About Us

Welcome to Highfield, a charming, leafy suburb of Southampton. Highfield is set in the middle of the University belt, steeped in academia, and flanked by Southampton Common on one side, and Portswood on the other.

Highfield Residents’ Association (HRA) is the largest residents association in Southampton. It represents your interests and campaigns on local issues. It checks all local planning and licensing applications, objecting to those its members consider inappropriate or unlawful and supporting those that add value to the local community. As a member, you also get access to lots of discounts and offers with local cafés, restaurants and other retail outlets. All this for just an annual subscription fee of £5 a year per household! It is exceptionally good value!

HRA always welcomes new members. To join, click on the “Join us” leaf above and pay the annual subscription of £5. Be part of a huge collective who wish to protect and preserve their local environment for the good of all.

Email: highfieldracomms@gmail.com for general enquiries and information. Alternatively, just click on the ‘Contact Us’ leaf above. If you wish to contact HRA Honorary Secretary, Barbara Claridge, you can email her on: HRA.HonSec@gmail.com.

For HRA Committee Members, Constitution and other policy documents, Terms of Use, Newsletters, Agendas, Minutes, other Residents Associations, see below.

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Glorious spring in Highfield by Ian Morse, 2019
Christmas in Portswood by Ian Morse 2018
Christmas in Portswood by Ian Morse 2018
Christmas in Portswood by Ian Morse 2018
Christmas in Portswood by Ian Morse 2018
War Memorial, Highfield Church by Ian Morse 2018
Poppies, Highfield Church by Ian Morse 2018
IN Grateful Memory of the men from this Parish who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918, photo by Ian Morse 2018
Lest we forget Tommy by Graham and Sam Johnson, Brookvale Road. Photo by Ian Morse 2018
Poppies on lamp posts, Brookvale Road - by Ian Morse 2018
R.J Mitchell, Russell Place - by Ian Morse 2018
Lest we forget - Tommy Graham and Sam Johnson, Brookvale Road. Photo by Ian Morse 2018
Looking towards Woodstock Drive, Ian Morse 2018
Sunset over Woodstock Drive, Ian Morse 2018
Orchards Way, Ian Morse 2018
De Grouchy Lane, Ian Morse 2018
Tennis Courts, Residents Gardens. Ian Morse 2018
The Sundial, Residents Gardens. Ian Morse 2018
Entrance to Residents Gardens, Ian Morse 2018
The Common, near Cowherds Pub. Ian Morse 2018
Orchards Way by Rochelle, May 2018
Philadelphus (Mock Orange) in Ian and Gill Morse's front garden, Highfield, June 2018.
Highfield from the air. Taken by Paul Godfrey, May 2017, from the first of the Trislander farewell flights.
Spotted in Oakmount Avenue, May 2018: the Flowerpot men!
42nd HRA AGM 19 April 2018
'Welcome to Highfield' sign. Nadine Johnson, 1st March 2018
Abbots Way. Nadine Johnson, 1st March 2018
Portswood. Nadine Johnson, 1st March 2018
Little Common. Nadine Johnson, 2nd March 2018
Little Common. Nadine Johnson, 2nd March 2018
The Play Park. Ian Morse, Early March 2018
Crofton Close. Ian Morse, Early March 2018
The Common. Ian Morse, Early March 2018
Little Common. Ian Morse, Early March 2018
Building an igloo on the Common. Ian Morse, Early March 2018
Winter stroll on The Common by Steve Brown
Southampton Common - near the underpass. By Caroline Brown.
Xmas lights on campus, Nadine Johnson 2017
Furzedown Road, Highfield in the snow. Photo taken in the 1980s or 1990s, by Sue Allan.
Francis Benali opens new Play-park on Southampotn Common, 22nd October 2017
New Play-park, Southampton Common Oct 2017
New Play-park, Southampton Common Oct 2017
Professor Roger Brown (left), Retiring HRA Chair and Professor Peter Johnson, Centre for Cancer Immunology, AGM 20/4/2017, (photo Alison Shelly).
The Common Ornamental Lake, courtesy of Simon Hill, Southampton Common Forum, Jan 2017
Courtesy of Nuha Alsaeed, 14/10/16

Highfield Campus ducks. Autumn is officially here!
Photo by Faye Spencer

mallard ducks lined up in the sun on the Common, July 2016.
Photo by Alison Shelly, Sept/Oct 2016