Fareham Borough Landscape Assessment

May 1996

Character Area 22

Stubbington / Hill Head

Description

The area we have defined as Stubbington/Hill Head includes the whole urban envelope with the exception of the coastal strip. The urban area is defined by the Meon Valley to the west, farmland to the north, and HMS Deadalus and Peel Common Waste Water Treatment Works in the east. The area is predominantly suburban housing of a similar age. It also has a pattern of radial roads meeting at a local centre.

The essential characteristics of Stubbington/ Hill Head are: * a predominantly residential area with a leafy suburban character; * a mature landscape in private gardens; * large parts of the urban area are distant from the local centre (over 1 km); * poor pedestrian connections mainly as a result of the circuitous residential road layouts and the number of cul-de-sacs; * a good sized centrally located open space; * village centre with village green.

Enhancement Priorities

The main emphasis in this area is to conserve its landscape character at the same time as trying to reinforce local identity. The area suffers from a lack of identity and there is a need to identify and enhance local neighbourhoods characteristics.

Priorities for enhancement are: * to reinforce local identity through environmental improvements; * to improve the pedestrian connections through residential areas; * to make environmental improvements to the village centre; * to increase the number of street trees on main radial routes, around the local centre, and in some residential areas.