Portsmouth Urban Area

The Portsmouth Urban Area, in south-east Hampshire in southern England, includes the following components (as defined by the Office for National Statistics):

*Fareham
*Portchester
*Gosport
*Havant
*Lee-on-the-Solent
*Portsmouth
*Stubbington
*Waterlooville

The Area has a population of 422,252 (2001 census), with Portsmouth itself making up less than half this population, with 187,056 people.

Greater Portsmouth is an unofficial term sometimes used for the conurbation, but which sometimes refers only to Portsmouth, Havant and Waterlooville, and sometimes includes the whole of the Portsmouth Urban Area together with adjoining parts of West Sussex such as Emsworth and Chichester, which are only 20 minutes away and hence make up part of the Portsmouth travel to work area. [ [http://www.mmc.gov.uk/rep_pub/reports/2000/fulltext/438c5.pdf Use of "Greater Portsmouth" - page 11, para 566] ]

The Portsmouth urban area can be looked at as part of a larger multi-centred conurbation also including Greater Southampton, in the general South Hampshire region. PUSH (Partnership for Urban South Hampshire) is a partnership of local councils in this area to provide a more cohesive strategy for the area as a whole in key policy areas, and to act as pressure group for the area and the county and national level. [ [http://www.push.gov.uk/ PUSH: Partnership for Urban South Hampshire Website ] ]

The area covered by the Portsmouth Urban Area was redefined for the 2001 census to include Stubbington/Lee-on-Solent (previously treated as a separate urban area). The 1991 total for the area as currently defined was 430,265, implying a decrease of 2.8% between 1991-2001.

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