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The Labour MP for Portsmouth South, Stephen Morgan, also voiced his opposition. [32] The following month, Mordaunt handed in a petition against the project. Another protest was planned for July 2021. [33] A final decision by the British government on whether to permit construction was postponed several times.
“We should certainly take a look at these parking ordinances ... downtown will become significantly more chaotic.”
Portsmouth was reconstituted as a non-metropolitan district in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It kept the same boundaries, which had last been expanded in 1932, [ 8 ] but the council became a lower-tier district council, with Hampshire County Council providing county-level services in the city for the first time. [ 9 ]
Portsmouth investigated three locations for a ferry port at the end of the 1960s, before the current location was chosen. The choice was based on cost and the likely benefit of cross-channel ferries. The site was at the end of the newly constructed M275 .
A major fire in 2017 destroyed the State Street Saloon and badly damaging the Daily Times building, which will soon be demolished.
Portsmouth (/ ˈ p ɔːr t s m ə θ / ⓘ PORTS-məth) is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in England not located primarily on the mainland.
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The Portsmouth Police Department has about 255 sworn law enforcement officers and 380 total employees. [63] In May 2019, Police Chief Tonya Chapman resigned from her position. [64] She was replaced by Angela Greene who serves as interim chief. [65] Ten Portsmouth policemen have died in the line of duty, the first in 1871.