- ‘Building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents’ is the most popular project (47% of respondents), this is followed by ‘building more classrooms and specialist provisions for children with additional needs’ (37% of respondents) and ‘improving facilities at Portsmouth International Port to increase the money it generates to help protect local services’ (34% of respondents)
- All districts chose ‘building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents’ as being their first priority
- The second most common project, selected by four postcode districts (PO1, PO2, PO5 and PO6), is ‘building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs’ followed by ‘Improving facilities at Portsmouth International Port to increase the money it generates to help protect local services’ which features in the top three for three of the postcode districts (PO1, PO2 and PO6)
Prioritising future projects
Summary
‘Which of the following projects do you think the council should spend its capital budget on? (please select a maximum of three)’
Base: Total sample (1,272)
This chart shows that:
47% of respondents feel the council should spend its capital budget on building new homes in the city, including flats and offering special care for elderly residents
37% of respondents feel the council should spend its capital budget on building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs
34% of respondents feel the council should spend its capital budget on improving facilities at Portsmouth International Port to increase the money it generates to help protect local services
33% of respondents feel the council should spend its capital budget on creating better facilities for sustainable transport such as cycling and walking
30% of respondents feel the council should spend its capital budget on investing in greening projects across the city
28% of respondents feel the council should spend its capital budget on improving the road network
27% of respondents feel the council should spend its capital budget on investing in facilities as part of the new sea defences
24% of respondents feel the council should spend its capital budget on investing in new sport and leisure facilities and maintaining existing ones
21% of respondents feel the council should spend its capital budget on buying or developing new technology to help the council work more efficiently
Future recovery priorities by postcode district
This table shows that:
For respondents in PO1, building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents is their 1st project priority, building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs is their 2nd priority, and improving facilities at Portsmouth International Port to increase the money it generates to help protect local services is their 3rd priority
For respondents in PO2, building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents is their 1st project priority, building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs is their 2nd priority, and improving facilities at Portsmouth International Port to increase the money it generates to help protect local services is their 3rd priority
For respondents in PO3, building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents is their 1st project priority, creating better facilities for sustainable transport such as cycling and walking is their 2nd priority, and investing in facilities as part of the new sea defences is their 3rd priority
For respondents in PO4, building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents is their 1st project priority, creating better facilities for sustainable transport such as cycling and walking is their 2nd priority, and investing in facilities as part of the new sea defences is their 3rd priority
For respondents in PO5, building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents and creating better facilities for sustainable transport such as cycling and walking are their 1st project priorities, investing in greening projects across the city is their 2nd priority, and building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs is their 3rd priority
For respondents in PO6, building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents is their 1st project priority, improving facilities at Portsmouth International Port to increase the money it generates to help protect local services is their 2nd priority, and building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs is their 3rd priority
| wdt_ID | Postcode district | Project priority 1 | Project priority 2 | Project priority 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PO1 | Building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents | Building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs | Improving facilities at Portsmouth International Port to increase the money it generates to help protect local services |
| 2 | PO2 | Building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents | Building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs | Improving facilities at Portsmouth International Port to increase the money it generates to help protect local services |
| 3 | PO3 | Building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents | Creating better facilities for sustainable transport such as cycling and walking | Investing in facilities as part of the new sea defences |
| 4 | PO4 | Building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents | Creating better facilities for sustainable transport such as cycling and walking | Investing in facilities as part of the new sea defences |
| 5 | PO5 | Building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents Creating better facilities for sustainable transport such as cycling and walking |
Investing in greening projects across the city | Building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs |
| 6 | PO6 | Building new homes in the city, including flats offering special care for elderly residents | Improving facilities at Portsmouth International Port to increase the money it generates to help protect local services | Building more classrooms and specialist provision for children with additional needs |
