Portsmouth councillors have voted to allow officers to work up plans to build as many as 2,000 homes on a site that has been derelict for at least 70 years. 

Development on the Tipner West site has been discussed by different administrations since 1952. At a full council meeting on Tuesday councillors voted 18 to four on a “set of principles” that would allow officers to take forward plans to build between 1,250 to 2,000 homes on the site. Nineteen councillors abstained given significnt local controversy.

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