Queen's Hotel, Southsea Community Planning Day
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Queen's Hotel, Southsea Community Planning Day

The local community was invited to the Queen’s Hotel, Southsea Community Planning Day to help create a Vision for the restoration and development of the Queen’s Hotel and explore its relationship with Southsea town centre.

Aerial view of Queen's Hotel and surrounding site

Queen’s Hotel is one of Southsea’s most famous landmarks. Built in 1903, it sits in a stunning position with views over Southsea Common, the Solent and the Isle of Wight beyond.

This project aims to upgrade the hotel, adding to the accommodation and facilities, including providing residential apartments on the vacant adjacent site along with a variety of mixed uses and a better relationship with the common. The hotel can also act as a catalyst for the regeneration of this part of Southsea Town Centre. 

Architects JTP are acting on behalf of Manning Hotels Limited to work with the local community to develop a Vision for the restoration and further development of Queen’s Hotel and the wider site.

Community Planning Day

The Community Planning Day was an opportunity to share local knowledge and memories and contribute to planning the site’s restoration and development through workshops and hands-on planning groups.  There was also an exhibition explaining the background of the site. 

Participation was on a drop-in basis with no need to pre-register.  Participants were able to stay for a short while, a few hours or for the whole event if they were able to. Team members were on hand to answer questions.

Report Back Presentation

Following the public workshop day, the JTP led team worked to analyse and summarise the outcomes to draw up a Vision for the hotel site and its relationship with Southsea. This was presented to the local community at 6.30pm on Wednesday 13 July at St Jude’s Church.

Event downloads
Report Back Presentation part 1
Report Back Presentation part 2
Report Back Broadsheet
Report Back flyer
Event flyer


Date / Time
  • 2 July 2016
    11:45am - 5:00pm
  • 13 July 2016
    7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location

St Jude’s Church
Kent Road
Southsea
PO5 3EL
United Kingdom