Suspicious activity – forecourt of former Blockbusters’ building plus update on Public Spaces Protection Order and Police use of Community Protection Warnings

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 14, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Reported to Community Safety and the Police on Wednesday 14 May 2025: On Monday 12 May 2025 at around 10/10.30am, there were about 10 street attached/street drinkers (some with open cans/bottles) gathered in the forecourt of the former Blockbusters’ Building in Portswood, with lots of belongings in trolleys. My report is twofold: 1. There were a couple of younger men among them who did not...
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Car ended up driving into the Avenue Campus ‘green area’

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 14, 2025 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments On Tuesday 13 May, a HRA member reported that on Sunday night – 11 May 2025, a car drove into Highfield Road and ended up driving into the University of Southampton Avenue Campus ‘green area’. The police were called.
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OARA Street Party, 31 May from 1-4pm – for info, if you’re based in the Outer Avenue Residents’ Association area!

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 13, 2025 in News | 0 comments
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It’s the St Denys Repair Café this Saturday 17th May from 10.30am to 1pm at St Denys Community Centre, Priory Road, (car and bike parking available)!

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 12, 2025 in News | 0 comments If you have a portable item that needs repairing – electrical items, computers, sewing repairs, jewellery, bikes – their expert volunteers will see if they can fix it for you in exchange for a donation. Tea, coffee and cake will be available while you wait! Just turn up and stop your items from going to landfill! Southampton Repair café is a project initiated by Transition Southampton and you...
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The Friends of Portswood Rec play area was opened on Friday 9th May!

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 12, 2025 in News | 0 comments
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Not far from us and quietly hidden away at Unity 12, 9-19 Rose Road, Southampton SO14 6TE, is ‘The Sewing Hub’!

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 12, 2025 in News | 0 comments The Sewing Hub is a fully accessible community space offering sewing classes for beginners, refreshers and, for the more advanced, they have overlocker courses and a regular ‘Sewing Circle’. They also provide local people with an alterations and bespoke design/make service. The workshop is very well equipped. The Sewing Hub have the following Workshop coming up: Free-Motion Embroidery Workshop...
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This is a very interesting historical account by Matt Davey from The Echo of The Phoenix Film Society, “Southampton’s Oldest Film Society” which was founded in 1931

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 12, 2025 in News | 0 comments The Phoenix is run as a charity by volunteers and showcases the best of world cinema with 26 films screened each year. It has more than 150 members that meet weekly on Wednesdays at 7.30pm during University term time, at the University of Southampton Students’ Union cinema. The cinema has 225 “comfy, fully raked” seats and “cinema-standard digital projection with surround...
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Agenda: HRA Committee Meeting – 7pm, Tuesday 13 May 2025

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 12, 2025 in Meeting Agenda, News | 0 comments   Agenda HRA Committee Meeting Tuesday 13 May 2025 Supporting paper: Piri Piri APPEAL DECISION Dismissed – 3347923
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