Business events in Gosport

On the other side of the harbour

Gosport Borough Council's local plan describes the borough as a peninsula of 2,750 hectares, surrounded on three sides by the Solent and Portsmouth Harbour, with almost 39 kilometres of coastline. It is mostly urban, with two main settlements, Gosport and Lee-on-the-Solent, separated by the Alver Valley. The ONS counted 70,110 people in the Gosport built-up area at the 2021 Census.

The plan is plain about what shaped the place: Gosport developed mainly as a support base for the Royal Navy, and the naval heritage is visible across the borough. It also records that jobs at Portsmouth Naval Base fell, and that by 2008 nearly two-thirds of employed residents worked outside the borough, many along the A27 and M27. Across the borough, the ONS counted 1,860 enterprises in 2026, the lowest count of any council area in Hampshire.

Getting here is different

Gosport has no railway station of its own. Instead, the Gosport Ferry crosses to Portsmouth Harbour station; the local plan calls it one of the busiest passenger ferry routes in the United Kingdom. Since April 2012 the Eclipse bus rapid transit route has run between Gosport and Fareham, partly on an old railway line. The local plan also noted that at the 2011 Census 10.6% of working residents cycled to work, the sixth highest rate in England.

The waterfront

The council's current regeneration work is about reconnecting the town with its water. Its masterplan, drawn up with Haskoning and LDA Design, runs from the Submarine Museum at Haslar through the town centre and High Street up to Hardway. Alongside it, the former Royal Navy Rum Store on Victoria Quay, a Grade II listed building, has final approval for a £22m conversion into shops, restaurants and a rooftop bar, part funded by the Levelling Up Fund, and demolition of the old bus station has begun to make way for a new public park, The People's Park.

Meeting in Gosport

We have pages for Media Space Gosport, Pitchside Lounge at Gosport Borough FC, The Old Bakehouse and the Jervis Gallery at St Vincent College. Across the harbour, Portsmouth is a short ferry ride away, and Fareham is along the road. The Portsmouth and the south coast page covers them all.