The subject of a two-week enquiry, plans for 7,000 houses are to come under scrutiny. 7,000 homes when only 2,000 are required, to be built in the area North of Fareham towards Knowle village.
Plans for over 2,000 homes to be built west of Waterlooville have already been given the go ahead.
With all this development it won’t be long before Solent City becomes a reality. The Government’s South East plan is leading us rapidly towards a “vast urban sprawl” from Totton in the west to Waterlooville in the East. The insidious creeping growth of our local settlements is slowly consuming the buffer zones which have, so far, maintained the individuality and character of our towns and villages.
What I would like to know is where is the infrastructure to support this enormous increase in people and traffic ? I have lived in the same property for over twenty years and have watched the slow build up of traffic. This volume increase is set to explode with the new developments. And yet there doesn’t seem to be a cohesive plan to cope with the additional traffic.
You only have to visit the Locks Heath / Segensworth area during the morning or evening rush hours to understand how well our local planners understand the problems…NOT !!!. Locks Heath and Segensworth have gone through extraordinary growth over the last few years. The slip roads off the M27 have become long car parks while residents try to get home through the log jams that form around the roundabouts on the A27.
I can only see this phenomenon growing and migrating along the M27 to Junctions 10 & 11 for Fareham and on to Junctions 2 and 3 of the A3M for Waterlooville if these new proposed developments aren’t curbed.
Judgement day over new town as inquiry gets down to work – Politics – The News.
WrAnTz 
I believe over population is major problem in the UK, especially England but unfortunately at present it is a reality.
Southampton & Portsmouth in my opinion shouldn’t of been allowed to sprawl as they have, but they have over many decades.
As it is as it is ( a metropolise of around a million people) they may as well finish the job and centralise the metropolise with a proper city centre.
To have just more housing is rediculous and will bring nothing positive to the community.
I agree with your comments regarding the over population of England. This is exacerbated by the planners insistence that much of that population must be based in the south.