Leigh Rd - Land North of Lavant Drive 1.38 Acres of Commercial Land in Havant PO9 2EU

Price on application
The site is being offered freehold and is currently forms part of Title number HP459832, currently in the ownership of NHS Property Services Ltd.
The site comprises of an area of open, designated brown field land located on the northern side of Lavant Drive on the corner of Leigh Road, approximately 0.3 miles north of Havant Railway Station. The site formerly housed the Oak Park (Havant Comprehensive) school which closed in the 1980s.
A pre-application has been lodged under site reference HA09 in the Council’s Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA) with a potential yield for 21 dwellings. Based on a site area of 0.548ha, a site yield of 21 dwellings would have an equivalent density of 40 dwellings per hectare which is consistent with the site’s assessment in the Council’s SHELAA. However, it should be noted that this may be a gross site area and the actual net developable area may be reduced. The Council’s Five Year Housing Land Supply Update (December 2024) indicates the Council has 1.8 years supply with a 20% buffer applied. This is below the five year supply threshold, and as such there is normally a presumption in favour of sustainable development (para 11d of the NPPF). The tilted balance means that permission should only be refused where the adverse impacts of doing so would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits. Overall, it is considered that residential development of the site would be acceptable subject to the wider allocated site mix.