Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tainty Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Good evening, Simon.

Another episode and all the excitement of an away fixture.

Indeed, we've gone on a journey, but not very far.

No, a little trip up the A27, which I never realised, as it's an A road,

you could attempt to ride from Portsmouth to haven't on your bicycle but I wouldn't recommend it

no nor would I and indeed some people do but there is a beautiful cycle path alongside the A27 that goes through the nature reserve there so I'd definitely recommend that instead. Excellent. So yeah,

we're going to have a quick look at haven't, a bit of compare and contrast with Portsmouth.

And I understand we've got three fine guests joining us this evening. We have, indeed.

So we have a leader of Havonborough Council, Councillor Alex Wennie, joining us.

We have Councillor Jolo joining us and Councillor Phil Monday joining us.

So we've got each of the major parties joining us this evening.

We did send invites to everybody that was on the council, but we mucked up our

research a little bit, so very late in the game sent our invites to the three independents

that are on Havon Borough Council, but they possibly haven't had a chance to apply. But nonetheless,

we've got three excellent guests and lots of subjects to go through.

So as the man that does the research and has the tale of the tape, Haven't in Portsmouth?

Yes, indeed. So it's not quite a tale of two cities, is it? But it's a tale of two neighboring boroughs so i'll just quickly

headline this before before we bring the guests in but you can so from uh so portsmouth has a

population of about 205 000 and as it covers an area of about 16 square miles.

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