Isambard Kingdom Brunel born on Portsea Island in 1806 Charles John Huffam Dickens born on Portsea Island in 1812 PIP Portsea Island Post    Home page    Editorial & Leaders    Leading issues    Island City    Right to reply    About PIP    Contact    Portsea Island Post Portsea Island, Hampshire Leader The outcomes of poor planning decisions are becoming more evident as Portsmouth struggles under a regime of inappropriate impositions of unrealistic dwelling densities and an associated failure to provide adequate management of parking and road congestion to the general inconvenience of the local population and business. The much-vaunted public private partnership (PPP) on roads in Portsmouth seems to be demonstrating that this was a poor decision for an Island City because it concentrates on factors which will not relieve Portsmouth of the serious traffic issues arising for unfortunate planning decisions. There is a lack of vision within local "leadership" with respect to making use of such available resources to invest in initiatives for a more productive and eventually pleasant Portsea Island. For example, rather than a cosmetic maintenance job, Isambard Brunel would no doubt have spent the substantial sums involved in the PPP in an investment project combining vision with a practical solution to Portsmouth's problems. This edition of PIP reviews some of these issues. Editor Portsea Island Post was established in April 2008 as part of Agence Presse Européenne Media to provide an independent coverage of events of importance to communities living on Portsea Island and surrounding areas. Editorial Independence As a member of Agence Presse Européenne, Emancipation's content remains independent of political parties, religious organizations and commercial groups. APE upholds complete freedom and independence of its journals with published content remaining the responsibility of editors. APE does not seek to influence editorial content. Group support At the moment PIP received news feeds and analyses from APE syndication with local reporting provided by a selection of analysts Invitation to contribute PIP editorial welcomes news releases from anyone interested in local issues (Portsmouth). We are particularly interested to hear about local projects, initiatives and success stories (or lessons learned!). People with propositions for improving the conditions of the people of Portsmouth are invited to send in information; this includes election candidates (local and national). On the issue of reporting political points of view PIP remains independent of any political parties but aims to provide impartial reporting. Bias towards engaging people with objective analysis On the other hand PIP is not a treadmill for conveying political party press releases since our distinguishing feature is that we try to engage the readership through balanced and objective analysis. We prefer to take a topic of interest and publish more informative pieces perhaps one or two days after other media have posted theirs. APE is now well known for this approach of avoiding the manic chase for "scoops" but preparing more informative and useful coverage within which alternative policy and political views can be presented. It works Our experience with our sister media is that whereas most online media articles have a half-life of sometimes hours we find that readers make widespread use of our archives with many returning on serval occasions to review or download articles. Our media analysis group (PIPAnalysis) tracks references to and the use of our syndicated articles in Group media as well as in third party media and blogs. During the last six months (up to May 2008) the frequency of attributed and un-attributed references to our media content has significantly increased. The most frequent comment we receive is that we have a robust content, an objective approach to major issues and frequently identifying important but forgotten issues ignored by other media. PIP was initiated in June 2008 and already PIP-originated and syndicated articles are gaining on the rankings held by our mainstream media. PIP maintains an important service which is to be found on all Agence Presse Européenne media, the right of reply. This is a provision to protect those affected by whatever might be stated in PIP enabling the publication of replies sent in by people. Further information can be found here. The editorial email address is:  info@portseaislandpost.com Copyright: All content is APE Copyright unless originators/licencees are named. Main sources include Emancipation, Great Effects Lab, Browsaworks, IstockPhoto, Axialis, BB, and others.