Zone, introduced under a direction from central government. Charges apply only to non-compliant heavy goods vehicles, buses, coaches, taxis and private hire vehicles. Private cars, light goods vehicles, motorcycles and minibuses are not chargeable under a Class B scheme.", "portsmouthFigure": "Class B. Cars, vans, motorcycles and minibuses: £0.", "comparison": "Class D zones elsewhere in England do charge private cars. Portsmouth is not a Class D zone.", "periodAndDate": "Zone operational since 29 November 2021; scope unchanged", "responsibleBody": "Portsmouth City Council operates it; central government directed it", "residentAction": "Check your vehicle against the government vehicle checker before travelling if you drive a taxi, private hire vehicle, HGV, bus or coach.", "sourceName": "Portsmouth City Council — Clean Air Zone", "sourceUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/privacy-notices/clean-air-zone-caz-privacy-notice", "methodology": "Charge classes are defined by the national Clean Air Zone Framework. No claim is made here about how any revenue is applied, because the legal basis for ring-fencing has not been verified." }, { "slug": "asylum-share", "topic": "Asylum accommodation", "claim": "Portsmouth takes a disproportionate share of asylum accommodation and it has taken homes from local residents.", "verdict": "unverifiable", "shortAnswer": "Placements are commissioned by the Home Office, not the council. No official source establishes a disproportionate share or quantifies any effect on local housing supply.", "officialEvidence": "Portsmouth City Council states that asylum accommodation is commissioned by the Home Office and that the council has no control over individual placements. The council identifies the Royal Beach Hotel as the only hotel currently used in Portsmouth, for family accommodation. An official Portsmouth assessment recorded 733 asylum seekers receiving support in September 2024, of whom 656 were in dispersal accommodation.", "portsmouthFigure": "733 receiving support, of whom 656 in dispersal accommodation (September 2024). One hotel in use.", "comparison": "No like-for-like per-capita comparison with other authorities is published in the sources reviewed, so no claim about relative share is made.", "periodAndDate": "September 2024", "responsibleBody": "Home Office (commissioning and placement); Portsmouth City Council (local liaison only)", "residentAction": "Questions about placement policy are Home Office matters and can be raised with your MP. The council publishes what it knows on its asylum accommodation page.", "sourceName": "Portsmouth City Council — Asylum accommodation", "sourceUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/council-and-democracy/be-informed/asylum-accommodation/", "methodology": "Support counts are a snapshot at a point in time, not a flow. Dispersal accommodation and hotel accommodation are separate categories. No published dataset links asylum accommodation to local housing availability, so no such link is asserted." }, { "slug": "hmo-refusal", "topic": "Housing & HMOs", "claim": "Portsmouth automatically refuses any new HMO because of the 10% rule.", "verdict": "misleading", "shortAnswer": "The 10% figure is a planning threshold measured within a 50-metre radius — a test applied to applications, not an automatic refusal, and not a measure of how many HMOs exist.", "officialEvidence": "Portsmouth planning policy assesses new HMO applications against whether more than 10% of residential properties within a 50-metre radius are already in HMO use. This is a policy threshold used in decision-making. It is distinct from the measured stock of HMOs, which the council publishes separately as a licensing register.", "portsmouthFigure": "Policy threshold: 10% within a 50m radius. Measured stock: 3,158 licensed HMOs on the council register (August 2026).", "comparison": "The threshold and the stock are different measures with different denominators and must not be compared to each other.", "periodAndDate": "Policy current; register as at August 2026", "responsibleBody": "Portsmouth City Council (planning and licensing)", "residentAction": "Comment on individual planning applications, and on the Local Plan while it is at examination.", "sourceName": "Portsmouth City Council — Local Plan housing evidence", "sourceUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PLP_HRA_FINAL.pdf", "methodology": "The register counts licensed properties, not a concentration rate. The council publishes ward concentration only as a map image, so no per-ward percentage is stated here." }, { "slug": "high-street-vacancy", "topic": "High streets", "claim": "Portsmouth city centre is dying — a fifth of shops are empty.", "verdict": "mostly-supported", "shortAnswer": "City-centre vacancy was about 16.4% in the council's 2024 retail study and about 18% of frontages in its August 2024 monitoring — high, but the figure varies sharply by street and survey boundary.", "officialEvidence": "Portsmouth City Council's Retail Study Update 2024 records city-centre vacancy of approximately 16.4%. The council's Authority Monitoring Report recorded approximately 18% vacant city-centre frontages in August 2024. Within the centre, Arundel Street had 11 of 30 units vacant — more than a third. Southsea Centre, a separate boundary, recorded 10.2% vacancy against a national average of 14.0%.", "portsmouthFigure": "City centre ~16.4% (2024 study) / ~18% of frontages (Aug 2024). Arundel Street 11 of 30 units.", "comparison": "Southsea Centre 10.2% vacant against 14.0% nationally — below the national rate, unlike the city centre.", "periodAndDate": "2024 retail study; monitoring August 2024", "responsibleBody": "Portsmouth City Council (planning and regeneration); private landowners hold most of the frontage", "residentAction": "Respond to City Centre North regeneration consultations and to the Local Plan examination.", "sourceName": "Portsmouth City Council — Retail Study Update 2024", "sourceUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Portsmouth-Retail-Study-Update-2024.pdf", "methodology": "Vacancy rates depend entirely on the survey boundary and date. \"City centre\", \"Commercial Road\" and \"Southsea Centre\" are different areas and their rates are not interchangeable. No single-street figure is presented without its boundary." }, { "slug": "cycling-network", "topic": "Cycling", "claim": "Portsmouth has a joined-up cycle network / Portsmouth cycle lanes just stop for no reason.", "verdict": "mostly-supported", "shortAnswer": "The council's own plan identifies a formal planned network alongside a need to improve continuity, crossings and connections between neighbourhoods.", "officialEvidence": "Portsmouth's Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan sets out a planned network of north-south and east-west routes. The same document identifies the need to improve continuity, crossings, bridges, connections and access between neighbourhoods.", "portsmouthFigure": "A formal planned network exists, with continuity gaps identified by the council itself.", "comparison": "Census 2021 records 5.2% of Portsmouth residents cycling to work against 2.1% across England — above the national rate despite the gaps.", "periodAndDate": "LCWIP 2022; travel-to-work data Census 2021", "responsibleBody": "Portsmouth City Council (highways); Active Travel England (funding)", "residentAction": "Respond to individual scheme consultations on the council travel site; report obstructions to the council.", "sourceName": "Portsmouth City Council — Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan", "sourceUrl": "https://travel.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/74.645-LCWIP-update-with-background-report-2022-Accessible.pdf", "methodology": "No official audit classifies individual Portsmouth roads by stress level, so no such classification is used. Route quality claims are limited to what the council's own plan states." }, { "slug": "defence-employment", "topic": "Defence & maritime", "claim": "The naval base supports 20,000 jobs and £1.5bn for Portsmouth's economy.", "verdict": "unverifiable", "shortAnswer": "No current official assessment of the base's employment or economic contribution has been identified. The available official figures are more than a decade old.", "officialEvidence": "A 2012 Portsmouth City Council employment land study identified 1,900 staff at the naval base, of whom 77% were Solent residents. A 2014 Ministry of Defence announcement referred to more than 2,000 BAE Systems jobs at Portsmouth. BAE Systems closed its Portsmouth shipbuilding operation in August 2014, marking a transition from shipbuilding to naval base support, engineering and maritime activity.", "portsmouthFigure": "1,900 base staff (2012 study); 2,000+ BAE jobs (2014 MOD statement). Both dated.", "comparison": "Portsmouth's public administration and defence sector accounts for 7.7% of employee jobs against 4.5% across England — nearly double, but this is a whole-sector figure, not a naval base figure.", "periodAndDate": "Employment evidence 2012 and 2014; sector share 2024", "responsibleBody": "Ministry of Defence; BAE Systems; Portsmouth City Council (economic development)", "residentAction": "Ask your MP to press for a current published economic impact assessment of the naval base — none appears to exist.", "sourceName": "Portsmouth City Council — Employment Land Study", "sourceUrl": "https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/development-and-planning-employment-land-study.pdf", "methodology": "Figures over a decade old are labelled as such and are not presented as current. Defence is not described as the city's largest current employer because no current official source establishes that." }, { "slug": "utc-pipeline", "topic": "Skills & UTC", "claim": "UTC Portsmouth guarantees its students jobs with BAE Systems.", "verdict": "incorrect", "shortAnswer": "UTC Portsmouth has named employer partners including BAE Systems, but no official source establishes guaranteed employment, and the school is small.", "officialEvidence": "Ofsted's provider record for UTC Portsmouth lists 491 pupils against a capacity of 600, with the latest inspection report published in January 2026. The UTC names employer partners including BAE Systems, the Royal Navy, QinetiQ and Airbus. No official source establishes guaranteed employment outcomes with any partner.", "portsmouthFigure": "491 pupils on roll against 600 capacity (Ofsted provider record).", "comparison": "At this scale the UTC cannot be a city-wide skills solution on its own, whatever the strength of individual partnerships.", "periodAndDate": "Ofsted provider record; inspection report published January 2026", "responsibleBody": "UTC Portsmouth and its trust; Department for Education; employer partners", "residentAction": "Read the Ofsted report directly rather than relying on partnership announcements.", "sourceName": "Ofsted — UTC Portsmouth provider record", "sourceUrl": "https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/143430", "methodology": "An employer partnership evidences participation, not employment. Progression claims are only made where destination data is published; pass-rate figures circulating without a primary source are not used." } ] }, "portsmouth-wards": { "ENGLAND_ROW": { "ward": "England", "population": 56490046, "deprived": 51.6, "deprived2plus": 18.1, "socialRented": 17.1, "privateRented": 20.5, "overcrowded": 4.4, "badHealth": 5.2, "noQuals": 18.1, "level4plus": 33.9, "noCar": 23.5 }, "PORTSMOUTH_ROW": { "ward": "Portsmouth", "population": 208003, "deprived": 52.8, "deprived2plus": 19.4, "socialRented": 18, "privateRented": 28.6, "overcrowded": 4.4, "badHealth": 5, "noQuals": 17.4, "level4plus": 30, "noCar": 30.3 }, "WARDS_ONLY": [ { "ward": "Baffins", "population": 15019, "deprived": 49.2, "deprived2plus": 15.5, "socialRented": 11.2, "privateRented": 16.4, "overcrowded": 2.8, "badHealth": 4.4, "noQuals": 17.6, "level4plus": 26.9, "noCar": 19.3 }, { "ward": "Central Southsea", "population": 15987, "deprived": 48.2, "deprived2plus": 15.2, "socialRented": 6.8, "privateRented": 45, "overcrowded": 3.5, "badHealth": 3.4, "noQuals": 11.1, "level4plus": 35.1, "noCar": 32.4 }, { "ward": "Charles Dickens", "population": 22323, "deprived": 71, "deprived2plus": 36.2, "socialRented": 63.8, "privateRented": 19.9, "overcrowded": 10, "badHealth": 7, "noQuals": 21.2, "level4plus": 19.6, "noCar": 57.2 }, { "ward": "Copnor", "population": 13300, "deprived": 48, "deprived2plus": 14, "socialRented": 2.7, "privateRented": 21.5, "overcrowded": 3.3, "badHealth": 3.9, "noQuals": 16.9, "level4plus": 26.2, "noCar": 17.4 }, { "ward": "Cosham", "population": 14444, "deprived": 53.9, "deprived2plus": 20.4, "socialRented": 21.4, "privateRented": 16.3, "overcrowded": 4, "badHealth": 5.3, "noQuals": 20.5, "level4plus": 27.3, "noCar": 27.2 }, { "ward": "Drayton and Farlington", "population": 13733, "deprived": 43, "deprived2plus": 10.8, "socialRented": 3.7, "privateRented": 13.3, "overcrowded": 1.3, "badHealth": 3.9, "noQuals": 13.8, "level4plus": 34.4, "noCar": 12.1 }, { "ward": "Eastney and Craneswater", "population": 12579, "deprived": 46.4, "deprived2plus": 14.6, "socialRented": 6.8, "privateRented": 37.6, "overcrowded": 2.4, "badHealth": 4.5, "noQuals": 13.6, "level4plus": 42.5, "noCar": 25.9 }, { "ward": "Fratton", "population": 15487, "deprived": 54.2, "deprived2plus": 20.2, "socialRented": 11.2, "privateRented": 40.9, "overcrowded": 6.1, "badHealth": 4.9, "noQuals": 18.7, "level4plus": 26.2, "noCar": 35 }, { "ward": "Hilsea", "population": 13929, "deprived": 51.3, "deprived2plus": 17.5, "socialRented": 15.2, "privateRented": 22.6, "overcrowded": 3.5, "badHealth": 4.7, "noQuals": 19.4, "level4plus": 27.1, "noCar": 22.4 }, { "ward": "Milton", "population": 14333, "deprived": 47.5, "deprived2plus": 15.7, "socialRented": 10.1, "privateRented": 26.7, "overcrowded": 3, "badHealth": 4.6, "noQuals": 15.4, "level4plus": 35.5, "noCar": 25.4 }, { "ward": "Nelson", "population": 15132, "deprived": 59, "deprived2plus": 24.7, "socialRented": 20.5, "privateRented": 32.3, "overcrowded": 5.7, "badHealth": 5.6, "noQuals": 24.3, "level4plus": 22.9, "noCar": 35.6 }, { "ward": "Paulsgrove", "population": 14576, "deprived": 59.4, "deprived2plus": 25.3, "socialRented": 30, "privateRented": 15.8, "overcrowded": 4.6, "badHealth": 6, "noQuals": 25, "level4plus": 21.6, "noCar": 23.5 }, { "ward": "St Jude", "population": 12043, "deprived": 46.4, "deprived2plus": 13.9, "socialRented": 7.7, "privateRented": 49, "overcrowded": 3.3, "badHealth": 4.7, "noQuals": 11.4, "level4plus": 46.3, "noCar": 35.8 }, { "ward": "St Thomas", "population": 15119, "deprived": 55, "deprived2plus": 21.2, "socialRented": 25.8, "privateRented": 39.7, "overcrowded": 5.5, "badHealth": 5.3, "noQuals": 13.5, "level4plus": 34.8, "noCar": 41.9 } ], "WARD_CAVEAT": "Census 2021 was taken on 21 March 2021, during the third national lockdown. Student and workplace populations were displaced, and the figures do not update between censuses. Read them as a map of how wards differ from each other, not as this year's conditions.", "WARD_HEADLINE": "Portsmouth is not one place. Charles Dickens ward has 36.2% of households deprived in two or more ways; Drayton and Farlington has 10.8%. That is a three-and-a-half-fold gap inside a single small city.", "WARD_MEASURES": [ { "key": "deprived2plus", "label": "Households deprived in 2+ ways", "meaning": "Deprived on at least two of employment, education, health and housing at once — the census measure of compounded hardship rather than a single difficulty.", "higherIsWorse": true, "unit": "%" }, { "key": "socialRented", "label": "Social rented homes", "meaning": "Council or housing association tenancies as a share of all households.", "higherIsWorse": false, "unit": "%" }, { "key": "privateRented", "label": "Private rented homes", "meaning": "Renting from a landlord or letting agency — the tenure with the least security and, in Portsmouth, the one most associated with HMO concentration.", "higherIsWorse": false, "unit": "%" }, { "key": "overcrowded", "label": "Overcrowded households", "meaning": "Fewer bedrooms than the household needs by the standard occupancy rating.", "higherIsWorse": true, "unit": "%" }, { "key": "badHealth", "label": "Residents in bad or very bad health", "meaning": "Self-reported general health, not a clinical diagnosis.", "higherIsWorse": true, "unit": "%" }, { "key": "noQuals", "label": "Adults with no qualifications", "meaning": "Residents aged 16+ holding no formal qualification of any kind.", "higherIsWorse": true, "unit": "%" }, { "key": "level4plus", "label": "Adults with degree-level qualifications", "meaning": "Residents aged 16+ qualified to level 4 or above.", "higherIsWorse": false, "unit": "%" }, { "key": "noCar", "label": "Households with no car or van", "meaning": "Matters for transport policy and for how far \"just drive to the tip\" is a realistic instruction.", "higherIsWorse": false, "unit": "%" } ], "WARD_PROFILES": [ { "ward": "Baffins", "population": 15019, "deprived": 49.2, "deprived2plus": 15.5, "socialRented": 11.2, "privateRented": 16.4, "overcrowded": 2.8, "badHealth": 4.4, "noQuals": 17.6, "level4plus": 26.9, "noCar": 19.3 }, { "ward": "Central Southsea", "population": 15987, "deprived": 48.2, "deprived2plus": 15.2, "socialRented": 6.8, "privateRented": 45, "overcrowded": 3.5, "badHealth": 3.4, "noQuals": 11.1, "level4plus": 35.1, "noCar": 32.4 }, { "ward": "Charles Dickens", "population": 22323, "deprived": 71, "deprived2plus": 36.2, "socialRented": 63.8, "privateRented": 19.9, "overcrowded": 10, "badHealth": 7, "noQuals": 21.2, "level4plus": 19.6, "noCar": 57.2 }, { "ward": "Copnor", "population": 13300, "deprived": 48, "deprived2plus": 14, "socialRented": 2.7, "privateRented": 21.5, "overcrowded": 3.3, "badHealth": 3.9, "noQuals": 16.9, "level4plus": 26.2, "noCar": 17.4 }, { "ward": "Cosham", "population": 14444, "deprived": 53.9, "deprived2plus": 20.4, "socialRented": 21.4, "privateRented": 16.3, "overcrowded": 4, "badHealth": 5.3, "noQuals": 20.5, "level4plus": 27.3, "noCar": 27.2 }, { "ward": "Drayton and Farlington", "population": 13733, "deprived": 43, "deprived2plus": 10.8, "socialRented": 3.7, "privateRented": 13.3, "overcrowded": 1.3, "badHealth": 3.9, "noQuals": 13.8, "level4plus": 34.4, "noCar": 12.1 }, { "ward": "Eastney and Craneswater", "population": 12579, "deprived": 46.4, "deprived2plus": 14.6, "socialRented": 6.8, "privateRented": 37.6, "overcrowded": 2.4, "badHealth": 4.5, "noQuals": 13.6, "level4plus": 42.5, "noCar": 25.9 }, { "ward": "Fratton", "population": 15487, "deprived": 54.2, "deprived2plus": 20.2, "socialRented": 11.2, "privateRented": 40.9, "overcrowded": 6.1, "badHealth": 4.9, "noQuals": 18.7, "level4plus": 26.2, "noCar": 35 }, { "ward": "Hilsea", "population": 13929, "deprived": 51.3, "deprived2plus": 17.5, "socialRented": 15.2, "privateRented": 22.6, "overcrowded": 3.5, "badHealth": 4.7, "noQuals": 19.4, "level4plus": 27.1, "noCar": 22.4 }, { "ward": "Milton", "population": 14333, "deprived": 47.5, "deprived2plus": 15.7, "socialRented": 10.1, "privateRented": 26.7, "overcrowded": 3, "badHealth": 4.6, "noQuals": 15.4, "level4plus": 35.5, "noCar": 25.4 }, { "ward": "Nelson", 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"href": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts067", "date": "Census 2021" }, { "name": "ONS Census 2021 via NOMIS — TS045 car or van availability", "href": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts045", "date": "Census 2021" } ], "WARD_TO_CONSTITUENCY": { "Baffins": "Portsmouth North", "Copnor": "Portsmouth North", "Cosham": "Portsmouth North", "Drayton and Farlington": "Portsmouth North", "Hilsea": "Portsmouth North", "Nelson": "Portsmouth North", "Paulsgrove": "Portsmouth North", "Central Southsea": "Portsmouth South", "Charles Dickens": "Portsmouth South", "Eastney and Craneswater": "Portsmouth South", "Fratton": "Portsmouth South", "Milton": "Portsmouth South", "St Jude": "Portsmouth South", "St Thomas": "Portsmouth South" } } } }