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Port Solent is the commercial business name of a housing and leisure development located in the Paulsgrove suburb of the English city of
Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, 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 En ...
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Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, ...
, comprising a
marina A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : "related to the sea") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats. A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or cargo ...
, a
housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex, housing development, subdivision (land), subdivision or community) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to count ...
, shopping and leisure facilities. The Port Solent development was built during the late 1980s on
reclaimed land Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamatio ...
taken from the east side of Paulsgrove Lake in
Portsmouth Harbour Portsmouth Harbour is a / biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Portsmouth and Gosport in Hampshire. It is a Ramsar site and a Special Protection Area. It is a large natural harbour in Hampshire, England. Geographically it ...
, specifically between the north of Horsea Island and the shoreline of Paulsgrove Quay in Paulsgrove. Facilities for residents and visitors include a multiscreen cinema,
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, and restaurants and shops along a precinct known as The
Boardwalk A boardwalk (alternatively board walk, boarded path, or promenade) is an elevated footpath, walkway, or causeway typically built with wooden planks, which functions as a type of low water bridge or small viaduct that enables pedestrians to ...
. The marina is owned and managed by Premier Marinas. Port Solent was officially opened on 29 July 1988 by H.R.H. Anne, The Princess Royal. The first boat to use Port Solent was the 36-foot cutter ''Lively Lady'', sailed by Sir Alec Rose (1908-1991). Port Solent is politically within the Paulsgrove electoral ward and the Portsmouth North UK Parliament constituency. The main entrance road junction into the Port Solent development is built almost exactly over the site of the former Paulsgrove Quay shoreline.


Land reclamation

The land for the residential section of Port Solent and the nearby M275 motorway spur was reclaimed during the 1970s by draining the marshland and the eastern mudflat sections of the ''Paulsgrove Lake'' water channel within Portsmouth Harbour. The present-day grassy southern section of the development is a former Portsmouth City Council owned rubbish dump, which bridged the northern side of Horsea Island to the former ''Paulsgrove Lake'' area and was covered with grass turf when filled. There are many
methane Methane ( , ) is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms). It is a group-14 hydride, the simplest alkane, and the main constituent of natural gas. The abundance of methane on Earth makes ...
gas outlets situated to the south and at the southern edge of the site, allowing the gases occurring from the decomposing waste beneath the site to escape.


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